ST. LOUIS— The University of Indianapolis men's basketball team ended its season in the GLVC men's basketball championship semifinal with an 85-83 loss in Missouri-St. Louis's Mark Twain Center on Saturday night.
Tyler Parrish and Shaun Arnold led the Hounds in the score column, contributing 24 and 21 points, respectively. In his final game of the season, Arnold nabbed two steals to tie the single-season program record in the category with 87 over the UIndy's 30-game season.
INS AND OUTS
Trailing by 11 with 18 minutes left in the game, the Greyhounds were able to crawl their way back within reach. With a 10-4 run, the Hounds found themselves with back-to-back three-point plays with Nate Dudukovich nailing one from the left wing to narrow the Panthers' lead to three points just under five minutes into the half.
Drury seemed to pullaway from UIndy with a 6-3 run to bring their lead to nine with 3:21 remaining, but the Hounds were resiliant going on a 10-1 run to tie the game, started by a driving layup from Arnold. Dudukovich drilled his fourth three-pointer of the game to bring the Hounds within two possessions with 2:35 remaining. Noah Kon hustled back for a block on the defensive end, leading to another Arnold lay-up to make it a two-point game. The Panthers' Zach Howell went one for one at the stripe to bring it back to three with 43 seconds remaining.
With possession and less than 30 seconds remaining, Harris brought the ball up the court, finding Parrish for a deep, contested three to tie the game at 83 apiece with 27 seconds remaining.
The Panthers used two timeouts in their final possession to get Colin Hardrick the ball at the top of the key with four seconds on the board. Hardrick faked left and drove right to hit the game-winning shot one second before the buzzer. The Hounds were unable to get a shot off in the final second, ending the contest 85-83 in Drury's favor.
The Hounds end their season 17-13 with a 14-6 Great Lakes Valley Conference record.
INSIDE THE BOX
-The Hounds had their third-best night from the field, shooting from a .508 clip, but could not overcome Drury's 53.7-percent shooting.
-Four UIndy players saw double-digit scoring with Dudukovich (15 pts) and Harris (13 pts) joining Parrish and Arnold atop the Hounds score column.
-UIndy was able to capitalize 14 points off of Drury's eight turnovers.
