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HUNTSVILLE | The 19th-ranked University of Alabama in Huntsville men's basketball team held off visiting Delta State on Thursday night at Kelly Court at Spragins Hall, earning a 77-72 victory. The Chargers improve to 14-4 (10-2 Gulf South Conference), while DSU slips to 12-6 (7-5 GSC).
 
Turning Point
-Chayse Elliott scored seven points in a two-minute stretch to end the first half, helping the Chargers go on a 10-2 run that took a nine-point deficit and made it just one at the half at 34-33, setting up the team to outscore Delta State 44-38 in the second half to secure the win.

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Inside the Box Score
- Elliott led the Chargers in the victory, going 6-for-9 from the field on his way to scoring 16 while also collecting three rebounds, dishing out an assist and not turning the ball over.
-Joining him in double figures was Seab Webster who scored all of his 15 points in the second half, while Brandon Roberts had 10 in the first half and finished with 12. Both Webster and Roberts were perfect at the charity stripe, going 6-for-6 and 5-for-5, respectively.
-Troy Saxton and Kip Owens paced the team on the glass as both collected seven boards including three on the offensive end for Saxton.
-Delta State was led by Ravion Henry who scored 17, and the Chargers held Devin Schmidt well under his scoring average of 24.4 points per game as he tallied just 16.
-The Chargers connected on 43.1 percent of their attempts from the field including a 10-for-23 showing from beyond the arc, while the guests shot 40.0 percent overall and just 31.8 percent from 3-point land.
-The Statesmen won the battle on the glass, outrebounding UAH by a 46-34 clip.
 
Inside the Flow
-Delta State led for just over 13 minutes in the game, and most of that time came in the first half during which the guests built up as much as a nine-point lead after PJ Davis scored with 2:17 left in the period to make it 32-23.
-After a Malik Cook-Stroupe 3-pointer cut the deficit to six, Elliott then outscored the Statesmen 7-2 in the final moments of the half to create the 34-33 halftime score.
-Webster would put the Chargers up by one with the first bucket of the second half, and the lead would exchange hands twice and there would be two ties including at 41-41 just over two minutes into the stanza.
-Over the next nearly eight minutes, the home team outscored DSU 20-12 with Elliott adding another seven points during that run, and a Justin Ward triple at the 10:16 mark put the Chargers up by their largest margin of the night at 61-53.
-The Statesmen, of course, would not go away quietly, reeling off an 11-3 run of their own to make it 64-64 with 5:45 left in the contest, but the Chargers responded with an 11-3 spurt of their own to build up an eight-point advantage once again at 75-67 with under a minute left.
-DSU then scored five straight to make it a 3-point game, but Webster would hit a pair of free throws in the closing seconds to preserve the win.
 
Noteworthy
-Elliott now owns seven games this season in which he has scored in double figures, and five have come in the team's last six games.
-The Chargers turned the ball over just eight times, marking the fifth game this year the team has committed turnovers that numbered in single digits, and the team is 5-0 in such games.
-UAH is now 7-2 on the year when hitting 10 or more 3-pointers.
-Nine different Chargers scored on the night, and the UAH reserves scored 33 points.
-UAH's home record improves to 6-1.
 
Next Time Out
-UAH will look to continue its strong defense of Spragins Hall when a Mississippi College team that matches up well with the Chargers visits on Saturday. Tip-off is slated for 4 p.m.