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HUNTSVILLE | The No. 19 University of Alabama in Huntsville men's basketball team won its fourth straight and for the 10th time in the past 11 games, defeating visiting Mississippi College 95-79 at Kelly Court at Spragins Hall on Saturday evening. The Chargers improve to 15-4 (11-2 Gulf South Conference, while MC slips to 4-12 (1-11 GSC).
 
Turning Point
-After the visitors had cut a 16-point lead for the Chargers in half at 39-31 with 1:50 to go in the first half, UAH outscored the Choctaws 9-3 in the final moments of the period including a 3-pointer at the buzzer from Michael Gilmore to put the hosts up 48-34 at the break while also giving UAH a double-figure lead that it would not relinquish the rest of the way.

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Inside the Box Score
-Brandon Roberts was stellar for the Chargers in the game, going 9-for-12 overall and 6-for-8 from beyond the arc while scoring 26 points, and he also grabbed five rebounds and handed out an assist.
-With 10 points in the first half, Troy Saxton also scored in double figures as he finished with 12 on a perfect 6-for-6 shooting night, and he dished out seven assists while collecting four boards.
-Seab Webster and Kip Owens rounded out UAH's double-figure scorers as both chipped in with 11, and Webster nearly notched a double-double as he grabbed a team-best nine rebounds.
-Both DeOndre Haynes and Stacey Mack had 21 for the Choctaws.
-UAH finished the game shooting 50.7 percent from the floor and went 15-for-37 for a 40.5 percent success rate from beyond the arc, while MC connected on 46.3 percent of its attempts including going 0-for-7 from 3-point land.
-Rebounding in the contest was even at 38-38.
-The Chargers as a team totaled 19 assists in the contest, and the squad gave the ball away just seven times.
 
Inside the Flow
-The Chargers led wire-to-wire, taking the first lead just under a minute into the game, and quickly pushing out to a 9-3 advantage after a Roberts 3-pointer fell at the 16-minute mark of the opening half.
-The lead would grow to as many as 16 in the stanza when Roberts scored on back-to-back trips down the floor to put UAH up 39-23 before MC responded with an 8-0 run that cut the down to 39-31. UAH then went on the aforementioned 9-3 run to make it a 48-34 game at the half.
-UAH would outscore the Choctaws 16-10 in the second half's first five minutes to go in front by 20 at 64-44, and a later 16-6 spurt for the Chargers would give the home team its biggest lead of the night at 80-56 just past the midway point of the period.
-Mississippi College proceeded to have its best stretch of the night after that, ripping off 11 straight points to close the margin to 13 at 80-67 with just under seven minutes left in the game, but the Chargers scored 11 of the next 17 points over the next three minutes to effectively end any possible MC comeback effort.
 
Noteworthy
-The Chargers snapped what had been a 498-game streak for Mississippi College in which the team had recorded a successful 3-pointer.
-Roberts records his fourth game this season in which he has breached the 20-point plateau, and with his strong play of late, he increases his scoring average to a season-best 15.3 points per game.
-The 19 assists in the contest for UAH marks the second-best mark of the year for the team, just one off of the season-high of 20 established against West Alabama on Dec. 17.
-The seven assists for Saxton represent his season high, tying performances he had against Union on Jan. 7 and Shorter on Jan. 19, and those showings are also the best individual total for a Charger on the year.
 
Next Time Out
-The Chargers will wrap up the three-game homestand on Monday when the team welcomes North Alabama to Huntsville. Tip-off against the rival from Florence is slated for 7:30 p.m. at Kelly Court at Spragins Hall.