HUNTSVILLE | The No. 8 University of Alabama in Huntsville men's basketball team is off to its best start since the 2010-11 season after pushing past visiting Clark Atlanta by a 79-65 score at Kelly Court at Spragins Hall on Wednesday night. The Chargers improve to 6-0 on the season, while CAU falls to 0-7.
 
Turning Point
-After the guests trimmed UAH's lead to just 52-50 with 11:34 remaining in the game, the Chargers scored eight straight including five points from Triston Chambers to push the lead out to 10 at the 9:13 mark, and the lead would remain in double figures for much of the rest of the contest.
 
Inside the Box Score
-Four Chargers finished the night in double digits in scoring led by Chambers who scored 18 to go along with three rebounds and a pair of steals.
-Sam Orf chipped in with 13, while both JJ Kaplan and Malik Cook-Stroupe added 10 in the winning effort.
-Each of Kerney Lane, Max Shulman, and Kaplan led the Blue and White on the glass with six rebounds.
-Seth Swalve handed out a team-best six assists while turning it over just once.
-Romaine Thomas led CAU in the affair, scoring 14 and grabbing 14 rebounds.
-For the contest, UAH shot 43.3 percent while holding the guests to a 38.7 percent mark including a 5-for-21 showing from 3-point land where the Chargers knocked down 13 attempts.
-UAH outrebounded the Panthers by a 44-42 margin.
-UAH held significant advantages in bench points (34-23), points off turnovers (18-9), and and second-chance points (12-4).
 
Inside the Flow
-The Chargers grabbed their first significant lead of the night when the team ripped off a 10-0 run to go up 18-6 at the 11:43 mark of the opening half after a Shulman 3-pointer, and back-to-back 3-point makes by Malik Cook-Stroupe around a CAU basket pushed the lead to 14 at 24-10 at the midway point of the period.
-The guests would narrow the gap down to just four five minutes later at 26-22, and though UAH would go back in front by as many as 13, the score would be 38-30 at the half.
-The second half saw Clark Atlanta hang close to the Chargers with UAH only able to have a double-digit lead briefly in the opening 30 seconds of the stanza, but after the Panthers pulled within two, the hosts would score on 15 of their next 20 possessions to go up by the largest advantage of the night at 79-60 with just over a minute left.
 
Noteworthy
-This is tied for the third-best start in school history, matching the 1978-79 and 2005-06 teams which also started the year at 6-0. The 1999-2000 team began the year at 7-0, while the 2010-11 team started off at a program-best 8-0.
-Dating back to last season, UAH has won 12 straight regular season games, and the team has won nine straight games at Kelly Court at Spragins Hall including the postseason a year ago.
-Chambers responds nicely from a tough outing against AUM on Monday, and he now leads the team in scoring with 13.8 points per contest.
-The six assists for Swalve mark a season high for the redshirt junior.
 
Next Time Out
-The Chargers will be off until Monday when the team heads up to Middle Tennessee to face Trevecca Nazarene. Tip-off is slated for 7:15 p.m.