Prairie View Runs Away from Alcorn

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Joey Madimba scored 28 points and Dontae Horne supplied 16 to help Prairie View A&M to a 72-51 win over Alcorn in a Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Men's Basketball contest Saturday afternoon inside William J. Nicks Building in Prairie View, Texas.
 
The loss keeps Alcorn (7-21, 6-10 SWAC) in the spot for the 11th seed for the upcoming SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament, as Grambling State has the head-to-head against the Braves for the 10th seed. Meanwhile, Prairie View A&M (13-17, 8-9 SWAC) moved into the eighth position, while Jackson State and Southern each have a game in-hand.
 
Braves Standouts
• Omari Hamilton scored 13 points – the ninth time this season he's reach double figures in scoring.
• Jameel Morris' layup with seconds remaining allowed him to continue his consecutive games streak with double-digits scoring, giving him 11 for the contest.
• Hamilton led the Braves with 10 rebounds – giving him his first career double-double with the Purple and Gold.
• Hamilton also finished a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point range, while Bryson Calamese was 1-for-1 himself.
• Alcorn managed to finish 12-for-14 at the free throw line as Hamilton and Lancaster were both 2-for-2, respectively.
 
How It Happened
• Prairie View A&M led wire-to-wire throughout, building a lead as large as 25 in the second half.
• Omari Hamilton's layup saw Alcorn trailing 14-10, but that was followed by a 10-0 Panthers run over the course of the next five minutes.
• The Panthers shot 42.9 percent from the field in the opening half, while hitting just 2 of 10 from long range.
• The Braves trailed 36-22 at the half behind 24 first half points by the Panthers' Joey Madimba who was 11-for-15 shooting from the field in the opening stanza.
• Alcorn's Tycen McDaniels and Hamilton each recorded seven points in the first half to try and keep the visitors close despite the Braves shooting just 29.6 percent from the field.
• The second half saw the hosts use 10 points from Dontae Horne and seven more off the bench from Elijah Mitchell to push the Panthers lead to 64-39 with 6:28 remaining in the contest.
• Prairie View A&M dominated the post with 46 points in the paint, compared to Alcorn's 22.
• The Braves were limited to just five assists off their 17 made field goals.
• Overall, the Purple and Gold shit 30.9 percent from the field for the game, while the Panthers hit at a 46 percent clip.
• PVAMU was led by 28 points from Madimba, as he finished 12-for-20 shooting. Horne had 16 points and Lance Williams added 11.
• Corey Dunning had a game-high 12 rebounds.
 
Up Next
Alcorn returns home Tuesday, March 3, when the Braves host Mississippi Valley State to Davey L. Whitney Complex at 8 p.m.
 
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