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Jamil Donovan
Jamil Donovan gave OCU the lead for good with a driving lay-in with 17 seconds to go.
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Southwestern Okla. SWOSU
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Winner Oklahoma City OCU
Southwestern Okla. SWOSU
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Final
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Oklahoma City OCU
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Southwestern Okla. SWOSU 33 37 70
Oklahoma City OCU 35 38 73

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

OCU slips by Southwestern 73-70

Donovan scores four clutch points in final 17 seconds

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University treated its homecoming crowd to a 73-70 win over Southwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday in a men's basketball exhibition at Abe Lemons Arena.
Jamil Donovan drove into the lane for the go-ahead layup with 17 seconds left for OCU. Donovan, a senior from Oklahoma City, added two free throws with three seconds remaining after rebounding Keyshawn Perkins' miss.
"I told him to go right away," said OCU coach Vinay Patel, who was guiding the Stars for the first time. "It's not something we worked on. They executed it perfectly. He made a very tough shot. The bigger thing was hitting those free throws at the end. That is the hardest moment to hit those in."
Perkins put Southwestern in front 70-69 with 1:21 left in the game. The two teams traded the lead three times in the final three minutes.
Nick Shoemaker from Southwestern hit a 3 to tie the game 67-67 with 3:03 left. Juwan Newman had a free throw to give the visitors a 68-67 edge at the 2:05 mark.
Jordan Mason sank a pair of free throws that provided the Stars a 69-68 lead with 1:36 showing. Mason, a junior from Ennis, Texas, dropped in a jumper for a 67-64 advantage with 3:13 to go.
Terence Bonhomme, a sophomore from St. Martinsville, La., supplied OCU with 19 points and a career-high five 3-pointers. Mason delivered 10 points and two steals.
Donovan added nine points, six rebounds and six assists, while Evan White, a senior from San Antonio, contributed nine points and three rebounds for Oklahoma City. White rejected Perkins with four seconds left.
The Stars limited Southwestern to 36.7 percent shooting from the floor. OCU subs outscored Southwestern's bench 38-25.
"They played really hard," Patel said of his team. "I can't even begin to comment on the effort and the fight they showed. We had to have guys diving on the floor coming up with loose balls. They were a lot bigger than we were. We got into a ton of foul trouble with our post players. We had some guys step up and get some key rebounds down the stretch."
Oklahoma City takes on Midwestern State (Texas) in a 7 p.m. exhibition Nov. 15 in Wichita Falls, Texas.
 

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