Lamar Drops Regular-Season Finale At Southeastern Louisiana; Shares SLC Title With SFA

HAMMOND, La. - Justin Nabors had 16 points and seven rebounds but Lamar was unable to overcome a poor shooting day in an 83-73 loss to Southeastern Louisiana at the University Center Saturday.

Lamar (19-10, 13-3 Southland) shares the regular-season title and will be the No. 2 seed in next week's SLC Tournament. The Cardinals will play Texas-Arlington at Noon CT on Thursday. The winner will face the Sam Houston State-McNeese State winner on Friday at 6 p.m. All games in the tournament will be played at the Merrill Center in Katy, Texas.

Lamar shot 39 percent and was 16-of-26 from the free throw line. Currye Todd had 15 points, Kenny Dawkins 12 and Brandon McThay 10 for the Cardinals.

Southeastern shot 63 percent in the second half to finish at 54 for the game. Kevyn Green led all scorers with 21 points and five 3-pointers. Warrell Span added 17 on 7-of-8 shooting.

Lamar's only lead came at 2-0 on a layup by Tristan Worrell in the first minute. The score was tied at seven before Southeastern took its largest lead of the half at 19-10 on a 12-3 run. Lamar came back to tie it at 35 with 1:35 left before going into the locker room trailing 38-36.

After a Todd layup knotted the score at 38, Southeastern got a three from Green and a fast-break dunk from Patrick Sullivan to take a 43-38 lead. The margin stayed in single digits until the final minute when the Lions scored their final 11 points from the free throw line.

Lamar was never able to regain the lead but got within one on two occasions with the last coming at 61-60 on a Lamar Sanders jumper with 4:57 remaining.