MARSHALL, TEXAS (Dec. 16, 2016) – The Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) Saints men's basketball team lost a 76-78 nail-biter to the No. 11-ranked Wiley College (WC) Wildcats.
The Saints missed several key free throws down the stretch (finishing 22-for-33 on the night), including a pair while trailing two points with less than a second remaining. On the Saints' second-to-last possession, Joe Jackson (SR/San Antonio, Texas) threw down a thunderous alley-oop off a brilliantly designed inbounds play from the baseline to tie the game at 76-76.
Wiley's Ricardo Artis then drew a foul on Jackson at the rim, hitting the pair of game-winning free throws.
With the clock ticking down, Darion Brown (JR/Alexandria, La.) found Marko Tutunovic (FR/Cacak, Serbia) in the corner, who faked a defender into the air to draw the foul. After the first free throw rimmed out, Tutunovic intentionally missed the second, with the ensuing rebound landing in Jackson's hands for a missed game-tying attempt.