SEARCY – Harding junior Taylor Currie achieved a feat solely reached 9 occasions in program historical past.
Currie scored 29 factors in Harding’s 75-67 loss to Southwestern Oklahoma on Thursday in Great American Conference play on the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. His level whole pushed him to 605 factors in 2022-23, solely the ninth 600-point season ever by a Bison. Currie is the primary Harding participant with 600 or extra factors in a season since Hall of Famer Matt Hall scored 643 factors through the 2007-08 season.
The loss dropped Harding to 6-19 general and 2-17 in convention play. Southwestern Oklahoma snapped a four-game street dropping streak and improved to 12-13 general and 8-11 in the GAC.
Currie shot 9-of-14 from the sphere and 11-of-12 on the free throw line. It was his seventeenth 20-point recreation of the season.
Both groups shot 14-of-34 (41.2%) from the sphere in the primary half, however the Bisons outscored the Bulldogs on the free throw line and led 36-34 on the break.
One of Harding’s three first half 3-pointers got here from simply inside mid-court as Keyln McBride banked in a shot on the buzzer to put the Bisons forward.
Harding trailed 54-51 with 13:13 left in the sport, however Wyatt Gilbert drained a 3-pointer from the fitting wing. The Bisons didn’t make one other area objective till Currie hit a brief jumper in the lane with 6:18 remaining. During that point, Southwestern Oklahoma pulled out to a 69-57 lead.
Harding pulled inside six on a Currie jumper with 1:50 left however obtained no nearer. Southwestern restricted Harding to solely 5 area targets in the sport’s final 13 minutes.
The Bisons return to the Rhodes-Reaves Field House on Saturday to tackle Northwestern Oklahoma. Tip-off is at 3 p.m.
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