The Louisiana Christian men’s basketball team weathered a big rally by Texas College Thursday night at H.O. West Fieldhouse but finished the game on a 22-12 run and posted a 13-point Red River Athletic Conference victory on Senior Night.
The LCU women absorbed an overtime loss. Making up a postponed visit to Texas College in January, the teams will rematch Saturday afternoon in Tyler to finish the regular season.
LCU MEN 85, TEXAS COLLEGE 73: The Wildcats built a commanding 19-point lead (54-35), watched the Steers nearly charge all the way back using a 28-6 run to make it a three-point game with 6:50 left (63-60).
LCU (14-13, 13-10 RRAC) got a season-best 28 points from junior Bryce Weinmunson, who hit 5-of-7 on treys and added four steals against Texas College (7-18, 6-17).
The Wildcats went 7-3 in games played at H.O. West Fieldhouse this year, the first winning record at home since going 8-6 in 2021-22.
With their 13th RRAC victory, the Cats secured a winning record in league play for the first time in three years, notching their most victories during conference action since snagging 14 in venerable retired coach Gene Rushing’s final season back in 2014-15.
Devin Carter matched his season average scoring output of 19 points, doing so by going a perfect 7-for-7 at the charity stripe on top of a personal-high in rebounds at eight. Drew Tebbe scored 14, going 4-of-6 on 3-pointers.
TEXAS COLLEGE 83, LCU WOMEN 78 (OT): A four-game winning streak was snapped in a foul-fest, with a combined 59 whistles and LCU sinking a season-high 32 free throws.
Louisiana Christian (10-15, 10-13) got 22 points from sensational junior Princis Goff, who cracked the career 1,000 point mark 52 games into her days playing in Pineville. She added 10 rebounds for her 10th double-double this season and 17th of her career.
The Wildcats got another double-double performance, her first, by McKayla Price with a career-best 11 rebounds and 12 points, eight at the line. Deja Tanks played her last home game for LCU and posted 10 points and eight rebounds against Texas College (9-17, 8-15).
Dakota Howard brought back the Wildcats with a 3-pointer at the 1:04 mark of regulation and two free throws to knot the game at 65 with 32 seconds left. Neither team managed to get off a shot in the last half-minute.
Texas College never trailed in OT and hit 5-of-8 shots from the floor and went 6-of-8 at the line, while LCU was 2-for-6 from the floor but stayed in range sinking 8-of-9 free throws.