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Box Score

SAN ANTONIO  - Bethune-Cookman used a crucial 5-0 run in the final four minutes of the game as the Wildcats beat Eastern Illinois, 66-63, in the second game of the Incarnate Word MTE Tournament.

EIU fell to 3-3.  Bethune-Cookman improved to 4-2.

Josiah Wallace gave the Panthers a 56-55 lead with 4:44 left in the game as he sank a pair of free throws.  Wallace was one of three EIU players in double figures in the game finishing with ten.

Cletrell Pope had a put-back basket for BCU on the next possession to put the Wildcats up 57-56 with 4:09 to play as BCU used a 5-0 run to go up 61-56 with 1:38 remaining.  Pope had a double-double with ten points and ten rebounds to finish as one of five BCU players in double figures.

Deang Deang would bring EIU to within one point at 64-63 with 15 seconds left as he drained a 3-pointer.  Isaiah Bailey would sink a pair of free throws to ice the game for Bethune-Cookman.  Bailey had 12 points going 6-of-6 from the free throw line. 

Mack Smith led EIU with 13 points knocking down three 3-pointers.  Deang finished with 11 points.

Wali Parks and Houston Smith each had 14 points to lead Bethune-Cookman as the Wildcats shot 50 percent from the field.  BCU held a 38-27 rebound advantage