{"id":1161,"date":"2020-12-19T22:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T03:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2020-12-20T22:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T03:18:35","slug":"trio-of-patriots-notch-career-highs-in-win-over-running-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Patriots notch career highs in win over Running Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"13c398acb195b4bd84e993cb56669758\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Patriot Athletics\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tommy Chasanoff, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Information<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MARIETTA, Ga. \u2013<\/strong> <dfn>Tevin Olison<\/dfn>, <dfn>Josh Williams<\/dfn>, and <dfn>Lamar Harris<\/dfn> all recorded career-highs and combined for 82 points to lead the No. 11 Cumberlands men&#8217;s basketball team to a 107-105 conference road win over Life Saturday afternoon at the Bird Nest. With the win the Patriots improve to 8-2 on the season, including 2-2 in conference play, while the Running Eagles move to 4-3 overall and 0-3 against the MSC.<\/p>\n<p>Olison led the way with a career-high 40, becoming just the 11<sup>th<\/sup> Patriot and the first since Brad Gover in 1996 to score at least 40 points in a game.\u00a0 As part of his career-high, Olison converted 20-25 from the charity stripe to set a new program record, breaking the previous record of 18 set by Bob Long vs. Rio Grande during the 1968-69 season.<\/p>\n<p>Williams netted a career-high 25 points in the win, while Harris finished with 17 points and nine rebounds, which were both career-highs.\u00a0 <dfn>Austin Hall<\/dfn> chipped in ten points as <dfn>Steven Fitzgerald<\/dfn> dished out a team-high five assists to go along with six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Cumberlands came out strong with four different Patriots all draining a three-pointer in the first six minutes to give UC a 12-8 advantage.\u00a0 A couple minutes later, <dfn>Lamar Harris<\/dfn> notched a transition slam dunk, followed by a lay-up on the next possession to extend UC&#8217;s lead to 16-13 with 10:43 remaining.\u00a0 The Running Eagles tied the game at 16-16 before Cumberlands went on an 8-0 run, which was capped off by hustle defense that result in a steal and three-pointer from <dfn>Tevin Olison<\/dfn> to give UC a 24-16 lead with 7:05 remaining.\u00a0 Coming out of a media timeout, <dfn>Isaiah Thompson<\/dfn> scored three consecutive points as part of a 5-0 run to extend their lead to 31-21.\u00a0 Life cut the lead to three points, however, buckets from <dfn>Josh Williams<\/dfn>, Olison, and Thompson put UC in front 48-37 at the break. The Patriots finished the first half shooting 64% from the field, including 60% from behind-the-arc.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots strong offensive performance continued into the second half as both Hall and Williams drained a three, while Harris notched a fast break dunk to extend Cumberlands lead to 58-41 four minutes into the second half.\u00a0 The two teams traded buckets over the next two minutes, before Life went on a 10-2 run to cut the lead to 70-61 with 11:50 remaining.\u00a0 Olison netted the next seven Patriot points to keep UC&#8217;s advantage at ten, 77-67, midway through the second half.\u00a0 Cumberlands outscored Life 13-7 over the next four minutes to extend their lead to 90-76.\u00a0 The Running Eagles responded with a 14-5 run of their own to cut the lead to 95-90 with 1:31 remaining.\u00a0 Needing a big defensive stop, Olison stripped Zack Stewart, one of his four steals in the game, and made the lay-up to push the lead back to seven points.\u00a0 In the final 90 seconds of the game, Cumberlands converted 10-12 from the foul line to seal the 107-105 win.<\/p>\n<p>This game marks just the second time under Head Coach Don Butcher that the Patriots scored over 100 points in a conference game.\u00a0 The other time game on Feb. 9, 2016 win UC defeated Campbellsville 116-115 in five overtimes.\u00a0 Olison&#8217;s 40 points is tied for the sixth most in the NAIA this season, while his 20 made free throws is tops in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots will return to the court Thursday, December 31, when they travel to Portsmouth, OH to face Shawnee State in a conference matchup.\u00a0 Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. with live stats available here and live video available here.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriot Athletics\u00a0 Tommy Chasanoff, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Information MARIETTA, Ga. \u2013 Tevin Olison, Josh Williams, and Lamar Harris all recorded career-highs and combined for<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,6,306,23],"tags":[88,244,352,353,354,332],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cumberlands","category-mens-basketball","category-mid-south","category-top-news","tag-basketball","tag-cumberlands","tag-josh-williams","tag-lamar-harris","tag-life-u","tag-tevin-olison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}