MEMPHIS-The Christian Brothers University Bucs made a season-high 18 three-pointers as they rallied for a 94-92 win over No. 23 Alabama Huntsville Thursday night at Canale Arena.

HOW IT HAPPENED:
• The Bucs (16-11, 13-8 GSC) scored the first five points and led for nearly the entire first half, building a 26=16 lead on a pair of Alex Trentman (Alexandria, Ky./Bishop Brossart HS) free throws with 10:01 remaining in the first half. The Bucs built their lead back to 10 points twice more last on a Trentman three-point play with 7:57 remaining.
• The Chargers (20-7, 16-5) closed the first half with a 22-6 run to take a 46-40 lead as Seab Webster made a contested three-pointer as time expired. He scored 18 of his game-high 36 in the run.
• Webster picked up where he left off in the second half, scoring nine straight to extend the UAH lead to 57-46 on a three-point play with 16:19 remaining.
• After the Chargers led by as many as 12, the Bucs used an 8-0 burst to claw back within two as a Cody Garbuzinski (Memphis, Tenn./Christian Brothers HS) layup brought them within 65-63 with 10:29 remaining.
• Back-to-back threes by Brandon Roberts and Justin Ward restored the Charger lead to 73-65 with 8:49 remaining.
• The Bucs regained the lead for good with a 19-2 run capped by an Adam Dieball (Cincinnati, Ohio/Lakota East HS) triple with 2:52 remaining that gave them an 88-79 lead.
• The Chargers whittled the lead back to two in the final seconds as Troy Saxton made a three-pointer with 13.7 seconds remaining. The Bucs missed two free throws, but UAH's triple in the final seconds missed.

KEY STATS:
• Dieball scored 24 points with 11 rebounds, eight assists and two blocks. He shot 8-of-15 from the field, including 5-of-9 from three-point range.
• Trentman scored a career-high 24 points with 11 rebounds, and he tied his career-high with five assist. He shot 7-of-9 from the field, including 3-of-5 from beyond the arc, and he made all seven free throws.
• Garbuzinski scored 11 points with eight rebounds.
• Jeff Larkin (Cincinnati, Ohio/La Salle HS) added nine with four assists and three steals.
• Joe Laravie (Kettering, Ohio/Alter HS) scored 17 off the bench, adding three assists with no turnovers in 26 minutes. He finished 6-of-11 from the field, including 5-of-9 from three-point range.
ª Brad Miller (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder HS) added nine points with five rebounds, three assists and no turnovers in 36 minutes.
• The Bucs shot 49.2 percent (29-of-59) overall, including 51.4 percent (18-of-35) from three-point range. CBU shot 64.7 percent (11-of-17) from beyond the arc in the second half. UAH finished 49.2 percent (31-of-63) overall, including 40.6 percent (13-of-32) from beyond the arc.
• CBU out-rebounded the Chargers 37-29, including a 9-8 edge in offensive boards. The Bucs committed 12 turnovers to UAH's eight.

NOTABLE:
• The Bucs' 18 three-pointers tied for the second-most in a game in school history. CBU also made 18 against Union Jan. 16, 2014. The school record is 20 against Williams Baptist Jan. 6, 2005.
• The Bucs assisted on all 16 made baskets in the second half.

HEAD COACH MIKE NIENABER'S THOUGHTS:
"All's well that ends well. What a game. Seab Webster, what a great player he is. We did a good job in the second half, because we turned him loose there the last eight minutes of the first half. Of course, a big part of the first half was when we lost Adam and Jeff to foul trouble, we played too fast."

"I told the guys the first timeout when we lost Adam, Jeff was still in the game, guys we've got to slow down. We're sitting there with an eight to 10-point lead, playing as good as we've played all year to build that lead against a team like Huntsville. And we just got in a hurry. We do that sometimes."

"I told the guys before the game, and I repeated it now that it happened, this was a chance for the biggest win any of these players have had since they've been here. None of these guys have played in a bigger game as far as to win it. Charlie's freshman year we got to the Gulf South championship game, and he played instrumental minutes in that game. But as far as the overall NCAA ramifications, this is such a big win for us NCAA-wise. And part of it, you know when West Florida sees this score, they're not going to be happy campers. We've got a job to do Saturday. We've got to enjoy this tonight, but come in here tomorrow and get ready for Saturday. North Alabama is always a tough team to take, and they've gotten us the last three or four times now, we've let some games get away with them."

On Alex Trentman's effort:
"I feel like over the last two or three weeks, he's really taken it up to another level. He's scoring inside. They've heard me say it a million times, and I tell Adam this when he gets off to a slow start from three. Get a couple of baskets around the hoop, then when you get an open three you don't feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. I think it's a factor in why we're playing better, we're starting to get the ball inside to Alex and Cody. The more we do that, it gets harder to guard us. Everybody's used to doubling down on Adam, everybody's used to collapsing and it's gotten Adam almost a little tentative in there. But we've got other guys that can really play in the post and Adam's a great guy to have standing at the top of the key, because if his guy wants to collapse down we'll kick it out and take that three all the time."

On Joe Laravie's game:
"The money plays. He drove the basket and hit Cody on the back-cut. We talk about it all the time. It's not always penetrate and kick for a three, because everybody tends to ball-watch. If you see your guy take his eye off you, back-cut because we'd rather have a layup than a three. He made that and he made a couple of huge threes. The one that Joe hit late, you talk about ice water for a freshman. It's hard to believe sometimes when you watch those kids play that they're as young as they are."

"This game was a much faster pace than we really wanted. A lot of that happened that last eight minutes of the first half, when we needed to be playing slower."

"I'm so happy for these guys and I'm so proud of them, because at the end of the day, they do it. They either make the plays or they don't make the plays. They step up and make shots or they don't. I think coaching is important, but in this day and age, I think it's gotten almost overblown sometimes. This is a player's game. They make plays or they don't make plays. As a coach, you try to put them in position where they can, but at the end of the day they step up and make shots like we did, and Huntsville did too, or they don't. That's what it boils down to."

GSC TOURNAMENT PICTURE:
With a win tonight and CBU's win over UAH, Valdosta State clinched the top seed in next week's GSC Tournament at 18-3. Delta State moved into a tie for second with UAH, with both at 16-5. CBU and West Florida are tied for fourth at 13-8 and will meet in the quarterfinals, while Shorter has clinched the No. 6 seed at 11-10. North Alabama and Union are tied for seventh at 9-12, and both have clinched berths in the tournament.

WHAT'S NEXT:
The Bucs will celebrate Senior Day Saturday afternoon as they host North Alabama at 3 p.m. CBU would clinch the No. 4 seed and a home game in Tuesday's quarterfinal against West Florida with a win, or with a West Florida loss to Shorter Saturday afternoon.