MORRIS, Minn. - The Minnesota Morris men's basketball team played in front of the home fans for the first time since January 23. The Cougars started fast, but St. Scholastica caught and then built a lead in taking a 93-84 win Friday night in UMAC basketball play at Jim Gremmels Court.

At the game's onset, the two teams were polar opposites. The Cougars made their first seven shots from the floor while the Saints missed their first six. Less than four minutes in, UMM held a 16-0 lead. The Saints had to use two timeouts in the stretch to try to stop the Cougars momentum.

The second timeout did the trick for CSS as they made four 3s over the next four minutes to cut UMM's lead in half at 20-12. An 11-2 run followed and the Saints found themselves in the lead after the bad start at 23-22.

Later, tied at 26, back-to-back 3s from Tyler Ukkelberg and Jeremy Halverson gave the Cougars a 32-26 edge. CSS answered with six straight and the two teams exchanged baskets the rest of the half to go in tied at 44 at the break.

The game remained tight throughout the first ten minutes of the second half. Down 2, a Noah Grove lay-in tied the game at 68 and a John Haseman 3 gave UMM a 71-68 advantage with 8:51 left. Then CSS' Kory Deadrick caught fire connecting on four straight 3s as part of an 18-3 run that gave the Saints an 86-74 lead and they would go on to win from there.

CD Douglas and Anthony Fisher each scored 16 points for the Cougars with Grove and Halverson each scoring 11.

Minnesota Morris (13-11, 8-7 in UMAC) wraps up regular season play with a 5 p.m. game against Wisconsin-Superior at Jim Gremmels Court.