LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - Stan Okoye scored 30 points and grabbed 16 rebounds, and D.J. Covington had 20 points to lead Virginia Military Institute to a 90-81 win over Elon on Saturday.
Brian Brown finished with 16 points for the Keydets (3-3), who have won three of their last four games. Rodney Glasgow chipped in with 10 points.
VMI trailed 52-48 with 17:00 left in the second half when Austin Hamilton scored on a layup. But the Keydets regained the lead and never fell behind again after scoring six straight points to pull ahead by two points.
VMI took a 74-65 lead with 7:09 remaining in the game on two free throws by Covington, who went 6 of 7 from the line. The Phoenix (4-2) cut VMI's lead to four points with just over five minutes left in the game, but was unable to pull closer.
Jack Isenbarger led Elon with 25 points.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Elon (4-2) | 46 | 35 | 81 |
| VMI (3-3) « | 43 | 47 | 90 |
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| Elon Phoenix | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| R. Beaumont, F | 32 | 5-13 | 2-2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 12 |
| L. Troutman, F | 28 | 7-16 | 2-2 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| J. Isenbarger, G | 37 | 8-13 | 3-5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| A. Hamilton, G | 26 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| S. Koch, G | 26 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Samson | 30 | 2-11 | 0-0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| T. Sabato | 10 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| R. Winters | 8 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| J. Bonney | 2 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| E. Edomwonyi | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Totals | 30-75 | 11-13 | 39 | 14 | 19 | 81 | |
| 40% | 84.6% | ||||||
| VMI Keydets | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| S. Okoye, F | 34 | 10-19 | 9-13 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 30 |
| N. Gore, F | 30 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| D. Covington, C | 24 | 7-9 | 6-7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 20 |
| B. Brown, G | 33 | 5-9 | 2-2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
| R. Glasgow, G | 32 | 1-3 | 7-8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Albritton | 17 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| P. Anglade | 12 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| G. Stephenson | 8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| T. Marshall | 5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Watson | 5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals | 29-60 | 25-31 | 39 | 15 | 16 | 90 | |
| 48.3% | 80.6% | ||||||
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