HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - Chad Jackson scored 18 points and Jalen Billups posted his first double-double of the season to help Northern Kentucky win its first game of the season, beating Hampton 54-52 Thursday night.
Billups finished with 14 points and 10 rebounds and Nate Snodgrass came off the bench for 10 points, including two free throws with 4 seconds left.
Hampton (2-8) trailed 27-23 at halftime but rallied to a 42-all tie behind a Deron Powers layup at the 4:40 mark. But Billups reeled off six straight to put Northern Kentucky (1-6) up for good, 48-42, with 48 seconds left.
Powers made a layup with 5 seconds left to cut the deficit to 52-51 but Snodgrass' free throws sealed the win.
Northern Kentucky outshot Hampton 37.5 percent (18 of 48) to 31.5 percent (17 of 54) and held a 39-33 rebounding edge.
Emmanual Orkorobo had 16 points and 10 boards for Hampton.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Northern Kentucky (1-6) « | 27 | 27 | 54 |
| Hampton (2-8) | 23 | 29 | 52 |
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| Northern Kentucky | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| E. Jones, F | 33 | 1-11 | 0-3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| J. Flournoy, F | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Billups, C | 25 | 6-10 | 2-2 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| E. Faulkner, G | 33 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| C. Jackson, G | 33 | 6-12 | 6-8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| N. Snodgrass | 32 | 2-4 | 4-4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| E. Watson | 20 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| T. Johnson | 14 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| J. Staley | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| T. White | 4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 18-48 | 14-20 | 39 | 10 | 16 | 54 | |
| 37.5% | 70% | ||||||
| Hampton Pirates | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| E. Okoroba, F | 37 | 6-10 | 4-8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| D. Maxwell, F | 23 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| D. Powers, G | 32 | 4-16 | 7-8 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 15 |
| R. Mercado, G | 22 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| D. Meikle, G | 17 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Williams | 29 | 3-11 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| K. Brown | 18 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| W. Dunning | 13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| D. Adams | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| R. Price | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 17-54 | 16-22 | 33 | 12 | 20 | 52 | |
| 31.5% | 72.7% | ||||||
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