MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Augustine Rubit had 21 points and 12 rebounds as South Alabama rallied from an eight-point, second-half deficit, then held off Troy 65-62 Thursday night.
The Jaguars (13-9, 10-4 Sun Belt Conference), who have won five of their last six games, started 4 of 13 from the free-throw line, then closed the game with 20 straight.
South Alabama trailed 43-35 with 12:40 left before launching a 20-5 run to lead by seven with 5:15 remaining.
The Trojans (10-14, 5-8) got to 61-60 with 19 seconds left on Hunter Williams' 3-pointer, but Dre Conner answered with two foul shots and Javier Carter blocked a Troy 3-pointer.
After Emil Jones, who led the Trojans with 23 points, hit two free throws, Rubit, who was 11 of 15 from the line, made his final two foul shots with 2 seconds remaining to seal it
The Jaguars are now 1-9 when trailing at halftime.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Troy (10-14) | 31 | 31 | 62 |
| South Alabama (13-9) « | 28 | 37 | 65 |
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| Troy Trojans | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| W. Hinton, F | 17 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| J. Warren, C | 26 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| H. Williams, G | 37 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| E. Jones, G | 34 | 9-16 | 4-4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 23 |
| A. Myers, G | 30 | 4-8 | 3-3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Jethroe | 19 | 0-4 | 3-4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| R. Chambers | 14 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| T. Calhoun | 12 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| J. Mullahey | 11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Totals | 24-62 | 10-11 | 32 | 7 | 22 | 62 | |
| 38.7% | 90.9% | ||||||
| South Alabama Jaguars | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Rubit, F | 35 | 5-10 | 11-15 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| J. Carter, F | 23 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| M. Ammons, G | 32 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| D. Conner, G | 28 | 1-4 | 8-8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| A. Allen, G | 21 | 3-9 | 1-2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Anderson | 27 | 1-5 | 2-4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| B. Stevens III | 22 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| W. Wright | 12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 18-43 | 24-33 | 37 | 7 | 17 | 65 | |
| 41.9% | 72.7% | ||||||
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