BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Malcolm Miller and Derrick Beltran scored 21 points apiece in Southern University's wire-to-wire 81-67 win over Alabama A&M on Monday in Southwestern Athletic Conference play.
Javan Mitchell added 13 points and Jameel Grace 12 for Southern, which opened the game on a 14-2 run and led by at least seven the rest of the way.
Beltran and Miller combined to go 13-of-23 shooting, accounting for exactly half of the Jaguars' made baskets.
Southern (16-10, 10-2), winners of three straight, outshot Alabama A&M 48 percent (26 of 54) to 42 percent (24 of 57). The Jaguars struggled from the stripe, 22 of 32 compared to 12 of 17 for Bulldogs, but registered a 14 to 4 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Demarquelle Tabb led Alabama A&M (9-16, 5-9) with 22 points of 10-of-14 shooting but the other four Bulldog starters shot a combined 13 of 34.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Alabama A&M (9-16) | 23 | 44 | 67 |
| Southern (19-8) « | 33 | 48 | 81 |
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| Alabama A&M Bulldogs | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Crutcher, G | 40 | 3-8 | 4-5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 11 |
| D. Tabb, G | 39 | 10-14 | 2-4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 22 |
| B. Ellis, G | 35 | 3-9 | 3-3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| J. Long, G | 15 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| B. Houston, G | 4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| G. Hill | 26 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| N. West | 26 | 4-10 | 2-3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 |
| J. Banks | 9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J. Colvin | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Lanier | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 24-57 | 12-17 | 33 | 15 | 19 | 67 | |
| 42.1% | 70.6% | ||||||
| Southern Jaguars | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Mitchell, C | 34 | 4-6 | 5-10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| B. Moore, C | 26 | 0-5 | 2-2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| D. Beltran, G | 29 | 6-11 | 6-6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 21 |
| J. Grace, G | 28 | 5-10 | 2-2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| C. Monroe, G | 24 | 2-3 | 4-8 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Miller | 29 | 7-12 | 3-3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| C. Hyder | 14 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Y. Johnson | 11 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| M. Bol | 5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals | 26-54 | 22-32 | 37 | 14 | 16 | 81 | |
| 48.1% | 68.8% | ||||||
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