CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — (ESPN Clarksville) For its final 2018-19 regular-season appearance in the Dunn Center, Austin Peay State University men’s basketball team put on a show.

After a first half back-and-forth against a UT Martin team fighting for its life among the Ohio Valley Conference’s swollen middle-class, the Govs blew away the Skyhawks in the second half to remain in the hunt for a two-day bye into the upcoming OVC Tournament semifinals after a 92-78 win on Senior Night.

UT Martin (10-17, 5-11 OVC) hit its first six shots from the floor. That’s a pretty unsustainable pace, but the worrisome part was that Craig Randall II—who had not yet been cleared when these teams met on Jan. 12—hit four of those and had 11 points by the 15-minute mark as the Govs worked to contain the Duquesne transfer.

Eventually the Govs found the remedy for Randall—he missed his next three shots and scored just two more points in the half—but the Austin Peay (21-8, 13-3) offense was not the high-efficiency machine it has been for much of the year. Except for Zach Glotta—the O’Fallon, Missouri native put together a Senior Night performance he’ll look back fondly on, hitting five threes in the opening half alone.

But otherwise the first half was a famine for the Govs, who hit just 37.0 percent when anyone but Glotta put up a shot. Austin Peay was fortunate to enter the half down by just two points thanks to—who else?—Glotta, whose final three of the half swished home with eight seconds remaining to send the game into the break at 42-40 in favor of the visitors.

The teams traded buckets over the opening three minutes of the second half before the Govs took off on a 15-6 run featuring a pair of threes from Glotta and another from freshman Antwuan Butler, his first since Jan. 24.

The Skyhawks pulled to within a possession but senior Chris Porter-Bunton scored five straight points and Glotta nailed yet another three, his career-high seventh, to give Austin Peay its first double-digit lead of the evening.

From there, the Govs rolled; Austin Peay outscored UT Martin 30-19 over the last 10 minutes of play, with sophomore Terry Taylor scoring 12 of his 25 points during the game-clinching stretch. Glotta finished with a career-high 26 points and eight three-pointers, one short of the Austin Peay single-game record.