CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (ESPN CLARKSVILLE) Austin Peay State University men’s basketball team looked like it was in the driver’s seat for a huge Ohio Valley Conference win until Dylan Windler intervened.

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The Belmont junior and 2019 OVC Preseason Player of the Year scored 22 of his game-high 33 points in the second half as the Bruins rallied to hand the Govs their first home loss since the 2018 finale, a 96-92 donnybrook between two of the OVC’s best programs.

Belmont (15-4, 6-2 OVC) hit nine of its first 10 shots from the floor to set the tone of the game, but the flame burned out rather quick and the Govs were able to take command from there. The Bruins missed their next five shots and nine of their next 12 as Austin Peay (14-7, 6-2) rallied from down three points to up nine over the course of their 23-11 run.

Austin Peay took a 50-40 lead into the break, thanks largely to a 16-point first-half effort by sophomore Terry Taylor. Belmont came out getting buckets once again in the second half, hitting seven of their first 10 shots from the floor, but Austin Peay kept its foot on the gas, increasing the lead to 14 on a Chris Porter-Bunton dunk early in the second half.

And then Windler took over. He sank a lay-up at the 11:41 mark in the second half to kick off a stretch where he scored 20 consecutive points for the Bruins, dragging Belmont to within three after his three-pointer with 5:30 to play.

With Windler finally out of gas—he would not score the rest of the way—Belmont turned to Kevin McClain to counter Porter-Bunton, who put the Govs on his back down the stretch. The Bowling Green native hit back-to-back threes, answering McClain’s dunk with his second triple to tie the game at 85.

Porter-Bunton and McClain traded layups until the one-minute mark, when a Nick Hopkins three put the Bruins up five. Taylor sank a lay-up and Porter-Bunton executed a three-point play, but Belmont hit free-throws down the stretch, making its final four attempts at the stripe after an atypical 13-of-22 showing the rest of the contest.

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