Box Score SHERMAN, Texas – Trinity University Men's Basketball added a sixth victory to its current streak Saturday night with an 82-67 victory over Austin College in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference action at Hughey Gym.
 
The Tigers (11-4, 4-2 SCAC) collected their best percentage from beyond the arc in a game this season as unit, producing an 11-of-20 (55 percent) mark that featured a five-of-eight clip from sophomore Jacob Harvey (Huffman, Texas / Hargrave) en route to his game-high 19 points.
 
Senior AJ Clark (San Antonio, Texas / Johnson) and sophomore Jacob Millhouse (Plano, Texas / Independence) joined Harvey in double-figures with 13 and 10 points, respectively. While Harvey was the first to reach the plateau with 11 points in the first half, both Clark and Millhouse hit double-digits with nearly a quarter of the contest remaining.
 
First-year Zach Fenn (Covington, La. / Saint Paul's) once again led Trinity with three steals as one of five players with more than one: Clark, Harvey, Millhouse and junior Abdullah Roberts (Houston, Texas / HCYA).
 
Sophomore Braxton Barry (Houston, Texas / Westbury Christian) paced the Tigers underneath with seven rebounds and a pair of blocks while senior Kaleb Jenkins (New Orleans, La. / Metairie Park) matched Harvey for the game-high of four assists.
 
Trinity led by as many as 26 points on the night with 13:35 to go, marking its final 20-point advantage with just over five minutes to play.
 
Trinity Men's Basketball completes its four-game SCAC road trip next weekend at Texas Lutheran University (Jan. 13) and Southwestern University (Jan. 14).
 
The Rundown
 
A made three-pointer from Roberts kicked off seven straight points for the Tigers in a stretch that featured three straight Kangaroo possessions ended via steal—two for Clark, one for Millhouse.
 
The opening run ballooned into a 17-3 breakaway through the first five-plus minutes. Millhouse collected five points in the 10-0 run that followed Austin's first made field goal, bookending a three-pointer from Harvey—the first of the sophomore's team-high 11 first-half points.
 
Senior Griffin Levine (Dallas, Texas / Yavneh) opened up a more-modest breakaway of 12-5 for the Tigers less than 30 seconds after checking into the contest with a strike from long range as the first of five different players to contribute during the run.
 
Harvey netted Trinity's next five points via a trip to the free throw line and his second of three makes from deep which set up Fenn to mark the largest lead of the first half, 36-12, less than 15 minutes into the contest.
 
Harvey's third made three-pointer came with less 30 seconds before intermission to respond to a run from the 'Roos and briefly return the Tigers to a 20-point lead before a pair of Austin free throws left the halftime score at 43-25.
 
Millhouse kept Trinity's foot on the gas to open the second half with the team's seventh made three-point attempt, the first of three in the first five-plus minutes of the second half. Harvey's fourth and Clark's first came soon after to log the latter's 11^th point and the largest lead of the game, 57-31. At that time, the Tigers were nine-of-14 from outside, seven-of-nine from the trio of Harvey, Millhouse and Clark.
 
As the contest rode with a margin teetering near 20 points, Millhouse became the third Tiger to reach double-digit points one second past the midway point of the second half on a layup set up by Levine.
 
In the closing minutes, the 'Roos cut their deficit as short as 15 points with 3:21 remaining—the same margin as the eventual 82-67 final—as a Jackson Rennie three-pointer capped a 16-7 stretch for Austin that lasted over four minutes.
 
Coach Speak
 
"Huge road trip for us," Head Coach Jimmy Smith said. "Road games are really hard to win in this league. I was really happy with our defensive activity and I thought our ball movement was great."
 
Up Next
 
Trinity Men's Basketball visits the Bulldogs and Pirates next weekend before returning to the friendly confines of the Bell Center January 20 to host Centenary College to open the second tour of SCAC action for the 2022-23 campaign.