PIPPAS PASSES, Ky. (Nov. 21, 2014) â€" Kurt Brooks and Mickey Woods combined for 29 second-half points, and the Milligan College men's basketball team erased a 10-point deficit with less than six minutes left to defeat Alice Lloyd College 74-70 Friday night in nonconference action.
 
Milligan won its eighth straight game to open the season, improving to 8-0 (3-0 Appalachian Athletic Conference). The Buffaloes also won their second game against Alice Lloyd (2-4) this season, having beaten the Eagles 81-62 when the two teams met two weeks ago at the Steve Lacy Fieldhouse.
 
Brooks and Woods each finished with a team high 16 points, but it was Brooks who came through with the winning basket. After trailing by as many as 10 in the second half and facing a 67-58 deficit with under five minutes left, Brooks gave the Buffaloes the game-winner with 11 seconds left, then sealed it with two made free throws with five seconds left. His free throws capped an 8-0 Milligan run to end the game.

Brooks and Woods not only scored all eight points in that run but accounted for Milligan's last 17 points over a span of nearly the last eight minutes. Alice Lloyd was held to 10 points as a team during those last eight minutes.
 
Milligan held one brief lead toward the end of the first half when Patjo Twagirayezu converted two free throws to make it 32-31. Two possessions later, the Buffaloes had lost the lead and did not get it back until Brooks' last-second field goal.
 
Twagirayezu finished with 11 points, all in the first half, as the only other Buffalo in double figures. Alice Lloyd also put three men in double figures, led by Austin Crisp who scored 20. 
 
Milligan will stay on the road for the next two games, facing Lee University on Monday and No. 16 Union College on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. The Buffaloes return home on Wednesday, Dec. 3 for a women's and men's doubleheader against Truett-McConnell College.