LAFAYETTE, La. – Elijah McCadden scored a season-high 21 points, including the game-winning free throws with 17.1 seconds left, to lift Georgia Southern to a 66-65 Sun Belt men's basketball win over Louisiana Saturday night in the Cajundome.
Georgia Southern trailed by eight points with 3:09 to play, and McCadden scored the last seven points of the game for the Eagles. After McCadden's free throws, Louisiana's Michael Thomas drove to the hoop on the final play and tried to wrap around a pass to Jordan Brown cutting to the basket. The Eagles got a hand on the pass, and the ball was tipped around, appropriately finding the arms of McCadden as the final horn sounded.