Mekhi Lairy picked a good day to have the best half of his young collegiate career.
Making his first start of the season and playing against his hometown team, the freshman guard dropped 14 points in the second half to lead the Miami RedHawks to a 70-67 win over the Evansville Purple Aces at Millett Hall on Sunday.
“My coaching staff and my players just kept telling me to play my game, and I went out there in the second half and just let the game come to me,” Lairy said. “I got hot.”
Lairy, a graduate of Evansville Bosse High School, went scoreless in the first half before exploding in the second.