LAWTON, Okla. – The Texas A&M University-Commerce men's basketball team  outscored Cameron University by eight points in the final four minutes to pull away for a 73-65 win in Aggie Gym on Saturday afternoon.
 
The Lions are now 15-5 overall and 7-4 in the Lone Star Conference with the win. Cameron falls to 13-8 overall and 6-5 in league action.
 
A&M-Commerce returns home for its next five games, starting with a matchup against Western New Mexico at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 2, in the Field House.
  INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Four Lions scored in double digits, led by Malik Albert's 19 points. He also added four rebounds, four assists, and two steals.
- De'Andre Carson made four three-pointers on the way to 18 points, with two assists and two steals.
- Trey Seymore scored 15 points and Montrell Little added 12 points. They both had six rebounds.
- Dorian Armstrong was massive on the glass, grabbing 19 rebounds, with 15 on the defensive end. He also added three blocks and an assist, as well as four points.
- The Lions shot 42.4 percent (28-of-66) from the floor. Cameron made 39.7 percent (23-of-58) of its shots, but made only 10 two-point baskets compared to 13 three-pointers.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The two sides went back and forth in the first four minutes before the first Lion surge. Cameron led 8-6 at the 15:49 mark when A&M-Commerce went on a 9-2 run, going up 15-10 with 12:18 left in the half on a Trey Washington free throw. Carson and Seymore each knocked down triples in the run.
 
An Aggie three-pointer briefly slowed down the Lion scoring before another run, this one eight straight points for the blue and gold. Albert canned consecutive treys and a Montrell Little layup gave the Lions the first double figure lead of the game at 26-15 with 7:37 left in the half.
 
Dorian Armstrong's tip-in off of an offensive rebound was the only Lion field goal in the final five minutes, but the Lions were still able to take a 35-29 lead into the break.
 
Cameron made only four two-point baskets in the opening 20 minutes and the Lions held a 21-19 rebounding edge. Armstrong had 10 boards at the intermission, with eight on the defensive end of the floor. Albert was the leading scorer of the opening frame with 13 points.
 
Little scored a pair of baskets down low early in the second half to push the Lion lead to eight points at 39-31, but the guests weren't able to pull away that quickly. Cameron battled back and took the lead at 46-45 on a Jordan Lewis three-pointer at the 11:24 mark.
 
Lewis made another trey on the Aggies' next trip down the floor to give Cameron a 49-47 advantage. However, that two-point margin would be Cameron's largest lead of the half.
 
Armstrong made a pair of free throws at the 9:19 mark to erase the deficit and the Lions would not trail again. The game tied at 63-all with 4:23 to go and the Lions' defense locked the Aggies down, allowing only one more field goal the rest of the game.
 
The Lions would outscore Cameron 10-2 down the stretch, and a steal and dunk just before the buzzer by Albert would seal the revenge win for A&M-Commerce.

 Head Coach Sam Walker after the game
On getting a split on the road:
"It's amazing in this league that you can be so satisfied with a split. If you can split on the road and if you can split against Midwestern and Cameron, if you can split those two, you are playing on a national level."
 
On how his team reacted from the loss Thursday to bounce back:
"It doesn't surprise me that we won this game based on what has happened this year. When we lose a game, you don't want to play us the next game. And if we just lost a game, and the team we are playing beat us on our home court, you can throw the stats out the window. I thought our intensity and our focus was on a championship level. We've got to be able to emulate that and carry that over to the rest of our games. That's what teams do that compete on a national level."
 
On the play of Dorian Armstrong:
"I've never coached somebody who works so hard on the defensive end of the floor, sprinting to get back and battling against those giants he has to battle in there with, fighting for rebounds and taking charges, one of the leaders in blocked shots, and doesn't play with the same physicality on the offensive end of the floor. In my history of coaching, people play offense a lot harder than they play defense. We've got to get him focused in. What a great effort he had on the defensive end."
 
On where his team is after 20 games with a five-game home stand coming up:
"When we were 9-1 and I looked at the schedule, I wrote it down and showed my assistants, I said that if there was some way, some how we can be 15-5 when we get done with that Cameron game, with all the games we have had to play against really tough teams, if we get to 15-5, we would be golden right now. I think that's where we are at this point."