Prairie View 74, at Alabama A&M 55

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (Interstat) — Dontae Horne scored 25 points and Prairie View A&M used a dominant first half to cruise past Alabama A&M 74-55 on Friday afternoon in a Southwestern Athletic Conference men’s basketball tournament quarterfinal at Gateway Center Arena. The seventh-seeded Panthers (17-17) avenged a 20-point regular-season loss to the second-seeded Bulldogs just six weeks prior, advancing to face the winner of the Texas Southern and Grambling game in Saturday’s semifinal round. The most important part of the game was Prairie View’s suffocating first-half defense, which set the tone for the wire-to-wire victory. The Panthers held Alabama A&M… Read more...