Columbia, MO – The Hannibal-LaGrange University Men's Basketball Team took on Columbia College Thursday night in the AMC Men's Conference Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals. HLGU comes into the tournament as the seven seed and looking to pull off the upset over Columbia, the Cougars come in as the two seed looking to move forward in the tournament.
GAME VITALS

• Score: Columbia College def. Hannibal-LaGrange 81-53.
• Records: Hannibal-LaGrange (7-21, 5-12) | Columbia College (20-11, 14-3)
• Location: Arena of Southwell Complex | Columbia College | Columbia, Missouri

STAT TRACKER

• Grant Peters dropped 19 points tonight to lead the team in scoring, he also had two rebounds.
• David Brown tallied seven points, along with five rebounds, one assist, and one block.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE

• The majority of the first half was close until the last two minutes when the Cougars went on a 10-0 run to take a 15-point lead into the half.
• Each team shot well from three-point range throughout the first half going 5-8 (62.5%) while Columbia went 8-12 (66.7%).
• In the second half, Columbia carried over their momentum and kept extending their lead to go on to win 81-53.
• The Cougars shot well in the game going 31-60 from the field (51.7%), the Trojans went 22-54 (40.7%).
• Each team kept the turnovers to a minimum, HLGU had nine turnovers and the Cougars had five.
• Columbia out-rebounded the Trojans 38-26 on the night.