JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville University men's basketball team (10-12, 4-8 ASUN) took plenty of punches on Saturday night opposite Lipscomb (13-10, 7-5) but kept getting up off the mat, showing real fight in defeat, 71-69.

The Dolphins trailed by as many as 16 points with 9:03 left to play in the game but used an incredible 17-0 scoring run to actually take the lead with just over three minutes to go. Dontarius James continued his re-emergence with a game-high and career-best 32 points on 9-18 shooting and 7-15 from deep to go with five rebounds and a steal. Bryce Workman added 10 points and eight rebounds off the bench while Tyreese Davis pitched in nine points, six rebounds and a season-best six assists.

Jacksonville shot 42.4 percent from the floor bolstered by a 51.6 percent clip in the second half.

Lipscomb came out of the gates hot, jumping ahead by 10, 20-10, by the 11:04 mark in the first half. Jacksonville cut the deficit to five on multiple occasions but later trailed by 12 in the closing moments of the first half. The ball found its way into the hands of Trey Sides who beat his defender on the left wing for a pull-up jumper just inside the arc that found its mark leave the Dolphins with a 10-point hole at the break.

Jacksonville trailed by six with 15:02 to play in the game but Lipscomb used a 17-7 run to move ahead by 16, 63-47, by the 9:03 mark. The fireworks started right there. Loseni Kamara canned a triple at the 8:41 mark to get things started and completed a personal 5-0 run with a runner in the lane. Workman broke up the Kamara run with a hook shot but Kamara went right back to work finishing on the break off a Lipscomb turnover.

Workman then scored four-straight. His second field goal in that run came after an extended back down battle with Ahsan Asadullah. James and Davis then rejoined the act. The later of whom finished a reverse lay-in to give JU its first lead of the game.

There was plenty of back-and-forth down the stretch and Jacksonville had multiple possessions down three with a chance to tie but Lipscomb committed fouls before the Dolphins could hoist tries. The Bisons were able to salt away the closing moments and secure the two-point victory.