MOREHEAD, Ky. – Senior Jamal Hunter had a record-breaking day in his final game for the Jacksonville State men's basketball team but Morehead State won the season finale 87-55 on Saturday.
 
Hunter blocked a school-record nine shots in the game, beating the previous record of seven held by Hunter (twice) and Sean Thurston, to push his season total to a school-record 63. He breaks Amadou Mbodji's single season record of 57 and also sets a new single-season school record for blocks per game at 2.1. He becomes the fourth player in JSU's Division I history to block 100 shots in a career, The transfer from East Mississippi Community College is the only two-year player to reach the century mark in school history.
 
The Eagles (15-16, 10-6 Ohio Valley Conference) pressured the Gamecocks (12-19, 5-11 OVC), one of the OVC's best teams at protecting the basketball, into a season-high 21 turnovers and committed just seven in the win.
 
Senior Avery Moore finished his collegiate career with a team-high 19 points, while fellow senior Darion Rackley scored 12. Moore ends his Division I career with 1,096 career points, combining his two years at JSU with his first two at Florida A&M. Rackley finishes his career with 1,326 career points, moving past Charles Burkette into 12th on the school's all-time scoring list.
 
The Gamecocks' only other senior, D.J. Felder added 10 points in his final game.
 
A team that made just 81-3-pointers in its other 14 OVC games this season, The Eagles made 20 in two games against JSU, thanks to nine on Saturday and 11 in the previous meeting on Jan. 24. Karam Mashour scored 15, while Billy Reader added 13 for MSU in the win.
 
The Gamecocks started the game hot from outside, making four early 3-pointers, but went cold for a stretch that saw MSU rattle off 10-straight points and take a 22-14 lead.
 
The Eagles turned it up a notch on the defensive end and pressured JSU into 11 first-half turnovers and stretched its lead to as many as 13 and to 10 at 41-31 at the half.
 
Moore had 11 first-half points for JSU, who also got eight from Rackley. Hunter had eight blocks in the first half, breaking the JSU single-game record for blocks before the intermission. Mashour and Reader combined for 22 points in the post for MSU, he scored 26 points in the paint in the game's first 20 minutes.
 
Moore started the scoring in the second half with a 3-pointer from the top of the key, but the Eagles answered with six in a row to pull back up by 13 at 49-36 with 16:32 left in the game.
 
MSU continued its run from that point and pulled away for the win.