Tweet #theGAC  BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Southern Nazarene completed the winningest season in Great American Conference history by rallying late in the second half to defeat Arkansas-Monticello, 62-57, in Sunday’s GAC Men’s Basketball Championship final from Bruin Fieldhouse.
 
Trailing 49-41 with less than eight minutes remaining, Southern Nazarene (27-2) ripped off 18 of the next 21 points, culminating in a thunderous, two-hand slam dunk from Tournament MVP Jhonathan Dunn. Dunn finished with 15 points, 11 of which came in the second half. For the GAC Championships, he averaged 21.7 points.
 
Micah Speight matched Dunn’s scoring output with 15 points. He made a pair of 3-pointers in the final minute of the first half that pulled the Crimson Storm to within two points of the Weevils (19-12) entering halftime. Noah Starkey also garnered All-Tournament honors thanks to his consecutive 20-point performances in the quarterfinal and semifinal wins.
 
With the victory, the Crimson Storm broke the GAC’s single-season record for wins. Arkansas Tech posted a 26-6 record in 2011-12. They are also assured of establishing the league’s standard for win percentage in a season.
 
Hill led the Weevils with a game-high 20 points. He earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team after averaging 22.0 points on 56.8 percent shooting. Cobe Goosby made the eight-man team for the second-straight year. He notched double-doubles in both of UAM’s wins and averaged 11.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 6.3 assists.
 
The rest of the All-Tournament Team consisted of Southeastern Oklahoma State’s Kevin Buckingham and Adam Dworsky as well as Northwestern Oklahoma State’s Brandon Green.
 
The Crimson Storm earned the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Central Region Championships.  They will learn their seed, opponent and destination during Sunday night’s selection show, set to stream on NCAA.com at 9:30 PM CST.