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DURANT – It was an afternoon of milestones and records as head coach Kelly Green collected his 200th win as Southeastern’s head coach and Brennen Burns set a new school and conference single-game assists record in a 99-87 win over Harding on Saturday afternoon in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
The win lifts the Savage Storm to 15-7 overall on the year and 11-3 in Great American Conference play while the Bisons drop to 9-11 overall and 6-8 in league play.
Green picked up his 200th career win as the head coach at SE and his 542nd career win overall.
Burns handed out 19 assists on the afternoon to set his own milestone, surpassing the previous school and GAC single game record of 16 which was held by Burn’s predecessor for the Storm, Adam Dworsky.
His 19 assists match the most across all three NCAA divisions this season and is the most by a D-2 player since 2020.
Those two milestones nearly overshadow a contest that featured three Storm players who finished with 20-or-more points, led by Kody Clouet who dropped a game-high 24 points, hitting 8-of-15 from the field and 4-of-9 from beyond the arc.
Kyle Leslie added 20 points on 8-of-15 shooting with a trio of threes, while Landon Condiff drained six threes on the contest and finished with 20 as well.
Two other SE players cracked double-digits with Robert Briley and Chandler Dickinson putting up 10 points each.
Southeastern would finish the game shooting 52.8 percent overall, including a 43.2 percent clip as a team from three-point range, hitting 16 total threes on the afternoon.
Briley would polish off a double-double as he hauled in a game-high 11 rebounds.
SE got off to a hot start, hitting threes on back-to-back possession to open the game on a 10-2 run.
Harding would close that gap, getting to within one point three times before the Storm would push its edge back out to 21-15 on a Condiff three with 13:44 to play in the half.
The Bisons would clos the gap again, this time taking a lead and pushing it to 31-27 with 7:55 to play itn he half.
A Jaden Bridgeman three would get it back to one possession and less than a minute later a Briley bucket would kick off a 9-0 run to see the Storm regain a 39-33 lead.
HU would tie the game three times over the final four minutes but Southeastern would take a 50-47 lead into the locker room at the half.
Southeastern opened the second half on a 15-4 run capped by a Clouet three to take a 65-51 lead by the 16:42 mark.
Harding would chip the Storm advantage to nine points at the 14:30 mark, but a minute later Condiff would connect on a three and the Southeastern lead would never dip to single digits again in the contest.
The SE lead peaked at 20 points with 6:53 to play on a Clouet layup to go up 94-74, and the Bisons would score 13 of the final 18 points to make the final 99-87.
