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THE RUNDOWN
AUSTIN, Texas – In front of a Homecoming crowd on senior day, SEAN WATKINS, St. Edward's lone senior set a career high with five steals, added 17 points and dished six assists to propel the Hilltoppers to an 84-76 win over Lubbock Christian Saturday at the RCC on senior day.
 
Watkins and SEU (17-11, 7-9) not only ended a six-game losing streak to the Chaps (13-14, 9-7), but clinched the No. 6 seed in the Heartland Conference Tournament with the win.

LANDON GOESLING scored 25 points and dished five assists while DORIAN LOPEZ had a double-double with 10 points and 10 boards to help lead SEU. Marcos Schuster scored 23 points in the loss for LCU.
 
After the score was tied at halftime 36-all, COREY SHERVILL scored the first five points of the second half for the Hilltoppers, and from there, SEU never relinquished the lead. St. Edward's built a 12-point lead three times in the final 4:04 and the Hilltoppers hit their final 10 free-throw attempts to ice any chance of an LCU comeback.
 
HIGHLIGHTS
• SEAN WATKINS had a career-high five steals in the win over the Chaps.
• SEAN WATKINS scored the 750^th point of his career with his 13^th of 17 Saturday; he has 33 career games with double-digit scoring and 17 this season.
• Watkins' six assists gave him 141 for the season, which is the second-best single-season total in school history.
• Watkins hit four 3-point field goals, and his third Saturday moved him to ninth all-time on the SEU career list for 3-pointers made, passing ETHAN GILBERT (119, 2013-17).
• LANDON GOESLING led all scorers with 25 points, and he added five assists on the evening; Goesling has 36 career games with double-digit points and has 10 or more in 27 of 28 games this season.
• Goesling's 25 points gives him 633 on the season, the sixth-best single-season total in school history.
• DORIAN LOPEZ collected his 10^th double-double of the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds; he has 35 career games with 10 or more points and 12 with 10 or more rebounds.
• JAMES TAYLOR's 11 points on 5-of-10 shooting gave the junior 44 career games with 10 or more points and 19 this season.
 
STAT OF THE GAME I
6 – St. Edward's snapped a six-game losing skid to Lubbock Christian, its last win over the Chaps came Jan. 24, 2014 prior to Saturday's win.
 
THEY SAID IT
SEU head coach Andre Cook on senior SEAN WATKINS …
"He's just been a fantastic ambassador of St. Edward's University from his time on the SAAC as the president and his leadership roles on campus to the type of student that he is academically. I always say this about Sean. He's about 5'9" and about 160 pounds, but that's the only thing that's slight; his stature. Everything else, he's got a big heart, big integrity, big character, and I couldn't be more proud to coach a kid."
 
Cook on taking the No. 6 seed …
"Yeah just to grab the number six, not to slight on anybody that we would play, but it kind of gets you into the tournament. When you're playing in that 1-8, 2-7 the day before, at least it gives you a feel, you see some games, the guys see the venue and I believe it's a Friday evening game. So, at least it gets you into the tournament. It looks like it will be a team that's beaten us twice in Newman by a total of four points, so our guys want to get back at them and will work for the next four or five days to do that."
 
Cook on the takeaway from the win over Lubbock Christian …
"What I was most excited about is, I think what you saw on that court, is the respect and love that everyone has for SEAN WATKINS. Kids today now might not be able to say it, might not be able to communicate or articulate it, but what they did out there the first possession of the game, DORIAN LOPEZ, the first possession of the game dove about seven feet to get a loose ball and that was for SEAN WATKINS. You saw how guys played and competed and that was because they have that much respect and maybe they can't say it, but they showed it out there on the court."
 
WHAT'S NEXT
St. Edward's enters the Heartland Conference Tournament as the No. 6 seed and will face Newman in the quarterfinals Friday at 5 p.m. in Tulsa, Okla. at the Union Multipurpose Activity Center.