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Playing without either of its two primary post players for the last two and a half minutes, William and Mary staved off a late Towson rally Saturday afternoon to win 83-79 and regain some momentum entering next week’s Colonial Athletic Association tournament.
Daniel Dixon led the Tribe (16-13, 10-8 CAA) in the regular-season finale with 32 points, six rebounds and five assists. It was the senior guard’s second consecutive 30-point outing and fifth of the season. Dixon was 17-of-18 from the foul line. The 17 made free throws was the most since 2001 and fourth most in school history.
Leaving the game with a career-high 20 points, 6-foot-10 William and Mary freshman Nathan Knight fouled out with 2:31 to play after 6-foot-9 redshirt junior Jack Whitman exited with his fifth foul with 4:45 left.
“We just made sure we played with heart,” said Dixon, who will lead No. 4 seed William & Mary against fifth-seeded Elon at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday in the CAA conference tournament in Charleston. “That was the biggest thing. Toughness was the big thing we talked about in the beginning of the game, so we just wanted to be as tough as we possibly could. I told the guys to just give me everything you have in the last few minutes and that’s what we did.”
The exits of Knight and Whitman left the Tribe fending against one of the CAA’s top defensive and rebounding teams, though Towson sixth-man John Davis (11.8 ppg, 7.6 rebounds per game) is out for the season with an injury.
David Cohn and Oliver Tot also traded time at point guard for the last two and a half minutes after the Tigers (19-12, 11-7) trimmed what was once a 19-point first-half lead for the Tribe down to 77-74.
Following a missed 3-point attempt that would have tied the game by Deshaun Mormon, Omar Prewitt fed Dixon down low for a shot attempt that led to a pair of free throws he would convert to put William and Mary ahead by five with 39.9 on the clock.
With the Tribe clinging to an 81-76 lead, Towson guard Jordan McNeil sank a 3-pointer to cut William & Mary’s lead to 81-79 with 12.1 seconds left.
With two made free throws, Dixon sealed the game as William and Mary rebounded from its first home loss of the season on Thursday against Hofstra.
Prewitt came in averaging 15.6 points, but tallied only five points. He finished with seven rebounds and four assists.
“As a senior, it wasn’t a great day offensively (for Prewitt),” Tribe coach Tony Shaver said, “but he found a way to help us win the ballgame.”
Knight, who added seven rebounds, had a number of dunks in the victory. The highlight was when the freshman swooped in to jam home the rebound of a missed Prewitt jumper midway through the second half.
“I think he’s matured and I don’t think he’s a freshman anymore,” Dixon said. “I don’t consider him a freshman anymore. I definitely don’t treat him like a freshman. I’m hard on him… I think he’s done an unbelievable job.”
Holtzman can be reached by phone at 757-298-5830.