GRAMBLING — Mark Gray and Nigel Ribeiro scored 18 points apiece and Grambling State beat Alabama A&M 81-78 in overtime in a Southwestern Athletic Conference opener on Saturday night.Grambling State (3-9, 1-0) outscored Alabama A&M 9-4 in overtime to snap its four-game skid. The win also ended a 37-game losing streak against Division I competition for the Tigers.
“We got the monkey off our backs,’’ Grambling coach Shawn Walker said. “We’re trying to change the culture here, and now these guys believe that they can win.
“We haven’t been in a game up 3 with 30 seconds left, so I’m proud of them. Certainly they’re happy, …and we’re going to take this momentum into the rest of 2016.”
Deonte Hearns scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Remond Brown added 15 points for the Tigers.
The Tigers led by as many as seven points three times during the second half, the latest at the 11:49-mark.
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