LAWTON, Okla. (Feb. 20, 2020) – In a basketball game in which neither team led by more than eight points, one shot figured to tip the scales, and unfortunately for Oklahoma Christian, it was Cameron's Jordan Lewis who hit it.

Lewis buried a 3-pointer from the corner with 38.8 seconds left to give the Aggies a six-point lead and they hit just enough free throws from that point to hang on for a 65-62 win over OC in a Lone Star Conference divisional game at Aggie Gym.

OC (9-14, 8-11 LSC) remained in ninth place in the league standings, but now is tied with Texas-Permian Basin with three games left, and UTPB has the season tiebreaker over the Eagles. A half-game back at 8-12 is St. Mary's (Texas), with Eastern New Mexico, Arkansas-Fort Smith and Cameron all another half-game back at 7-12. The top 12 teams at the end of the regular season advance to the LSC tournament.

OC coach Kendre Talley said it was his team's poor first-half shooting performance – the Eagles hit only 8 of 25 shots, or 32 percent – that proved to be the difference in the game.

"We didn't shoot it well in the first half," Talley said. "We scored only 24 points. We were fighting uphill (offensively) the whole game. The defense was there. It just took us awhile to get comfortable."

Cameron (8-17, 7-12) led 32-24 at halftime but the Aggies didn't score for the first 4½ minutes of the second half, flummoxed by OC's zone defense. Despite their own offensive woes early in the half, the Eagles closed the game to 32-30 on a 3-pointer by Marcus Blackwell with 15:48 left.

The Eagles twice tied the game in the second half, the last time at 48-48 when Johnatan Reyes-Valdez hit two free throws with 5:26 left. But Tyler Williams' three-point play started a 7-2 spurt for Cameron and the Aggies led 55-50 after a short jumper by Jalen Nicholas with 2:25 left.

OC pulled within 57-54 on two free throws by Blackwell with 1:09 left. Cameron milked the shot clock at the other end before Lewis' critical 3-pointer. After an OC miss, the Aggies went up 62-54 with 26.3 seconds left on two free throws by Tyler Williams.

The Eagles had one last rally. Reyes-Valdez hit a layup with 22.2 seconds left, and after Williams missed the front end of a one-and-one free-throw opportunity, Aubrey Johnson hit a 3-pointer with 12.5 seconds left to pull OC within 62-59. Brock Schreiner split a pair of free throws with 11.4 seconds left before Johnson hit another 3-pointer, making it 63-62 with 4.4 seconds left.

Williams, who led Cameron with 23 points, made two free throws with 3.4 seconds left and a Cameron defender tipped away Blackwell's long inbounds pass, forcing Reyes-Valdez to throw up a desperation heave from beyond midcourt. It hit a speaker attached to the ceiling, giving possession to the Aggies with three-tenths of a second left.

Only five players scored for OC, but four of them reached double figures – Reyes-Valdez (20 points), Blackwell (14), Johnson (13) and Dedrian Parmer Jr. (11). OC center Will Lienhard scored four points to go with 11 rebounds and six blocked shots.

Jordan Lewis added 12 points for the Aggies.

OC will play at Midwestern State (Texas) (5-19, 5-13) on Saturday and a win would significantly lift the Eagles' postseason hopes. The Eagles will close the season at home next week, against Texas A&M-Commerce on Thursday and Texas-Tyler on Saturday.