The Belmont Abbey men's basketball team cut a seven point deficit to two with just six seconds left, but Phillip Wood sank two free throws with three seconds left, his 30th and 31st points of the night, to seal a 95-91 win for the Johnson C. Smith Golden Bulls tonight at the Wheeler Center. The victory moves the JSCU mark to 3-3, while the Abbey drops to 5-3.

The Crusaders trailed by 15 with 6:18 to play, but a 14-7 Crusader run over the next four minutes cut the lead to five at 80-75 with just over two minutes to play. After the two teams traded baskets, another Abbey jaunt, this one taking 19 seconds and counting 8-4 in the Crusaders favor, closed the lead to three with 34 seconds left. The run was capped by three Tyshawn Good free throws.

Forced to foul, Smith's Robert Williams missed the first but made the second to push the lead back to four with 33 seconds left. The Abbey missed a jumper on its next possession and fouled again, and Wood swished both with 18 seconds left to widen the gap back to six. On the Crusaders next trip down the floor, Jay Council was knocked to the ground on a three-point attempt. The ensuing foul sent him to the charity stripe, where he sank all three with 11 ticks left to cut the lead to a pair.

Another Abbey foul sent Trevin Parks to the line, where his two free throws with ten seconds left were true. The Abbey fought right back, as Terrone Sheffey swished a three with six seconds left to close the gap to 93-91, but the Crusaders did not score again.

After Sheffey's basket, Wood drained two free throws to seal the win.

Good led the Abbey with 21 points on five of 12 shooting, including nine of 11 from the free throw line. Council added 20 points, 18 in the second half, on six of 15 shooting. He converted five of eight from beyond the arc. Kyle Phillips posted 14 and six rebounds, while Darryl Durham added ten and six boards. The Crusaders shot 47 percent (32-67) from the field and 11-23 (47 percent) from three-point range.

Wood, who totaled seven points in the first half, finished with 31 in just 25 minutes on eight of 12 shooting and a perfect 13-13 from the free throw line. He made his first seven shots. He added three assists. Delonta Boyd added 18 points on nine of ten shooting and Parks posted 15 points, five assists and three steals. James Otey posted 11 points. The Golden Bulls, which made seven of their first ten shots of the game, accumulated a 56 percent (32-57) effort from the floor.