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RICHMOND, Ky. – Senior Isaac McGlone was honored before the Eastern Kentucky men's basketball's team's 75-71 win over Tennessee Tech on Saturday, but it was sophomore Nick Mayo who was honored after it.
 
Mayo poured in a career-high 31 points in EKU's season finale to become the 35^th Colonel to score 1,000 points in his career. He is the first EKU player ever to reach the 1,000-point plateau as a sophomore.
 
Mayo entered the game needing six points to hit the 1,000-point plateau. He scored his sixth point before the first media timeout, and that was sign of things to come. The 6-9 forward from Oakland, Maine went 12-of-18 from the floor and 3-of-5 from deep. His game-clinching free throw with three seconds on the clock gave him a new career-high of 31 points. He also grabbed nine rebounds, dished out two assists and came up with two steals.
 
Freshman point guard Asante Gist, meanwhile, finished with 22 points, five assists and only one turnover in the win.
 
McGlone – EKU's lone senior – was honored as part of Senior Day activities before the game. He finished with only three points, but also had three steals, two assists and held TTU's leading scorer, Aleksa Jugovic, to only five points. Most importantly, in his final game, he finished with his 72^nd win as a Colonel.
 
EKU (12-19, 5-11 OVC) led by as many as 10 points in the first half, 36-26, when freshman Marlon Adams converted a layup with 1:26 on the clock. However, Tech closed the half on a 5-0 run to cut the Colonels' lead at halftime to five, 39-35.
 
Eastern opened the second half on a 7-0 run and grabbed an 11-point advantage when McGlone buried his lone triple of the game to make it 46-35 just over two minutes into the second stanza.
 
The Colonels took their largest lead of the game, 68-56, when junior Zach Charles completed a three-point play with 2:21 remaining. However, the Golden Eagles were not finished. Tech pulled back to within three, 74-71, when Mason Ramsey buried a three-pointer with seven seconds on the clock.
 
EKU was able to get the ensuing inbounds to Mayo, who was fouled with three ticks left. He sank one of two free throws to ice the game and give him a career-high 31 points.
 
Charles just missed a double-double for Eastern, scoring nine points and grabbing nine rebounds.
 
EKU nearly shot 50 percent (27-of-55) from the floor and won the turnover battle, 16-11.
 
TTU (12-19, 8-8 OVC) was led by Ramsey, who finished with 16 points.