The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff didn't get its usual high-scoring performance from Martaveous McKnight on Saturday, but the senior guard delivered when the Golden Lions needed him the most.
McKnight scored 13 of his 20 points in the second half, including nine during a key six-minute span, to power UAPB to a 75-66 victory over the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in the championship game of the upper division of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Holiday Classic at the Jack Stephens Center.
"He's our leader, and he played like it down the stretch," UAPB Coach George Ivory said of McKnight, the Southwestern Athletic Conference's reigning player of the year.