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RADFORD, Va. – Radford will finish out the season playing six of the last seven games at home, beginning Sunday afternoon when the Highlanders host High Point in a Big South matchup at the Dedmon Center.
Sunday’s game, originally scheduled for Saturday night, tips off at 3 p.m.
Radford (12-10, 8-4 Big South) played its last four games on the road, its second-longest road trip of the season, and finished the stretch 2-2. Sunday begins a stretch of three games in six days at the Dedmon Center, where the Highlanders are 7-2 (3-1 in Big South games).
Prior to beginning this season-ending seven-game stretch, Radford raced past VMI 111-84 behind
Art Parakhouski’s (Minsk, Belarus) record-setting night on Tuesday. Leading four scorers in double figures, Parakhouski turned in the first 30-point, 20-rebound effort in school history with his 30-point, 22-rebound effort. In the process, Parakhouski became Radford’s 26th 1,000-point scorer and set the school’s single-game rebounding record.
Parakhouski averaged 13 points in his previous three games, making 14 of his 37 field goal attempts (37.8 percent) before going 13-for-17 against the Keydets.
Laz Trifunovic (Belgrade, Serbia) matched his career-high with 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, and
Joey Lynch-Flohr (Fairfax, Va./Fairfax) posted 13 points and 13 rebounds for Radford.
Amir Johnson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Quaker Valley) joined four Highlanders to score in double figures with 17 points. Radford shot 58 percent (44-for-76) from the field, including a season-high 56 percent from the 3-point line (9-for-16), while outrebounding the Keydets 62-36.
High Point (11-11, 6-5) handed Radford its first conference loss, an 83-77 road defeat on Jan. 9. The Panthers got a pair of 20-point performances in the win - Nick Barbour scored 23 points and Eugene Harris added 20 points – as High Point won its fourth in a row. Parakhouski scored 29 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for Radford, which saw its 11-game league road streak snapped. Joey Lynch-Flohr added 19 points and seven rebounds in the loss.
Radford outrebounded High Point 43-25, and outscored the Panthers 50-32 in the paint. But the Panthers shot 51.8 percent from the field (29-for-56) while hitting six 3-pointers. Radford shot 47.7 percent (31-for-65), and only 25 percent from 3-point range (2-for-8).
Since the win, High Point has losses in four of its last six Big South games, and five of seven overall after a 70-66 non-conference loss at Longwood on Tuesday. Radford is 4-4 since its meeting with the Panthers.
Radford has wins in three of the last four meetings with High Point, including a pair of wins at the Dedmon Center in 2009.