Box Score

IRVING, Texas - Despite a career-high 15 points off the bench from Millsaps freshman \#Aaron Caldwell\# and a one point halftime lead, host Dallas rallied for 32 of the game's final 47 points to pull away with a 63-55 win Tuesday night at the Maher Center.

Millsaps dropped to 1-2 with the loss on the early season, while Dallas moved to 3-2.

Dallas scored eight of the game's first 10 points to take its largest lead of the game just 6 minutes in, before back-to-back jumpers from Caldwell and a 3-pointer from junior transfer \#LV Sumler\# got the Majors' offense going and cut it to a 10-9 game.

Again the Crusaders pushed their lead to six with 6:03 to play in the half until the Majors strung together a furious run to close the period. Back-to-back buckets from senior \#Cameron Varnado\#, including an and-1, and a 3-pointer from \#Quinn Lemieux\# gave the Majors their first lead of the game with 46 seconds left, capping a 13-6 run.

Neither team shot extremely well in the opening 20 minutes, with Millsaps connecting on 35 percent and Dallas just 30 percent. The teams also combined to shoot just 4-of-20 from long distance, with \#Blake Martinez\#, \#Nick Cortese\# and Sumler each hitting one. 

Millsaps carried the momentum from a late first half run into the opening 7:13 of the second half, taking its largest lead of the night at 40-31 after a Lemieux mid-range jumper and back-to-back 3-pointers from \#Taylor Meades\#.

Unfortunately for Millsaps, Dallas would respond and takeover the rest of the game, scoring 13 unanswered to go back up for good, 44-40 with 9:52 to play. Back-to-back-to-back 3s from Zach Latimore and Jim Norton got the Crusaders' offense going, as they would build their lead out to six in the ensuing minutes.

Millsaps made one last push after trailing by six, using seven points from Varnado and a jumper from Sumler to cut the lead to 50-49 with 5:18 to play. That's as close as the Majors would get the rest of the way, as Dallas scored 13 of the game's final 19 points to hold on for the victory.

Behind Caldwell's career-high 15, Varnado added 13 points and a team-high seven boards in the loss. Dallas was paced by Norton with 17 (10 in the second half), Latimore with 12 off the bench and Jeff Pritchard with 11.

The Majors will continue a stretch of six-straight road games this Saturday, traveling to Hammond, La., to face off with Division I member Southeastern Louisiana (3-1). Tipoff is set for 12:45 p.m. from the University Center, with live audio available through Millsaps courtesy of ATW Sportscast beginning at 12:30 p.m.