MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Trailing by nine with just under three and a half minutes remaining in the game, Southern Arkansas engineered a 7-0 run to pull within a possession of the Northwestern Oklahoma lead at 65-63. The Muleriders, with 2.7 seconds left, had an opportunity to win the game on their final possession, but a deep, contested three-pointer from the stroke of CJ Elkins missed off the back iron and the Rangers survived the Great American Conference affair on Saturday afternoon inside the W.T. Watson Center.

A three-pointer by Draylan Perkins cut the Southern Arkansas deficit to six points at...