Box Score

HONOLULU — There was no way the Academy of Art University men's basketball team was going to end its 2014-15 season Saturday quietly.
 
The Urban Knights fought back from a 19-point second half deficit and had five players score in double figures in the season finale before finally succumbing to Chaminade 90-78 at McCabe Gym.
 
Trailing 58-39 three minutes into the second half, the Urban Knights (7-19, 5-15 Pacific West Conference) made a game of it again with a 23-7 run to whittle the deficit down to three points at 65-62 with 7:04 left in the game. ART U shot 55.6 percent (10-for-18) from the field during the run but also missed two free throws and turned the ball over three times in the same time frame, allowing Chaminade (12-14, 9-11 PacWest) to keep the edge.
 
It was Chaminade's 3-point shooting that would win the night. The Silverswords made 15 treys in the game and shot 44.1 percent from downtown. Chaminade's first seven shots of the game were from behind the 3-point arc. It made four of those first seven and five 3-pointers in the game's first five minutes to jump out to an 18-10 lead. Two more 3-pointers pushed the Silverswords' lead to 15 two minutes later, and Kuany Kuany's 3-ball at the 6:44 mark of the period gave Chaminade its biggest lead at 19 points.
 
The Knights would get within two points on two different occasions, but failed to complete the comeback as Chaminade went a near-perfect 13-for-14 from the free-throw line in the final 4:09 while ART U went 3-for-10 from the field to close the game.
 
Senior guards Alexis Moore and Aaron Anderson both ended their careers Saturday with double-digit scoring performances. Moore led the Urban Knights with 17 points. He also had seven rebounds, three assists and two steals. Anderson had 11 points, two rebounds and a steal as the veteran duo finished their Academy of Art careers ranked second and fourth, respectively, in career scoring, second and third in career rebounds, second and fourth in career assists and first and third in career steals.
 
Freshman guard Uchenna Okeneme had a season-high nine rebounds to go with 14 points – his second-highest total on the year. Sophomore guard Herman Pratt IV scored 15 and freshman guard Jase Harrison had 10 points with five rebounds, two assists and a steal. Nine different Urban Knights scored at least two points and nine grabbed at least one rebound.
 
Chaminade also had five players score in double figures led by Lee Bailey's game-high 27 points. Bailey made five 3-pointers to lead a group of four players who made at least three treys each. Kuany had 17 points and eight rebounds, Oscar Pedroso scored 14, Kevin Hu poured in 13 and Kiran Shastri added 10.
 
The 2014-15 season ends as the Urban Knights' second-winningest season in the program's seven-year history, both overall (7) and in conference play (5). The team also set new single-season records in 3-pointers made (148) and steals (211).