Box Score

SEARCY – After playing five of its first six games on the road, Harding returned to the Rhodes Field House on Thursday and posted a 90-33 blowout of Champion Baptist in non-conference men's action. The 33 points was the fewest ever allowed by a Harding team.

Using a significant size advantage, Harding (6-1) scored 62 points in the paint. Champion Baptist (0-8), a school of about 150 students in Hot Springs, Ark., had only started over six feet tall.

Harding shot 67 percent from the field in the first half and enjoyed a 52-21 lead at halftime. Central Baptist missed 30 of its first 31 shots in the second half and the Bisons pulled away, leading by as many as 64 points with 1:22 left in the game.

Champion Baptist made four field goals in the second half, all three-pointers. Harding shot 48 percent in the second half and 58 percent for the game.

Senior Kevin Brown had 13 points and a team-best nine rebounds, and sophomore Zach Roddenberry set career highs with 13 points and eight boards for Harding. Bradley Spencer and Hayden Johnson had 10 points each.

Mo Capaci, who made three three-pointers in the last two minutes of the game, led Champion Baptist with 17 points and six rebounds.

Harding's bench outscored Champion Baptist's reserves 53-3, and the Bisons held a 54-26 rebound advantage.

The previous school record for points allowed by a Harding team was 36 vs. Arkansas-Monticello in 1988 and Arkansas Baptist in 2000.