Clotheslined and smashed, Texas Southern player fouled hard

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Texas Southern forward Malcolm Riley led his team with 18 points in a win over Southern in the SWAC championship game on Saturday and he paid the price for it.

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In the final minute with Texas Southern trailing by a point, Riley found himself attacking the basket on a fast break when Southern sophomore Trelun Banks tried to take his head off. Riley was clotheslined and lost the ball as he fell to the floor in a heap. A trailing Southern player, senior Tre Lynch, who leaped toward the rim to block Riley's shot ended up grabbing the rim to stop his momentum and fell on top of Riley. Ouch.

Banks was assessed a Flagrant 2 foul and ejected from the game, the final game of the year for him because Southern is ineligible for postseason play.

Texas Southern won the game 62-58, giving Riley at least some consolation, even though he and his teammates had secured the conferences NCAA bid by winning their semifinal because of Southern's eligibility issues.

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