CARROLLTON, Ga. - The pre-holiday schedule did not end the way head coach Dave Moore would have wanted on Monday evening at The Coliseum as the West Georgia Wolves lost a heartbreaker 71-70 to the visiting Morehouse Maroon Tigers. 

The entire game was a back-and-forth battle with Morehouse holding the upper hand for the bulk of the first half. The largest lead for the Maroon Tigers was five points at 33-28 after a Noah Morgan free-throw with 3:49 left in the game. Morgan was the leading scorer among both teams in the game, scoring 20 points. After Morgan's free-throw, the Wolves clawed their way back and Seth Brown-Carter pushed UWG over the top at the half with a layup, making the score 36-35 in favor of the Wolves as the teams went into the locker room. 

That layup provided a momentum swing, as the Wolves used that momentum to build a 10-point advantage in the first seven minutes of the second half. With 13:21 left in the game, Brown-Carter, who scored 12 points in the game as the second-leading scorer for UWG, buried a three-pointer to give the Wolves a 51-40 lead. The gap continued to grow, reaching it's highest point with 9:09 remaining as Kadeim Jones hit a pair of free-throws, two of his team-high 19 points, to give the Wolves a 59-45 lead. 

Morehouse started a comeback at that point, inching their way back into contention, and a pair of Morgan free-throws with 3:10 left in the game cut the UWG lead to 65-61. Just under 20 seconds later, Jones buried a three-pointer from the top of the key to push the advantage back out to seven at 68-61, but that would be the final shot that the Wolves would hit from the floor in the game. Over the final 2:52, West Georgia hit just two free-throws and the Maroon Tigers outscored the Wolves 10-2 to take the win. 

Three UWG players scored in double-figures in the game, with Jones pouring in 19, Brown-Carter with 12, and Jalen Sasser with 11. The Wolves fall to 4-7 with the loss and will return to play on December 31 against the Union Bulldogs at 4 p.m.