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(3/14/08) Point Lookout, Mo. - Grace College (Ind.) became the first un-seeded team to reach the elite-eight with a 90-81 overtime victory over third-seeded Morningside College (Iowa) at the 2008 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball National Championship. The 17th-annual event is being held at the Keeter Gymnasium on the campus of the College of the Ozarks (Mo.).

David Swanson broke a 76-76 tie with a three-point play with two minutes remaining in overtime, to give Grace (Ind.) a 79-76 lead. Austin Kaiser scored the next four points putting the Lancers up five points with 1:30 left. Grace increased the lead to nine points, the largest of the game, with a 9-0 run that sealed the victory for the Lancers down the stretch as the No. 3 seed Mustangs made only three field goals in the overtime frame.

Grace opened the game on a 5-0 run before Morningside countered with Thomas Pargett scored the Mustangs first five points to tie the game. Morningside increased their lead to seven points (22-15) with ten minutes remaining but Grace rallied to close the half out-scoring the Mustangs 30-15 taking a 45-37 lead into the locker room. In the second half, despite Morningside shooting 13-for-34 (38%) in the first half, they went on a 7-2 run capped by a Seth Atkins basket that tied the game at 52-52 reclaiming the lead after completing the three-point play. It was Morningside's first lead since the six minute mark in the first half (32-31).

Over the final fifteen minutes of the second half, both teams traded baskets with neither team leading by more than two points. By the end of regulation with a missed fade-away jumper by Graces' Kyle Johnson, there were eleven ties and sixteen lead changes.

The overtime frame belonged to Grace wrapping up the second major upset of the 2008 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball National Championship. Grace College had four players score in double-figures with Marcus Moore leading the charge with 25 points on 7-for-13 shooting which included 3-for-6 from beyond the arc. Johnson added 23 points and a team-high seven rebounds on an 8-for-18 performance making four three pointers. Eric Gaff and Austin Kaiser added 12 and 10 points respectively. The Lancers shot 48 percent in the game and out-rebounded their opponent 45-42 adding 20 assists. Grace was 14-of-20 at the charity stripe.

"What a tremendous effort by our guys tonight," said assistant coach Matt Moore. "We knew we had the pieces to make a deep run in this tournament and our guys are beginning to believe that."

Grace College (Ind.), now 26-9 overall, advances to play the winner of #6 Evangel University and #11 Oregon Tech tomorrow in the Elite-Eight at 8 p.m. The 32-team, single-elimination tournament concludes on Tuesday, March 18.