BRISTOL, TN (February 24, 2005) --- The sixth seeded Milligan College Buffaloes Basketball team lost to third seeded Montreat (N.C.) College in the Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament by the score of 73-65 Thursday afternoon at tournament host, King College. With the loss, the Buffs’ 2004-2005 season comes to an ends with an overall record of 17-15.

Montreat opened out an early lead over the Buffs and held a constant lead in double digits most of the first half. Milligan trailed at halftime by the score of 41-25.

The Buffs mounted a strong late second half comeback as Milligan cut into the lead. The 16 point halftime lead was chopped down to three points with two minutes left. Montreat regrouped and pulled way late to win by eight points.

Milligan was led by freshman guards Joe Brown (Blountville, Tenn.) and Yony Kifle (Grundy, Va.) with 16 points while senior forward Craig Emmert (Cass City, Mich.) scored 14 points and sophomore guard Adam Hughes (Bluff City, Tenn.) added 11 points.

Montreat was led by Tim Lewis with a game high of 18 points and grabbed 13 rebounds.