Box Score SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Dominican University of California men's basketball team put up 83 points for the second consecutive night but opposing Chaminade University outshot the Penguins with 99 in the championship game of the Pacific West Conference Championships.

Dominican (22-8) trailed 10-9 after the first media timeout. Chaminade (19-12) took advantage and barely a minute later the Penguins trailed 19-11. The Penguins trailed by as many as 14 but cut the lead to five with 1:18 to go in the half. Still, three-pointers from Kiran Shastri and a buzzer-beater from James Harper grew the lead back to 11, 50-39, at the half. Dominican simply didn't have an answer for the Silverswords in the first half. CUH took 11 more field goal attempts, with 15 points from Harper.

Dominican made a late run to pull within seven, 90-83, with a jumper from Myles Carrillo and a three-pointer from Matt Hayes with 2:48 to go but the Penguins were held scoreless the remainder of the game.

Harper, who was a perfect 5-for-5 from deep in the first half, didn't cool down in the second half and finished with a game-high 31 points on 9-of-12 shooting from deep. Shastri added 19 points and Tournament MVP Lee Bailey added 14 points. Tyree Harrison recorded a double-double with 13 points and a game-high 10 rebounds.

Hayes and Carrillo scored 19 points apiece for the Penguins. Junior Dominique Taplin added 18 points in a full forty-minute effort. Senior center Connor Haysbert was limited to 20 minutes of action and finished with eight points and eight rebounds before fouling out.

Carrillo dished out five assists, bringing his season total to 144, which is a program single-season record in the NCAA Division II era. He and Taplin were both named to the All-Tournament Team.

The Penguins were without senior Devin Golston, the team's All-PacWest First Team selection, and for the second night, sophomore Jonny Bates (concussion). Even after Golston's season was cut early due to a knee injury on Feb. 5, Dominican overcame his absence to win six of its final games.

"It's tough when a team shoots 54 percent from the field and 57 percent from the three," said Head Coach Booker T. Harris. "Our guys did a tremendous job this season, ripping off those last 11 games of the year. We went through so much adversity and it's tough because it ends so abruptly."

Picked to finish eighth in a preseason coaches poll, the Penguins surprised everybody with a 22-win season in just Harris' third season at the helm. Dominican will find out during Sunday's NCAA Division II Selection Show whether they'll earn a bid to the NCAA Division II West Region tournament but with Chaminade and Cal State Stanislaus earning their respective conference automatic qualifiers, chances are slim for the No. 8 regionally-ranked Penguins.