A couple scores had to make you go "Hmm..." when you saw them this weekend. First of all, any time a team goes five overtimes, as Rust did in defeating Fisk 120-117, you have to expect some buzzer-beaters.

And there were.

Fisk deflected the ball out of bounds to stop Rust's attempt to win in regulation. Then Rust had to rally in the final seconds of all five extra periods just to stay in the contest, including a three by Jerry Lawhorne to tie the game as time expired in the first OT.

As 11th-year Rust coach Rodney Stennis put it, "Go for the tie at home, I agree, and win on the road."

But even that adage has its limits, and in the fifth overtime Lawhorne got the ball underneath and turned it into a three-point play for the three-point win.

Seven players fouled out between both teams, while Rust's balanced attack meant their leading scorer had only 16 points. The five extra periods tied a Division III record set four times previously, including last year between Wheaton (Mass.) and Babson. Also, Coe and Monmouth took a game to six overtimes back in 1956-57, before the beginning of Division III.