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Senior guard Nick Barbour scored 34 points, including a three-pointer that forced overtime and a trey in overtime, to lead the High Point University men's basketball team to an 81-77 win over Gardner-Webb on Saturday night in the Millis Center. Barbour broke the HPU career record for three-pointers in the game.

"It was a huge win for us, we really needed it and it shows how resilient our kids are," said HPU head coach Scott Cherry. "We were down 10 and came back. I guess karma changed around this time for us after they came back and beat us in overtime at their place a month ago. It was our turn to come back and win the way we did tonight. We got a lot of contributions from a lot of different guys and that's what it's going to take for us to move up in the league and put ourselves in a good position for the tournament."

Barbour entered the game with 281 three-pointers and went 7-for-10 from beyond the arc against Gardner-Webb, breaking Eugene Harris's HPU record of 283 that he set from 2006-10. Barbour went 9-for-15 from the floor and 9-for-10 from the line to make up his 34 points. He scored 28 points in the second half and overtime combined.

Senior guard Shay Shine scored 15 points and led HPU with six rebounds. Freshman Devante Wallace made his first career start and scored 13 points, including three three-pointers.

David Brown led Gardner-Webb with 15 points and six rebounds on the night. Tashan Newsome added 12 points and eight rebounds and freshman Max Landis came away with 10 points.

High Point improved to 9-15 overall and 5-9 in the Big South while Gardner-Webb fell to 10-15 overall and 5-8 in league play.

High Point had trailed by 10 points (62-52) when Brown hit a three-pointer with 3:09 remaining, but the Panthers closed the second half on a 15-5 run to force the extra period. With 46 seconds remaining in regulation, Barbour hit a three-pointer to bring the game within three points (65-62). On the next possession, Barbour was fouled while shooting and made two free-throws. Gardner-Webb's Laron Buggs then made two free-throws of his own taking the game back to three points with 20 seconds remaining.

With 0.6 seconds on the clock, Barbour dialed up a three on a handoff from Shine, which tied the game at 67-67 and sent it into overtime.

HPU sophomore Justin Cheek hit a free throw and sophomore Travis Elliott hit a layup under the basket to put High Point up by three to start overtime. The Runnin' Bulldogs' followed it up with a layup by Tyler Strange and a Landis three-pointer to take a 72-70 lead with 1:29 left in OT.

Barbour shot back with his seventh three-pointer of the game to give HPU the lead back for good with under a minute remaining. Xavier Martin and Barbour both hit free-throws and Shine drained four from the stripe to put the game away for the Panthers. Landis hit a three-pointer with 11 seconds on the clock and hit two free throws with five seconds left, both times bringing the game within two points, but Martin hit his last two free throws to make it an 81-77 final.

Wallace hit a jumper to start the game and hit a three-pointer coming out of halftime, pacing the Panthers with his best game against a Div. I opponent. He went 5-for-8 from the floor.

Gardner-Webb outrebounded High Point, 43-28, but the Panthers made up for it by shooting 53.6 percent (15-for-28) from three-point range.

High Point makes its beach trip next weekend, taking on Coastal Carolina on Thursday and Charleston Southern on Saturday. The last time HPU faced Coastal Carolina, the Chanticleers eked out a 55-52 win at the Millis Center.