Sophomore Noah Watson made a layup with 3.0 seconds left in overtime to give the Muhlenberg men's basketball team a thrilling 75-74 overtime win at Dickinson.

Sophomore Dan Gaines assisted on the winning basket and scored a game-high 29 points for the Mules (14-4, 7-4), who are 10 games over .500 for the first time in eight years. Muhlenberg maintained its two-game lead over Gettysburg for fourth place in the Centennial Conference on a night when the top five teams in the CC standings all won.

The Mules trailed for most of the game and were down five with under two minutes to play in regulation before Gaines fed sophomore Dallas Hoffman for a layup. After a defensive stop, Gaines swished a three with 36.8 seconds left to tie the score at 68-all.

Regulation ended in a wild sequence that first saw Gaines strip the ball from a Dickinson player, then lose control of the ball as he drove down the court for a potential game-winning layup. The Red Devils (2-16, 2-9) had a good look at the other end but missed an open layup, sending Muhlenberg into overtime for its second straight road game.

The overtime score was frozen at 73-72, favor Muhlenberg, for more than two minutes until Dickinson drove in for a go-ahead bucket with 16.9 ticks showing. 

On the ensuing possession, Watson cut backdoor from the corner, took a bounce pass from Gaines and made an uncontested layup for his only points of the night.

The Red Devils missed a runner as the final buzzer sounded.

Gaines missed his third 30-point game of the season by one point and also missed a double-double by one rebound, finishing with 9 to go along with 5 steals. Sophomore Nate Henty Brown (pictured above) also was one rebound shy of a double-double (10 points, 9 rebounds). Senior Matt Gnias scored 15 points.