The Buena Vista men's basketball team put its recent long range shoot struggles aside on Saturday afternoon as the Beavers made 16-of-29 from downtown en route to a 100-84 road win at Coe in the regular season finale.

BVU was facing a must-win situation, and needed Wartburg to defeat Luther, in order to land the sixth seed.  The Knights did their part for the Beavers by handing the Norse a 68-53 loss.

The Beavers had dropped six of seven games overall coming into Saturday's showdown with the Kohawks and had made more than eight three-point buckets only once during those contests, while being held to less than 35 percent six times.  That all went out the door in this contest as BVU set a season-high for three-point makes and made 50 percent of those attempts for just the second time all year.

Senior Nick Clark turned in five of those makes and finished with a game-high 33 points.  It was his fifth 30-point game of the year and his second during IIAC play.  He's now made 78 three-pointers this season which has him tied with Shane Steele for fourth in BVU single-season history and just four away from Eric Wiebers' all-time single-season record of 82 set in 2003-04.

Sophomore Thomas Wisecup also made a career-high five shots from beyond the arc and turned in a career-high 20 points.  Senior Bobby Ivey scored in double-digits for the first time since January 23 and tallied a career-best 19, including a perfect 6-for-6 at the free-throw line.  He also grabbed six rebounds.

Junior Kennedy Drey posted his fourth double-double in the last six games, scoring 11 points and grabbing 11 rebounds.

As a team, the Beavers made 35-of-60 field goal attempts overall (58 percent).

Coe managed to shoot 46 percent overall and finished with 12 made three-pointers of their own.

The game was tied 38-38 with just under 2:00 to play in the first half before Wisecup, Drey and Clark hit on consecutive three-point shots to give the Beavers a 47-38 lead at the half.

That momentum carried over into the second half as Ivey scored the team's first seven points, including a three that gave BVU a 54-41 lead.  Fellow senior Jarod Juhl made sure his career would live on for at least one more game with a long-range shot that pushed the margin to 17 with 13:00 to go.

Coe slowly chipped away at the lead by making five three-point buckets of its own during a 22-12 run that cut the BVU lead down to 77-70 with 6:30 still to play.  Ivey responded with a pair of free-throws while Clark added a layup to make it an 81-70 advantage. 

The Kohawks went nearly two minutes without a field goal but kept within striking distance until Clark hit his final trey with just over 3:00 remaining to make it a 14-point lead and Coe was unable to get any closer than 12 from there.

Matt Vonderhaar posted 28 points, including a game-high six three-pointers, to lead Coe which saw its season end at 11-4 (4-10 IIAC).

Buena Vista improves to 10-15 overall and wraps up the conference schedule at 5-9.  The Beavers will now travel and play at third-seed Simpson College on Tuesday, February 23, at 7:00pm.  The two teams will meet for the second time in less than a week, and split the regular season series.