Demons’ strong second half not enough to overcome Islanders’ strong start

In many ways, the Northwestern State men’s basketball team had seen how Monday night’s Southland Conference game played out roughly 48 hours earlier. The one difference was in the outcome.

Two days after surviving multiple second-half surges to hold on for a win, the Demons were the ones trying to overcome a double-figure halftime deficit at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Despite a number of flurrie…