Gulfport, Miss. - Canisius junior Julius Coles scored 18 points, teammate Elton Frazier added 17 and the Golden Griffins locked down New Orleans to just 30.4 percent from the field in a 63-48 win on the final day of the Southern Miss Christmas Classic in Gulfport, Miss. The win is Canisius' second straight and improved the team to 6-6 on the year, while the Privateers dropped their sixth straight to fall to 5-8.

The 48 points allowed by Canisius are the fewest in a game since Feb. 8, 1997, when the Blue and Gold defeated Fairfield 91-45 in Buffalo. New Orleans shot just 30.4 percent from the field and turned the ball over 19 times, while the Griffs closed out their southern swing by shooting a season-high 51.1 percent from the floor and out rebounding New Orleans by a 34-26 count.

Coles had his game-high 18 points after he went 5-for-12 from the field and 7-for-10 from the line, while Frazier, who entered the game averaging 9.3 points per game in the team's last three outings, posted his season-high 17 after going 8-for-10 from the floor. Tomas Vazquez-Simmons added seven points and a game-high 10 rebounds for Canisius, which saw eight of 10 players on the roster score at least two points.

Canisius trailed by a score of 21-17 with 5:22 left in the half before the Robert Goldsberry hit back-to-back 3-pointers to start a 15-0 run that put the Griffs up 32-19. Canisius shot 56.5 percent from the field in the game's first 20 minutes and never looked back as New Orleans was not able to cut Griffs' lead to less than seven the rest of the way.

"To come down here and play three games in three days and walk away with two wins, that's shows a strong team effort and desire to win," Canisius head coach Tom Parrotta said. "We played some pretty good teams down here the last few days, and had we shot the ball better Monday night, we could have very easily gone 3-0. I'm proud of the effort we got, especially tonight with some tired legs. We dug down and really keyed on the things we stressed before the game."

Frank Turner, who scored a career-high 30 points in Tuesday's win over Southern Miss, posted nine points, five rebounds, five assists and three steals in the win for the Blue and Gold, while Goldsberry closed out the night with six points and a season-high eight assists. New Orleans guard Charles Carmouche had a team-high 16 points in the loss for the Privateers, which dropped its sixth-straight game for the first time in 20 years.

The Griffs will return to action Dec. 30, when the team travels to long-time rival St. Bonaventure. Tipoff in the Reilly Center is set for 7 p.m.

Game Notes: The win for Canisius gives the Griffs a 2-1 lead in the all-time series with New Orleans... This marks the first time since the 2000-01 the team has been .500 or better at the Christmas break... Canisius is 15-6 in the last 21 games where they've held their opponents under 40 percent from the field... In the last two games, the Griffs have buckled down defensively, allowing a total of four field goals in the final five minutes of each half... Turner saw his streak of 30-straight games in double figures come to an end with his nine-point effort... Goldsberry has been credited with 29 assists in the team's last six games.