SALISBURY, Md.--Sophomore center Chris McGrew nailed a pair of free throws with 0.1 seconds remaining to give the Salisbury University Sea Gulls (11-14, 8-8 CAC) a narrow 75-73 Capital Athletic Conference victory over the Hood College men's basketball team (9-16, 6-10 CAC) Saturday in the regular season finale.

With the loss, the Blazers fall just short of qualifying for the six-team CAC tournament, which begins Tuesday. Hood finished in seventh place, one game behind sixth-place York College (Pa.).

Hood held the advantage for most of the first half and led by as many as 10, 30-20 with 5:06 to play, before the Sea Gulls carved into the Blazer lead in the closing minutes. Salisbury scored the final six points of the stanza to close to within 35-32 at the break.

The Blazers and Sea Gulls traded baskets for the first 7:10 of the contest before Hood snapped a 45-45 tie with a 9-3 spurt to assume a seven-point lead (55-48) with 10:35 to play in regulation. Hood's largest lead of the period swelled to eight, 74-62, after a bucket by Tyler Snoots at the 3:22 mark. But the Sea Gulls wouldn't go away and rallied to tie the score at 73-73 on a Devin Jones jumper with 55 seconds left.

Snoots missed a jumper at the other end and Jones came down with the carom and the Sea Gulls called timeout with 23 ticks left. Salisbury worked the ball around to its leading scorer, Jones, but his three-pointer with two seconds left was off the mark. However McGrew was there for the offensive board and was fouled on the way down, sending him to the line for a 1-and-1 opportunity.

Hood burned two timeouts to try and ice McGrew, who was a 69.2 percent foul shooter on the season. But McGrew was unphased and hit both free throws to give Salisbury its first lead since the 14:25 mark of the second half. After both Salisbury and Hood called successive timeouts, Hood's Tim Abercrombie launched a potential game-winning three but it rimmed out, and Salisbury escaped with the victory.

Snoots matched his career-high with 18 points and blocked three shots in 21 minutes off the bench. J'Air Brady contributed 12 points, including a pair of three-pointers, and Chris Leggett finished with 10 points and also rejected three shots.

In the final games of their Hood careers, Jeff Willison tallied six points and seven rebounds in 17 minutes of work, while Abercrombie chipped in six points, four rebounds, two assists and a steal in 33 minutes.