ST. CHARLES, Mo. - Don't bury these post-season Panthers just yet.

No. 2 seed Drury rallied behind 20 points from Kameron Bundy and the hustle plays and offensive spark from senior Ben Fisher - who matched his career high with 15 points - to outlast Missouri-St. Louis 70-65 in overtime of their Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship quarterfinals contest Thursday night at the Family Arena.

As a result, the Panthers (19-8) moved into Saturday's 2:30 p.m. semifinal against No. 3 seed Wisconsin-Parkside, a 73-70 winner over six-seed Truman State late Thursday. Top-seed Bellarmine and No. 4 seed Indianapolis were winners earlier Thursday to advance to Saturday's noon semifinal.

Saturday's survivors will square off for the GLVC title at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

A Drury team that rallied from 22 points down to win 80-76 in overtime at UMSL on January 24 didn't provide quite that level of dramatics, but came through in a more important spot - a game that could have ended the Panthers' season.

This time, Drury trailed 36-27 at the half, and was down by as many as 11 points early in the second half before rallying to catch the Tritons (19-11) and force OT again.

UMSL led 60-53 with 2:39 left in regulation after an Aareon Smith layup, but the Tritons would not score the rest of the half. A 3-pointer from Fisher - one of three by the senior guard in the final five minutes of regulation to bring the Panthers back - tied it at 60 with 50 seconds left, and neither team could get a shot to fall to win it after 40 minutes.

In the overtime, Bundy nailed a jumper, and Adams followed with another to make it 64-60 with 3:30 to play. Smith answered with a layup with 52 seconds remaining, but Fisher came up with the dagger when he drove the lane for a layup with 39 seconds left that put Drury ahead 66-62. The senior guard, generously listed at 6-foot throughout his career, was averaging 2.4 points per game through DU's first 24 games. 

The Tritons got no closer than three from there, with Fisher coming up with one more huge play - he hustled and corralled a loose ball headed out of bounds after a missed Deon Pettigrew free throw with five seconds left and the Panthers up 68-65 and saved it to Bundy, who made two free throws with three seconds left to seal it.

 The senior guard, generously listed at 6-foot throughout his career, was averaging 2.4 points per game through DU's first 24 games. He's now gone for 15, 12 and 15 points in his last three, going a combined 11-for-17 from 3-point range after another 4-for-6 effort on treys on Thursday.

"We won the game shooting 37 percent ... and the 15 offensie rebounds, with Cameron Adams having six, that was huge," Drury coach Steve Hesser said. "And what can you say about Ben Fisher's mini-run there? He really did a nice job ... and might have made the first layup of his career in a half-court offense there in overtime. That was big."

The Panthers - national champions two years ago and an Elite Eight qualifier last season - need to continue the run to increase their chances of getting into the NCAA-II tourney for a third straight year. Drury was not in the listed Top 10 in Wednesday's latest NCAA Midwest Regional rankings, and could only assure itself of another post-season trip by winning the GLVC Championship tourney and gaining the league's automatic bid.

Drury picked up the win on Thursday despite making just 21 of 57 shots (37 percent), but outrebounded the Tritons 38-30 behind a game-high 12 boards from Adams and forced 17 turnovers from UMSL while committing just 13.

Mike Nwelue added 13 points and five rebounds for the Panthers, who will get a chance to avenge a regular season loss on Saturday against Parkside.

"We did some nice things to finish it off," Hesser said. "I'm proud of how our guys hung in there. We could have folded a couple of times, and we hung in there ... we get to stay another day and play on Saturday."

Smith finished with 21 points and eight rebounds to lead UMSL, which went 1-for-7 in overtime from the field to finish at 46 percent (23 of 50).