The Misericordia University women's basketball team was on the wrong end of a 19-5 run to end the game as the Cougars fell to King's 52-48, Tuesday night in Wilkes-Barre.

The loss sets up a crazy final day in the Freedom Conference, with four teams tied for first place at 9-4 (Misericordia, King's, DeSales and Manhattanville). A win Saturday at Manhattanville would give the Cougars a good shot at the top seed (pending tie-breakers), while a loss could consign them to the last spot in the playoffs.

Junior Christine Marks led MU with 17 points at King's, with Tyann McDaniel adding 13 points. Sophomore Hannah Seely had a game-high 10 rebounds.

The Cougars led by 10 with 8:23 to play but five consecutive points from Celia Rader, a three-point play by Katlin Michaels and a hoop by Lindsay Atchinson completed a 10-0 run to tie the game at 43-43.

McDaniel finally broke a scoreless MU drought of 3:56 to re-take the lead, but it was the final time Misericordia would be ahead. Down 50-48, MU had a chance to inbounds under the Lady Monarchs' hoop with six seconds remaining but lost the ball.

After some early struggles, the Cougars had gone on a 25-8 run to enter the half with a seven-point lead. The highlight came in the final second, as Katie Drayton banked one in at the buzzer after Kayla Sileo's steal.

King's led 10-0 before MU's first field goal six minutes in, when Courtney Sykes drove and drew a double team, allowing her to feed Seely for an easy lay-in. Four minutes later, Sykes' three-point play kept it close at 12-5.

Misericordia had limited the damage early on and soon found its stride. McDaniel's three after a charge taken by Seely made it 12-10 King's, before Jesse Robinson also converted from behind the arc to give MU its first lead of the game.

After a Marks bucket, Brittany Muscatell hit a three-pointer to break a drought of 8:34 without a point for the Lady Monarchs.

The Cougars were surging at this point though, going up by four on a late Marks triple and then taking a 27-20 advantage into the break on Drayton's buzzer-beater.

McDaniel hit a pair of three-pointers early in the second half, the first to complete a 13-2 Misericordia run and the second to put her team up 40-27, the largest lead of the game for either side.

MU falls to 15-9 overall and finishes its regular season at Manhattanville, Saturday at 1 PM. King's will host Wilkes and DeSales travels to FDU-Florham in other games with playoff implications.