Transy won its fourth straight game and improved its record to 9-2 while DePauw fell to 5-7. Maryville knocked off Kalamazoo in the third-place game, 92-59.
Howard scored 19 points, grabbed eight rebounds, and handed out two assists in 38 minutes and was named the Shootout MVP. Finke scored a season-high 25 points, including 12 of 14 free throws. He also had five rebounds and two assists and earned a spot on the All-Shootout squad.
Robert Pendleton added six points and five assists for the Pioneers while Stephen Gabbard and Joey Verax each contributed six points off the bench.
Finke, who had 37 points in the two-game tournament, now has 1,039 for his Transy career, moving him into 34th place on the Pioneers' all-time list, ahead of Sonny Voyles (1,017). No. 33 on the list is John Botkin at 1,046. Lee Rose is 32nd at 1,059.
Transy trailed the Tigers at halftime, 36-31, as the host team shot nearly 60 percent from the field (13 of 22) while holding the Pioneers to 42 percent (10 of 24). DePauw finished the game at 56 percent (23 of 41) while Transy finished at 41 percent (22 of 54). But Transy won the game at the free throw line, hitting 24 of 28 for 86 percent compared to 18 of 28 (64 percent) for DePauw.
Each team had eight baskets from behind the three-point arc.
Howard was seven of nine from the free throw line and five of 11 overall.
Four Tigers were in double figures, led by Mike Moore's 17 and 12 each by Alex Stewart and Matt McDonald.
Moore and Austin Brown were also on the All-Shootout team along with Maryville's Monte Calloway.
The Pioneers open Heartland Conference play Wednesday at Defiance at 7:30 p.m. Transy returns home on Saturday to host Anderson at 3 p.m.