Mercer Bears @ Ohio State Buckeyes

9-3, 0-3 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Mercer MER	24	20	44
Ohio State OSU	25	39	64

Ohio State BuckeyesOhio StateOSU

7-5, 6-3 Home

Mercer Bears

starters
Stephon JelksS. Jelks#15
Desmond RingerD. Ringer#0
Demetre RiversD. Rivers#23
Jestin LewisJ. Lewis#5
Phillip LeonardP. Leonard#1
bench
Cory KilbyC. Kilby#20
Niklas NeyN. Ney#52
James BentoJ. Bento#32
Andrew FishlerA. Fishler#55
Jaylen StoweJ. Stowe#2
Ethan StairE. Stair#22
Jordan StrawberryJ. Strawberry#11
Tyre MooreT. Moore#3
Lawrence BrownL. Brown#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
28	5	2-7	1-4	0-0	9	0	1	0	0	3	6	1
19	18	7-10	0-0	4-5	2	0	3	0	0	1	1	2
25	4	2-6	0-3	0-0	5	0	4	0	0	2	3	2
26	6	2-7	2-6	0-0	4	3	5	4	0	0	4	1
22	3	1-4	0-0	1-2	2	2	3	0	0	0	2	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
8	2	0-1	0-0	2-2	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	0
6	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1
4	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
20	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	3	0	2	0	0	0	3	5
22	4	2-6	0-2	0-0	2	3	2	1	0	0	2	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
11	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3
	44	17-49	3-18	7-9	36	9	25	5	0	11	25	20
		35%	17%	78%

Ohio State Buckeyes

starters
Keita Bates-DiopK. Bates-Diop#33
Jae'Sean TateJ. Tate#1
Marc LovingM. Loving#2
Trevor ThompsonT. Thompson#32
JaQuan LyleJ. Lyle#13
bench
Mickey MitchellM. Mitchell#00
Daniel GiddensD. Giddens#4
David BellD. Bell#10
Joey LaneJ. Lane#14
A.J. HarrisA.J. Harris#12
Kam WilliamsK. Williams#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
29	12	5-12	1-6	1-1	8	2	2	2	0	4	4	0
33	13	6-9	0-1	1-3	6	2	4	7	0	1	5	0
34	4	2-9	0-4	0-1	3	1	4	1	1	1	2	2
18	7	2-3	0-0	3-6	8	0	2	1	2	4	4	2
31	18	7-15	0-3	4-6	3	3	2	2	1	1	2	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	1	0	2	1	1
20	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	3	1	0	2	2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
15	5	2-5	1-4	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
	64	26-60	3-22	9-17	36	10	16	17	5	15	21	12
		43%	14%	53%

Mercer - Ohio State Postgame Breakdown

1:40

K. Bates-Diop made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by J. Tate.

0:16

J. Tate made Layup.

0:28

Game Information

Columbus, OH

ESPNU

Referee:Bill Ek

Referee:Gene Steratore

Referee:Lamont Simpson

NCAA Division I

Southern Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
East Tennessee State	13-5	-	23-11
Mercer	11-7	2	19-13
Wofford	11-7	2	19-13
Samford	11-7	2	18-14
Furman	10-8	3	22-13
Western Carolina	10-8	3	15-16
UNC Greensboro	9-9	4	15-19
Chattanooga	7-11	6	13-19
The Citadel	7-11	6	11-22
VMI	1-17	12	6-26

Big Ten Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Michigan	19-1	-	37-3
Nebraska	15-5	4	28-7
Michigan State	15-5	4	27-8
Illinois	15-5	4	28-9
Wisconsin	14-6	5	24-11
Purdue	13-7	6	30-9
UCLA	13-7	6	24-12
Ohio State	12-8	7	21-13
Iowa	10-10	9	24-13
Indiana	9-11	10	18-14
Minnesota	8-12	11	15-18
USC	7-13	12	18-14
Washington	7-13	12	16-17
Rutgers	6-14	13	14-20
Northwestern	5-15	14	15-19
Oregon	5-15	14	12-20
Maryland	4-16	15	12-21
Penn State	3-17	16	12-20

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