Mercer Bears @ Western Carolina Catamounts

14-6, 4-3 SoCon

Final/2OT

	1	2	OT	T
Mercer MER	32	34	14	80
W Carolina WCU	24	42	20	86

Western Carolina CatamountsW CarolinaWCU

8-12, 3-4 SoCon

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
Lawrence BrownL. Brown#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
35	13	5-14	1-4	2-4	12	3	0	1	0	5	7	3
18	6	2-4	0-0	2-2	1	0	4	0	0	0	1	3
20	0	0-7	0-3	0-0	7	0	2	2	0	6	1	1
39	27	10-22	4-9	3-4	6	2	1	3	0	0	6	0
30	6	2-3	0-1	2-2	5	6	4	1	1	0	5	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	1
16	5	1-5	0-0	3-4	5	1	2	0	0	3	2	3
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
31	8	3-6	2-3	0-0	4	0	0	1	1	1	3	5
39	13	5-12	2-5	1-2	3	3	1	0	0	0	3	2
5	0	0-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
	80	29-78	9-25	13-18	54	16	17	8	2	21	33	24
		37%	36%	72%

Western Carolina Catamounts

starters
Justin BrowningJ. Browning#23
Torrion BrummittT. Brummitt#4
Elijah PughsleyE. Pughsley #1
Rhett HarrelsonR. Harrelson#3
Mike BrownM. Brown#2
bench
Jesse DeloachJ. Deloach#22
Haboubacar MutomboH. Mutombo#11
Devin PetersonD. Peterson#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
39	11	3-10	1-4	4-6	11	3	3	3	2	4	7	5
30	8	4-9	0-0	0-4	9	1	1	0	1	1	8	4
45	16	5-11	5-8	1-2	1	2	5	0	1	0	1	3
45	22	8-11	4-6	2-2	2	2	0	1	0	0	2	0
48	25	5-16	2-6	13-14	5	5	5	1	1	1	4	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
19	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	6	0	0	0	1	0	6	2
12	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	3	2	0	1	0	1	2	1
12	2	0-3	0-2	2-2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	86	26-64	12-26	22-30	41	15	14	7	6	9	32	19
		41%	46%	73%

Game Information

Cullowhee, NC

Referee:Sean Casady

Referee:Landon Brandes

Referee:James Redd

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

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