Mercer Bears @ Samford Bulldogs

8-10, 2-3 SoCon

Final

	1	2	T
Mercer MER	30	38	68
Samford SAM	31	34	65

Samford BulldogsSamfordSAM

12-6, 3-2 SoCon

Mercer Bears

starters
Stephon JelksS. Jelks#15
Desmond RingerD. Ringer#0
Jordan StrawberryJ. Strawberry#5
Demetre RiversD. Rivers#23
Ria'n HollandR. Holland#10
bench
Cory KilbyC. Kilby#1
JJ N'GangaJ. N'Ganga#44
Andrew FishlerA. Fishler#55
Rashad LewisR. Lewis#25
Ross CummingsR. Cummings#24
Jaylen StoweJ. Stowe#2
Ryan JohnsonR. Johnson#13
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
32	14	4-12	4-4	2-2	11	1	1	0	0	3	8	1
18	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	7	1	1	0	0	5	2	4
25	12	4-9	2-3	2-2	4	4	2	0	0	0	4	2
32	13	4-10	3-6	2-4	5	3	5	0	1	1	4	2
33	11	4-12	3-7	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
12	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	2
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	4	2-2	0-0	0-1	5	0	1	0	1	1	4	2
15	4	0-4	0-2	4-4	2	8	0	1	0	0	2	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	3	1-3	1-1	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	2
	68	22-56	14-25	10-13	43	19	14	2	2	15	28	19
		39%	56%	77%

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Wyatt WalkerW. Walker#33
Alex ThompsonA. Thompson#20
Demetrius Denzel-DysonD. Denzel-Dyson#22
Triston ChambersT. Chambers#4
Christen CunninghamC. Cunningham#00
bench
Alex PetersA. Peters#55
Eric AdamsE. Adams#13
Terry BrutusT. Brutus#25
Justin HopkinsJ. Hopkins#15
Josh SharkeyJ. Sharkey#3
Gerald SmithG. Smith#24
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
31	17	4-6	0-0	9-9	11	1	1	1	3	4	7	4
30	8	3-11	2-7	0-0	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	1
33	15	5-13	3-8	2-4	4	0	1	2	1	0	4	2
25	7	2-4	2-4	1-1	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	1
27	0	0-9	0-2	0-0	1	5	1	1	0	1	0	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
9	4	1-1	0-0	2-2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2
9	6	1-1	0-0	4-4	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	2
25	6	1-6	0-0	4-4	4	6	2	1	0	1	3	3
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	65	18-53	7-21	22-24	30	14	9	8	5	8	22	19
		34%	33%	92%

Game Information

Homewood, AL

ESPN3

Referee:Frankie Bordeaux

Referee:Barry Mathis

Referee:Alan Spainhour

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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