East Tennessee State Buccaneers @ Samford Bulldogs

11-6, 4-0 SoCon

Final

	1	2	T
ETSU ETSU	40	41	81
Samford SAM	38	39	77

Samford BulldogsSamfordSAM

10-8, 1-4 SoCon

East Tennessee State Buccaneers

starters
Abednego LufileA. Lufile#24
Isaac BanksI. Banks#10
T.J. CromerT.J. Cromer#0
Petey McClainP. McClain#1
Ge'Lawn GuynG. Guyn#3
bench
Nigel HolleyN. Holley#21
Lester WilsonL. Wilson#15
Peter JurkinP. Jurkin#5
Stetson MooreS. Moore#30
Desonta BradfordD. Bradford#11
Deuce Tosin BelloD. Bello#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0
28	11	4-7	0-0	3-5	9	0	1	2	1	2	7	2
36	19	7-12	3-6	2-3	4	6	4	0	0	0	4	2
20	4	1-2	1-2	1-2	4	4	4	1	0	1	3	5
36	17	5-14	1-6	6-8	7	1	2	3	2	0	7	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	16	6-9	4-6	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	2
12	7	3-5	0-1	1-3	4	0	1	0	3	2	2	0
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	4
8	3	1-3	0-2	1-1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	2
	81	29-56	9-23	14-22	35	12	20	7	6	9	26	18
		52%	39%	64%

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Wyatt WalkerW. Walker#33
Jamal ShabazzJ. Shabazz#1
Iman JohnsonI. Johnson#23
Darius Jones-GibsonD. Jones-Gibson#15
Christen CunninghamC. Cunningham#00
bench
Dakota QuinnD. Quinn#44
Matt RoseM. Rose#12
Alex PetersA. Peters#55
Eric AdamsE. Adams#13
Marcus JohnsonM. Johnson#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	14	7-10	0-0	0-1	7	1	3	2	0	1	6	2
27	7	3-4	1-2	0-1	3	0	1	0	1	2	1	3
28	11	5-6	0-0	1-2	8	3	2	2	0	1	7	4
32	17	6-14	0-1	5-9	4	5	3	1	0	2	2	2
35	11	4-10	0-2	3-3	3	7	1	2	0	0	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1
15	9	3-5	3-5	0-0	3	0	2	1	0	0	3	4
8	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
1	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
18	8	3-7	0-2	2-4	2	2	2	3	0	1	1	1
	77	31-58	4-12	11-20	33	19	14	11	2	8	25	20
		53%	33%	55%

Game Information

Homewood, AL

Referee:Scott Smith

Referee:J.W. Lucas

Referee:John Heatly

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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