Samford Bulldogs @ Mercer Bears

7-14, 0-8 SoCon

Final

	1	2	T
Samford SAM	26	30	56
Mercer MER	40	40	80

Mercer BearsMercerMER

11-9, 6-1 SoCon

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Tyler HoodT. Hood#35
Michael BradleyM. Bradley#25
Darius Jones-GibsonD. Jones-Gibson#15
Evan TaylorE. Taylor#11
Christen CunninghamC. Cunningham#10
bench
Alex PetersA. Peters#55
Emeka IkezuE. Ikezu#33
Jamal ShabazzJ. Shabazz#5
Nnamdi EnechionyiaN. Enechionyia#0
Marcus JohnsonM. Johnson#4
Brandon RobertsB. Roberts#1
Brandon HaymanB. Hayman#2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	8	3-6	2-5	0-0	2	1	2	1	0	0	2	3
10	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
25	6	3-7	0-1	0-2	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	3
22	6	3-8	0-1	0-0	3	2	0	1	2	2	1	1
25	10	3-4	1-1	3-4	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	4	1-4	0-2	2-3	9	2	1	0	1	4	5	3
15	6	2-7	1-6	1-2	3	1	0	2	1	1	2	3
24	11	4-11	1-6	2-4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
17	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	1
10	2	1-1	0-0	0-1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
	56	21-51	6-24	8-16	22	15	8	5	4	10	12	22
		41%	25%	50%

Mercer Bears

starters
T.J. HalliceT.J. Hallice#14
Darious MotenD. Moten#22
Phillip LeonardP. Leonard#1
Ike NwamuI. Nwamu#10
Jibri BryanJ. Bryan#34
bench
Niklas NeyN. Ney#52
Stephon JelksS. Jelks#15
Jordan StrawberryJ. Strawberry#11
Demetre RiversD. Rivers#23
Tyre MooreT. Moore#3
Jestin LewisJ. Lewis#5
Matt PanaggioM. Panaggio #2
Lawrence BrownL. Brown#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
32	6	3-6	0-0	0-0	5	2	1	1	0	1	4	1
28	11	4-8	1-1	2-3	6	4	1	0	0	3	3	1
23	4	1-3	0-0	2-3	1	2	1	1	0	1	0	4
31	22	6-11	3-7	7-8	4	2	2	0	0	0	4	2
32	18	6-9	2-5	4-4	5	1	0	1	0	3	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
15	3	0-2	0-0	3-4	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
18	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	1	4	2	2	0	0	1	2
1	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
2	5	1-1	1-1	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
11	3	1-5	1-3	0-0	6	0	1	0	0	1	5	2
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	80	25-49	8-17	22-27	35	16	10	5	0	13	22	18
		51%	47%	81%

Game Information

Macon, GA

Referee:Barron Searles

Referee:Paul Sroka

Referee:Jerome Hall

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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