North Georgia Saints @ Mercer Bears

North Georgia SaintsNorth GeorgiaNGE

Final

	1	2	T
North Georgia NGE	29	19	48
Mercer MER	36	43	79

Mercer BearsMercerMER

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North Georgia Saints

starters
Zach BrownZ. Brown #1
Eric JonesE. Jones #22
Darnell SnyersD. Snyers #4
Josh CottrellJ. Cottrell #5
Kody ShubertK. Shubert #11
bench
Caleb MauldinC. Mauldin #32
Brady BurnettB. Burnett #24
Frank ChampionF. Champion #23
Greg Billups Jr.G. Billups Jr. #15
Chandler MintonC. Minton #13
Ryan LandersR. Landers #10
Mekhail BetheaM. Bethea #2
Blake McIntyreB. McIntyre #0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	12	5-7	1-2	1-2	6	0	2	2	1	1	5	3
23	10	4-11	0-2	2-2	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	3
31	12	5-12	2-3	0-0	2	3	4	2	0	0	2	1
30	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
32	0	0-11	0-4	0-0	7	3	1	1	0	0	7	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	1
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
15	4	2-5	0-0	0-1	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	2
9	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	1	0-5	0-2	1-4	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1
7	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
	48	20-63	4-17	4-9	30	7	14	7	1	7	23	16
		32%	24%	44%

Mercer Bears

starters
Felipe HaaseF. Haase#22
Maciej BenderM. Bender#25
Neftali AlvarezN. Alvarez#2
Jeffrey GaryJ. Gary#3
Ross CummingsR. Cummings#20
bench
James Glisson IIIJ. Glisson III#23
Patrick UreyP. Urey#35
Shannon GrantS. Grant#10
Jacksen GrecoJ. Greco #31
Leon Ayers IIIL. Ayers III#0
Diego RiveraD. Rivera#30
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	8	3-8	1-3	1-2	15	4	2	1	0	2	13	3
18	14	6-8	0-0	2-3	4	0	0	1	2	2	2	2
25	15	5-9	2-3	3-4	2	6	7	0	0	0	2	1
30	3	1-4	1-3	0-0	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	0
27	15	6-10	3-6	0-0	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	0	0-4	0-1	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	0
15	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	5	0	1	0	0	1	4	2
17	3	1-3	1-3	0-0	5	1	1	1	0	0	5	1
23	15	6-11	1-5	2-2	8	3	3	1	0	2	6	3
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	79	31-62	9-25	8-11	49	19	18	6	3	10	39	15
		50%	36%	73%

Game Information

Macon, GA

Referee:Grant Todey

Referee:Donta Carter

Referee:Chris Balunek

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

Men's College Basketball News

Air Force AD Nathan Pine out after seven years in role

Nathan Pine is out as director of athletics at Air Force, the school announced Friday night.

James Nnaji aims to continue college career at George Mason

James Nnaji, a 2023 NBA draft pick who made a controversial move to play for Baylor last season in his college debut, is transferring to George Mason, he told DraftExpress.

St. John's loses Donnie Freeman to torn Achilles

Donnie Freeman, who transferred from Syracuse to St. John's, will miss the 2026-27 season after tearing his Achilles.

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