Utah Valley Wolverines @ Samford Bulldogs

Samford Thanksgiving Invitational

4-2, 1-2 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Utah Valley UVU	43	33	76
Samford SAM	38	46	84

Samford BulldogsSamfordSAM

6-2, 5-0 Home

Utah Valley Wolverines

starters
Carter WellingC. Welling#22
Ethan PotterE. Potter#35
Dominick NelsonD. Nelson#0
Trevan LeonhardtT. Leonhardt#10
Tanner ToolsonT. Toolson#5
bench
Hayden WellingH. Welling#8
Cory WellsC. Wells#13
Osiris GradyO. Grady#12
Kylin GreenK. Green#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
32	14	6-11	1-3	1-5	10	2	5	2	2	3	7	2
20	7	3-8	0-0	1-1	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	1
37	21	7-14	0-2	7-8	7	1	4	1	1	1	6	0
36	13	4-4	1-1	4-4	8	7	5	4	0	2	6	0
27	15	6-10	3-7	0-1	3	3	5	1	0	0	3	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
12	4	2-5	0-2	0-0	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	0
12	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	5
14	0	0-3	0-1	0-1	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	1
10	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	0
	76	29-58	5-17	13-20	41	17	23	11	4	13	28	13
		50%	29%	65%

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Jaden BrownellJ. Brownell#33
Collin HollowayC. Holloway#5
Julian BrownJ. Brown#13
Trey FortT. Fort#3
Rylan JonesR. Jones#21
bench
Riley AllenspachR. Allenspach#35
Hamed OlayinkaH. Olayinka#11
Josh HollowayJ. Holloway#1
Lukas WallsL. Walls#2
Zion WilburnZ. Wilburn#8
Isaiah WestI. West#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	22	10-15	2-6	0-1	3	3	0	4	1	0	3	2
35	9	4-10	0-2	1-3	6	6	4	2	0	1	5	1
13	5	2-5	1-3	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	7	3-9	1-3	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	1
25	18	5-7	4-6	4-4	2	4	3	3	1	0	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
13	5	2-2	0-0	1-2	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	1
20	6	3-8	0-2	0-0	1	4	3	3	0	1	0	5
28	10	4-9	2-5	0-0	6	1	1	0	0	5	1	5
2	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	1	2	5	0	0	2	3
	84	34-71	10-28	6-10	32	20	13	18	4	12	20	20
		48%	36%	60%

Jaden Brownell gets the basket plus the foul

0:15

Rylan Jones shows off the range on 3

0:18

Larry Olayinka throws down big slam vs. Utah Valley Wolverines

0:16

Game Information

Homewood, AL

Referee:Devyn Page

Referee:Donta Carter

Referee:Luke Payne

NCAA Division I

United Athletic Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Utah Valley	14-4	-	25-9
California Baptist	13-5	1	25-9
Utah Tech	11-7	3	19-15
UT Arlington	9-9	5	18-14
Southern Utah	6-12	8	10-22
Tarleton State	5-13	9	14-18
Abilene Christian	5-13	9	14-19

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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