Western Carolina Catamounts @ Samford Bulldogs

Western Carolina CatamountsW CarolinaWCU

7-17, 2-9 SoCon

Final

	1	2	T
W Carolina WCU	29	34	63
Samford SAM	43	39	82

Samford BulldogsSamfordSAM

15-8, 6-4 SoCon

Western Carolina Catamounts

starters
Adam SleddA. Sledd#44
Onno StegerO. Steger#33
Marc GosselinM. Gosselin#12
Haboubacar MutomboH. Mutombo#11
Devin PetersonD. Peterson#5
bench
Yalim OlcayY. Olcay#35
Ashley WilliamsA. Williams#24
Kyle RhoadesK. Rhoades#21
Jason McMillanJ. McMillan#3
Maurice SmithM. Smith#0
Devonte FullerD. Fuller#32
Elijah PughsleyE. Pughsley #1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
18	4	2-6	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	4
24	6	2-5	2-3	0-0	5	1	1	0	1	2	3	2
32	9	2-7	1-2	4-4	4	2	4	2	0	0	4	4
38	19	8-12	1-2	2-5	4	3	1	2	0	2	2	1
29	9	4-12	1-3	0-0	1	2	1	1	0	0	1	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
19	4	2-4	0-0	0-2	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	3
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	2
5	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	6	3-5	0-1	0-0	6	3	1	1	0	2	4	1
1	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
7	3	1-4	1-3	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
	63	25-59	6-15	7-13	27	13	12	8	2	10	17	22
		42%	40%	54%

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
Tanner TappT. Tapp#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	7	2-5	0-0	3-4	4	1	2	0	1	1	3	0
23	23	8-12	6-9	1-2	4	0	0	0	2	0	4	1
28	14	5-9	2-5	2-5	5	3	3	1	0	1	4	1
23	6	2-4	2-3	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	2
29	9	4-6	0-0	1-4	4	7	4	0	0	1	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	7	3-4	0-0	1-2	3	0	0	1	0	1	2	2
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
6	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	4	1-2	0-0	2-2	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
23	10	3-4	0-0	4-6	3	7	4	4	0	1	2	4
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	82	29-48	10-18	14-27	34	22	14	6	3	7	27	15
		60%	56%	52%

Game Information

Homewood, AL

ESPN3

Referee:Rick Hartzell

Referee:Karl Hess

Referee:Mark Potter

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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