Samford Bulldogs vs VMI Keydets

SOUTHERN CONFERENCE MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP - 1st ROUND

6-24, 3-15 SoCon

Final

	1	2	T
VMI VMI	24	37	61
Samford SAM	38	41	79

Samford BulldogsSamfordSAM

18-14, 8-10 SoCon

VMI Keydets

starters
Armani BranchA. Branch#21
Trey ChapmanT. Chapman#15
Adrian RichA. Rich#3
Julian ElebyJ. Eleby#35
QJ PetersonQ. Peterson#22
bench
Will MillerW. Miller#24
Fred IruafemiF. Iruafemi#5
Tyler CreammerT. Creammer#25
Garrett GilkesonG. Gilkeson#2
Keith SmithK. Smith#1
Austin VereenA. Vereen#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
22	7	2-9	0-3	3-3	7	0	0	0	1	5	2	1
28	5	2-11	0-1	1-2	8	0	2	1	1	5	3	4
22	2	1-5	0-3	0-0	1	2	1	2	0	0	1	5
32	10	3-11	2-9	2-2	5	1	1	0	0	0	5	1
34	26	9-24	3-8	5-9	8	3	2	4	0	5	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
9	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	0
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
11	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	3
27	9	3-8	2-6	1-2	0	3	1	3	1	0	0	1
5	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	0
	61	21-74	7-32	12-18	39	11	9	11	5	21	18	18
		28%	22%	67%

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
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	13	6-9	0-0	1-2	7	2	1	0	1	2	5	3
26	13	4-8	3-5	2-3	8	0	2	0	1	1	7	3
30	17	4-11	3-8	6-6	3	3	1	1	0	1	2	0
24	6	2-7	2-7	0-0	4	1	3	0	0	1	3	1
32	15	6-6	1-1	2-6	3	3	2	2	0	0	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	6	3-3	0-0	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	2
8	0	0-3	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
16	6	2-4	0-0	2-2	4	2	1	0	0	1	3	1
23	3	0-2	0-0	3-4	2	5	5	2	0	0	2	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	79	27-53	9-21	16-23	42	17	16	5	3	9	33	12
		51%	43%	70%

Game Information

Asheville, NC

ESPN3

Referee:Frankie Bordeaux

Referee:Brent Hampton

Referee:Jeremy Mosier

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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