South Carolina Upstate Spartans @ Mercer Bears

ATLANTIC SUN MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP - SEMIFINAL

South Carolina Upstate SpartansSC UpstateUPST

19-14, 11-7 Atlantic Sun

Final/2OT

	1	2	OT	T
SC Upstate UPST	31	29	15	75
Mercer MER	29	31	18	78

Mercer BearsMercerMER

25-8, 14-4 Atlantic Sun

Mercer defeats SC Upstate 78-75 in 2OT

Mar 6, 2014, 11:40 pm

MACON, Ga. -- Langston Hall scored seven of his 21 points in the second overtime to lead No. 2 seed Mercer to a 78-75 win over third-seeded South Carolina Upstate in the Atlantic Sun semifinal Thursday night.

Jakob Gollon added 17 points for Mercer (25-8) which travels to No. 1 seed Florida Gulf Coast (22-11) for the championship on Sunday.

Hall scored with 37 seconds remaining in regulation and SC Upstate's Ty Greene missed a trey with 2 seconds left, sending it to the first overtime tied at 60. SC Upstate's Ricardo Glenn blocked Darious Moten's layup attempt with 4 seconds to play, sending the game into the second overtime knotted at 66.

Mario Blessing and Torrey Craig each missed treys in the closing seconds of the second overtime to end it.

Craig scored 24 points and Glenn added 17 to lead SC Uptate (19-14).

Game Information

Macon, GA

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Referee:Doug Shows

Referee:Patrick Evans

Referee:Brian Shey

NCAA Division I

Big South Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
High Point	15-1	-	31-5
Winthrop	13-3	2	23-11
Radford	9-7	6	16-16
Longwood	8-8	7	16-16
UNC Asheville	8-8	7	15-17
Presbyterian	7-9	8	15-18
Charleston Southern	6-10	9	15-17
South Carolina Upstate	5-11	10	13-19
Gardner-Webb	1-15	14	4-29

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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