SoCon Basketball for Monday, Nov. 28, 2022

Monday, November 28, 2022

No games are on the schedule today, but SoCon basketball will return on Tuesday, November 29th.

Five games were played on Sunday, and it was a sorry day for Southern Conference basketball. All five games resulted in losses, ranging from the SEC to the NAIA. Two losses to the SEC, one loss to CAA, one loss to the WAC, and one big loss to NAIA's Mid-South Conference. Yep, that's right a loss to the NAIA.

Sunday's game recaps:

Mercer 60  - Towson 70

The Mercer men's basketball program closed out the Hostilo Hoops Community Classic in Savannah, Georgia, with a loss to Towson, 70-60 on Sunday evening. The Bears finished the tournament 2-1. The game started with the teams alternating leads, mostly maintaining a one-possession game. Both teams had seven-point runs in the first half, but the difference was only one point in favor of Towson at halftime. Towson outscored Mercer 11-5 for the first eight minutes of the second half until the Bears battled back to take a one-point lead. The lead did not last as the Tigers led by double-digits for most of the final six minutes. The game ended 70-60, in favor of Towson.

Stephen F. Austin 75- UNCG 58
Three players from UNCG scored in double figures, but the Spartans fell to Stephen F. Austin in the final game of the Northern Classic, 75-58 Sunday afternoon at Place Bell Arena. Freshman Donovan Atwell scored a career-best 11 points, shooting 3-for-6 from behind the arc. Keondre Kennedy scored a game-high 17 points, while Keyshaun Langley notched 10 points.

Tennessee Southern 84 - Samford 82

Despite 35 combined points from Jaden Campbell and Bubba Parham the Samford Men's Basketball team fell 84-82 to the NAIA's FIrehawks of Tennessee Southern on Sunday.  Both Campbell and Parham each knocked down five field goals and dished out two assists, with Parham grabbing five rebounds and Campbell four. Achor Achor finished one point shy of a double-double, logging a nine-point, 10-rebound effort. Nathan Johnson added eight points and five rebounds. The Bulldogs outscored the Firehawks 10-9 over the first five minutes, with UT Southern going toe-to-toe with Samford and taking a 20-19 lead at the 8:05 mark. Samford used a 14-2 run over the next four minutes to take a 28-20 lead, highlighted by nine unanswered points over the final two minutes of the scoring spree. The Firehawks battled back by outscoring Samford 15-7 over the final six minutes of the period to see a halftime score of 35-35.
 

Wofford 75 - LSU 78

Adam Miller scored 26 points and hit a clutch 3-pointer in the final minute, helping LSU survive a scare and defeat Wofford 78-75 on Sunday. Miller's baseline 3-pointer that bounced off the rim and then banked off the backboard gave LSU a 77-73 lead with 41 seconds to go. It was his sixth 3-pointer in nine attempts. Still, Miller's turnover with 17 seconds remaining afforded Wofford the chance to tie the game. The Terriers twice missed 3-pointers, both times grabbing the offensive rebound before calling a timeout. A third 3-point try was blocked by LSU's Cam Hayes as time ran out.

Tennessee Southern 78 - Samford 75
In a game that saw the lead change 19 times with eight ties, the Wofford College men's basketball team was defeated 78-75 by Louisiana State University at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Sunday afternoon. The Terriers had a five-point lead with 4:26 left in the game, but the Tigers used a 10-0 run to pull ahead. Down three after a pair of free throws, Wofford missed three attempts at a game-tying three-pointer in the final ten seconds to close out the game. The loss drops the Terriers' record to 4-3 to start the season, while the Tigers are 6-1 overall.