Samford Bulldogs vs East Tennessee State Buccaneers

SoCon Championship - Final

19-16, 8-10 SoCon

Final

	1	2	T
ETSU ETSU	38	31	69
Samford SAM	40	36	76

Samford BulldogsSamfordSAM

29-5, 15-3 SoCon

East Tennessee State Buccaneers

starters
Karon BoydK. Boyd#0
Jadyn ParkerJ. Parker#24
Jaden SeymourJ. Seymour#22
Quimari PetersonQ. Peterson#1
Ebby AsamoahE. Asamoah#14
bench
Braden IlicB. Ilic#23
DJ HughesD.J. Hughes#10
Tyler RiceT. Rice#3
Allen StrothersA. Strothers#5
Maki JohnsonM. Johnson#2
Gabe SiskG. Sisk#21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
28	8	2-4	0-0	4-6	7	0	3	0	1	5	2	5
14	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	2
35	7	2-7	0-3	3-8	11	1	4	2	1	2	9	5
26	17	8-17	1-6	0-2	3	2	0	1	0	1	2	4
40	18	5-15	3-11	5-9	3	1	1	1	1	0	3	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
12	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	4	0	1	1	0	2	2	3
16	6	2-4	2-3	0-0	3	2	2	0	0	0	3	1
24	5	1-3	0-0	3-4	5	2	4	0	0	4	1	4
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	69	24-59	6-23	15-29	41	8	19	6	3	15	26	29
		41%	26%	52%

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Achor AchorA. Achor#14
Jermaine MarshallJ. Marshall#4
Dallas GrazianiD. Graziani#12
Jaden CampbellJ. Campbell#2
Rylan JonesR. Jones#21
bench
Riley AllenspachR. Allenspach#35
Nathan JohnsonN. Johnson#25
Josh HollowayJ. Holloway#1
Lukas WallsL. Walls#0
AJ Staton-McCrayA.J. Staton-McCray#5
Garrett HicksG. Hicks#10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
32	25	7-9	0-1	11-14	9	1	3	2	4	4	5	4
21	23	7-14	1-3	8-13	8	1	3	1	0	0	8	4
18	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	3	2	2	0	0	0	1
23	11	3-3	3-3	2-4	5	0	2	0	0	1	4	3
33	6	3-12	0-6	0-0	2	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
7	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
19	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
7	0	0-2	0-1	0-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
18	5	2-4	1-1	0-0	3	0	0	2	0	0	3	3
18	4	0-4	0-2	4-4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
	76	23-53	5-18	25-37	32	11	14	9	5	7	25	24
		43%	28%	68%

Samford goes dancing for first time since 2000 with SoCon title win

0:29

Ebby Asamoah drains a long 3 from downtown

0:17

Rylan Jones' steal leads into 3-pointer for Samford

0:22

Game Information

Asheville, NC

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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