Samford Bulldogs @ North Alabama Lions

SoCon/ASUN Challenge

3-1, 1-1 Away

Final/OT

	1	2	OT	T
Samford SAM	56	32	9	97
North Alabama UNA	37	51	8	96

North Alabama LionsNorth AlabamaUNA

3-1, 2-1 Home

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Jaden BrownellJ. Brownell#33
Collin HollowayC. Holloway#5
Julian BrownJ. Brown#13
Trey FortT. Fort#3
Rylan JonesR. Jones#21
bench
Riley AllenspachR. Allenspach#35
Hamed OlayinkaH. Olayinka#11
Josh HollowayJ. Holloway#1
Lukas WallsL. Walls#2
Zion WilburnZ. Wilburn#8
Paulie StramagliaP. Stramaglia#7
Isaiah WestI. West#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	24	8-11	3-6	5-6	8	1	2	3	0	3	5	5
18	7	3-6	1-2	0-0	3	0	4	0	0	1	2	5
23	15	5-9	2-5	3-3	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	0
32	18	6-15	3-8	3-8	7	0	2	1	0	3	4	4
30	4	2-7	0-3	0-2	3	8	4	1	0	1	2	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	12	4-5	1-1	3-4	5	1	1	1	0	0	5	3
11	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	2	0	3	1	1	3
26	8	2-8	0-4	4-5	4	4	3	1	0	1	3	1
28	7	2-3	2-2	1-2	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	0
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	97	33-67	12-32	19-30	43	17	21	8	3	14	29	28
		49%	38%	63%

North Alabama Lions

starters
Corneilous WilliamsC. Williams#3
Taye FieldsT. Fields#9
Jacari LaneJ. Lane#5
Daniel OrtizD. Ortiz#2
Will SoucieW. Soucie#0
bench
Donte BacchusD. Bacchus#1
Israel JenretteI. Jenrette#21
Kevin de KovachichK. de Kovachich#8
Canin JeffersonC. Jefferson#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
40	17	7-9	0-0	3-10	16	0	1	3	2	9	7	3
21	13	5-5	0-0	3-6	4	5	2	0	0	1	3	5
43	32	10-24	4-10	8-10	3	6	6	5	0	0	3	3
14	3	1-6	1-3	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
36	12	5-11	1-4	1-2	4	3	1	2	0	2	2	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	6	1-6	0-0	4-4	10	1	2	0	1	4	6	1
4	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	12	4-13	1-6	3-4	4	4	1	2	0	1	3	5
	96	33-74	7-23	23-38	44	19	14	12	3	18	26	22
		45%	30%	61%

Trey Fort slams it home with authority

0:20

Corneilous Williams throws down big dunk vs. Samford Bulldogs

0:19

Jacari Lane with the and-1 bucket

0:17

Game Information

Florence, AL

Referee:Bryan Washer

Referee:Chuck McCoy

Referee:Kyle Stewart

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

ASUN Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Austin Peay	15-3	-	22-9
Central Arkansas	15-3	-	22-12
Queens University	13-5	2	21-14
Lipscomb	12-6	3	19-13
Florida Gulf Coast	8-10	7	16-18
West Georgia	8-10	7	15-17
Bellarmine	7-11	8	13-19
Jacksonville	7-11	8	12-20
Stetson	7-11	8	12-21
Eastern Kentucky	7-11	8	11-21
North Florida	5-13	10	7-25
North Alabama	4-14	11	9-21

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