Samford Bulldogs @ George Mason Patriots

NIT - 1st Round

22-11, 9-7 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Samford SAM	24	45	69
George Mason GMU	45	41	86

George Mason PatriotsGeorge MasonGMU

27-8, 18-1 Home

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Jaden BrownellJ. Brownell#33
Collin HollowayC. Holloway#5
Josh HollowayJ. Holloway#1
Trey FortT. Fort#3
Rylan JonesR. Jones#21
bench
Riley AllenspachR. Allenspach#35
Hamed OlayinkaH. Olayinka#11
Grayson WaltersG. Walters#15
Lukas WallsL. Walls#2
Zion WilburnZ. Wilburn#8
Julian BrownJ. Brown#13
Paulie StramagliaP. Stramaglia#7
Isaiah WestI. West#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	27	9-16	6-10	3-4	7	0	1	0	0	3	4	1
19	2	0-5	0-4	2-2	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	3
22	9	4-8	0-1	1-2	3	3	2	0	0	2	1	4
25	5	2-9	1-6	0-0	9	2	1	0	0	2	7	2
30	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	8	2	2	0	0	2	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	7	1-2	1-2	4-6	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	10	3-4	2-3	2-2	3	0	3	3	0	1	2	3
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
20	9	3-6	2-5	1-2	2	0	3	1	0	1	1	3
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	69	22-54	12-34	13-18	34	15	18	7	0	13	21	28
		41%	35%	72%

George Mason Patriots

starters
Jalen HaynesJ. Haynes#11
Zach AndersonZ. Anderson#10
Brayden O'ConnorB. O'Connor#4
Woody NewtonW. Newton#2
Darius MaddoxD. Maddox#13
bench
Stas SivkaS. Sivka#9
Giovanni EmejuruG. Emejuru#5
Bryson CokleyB. Cokley#7
Justin BeggJ. Begg#23
Jared BillupsJ. Billups#1
K.D. JohnsonK.D. Johnson#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
26	14	4-8	0-0	6-13	4	2	1	1	1	0	4	4
34	19	6-8	3-5	4-5	10	2	2	0	0	5	5	1
32	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	4	4	0	2	0	0	4	2
5	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	17	5-13	5-12	2-2	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	6	3-5	0-0	0-2	5	0	0	0	0	3	2	0
1	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
26	5	0-2	0-2	5-6	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	5
23	20	6-10	1-4	7-8	3	5	3	4	1	0	3	1
	86	26-52	10-27	24-36	33	17	10	8	2	11	22	16
		50%	37%	67%

Samford Bulldogs vs. George Mason Patriots: Game Highlights

2:07

K.D. Johnson gets the hoop and the harm

0:19

Jalen Haynes with the massive stuff at the rim

0:16

Game Information

Fairfax, VA

Referee:Tony Crisp

Referee:Ryan Sassano

Referee:Ben Stirt

NCAA Division I

Southern Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
East Tennessee State	11-2	-	19-7
Wofford	9-4	2	17-9
Mercer	8-5	3	16-10
Furman	7-6	4	16-10
Samford	7-6	4	14-12
UNC Greensboro	7-6	4	11-15
The Citadel	6-7	5	9-17
Western Carolina	5-8	6	9-15
Chattanooga	4-9	7	10-16
VMI	1-12	10	6-20

Atlantic 10 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Saint Louis	11-0	-	23-1
VCU	10-2	1.5	19-6
George Mason	9-3	2.5	21-4
Saint Joseph's	7-5	4.5	15-10
Dayton	6-5	5	15-9
Davidson	6-5	5	15-9
Duquesne	6-5	5	14-10
Rhode Island	5-6	6	14-10
George Washington	5-7	6.5	14-11
Richmond	4-8	7.5	14-11
Fordham	4-8	7.5	13-12
St. Bonaventure	3-8	8	14-10
La Salle	3-9	8.5	7-18
Loyola Chicago	2-10	9.5	6-19

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