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Wednesday's men's basketball roundup
Tyler Johnson scored 24 points to lead all scorers, as Mercer defeated West Georgia, 86-72 on Wednesday afternoon from Hawkins Arena.
The win was head coach Ryan Ridder's 100th career win as an NCAA Division I head coach. PJay Smith Jr. scored a team-high 18 points and Furman erased a 10-point deficit by ending the game on a 19-6 run to edge Florida Gulf Coast, 76-73, in men's basketball action Wednesday evening at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Fla.
The Paladins trailed by as many as 13 points in the second half and faced a 65-52 deficit with under 10 minutes to go before holding the Eagles to eight points down the stretch.The Wofford men's basketball team (4-5) saw a plethora of scoring in an 88-64 victory over the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs (4-5) on Wednesday night at Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium. Five Terriers reached double figures in what was the seventh-straight victory over Gardner-Webb dating back to 2012.
"Our guys were committed to sharing the ball on the floor tonight," said head coach Dwight Perry on the dominant win. "We did a great job of staying committed to the game plan by being aggressive but also by being very simple."
The win was head coach Ryan Ridder's 100th career win as an NCAA Division I head coach. PJay Smith Jr. scored a team-high 18 points and Furman erased a 10-point deficit by ending the game on a 19-6 run to edge Florida Gulf Coast, 76-73, in men's basketball action Wednesday evening at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Fla.
The Paladins trailed by as many as 13 points in the second half and faced a 65-52 deficit with under 10 minutes to go before holding the Eagles to eight points down the stretch.The Wofford men's basketball team (4-5) saw a plethora of scoring in an 88-64 victory over the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs (4-5) on Wednesday night at Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium. Five Terriers reached double figures in what was the seventh-straight victory over Gardner-Webb dating back to 2012.
"Our guys were committed to sharing the ball on the floor tonight," said head coach Dwight Perry on the dominant win. "We did a great job of staying committed to the game plan by being aggressive but also by being very simple."
Western Carolina 86, Bellarmine 74
Redshirt sophomore Cord Stansberry led four Catamounts in double figures with a career-high 24 points as Western Carolina used a suffocating run spanning both halves to down Bellarmine 86-74 on Ingles Court at the Ramsey Center as part of the ASUN-SoCon Challenge. WCU snapped a three-game slide with the win and improved to 3-0 at home this year as part of seven-straight victories in Cullowhee dating back to last season.