Furman Paladins Men’s Basketball Set to Host ETSU Bucs at Timmons
The Furman Paladins Men’s Basketball (7-9, 1-2 SoCon) come into today’s 2pm game versus the East Tennessee State Bucs (9-7, 1-2 SoCon) off a huge win versus the Citadel 83-79. The ETSU Men’s basketball team comes into today’s game on a two-game losing streak against the same two teams Furman lost to in conference in Western Carolina and UNC Greensboro.
Well, we are at gametime! The game is brought to you by Arden’s Burger and Grill in Central, S.C. for their continued support of https://furmanjoust.com/staging/2818. We come to our first media timeout and Furman is up 11-8 with 15:43 left in the first half. Furman has 6 points in the paint and 2 points off turnovers as we come off a timeout, Alex Williams leading scorer with 5 points.
The next media timeout is upon us and Furman is leading 19-16 with 12:22 left in the half. Furman has 8 points in the paint, 5 points off the bench, and 3 points second chance so far. Three Furman players tied with 5 points apiece so far as Williams, Pegues, and Hien lead so far. We come to yet another timeout and Furman has the lead 26-20 with 9:45 left in the half.
We have 7:36 left in the half and its 30-24 Furman leading ETSU and a huge crowd on hand to watch the game. We come to a media timeout at 3:14 left in the half and Furman leads 40-33, and the following is brought to you by https://ardensburgerandgrill.com in Central S.C. as Furman 20 points in the paint, 10 second chance points, 12 points off the bench. Leading scorers are Whitt and Hien with 10 points apiece, and Williams with 9 points.
A huge block by Hughey has the fans up and cheering on the Paladins on. We come to halftime here at Timmons as Furman has been solid pretty much the whole first half with moments of rash decisions, but majority of the time the players have really been great at playing the way Coach Richey wants them too.
The Paladins are shooting 90% from the free throw line, 45% from FG and 33% from the 3-point line in the first half. They have 22 points in the paint, 12 points off the bench and second chance in the first half. Furman starts off the second half getting some great rebounds and pushing ETSU around. The Paladins lead 49:39 with 17 minutes left in the game. The Paladins lead 53-45 at the first timeout of the second half, the Paladins really pushing the ball well and here is the stats: 28 points in the paint, 12 points off the bench, and 14 second chance points.
The media timeout brings us to the 12:11 left in the game with Furman leading ETSU 66-48 and the scoring is 30 points in the paint, 16 second chance points, bench has 12 points so far as JP Pegues has 20 points with Alex Williams next with 14 points and 3 rebounds.
Furman leads 71-54 at the media timeout with 7:53 left in the game. The Paladins are 32 points in the paint, 16 second chance points, 12 off the bench, and are shooting 94% from the free throw line, 39% from the 3-point line, and 46% FG at this point in the game. We have 5:51 left in the game and ETSU is getting back in the game 71-59 and its silenced the fans at the moment.
Media Timeout and Furman is barely holding on as ETSU is trying to make this more interesting at 74-66 with 3:58 left in the game. Furman has actually scored 1 point more than ETSU this half at 30-29 ratio. Paladins have 34 points in the paint, 16 second chance points, and 14 points on turnovers.
We come down to the end of the game with Furman leading by 10 points 82-72. The game ends with Furman finishing out with the win.
