Men's Basketball Falls In Tight Battle With ETSU, 80-74

Saturday, February 22

Birmingham, Ala.

2:00 PM (CT)

Samford University

9-21,3-13SoCon

ETSU

25-4,14-2SoCon

Team	1	2	F
ETSU	42	38	80
Samford	42	32	74

Men's Basketball Falls In Tight Battle With ETSU, 80-74

2.22.20 | Men's Basketball

Box Score

BOX SCORE (PDF)

BIRMINGHAM Ala. – The Samford men's basketball team fell in a hard-fought, 80-74 contest with SoCon-leading ETSU Saturday afternoon in the Pete Hanna Center.

With the loss, Samford falls to 9-21 overall 3-13 in Southern Conference games. ETSU improves to 25-4 overall and 14-2 in league play.

FROM THE BOX SCORE

Robert Allen led Samford with 25 points in the loss.
Josh Sharkey had 20 points and nine assists.
Jalen Dupree added 12 points for Samford.
For ETSU, Tray Boyd III led the way with 18 points.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

ETSU jumped out to an early 12-5 lead with 15:07 left in the first half.
Samford fought back to take a 16-13 lead with 11:45 to go in the half after a layup by Allen.
The teams went back-and-forth the rest of the first half and they went to the locker room at halftime knotted at 42-42.
ETSU built an eight-point lead at 52-44 with 16:07 left in the game.
Samford answered with a 10-0 run to take a 54-52 lead with 11:58 left in the contest following a three-pointer by Logan Padgett.
Samford built a four-point lead at 65-61, but ETSU answered with a 12-2 run to take a 73-67 lead with 2:10 to go in the contest.
Samford cut the lead to three at 75-72, but the Bulldogs could get no closer as ETSU came away with the 80-74 win.

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