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Late Night Snacks: Baylor, George Washington, and VCU close out the non-conference with convincing wins

Kenny Chery 2

IMPORTANT OUTCOMES

1) George Washington 73, Georgia 55 -- In their final game of the non-conference, the Colonials bounced back from a loss against Kansas State to handily beat Georgia. GW moves to 12-2 with the win, and have an impressive resume with wins against Manhattan, Miami (FL), Creighton, Maryland, and Boston University. It’s the best start to the season since 2005-06 when they went 26-1 in the regular season. The Atlantic-10 is wide open this season, so continuing to build the resume is of importance for GW.

2) Baylor 80 , Savannah State 50 -- Taurean Prince came off the bench to lead Baylor with 15 points. Assuming nothing crazy happens over the rest of the weekend, the Bears should remain in the Top 10 in next week’s AP Poll.

3) Southern Mississippi 66, Drexel 49 -- Drexel is feeling the adverse side effects of playing without Damion Lee. The Dragons, after beginning 7-2 with impressive showings in losses against UCLA and Arizona, have dropped three of their last four games to conclude the non-conference play with an 8-5 record. Considering conference realignment poached some of the CAA’s top teams, Drexel still figures to challenge for the league title. Southern Miss, meanwhile, enters Conference USA play with a 13-2 record. They and Louisiana Tech are the favorites to win the league.

STARRED

1) Mount St. Mary’s had perhaps the shooting performance of the season. Usually, when a team has a higher 3PT% than a FT%, they have shot the ball well. In tonight’s 104-84 win over a solid Norfolk State team, The Mount went 18-25 3PT (72%) and 16-23 FT (69.6%). Coming off the bench, freshman Will Miller was a perfect 5-5 from distance for 15 points in just 11 minutes.

2) South Carolina was hardly stellar tonight against South Carolina State in an 82-75 win, but the win pushes the Gamecocks to above .500 for the non-conference. Once sitting at 2-5, they have rattled off five wins in their past six games -- three of them being good ones: Akron (2x) and St. Mary’s. Brenton Williams led the way tonight with 19 points on just seven shots.

3) Briante Weber was a menace tonight in Virginia Commonwealth’s win over Stony Brook as he forced seven turnovers, while dishing out nine assists. Just vintage VCU kind of stuff.

STRUGGLED

1) Stony Brook guard Anthony Jackson struggled against Virginia Commonwealth’s defense, as many guards tend to do. In an 81-63 loss, Jackson shot 2-8 and committed six turnovers to just one assist.

2) Bethune-Cookman players not named Clemmye Owens had a night they’d like to forget. Owens was 7-16 FG and 5-11 3PT, accounting for 19 of Bethune-Cookman’s 51 points in a 14 point loss to Northern Illinois. Aside from Owens, B-C shot 9-38 (24%).

3) Georgia concludes their non-conference schedule losing to George Washington, and falling to an even 6-6 on the season, despite playing an extremely weak schedule. It was an ugly offensive output by the Bulldogs as they had just four assists on 23 buckets, and turned the ball over 20 times.

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