{"id":19717,"date":"2013-03-08T18:13:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T23:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19717"},"modified":"2013-03-08T18:13:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T23:13:21","slug":"asunmbb-semifinals-tip-in-hawkins-arena-on-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/asunmbb-semifinals-tip-in-hawkins-arena-on-css\/","title":{"rendered":"#ASunMBB Semifinals Tip in Hawkins Arena on CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/no-1-seed-fgcu_wbb-set-to-face-kennesaw-state-in-asunwbb-tourney-quarterfinals\/asun_logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-19510 alignleft\" title=\"asun_Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/asun_Logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The semifinal of the 2013 General Shale Atlantic Sun Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship are ready as No. 1 Mercer hosts No. 5 USC Upstate at 5:30 on CSS, while No. 2 FGCU and No. 3 Stetson cap the night at 8 on CSS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 1 Mercer vs. No. 5 USC Upstate &#8211; 5:30 PM &#8211; CSS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mercer\u2019s home winning streak now stands at 16 games as the Bears are 14-0 at home this season after claiming two home victories in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament last seson. The Bears are tied for seventh best in the nation.<\/li>\n<li>The No. 1 seed has won three of the last five conference championships and last two.<\/li>\n<li>The last host team to win the A-Sun Championship was Georgia State in 2001.<\/li>\n<li>Mercer\u2019s Langston Hall has 992 career points. He averages 10.7 PPG. Hall would become the fifth A-Sun player this season to reach 1,000 career points and 146th in A-Sun history to reach the career mark.<\/li>\n<li>The Mercer &#8211; USC Upstate championship meeting is the first between a program from the states of Georgia and South Carolina.<\/li>\n<li>The Spartans picked up their first championship victory last night with a 14-point win vs. JU. USC Upstate was making only its second appearance in the tournament.<\/li>\n<li>Torrey Craig has 1,539 career points, which ranks 31st all-time in the A-Sun. He needs 19 points vs. Mercer to tie for 30th place. Craig averaged 25.5 PPG vs. Mercer in regular season meetings this year.<\/li>\n<li>The Spartans were the only upset of the quarterfinal round by defeating #4 seed Jacksonville. Five seeds are 6-10 all-time in semifinal contests.<\/li>\n<li>Ricardo Glenn is second in A-Sun for rebounding (8.0). He had seven in the quarterfinal vs. JU. Glenn averaged seven rebounds vs. Mercer in regular season.<\/li>\n<li>Ty Greene averages 12.6 PPG this season. Against Mercer, Greene averaged 17.5 vs. Mercer in their two meeting this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No. 2 FGCU vs. No. 3 Stetson &#8211; 8 PM &#8211; CSS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FGCU is trying to become the first runner-up from the previous season to return to the title game the following year since Jacksonville in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>The Eagles\u2019 22 wins is a Division I program record; surpassing last year\u2019s win total of 15, which was the previous record. FGCU\u2019s win improvement of seven from the previous season is tied for 35th-best in A-Sun history.<\/li>\n<li>The last time two teams from the same state met in the A-Sun Semifinals was 2009 with Belmont and ETSU. This marks the first meeting in A-Sun Championship history that two teams from the state of Florida face off in the semifinals.<\/li>\n<li>Bernard Thompson, the A-Sun Defensive Player of the Year, has 91 steals, which ranks as the sixth-best single-season mark in A-Sun history. He needs two more to tie for fifth.<\/li>\n<li>Brett Comer\u2019s 202 assists this season is the eighth-best in conference history.<\/li>\n<li>The Hatters\u2019 67-46 win yesterday vs. ETSU was the first in the program\u2019s history since 2006 when sixth-seeded Stetson beat #3 FAU in quarterfinals.<\/li>\n<li>The Hatters own the top-scoring duo in conference; Adam Pegg (15.6) and Chris Perez (15.1), as well as the top-scoring trio; Pegg, Perez and Graham (11.5).<\/li>\n<li>Stetson is trying to advance to the program\u2019s first A-Sun Championship Final since 1994. The last three seed to reach to championship final was Troy in 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Stetson\u2019s Joel Naburgs has hit 180 career three pointers, which is fourth most among active A-Sun players. He has 55 three pointers this season; 13th most in the A-Sun.<\/li>\n<li>Stetson\u2019s Adam Pegg was named the A-Sun Scholar-Athlete of the Year for owning a 3.39 cumulative GPA and posting four double-doubles this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semifinal of the 2013 General Shale Atlantic Sun Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship are ready as No. 1 Mercer hosts No. 5 USC Upstate at 5:30 on CSS, while No. 2&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}