{"id":5490,"date":"2023-01-08T02:18:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/mens-basketball-takes-dominant-victory-over-mercer-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T02:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T02:18:21","slug":"mens-basketball-takes-dominant-victory-over-mercer-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/mens-basketball-takes-dominant-victory-over-mercer-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Takes Dominant Victory Over Mercer On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"sidearm-story-template-text-aside\" aria-label=\"Related Sport Links\">\n<section class=\"sidearm-story-template-links\" aria-label=\"Story Links\">\n<h2 class=\"hide\">story link<\/h2>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/section>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game hide-on-small-down\">\n<div class=\"postgame_1-2_nextgame\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-logo\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/images\/logos\/Tennessee-at-Chattanooga.png\" alt=\"chattanooga\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent\">\n<h2>Next game:<\/h2>\n<p>in chattanooga<\/p>\n<p>January 11, 2023 | 7pm<\/p>\n<p>ESPN+\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postgame_3_nextgame\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-primary\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details\">\n<p>Wednesday, January 11 \/ 19:00\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/images\/logos\/Tennessee-at-Chattanooga.png\" alt=\"chattanooga\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        <span class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-text--atVs\">so<\/span> <span>chattanooga<\/span>&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    history <span class=\"sidearm-icon sf-play-by-play-alt-minimal\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/aside>\n<p><strong>calohee, north carolina<\/strong> \u2013 <dfn>Russell Jones Jr.<\/dfn>Spurred West Carolina on Saturday afternoon to score a career-high 23 points and beat the visiting Mercer Bears to a season-low 45 points as Catamount secured a 73-45 Southern Conference victory at Ingles Court in Ramsey. led a stifling defensive effort held in the center on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jones topped the 20-point plateau for the second straight win by helping the Catamounts to their third straight win at SoCon.<\/p>\n<p>WCU improves to 10-7 overall and 3-1 in SoCon play.  The 3-1 start equals the Catamounts&#8217; best opening four-game stretch in league play since the 2019-20 season. Mercer falls 7-10 and 0-4.<\/p>\n<p>Jones Jr.&#8217;s 23 points is the most by a WCU player this season. He finished 9-13 from the field, 4-6 behind the 3-point line, and 1-2 at the free-throw line. The Brycewood, South Carolina, player had two assists and he had three steals. <dfn>Tyzaun Claude<\/dfn> Scored 16 points and had 9 rebounds. <dfn>Vontelius Woolbright<\/dfn> He narrowly missed a double-double with 9 points and 9 rebounds and added 6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Walker Jr. leads Mercer with 13 points.  Kamar Robertson recorded his 8 points and his 4 rebounds, a team-high.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 20-15 after David Craig Jumper with 4:31 to play in the opening stanza, Jones Jr. hit a jumper just outside the paint to keep the Catamounts within three and make it 20-17 at the 4:10 mark. Did. On the ensuing Mercer possession, Jones Jr. stole the ball from Mercer&#8217;s Jordan his Jones, dribbled towards halfcourt and made a layup to trim Bear his lead to a point. The next Mercer possession yielded the same result with WCU&#8217;s Jones Jr. picking up his opponent&#8217;s pocket and converting a steal into a layup to lead the Catamounts to his 21-20 lead with 3:36. rice field.  WCU did not track down the rest of the game, taking a 31-23 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Katamounts started the second half on a 9-2 run as Claude&#8217;s free throw put the hosts ahead 40-27 just over three minutes into the second half. Jones Jr. made a layup on his 13th minute to push the WCU lead to 47-29. Claude led the Katamounts with a game-high 28 points, 63-35, as he completed his three-point play with 4:58 remaining.  The WCU led him by 28 points on two separate occasions. The last point is the game&#8217;s final point as a result of the pair. <dfn>Elijah Couples<\/dfn> Free throw with 37 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>With all of WCU&#8217;s points coming as a result of free throws, Mercer maintained a 7-4 lead in the under-16 media timeouts. The Bears took a 14-8 lead on his 3-pointer off Glisson III with less than 11 minutes remaining and continued the lead until Craig&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>In the game, WCU finished 27-57 (47.4%) from the field, 9-21 (42.9%) behind the three-point line, and 10-18 (55.6%) at the free throw line.  Saturday&#8217;s game was his first win for the WCU of the season and his less than 10 3-pointer successes. Mercer went 60-for-18 (30%) on the field, behind the arc he was 13-for-2 (15.4%), and at the free-throw line he was 14-for-7 (50%).  WCU he rebounded Mercer 46-30 and scored 34 points in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>The WCU is heading out for two games next week, starting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook (fb.com\/catamountsports), Instagram (@catamountmbb @wcu_catamounts), Twitter (@CatamountMBB @catamounts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMifWh0dHBzOi8vY2F0YW1vdW50c3BvcnRzLmNvbS9uZXdzLzIwMjMvMS83L21lbnMtYmFza2V0YmFsbC1tZW5zLWJhc2tldGJhbGwtZWFybnMtZG9taW5hbnQtdmljdG9yeS1vdmVyLW1lcmNlci1vbi1zYXR1cmRheS5hc3B40gEA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] story link &#13; &#13; Next game: in chattanooga January 11, 2023 | 7pm ESPN+ Wednesday, January 11 \/ 19:00 &#13; so chattanooga&#13; history &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Jones_jr_mercer_front.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}