Western Carolina Catamounts @ Samford Bulldogs

Western Carolina CatamountsW CarolinaWCU

8-19, 4-12 SoCon

Final

	1	2	T
W Carolina WCU	36	36	72
Samford SAM	44	49	93

Samford BulldogsSamfordSAM

21-8, 11-5 SoCon

Western Carolina Catamounts

starters
Marcus KellM. Kell#23
Bernard PeloteB. Pelote#3
Brandon MorganB. Morgan#5
Ice EmeryI. Emery#8
Cord StansberryC. Stansberry#0
bench
Vernon CollinsV. Collins#33
Chase McKeyC. McKey#1
Fischer BrownF. Brown#20
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
31	19	0	2	2	3	0	3	1	7-10	70.0	3-4	75.0	2-2	100.0	2
26	14	1	5	6	2	0	0	7	6-9	66.7	2-4	50.0	0-0	0.0	4
29	4	0	4	4	4	1	0	4	2-6	33.3	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
32	15	0	2	2	4	1	0	6	5-9	55.6	3-7	42.9	2-8	25.0	0
31	4	0	5	5	2	1	0	6	1-7	14.3	0-4	0.0	2-2	100.0	0
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
10	3	1	2	3	0	0	1	2	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	1-4	25.0	2
18	6	1	7	8	0	3	0	2	2-3	66.7	0-0	0.0	2-2	100.0	0
23	7	1	3	4	1	2	0	0	2-5	40.0	1-4	25.0	2-2	100.0	2
	72	5	32	37	16	8	4	28	26-51	51.0	9-25	36.0	11-20	55.0	10

Samford Bulldogs

starters
Jaden BrownellJ. Brownell#33
Collin HollowayC. Holloway#5
Trey FortT. Fort#3
Isaiah WestI. West#4
Rylan JonesR. Jones#21
bench
Riley AllenspachR. Allenspach#35
Larry OlayinkaH. Olayinka#11
Grayson WaltersG. Walters#15
Thomas KizerT. Kizer#22
Josh HollowayJ. Holloway#1
Lukas WallsL. Walls#2
Zion WilburnZ. Wilburn#8
Brody BoyerB. Boyer#24
Julian BrownJ. Brown#13
Paulie StramagliaP. Stramaglia#7
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
17	11	0	3	3	2	1	0	0	5-10	50.0	1-5	20.0	0-0	0.0	2
19	6	1	4	5	1	2	0	2	1-6	16.7	0-5	0.0	4-6	66.7	0
28	24	2	3	5	1	5	0	0	10-17	58.8	2-5	40.0	2-2	100.0	0
13	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1-2	50.0	1-1	100.0	1-2	50.0	1
26	16	2	3	5	7	0	0	4	6-12	50.0	4-10	40.0	0-0	0.0	2
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF
18	8	1	1	2	2	1	0	2	4-10	40.0	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
8	4	2	1	3	1	1	0	1	2-3	66.7	0-0	0.0	0-1	0.0	2
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1
25	3	1	4	5	2	4	0	3	1-8	12.5	1-5	20.0	0-0	0.0	2
21	6	2	3	5	2	0	0	0	2-7	28.6	1-4	25.0	1-1	100.0	1
3	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2-3	66.7	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	1
13	6	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	2-5	40.0	2-5	40.0	0-0	0.0	2
3	0	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0
	93	18	24	42	18	21	0	12	36-85	42.4	13-45	28.9	8-12	66.7	14

Hamed Olayinka throws down powerful flush vs. Western Carolina Catamounts

0:14

Lukas Walls gets the and-1 to fall

0:19

Pete Hanna Center

3:00 PM, February 22, 2025Coverage: ESPN+

Homewood, AL

Attendance: 2,306

Referees:
Billy Dunlap
Owen Farist
Chuck McCoy

Team	CONF	GB	OVR
Chattanooga	0-0	-	0-0
East Tennessee State	0-0	-	0-0
Furman	0-0	-	0-0
Mercer	0-0	-	0-0
Samford	0-0	-	0-0
The Citadel	0-0	-	0-0
UNC Greensboro	0-0	-	0-0
VMI	0-0	-	0-0
Western Carolina	0-0	-	0-0
Wofford	0-0	-	0-0

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