Jacobi Wright, South Carolina take on hungry Towson
South Carolina opened the season in disappointing fashion but now sets its sights on a second straight victory when the Gamecocks battle Towson on Tuesday night at Columbia, S.C.
South Carolina fell to North Florida in its opener before bouncing back with an 86-64 rout of South Carolina State on Friday.
Jacobi Wright scored a career-best 20 points and Collin Murray-Boyles had 19 points and a career-high 16 rebounds.
Murray-Boyles leads the Gamecocks in scoring (17 points per game) and rebounding (11.5). Wright is averaging 16 points on 72.2 percent shooting (13-of-18) and a team-best 4.5 assists.
Wright also knocked down four 3-pointers against South Carolina State.
"Jacobi Wright, just in his DNA as a basketball player, is the kind of guy who's going to do those things more often," South Carolina coach Lamont Paris said of Wright.
The Gamecocks never trailed, boasted a 51-36 rebounding edge and held South Carolina State to 3-of-16 shooting from 3-point range.
But Paris wasn't pleased with his own team's long-range shooting. South Carolina was 8-of-27 -- Wright was 4-of-7 and the rest of the team was 4-of-20.
"I can't make them make it," Paris said. "All I can do is provide the environment that they feel comfortable taking those shots."
Towson (1-1) split its first two games, losing at Saint Mary's in its opener before shellacking USCAA member Penn State Wilkes-Barre 89-34 on Friday.
Tomiwa Sulaiman made a career-high six points while scoring 20 points and Tyler Tejada added 15. The Tigers made 14 3-pointers, two shy of the school record.
Tejada leads Towson with a 16.5 scoring average and Dylan Williamson is contributing 12.5 per game.
The Tigers would certainly like to post an attention-grabbing victory after stringing together three straight seasons of 20 or more wins.
Towson hasn't played in the NCAA Tournament since 1991 but this group has made it a goal to end the long drought.
"We're going to take it one day at a time, one game at a time," Tigers guard Nendah Tarke recently said. "We know that that's our end goal. We're far from that now, but if we keep up with the right habits and doing the right things, everything should take care of itself."
This is the third meeting between the schools. South Carolina won both of the first two with the most recent matchup being a 65-55 victory on Dec. 30, 1997.
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Time | Team | Play | Score | |
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16:35 | +1 | Jacobi Wright makes regular free throw 1 of 2 | 1-6 | |
16:35 | Â | Mekhi Lowery shooting foul (Jacobi Wright draws the foul) | Â | |
16:45 | Â | Nick Pringle defensive rebound | Â | |
16:47 | Â | Messiah Jones misses two point jump shot | Â | |
17:02 | Â | Tigers offensive rebound | Â | |
17:04 | Â | Dylan Williamson misses three point jump shot | Â | |
17:11 | Â | Dylan Williamson defensive rebound | Â | |
17:13 | Â | Jacobi Wright misses three point jump shot | Â | |
17:20 | Â | Collin Murray-Boyles defensive rebound | Â | |
17:22 | Â | Christian May misses three point jump shot | Â | |
17:33 | Â | Jamarii Thomas turnover (bad pass) (Nendah Tarke steals) | Â | |
17:40 | Â | Gamecocks defensive rebound | Â | |
17:42 | Â | Tyler Tejada misses three point jump shot | Â | |
18:03 | +2 | Nick Pringle makes two point layup (Jamarii Thomas assists) | 1-5 | |
18:08 | Â | Christian May personal foul | Â | |
18:08 | Â | Gamecocks offensive rebound | Â | |
18:10 | Â | Collin Murray-Boyles misses two point jump shot | Â | |
18:28 | Â | Christian May turnover (out of bounds) | Â | |
18:44 | +1 | Collin Murray-Boyles makes regular free throw 1 of 1 | 1-3 | |
18:44 | Â | Caleb Embeya shooting foul (Collin Murray-Boyles draws the foul) | Â | |
18:44 | +2 | Collin Murray-Boyles makes two point layup (Jamarii Thomas assists) | 1-2 | |
18:51 | Â | Collin Murray-Boyles defensive rebound | Â | |
18:53 | Â | Nendah Tarke misses two point jump shot | Â | |
19:10 | Â | Collin Murray-Boyles turnover (out of bounds) | Â | |
19:24 | +1 | Caleb Embeya makes regular free throw 2 of 2 | 1-0 | |
19:24 | Â | Caleb Embeya misses regular free throw 1 of 2 | Â | |
19:24 | Â | Myles Stute shooting foul (Caleb Embeya draws the foul) | Â | |
19:46 | Â | Tyler Tejada defensive rebound | Â | |
19:48 | Â | Christian May blocks Nick Pringle's two point layup | Â | |
20:00 | Â | Mandela Tarke vs. Nick Pringle (Gamecocks gains possession) | Â |
Min. Per Game | ||
Pts. Per Game | ||
Ast. Per Game | ||
Reb. Per Game | ||
Field Goal % | ||
Three Point % | ||
Free Throw % |
+ 1 | Jacobi Wright makes regular free throw 1 of 2 | 16:35 |
 | Mekhi Lowery shooting foul (Jacobi Wright draws the foul) | 16:35 |
 | Nick Pringle defensive rebound | 16:45 |
 | Messiah Jones misses two point jump shot | 16:47 |
 | Tigers offensive rebound | 17:02 |
 | Dylan Williamson misses three point jump shot | 17:04 |
 | Dylan Williamson defensive rebound | 17:11 |
 | Jacobi Wright misses three point jump shot | 17:13 |
 | Collin Murray-Boyles defensive rebound | 17:20 |
 | Christian May misses three point jump shot | 17:22 |
 | Jamarii Thomas turnover (bad pass) (Nendah Tarke steals) | 17:33 |
Team Stats | ||
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Points | 1 | 6 |
Field Goals | 0-5 (0.0%) | 2-5 (40.0%) |
3-Pointers | 0-3 (0.0%) | 0-1 (0.0%) |
Free Throws | 1-2 (50.0%) | 2-2 (100.0%) |
Total Rebounds | 3 | 5 |
Offensive | 0 | 0 |
Defensive | 2 | 3 |
Team | 1 | 2 |
Assists | 0 | 2 |
Steals | 1 | 0 |
Blocks | 1 | 0 |
Turnovers | 1 | 2 |
Fouls | 3 | 1 |
Technicals | 0 | 0 |
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Team Stats | |||
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Towson 1-1 | 79.0 PPG | 37.5 RPG | 15.5 APG |
South Carolina 1-1 | 78.5 PPG | 49.0 RPG | 16.0 APG |
Key Players | |||||
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. Embeya F | 5.5 PPG | 5.5 RPG | 0.5 APG | 71.4 FG% |
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. Murray-Boyles F | 18.0 PPG | 11.5 RPG | 2.5 APG | 58.3 FG% |
Top Scorers | |||||
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C. Embeya F | 1 PTS | 0 REB | 0 AST | ||
C. Murray-Boyles F | 3 PTS | 2 REB | 0 AST |
Starters | PTS | REB | AST | FG | 3PT | FT | PF | STL | BLK | TO | OREB | DREB |
C. Embeya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
D. Williamson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
C. May | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
T. Tejada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
N. Tarke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Starters | PTS | REB | AST | FG | 3PT | FT | PF | STL | BLK | TO | OREB | DREB |
C. Embeya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
D. Williamson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
C. May | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
T. Tejada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
N. Tarke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bench | PTS | REB | AST | FG | 3PT | FT | PF | STL | BLK | TO | OREB | DREB |
M. Lowery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
M. Jones | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
A. Samb | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
T. Coleman | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
R. Hicks | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
T. Sulaiman | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
J. Cole | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
R. Skerry | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
C. Ndefo | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
A. Shaheed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
M. Tarke | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Total | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0/5 | 0/3 | 1/2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Starters | PTS | REB | AST | FG | 3PT | FT | PF | STL | BLK | TO | OREB | DREB |
C. Murray-Boyles | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1/2 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
N. Pringle | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
J. Wright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
M. Stute | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
J. Thomas | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Starters | PTS | REB | AST | FG | 3PT | FT | PF | STL | BLK | TO | OREB | DREB |
C. Murray-Boyles | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1/2 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
N. Pringle | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
J. Wright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
M. Stute | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
J. Thomas | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Bench | PTS | REB | AST | FG | 3PT | FT | PF | STL | BLK | TO | OREB | DREB |
Z. Davis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
J. Butler | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
A. Herro | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
A. Conyers | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
M. Ugusuk | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
L. Piper | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
C. Scott | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
W. Coggeshall | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
B. Bosmans-Verdonk | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Total | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2/5 | 0/1 | 2/2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |