Falcons Beat Furman

The Basketball team continued to pick up wins, beating a winless Furman team in South Carolina yesterday by nine points. Some observations:

This team beat us last year on our floor. With the shape our program is in, we will take wins everywhere we can get them.

• We jumped to an 18 point lead at halftime, primarily because we shot 63% and they shot 20%. Things evened out in the second half and Furman outscored us, but couldn't come back.
• Our 3 point woes continued (3-11)
• 20 fouls, 12 turnovers.
• Hamblet had 13, with Miller and Knight scoring 12 each.
• We won the rebounding battle 37-32, but gave up 11 offensive boards.
• Otis had 9 points, 2 blocks and 6 boards in 15 minutes. I wonder why he doesn't play more.
• In all, we had 10 blocked shots.
• Coach Orr talked about a key sequence in the first half, where we essentially got 12 straight stops. If you can combine that with some shooting, you are hard to beat.

Coach Orr talks about how we have to win even when we don't shoot well. I'd have to check, but I don't think we've been able to pull that off yet. Still, Furman shot 32% for the game and 4-18 from the 3. It is hard to lose when you can do that. We were able to use a man defense to go and cover the 3s.

Falcons are 4-2 so far. We have Oakland Saturday, and team that has also beaten us in recent years. One game at a time, as we build up to the MAC, which will be the tougher portion of our schedule.