In what turned out to be a very streaky game, the Jags lose another Sun Belt Conference game 85-81 in OT on the road at CCU.
South Alabama came out cold again. The Jags didn’t score their first points until nearly four minutes into the game. Coastal Carolina built an early 17-4 lead with about 12 minutes left in the first half. The Jags would however get it together and go on a 12-2 run over the next 1:54 cutting the lead to three points at 19-16.
Coastal then would immediately go on another run of 16-4 to increase their lead to 37-22. South would trail at halftime 41-28.
The Jags would come out of halftime and go on another run, cutting the lead down to three trailing 35-32. Coastal would get the lead back up to 14 at the 10:14 mark of the 2nd half. South would trail 58-44.
South Alabama would chip away the rest of the 2nd half tying the game at 68 on a 3 pointer by Tyrell “ Turbo” Jones with just :48 seconds left. Neither team would score again and the game went to overtime.
In OT the Jags would take their first lead of the game at the 4:49 mark, on another three pointer from Turbo. The score was 71-68.
The two teams would go back and forth for the next few minutes until Coastal hit a 3 pointer and the Jags would trail by 4 the score 78-74 with 2:27 left in OT. The Jags would get the deficit down to one at the 2:01 mark, on a three pointer by Isaiah Moore. That’s is as close as the Jags would get. Final 85-81.
The leading scorers for the Jags were…
Turbo Jones- 25 points including 6-13 from the 3 point line.
Isaiah Moore- 19 points including 3-5 from 3 point land.
Kevin Samuel- 12 points 2 rebounds for another double double.
Jamar Franklin- 8 points making his second straight start of the year.
The Jags shot 3 pointers at 40% and overall 46% from the field. The Jags record falls to 8-12 overall and 2-6 in the Sunbelt Conference. The next 2 games for South Alabama will be home games. Thursday January 26, 2023 Old Dominion comes to “The Mitch”, game time 7 pm. Troy comes to town Saturday at 3pm.
