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97
Winner Daemen Daemen 6-3,0-0 ECC
76
Clarion Clar 1-3,0-0 PSAC
Winner
Daemen Daemen
6-3,0-0 ECC
97
Final
76
Clarion Clar
1-3,0-0 PSAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Daemen Daemen 52 45 97
Clarion Clar 28 48 76

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | CONTACT: Tom McDermott, Director of Athletics Communications | tmcdermo@daemen.edu

Balanced Attack Leads Wildcats To 97-76 Win At Clarion

Glover Leads The Way With A Career-High 19 Points

CLARION, Pa. – Sophomore Justin Glover (Buffalo, N.Y.) paced a balanced attack with a career-high 19 points to lead the Daemen University men's basketball team to a 97-76 victory over Clarion University today at Waldo S. Tippin Gymnasium on the Clarion campus.

Daemen, which is ranked seventh in the Division II College Sports Communicators (D2CSC) East Region poll, has now won five of its last six games and improved to 6-3 on the year. Clarion dropped to 1-3.

IMPACT PLAYERS
  • Six players scored in double figures for the Wildcats.
  • Glover, who returned to action after missing Daemen's win over Slippery Rock University on Tuesday, connected on 7-of-15 shots overall and was good on 3-of-5 three-pointers. He also totaled five rebounds, five assists and a career-high five steals.
  • Glover has now scored in double figures in all eight games he has played in this season.
  • Senior Dylan Fasoyiro (Houston, Tex.) added 17 points and five rebounds, while graduate student Joey Atkins (Watervliet, N.Y.) chipped in 14 points, six rebounds and two steals.
  • Senior Justin Hemphill (Buffalo, N.Y.) was in the starting lineup for the second-straight game and recorded his second double-double (13 pts, 11 rebs) of the year.
  • Senior Nick MacDonald (Amherst, N.Y.) was good on 6-of-9 shots and scored 12 points, while classmate Andrew Mason (Webster, N.Y.) finished with 10 points.
  • Sophomore Cam Kearney scored 20 points for Clarion, while classmate Jayson Harris added 15 points and eight rebounds.

GAME NOTES
  • It marked just the fifth all-time meeting between the two teams. Daemen owns a 3-2 advantage in the series.
  • Clarion is a member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). The Golden Eagles went 3-25 overall and 1-21 in PSAC play last year. Clarion was picked eighth in the PSAC West Division preseason coaches' poll.
  • Daemen returns four starters from last year's team that finished 20-8 overall and 12-4 in the East Coast Conference. The Wildcats were picked second in the ECC preseason poll.
  • Daemen went a perfect 3-0 against teams from the PSAC this season, defeating Mercyhurst (64-63), Slippery Rock (86-62) and Clarion.
  • Daemen forced 22 turnovers today and made the most of the turnovers to the tune of a 25-17 advantage in points off turnovers. It marked the second-straight game that the Wildcats have forced 20 or more turnovers.
  • The game was tied at 10-10 six minutes into the contest when the Wildcats scored eight unanswered points and later took a 23-13 lead following a layup by MacDonald with 11:25 left before halftime.
  • The teams traded baskets for the next four minutes and the Daemen lead was eight points, 30-22, when the Wildcats put together a 15-3 run. A steal and layup by Glover with 2:32 left before halftime capped the run and gave Daemen a 45-25 lead.
  • The Wildcats would take 52-28 lead into halftime.
  • Clarion scored the first nine points of the second half to cut the lead to 15 points, 52-37, but Daemen answered with an 11-4 run and regained a 22-point lead, 63-41, following a conventional three-point play by Fasoyiro at the 14:33 mark.
  • Clarion came no closer than 19 points the rest of the way.
  • Daemen shot 57-percent (21-for-37) in the first half and finished 38-for-74 (51%) from the field overall. The Wildcats connected on 10-of-24 three-pointers and made 11-of-17 from the charity stripe.
  • Clarion finished 31-of-63 (49%) from the field overall and made just 7-of-29 from downtown. The Golden Eagles canned 7-of-10 from the charity stripe.
     
NEXT JUMP BALL
The Wildcats are idle until Saturday (Dec. 2) when they host Roberts Wesleyan University. It will mark the ECC opener for the Wildcats.
 

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