Box Score
Box score
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Queens University senior guard Jarrett Stokes
sank three free throws inside the final 17 seconds to lift the
Royals to a 75-73 victory past Anderson in the regular-season
finale for both teams Saturday night at Curry Arena.
Anderson (20-8, 15-7), which wrapped up the regular season by
winning two of its last three, secured the No. three seed in
Wednesday's Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament
quarterfinals and will host Queens (14-12, 12-10) at the Abney
Athletic Center. Tip-off for the third meeting this season between
the two teams is slated for 7 p.m. The Trojans edged Queens 85-84
in late January at the Abney Center on senior guard Chandler Hash's
3-pointer with 1.1 seconds remaining.
Prior to this season, the Trojans and Royals had not met since
the 2009-10 campaign when both were members of Conference
Carolinas, but have squared off on 28 occasions overall, with
Queens holding a 20-8 advantage in the all-time series.
Lincoln Memorial, which claimed the regular-season title, is the
top seed in the tourney and will host No. 8 seed Wingate, which has
won the last two SAC Tournaments. Carson-Newman won at Newberry on
Saturday to clinch the bracket's No. 2 seed and will host
seventh-seeded Coker in the quarterfinals. AU and Lenoir-Rhyne both
finished 15-7 in the SAC and split their head-to-head meetings.
Anderson claimed the event's No. 3 seed, however, because of its
1-1 record against LMU, while Lenoir-Rhyne went 0-2 against the
Railsplitters and will be the No. 4 seed. L-R will play host to
fifth-seeded Newberry, which concluded the regular season 18-8
overall and 14-8 against the league.
Hash led all scorers with 31 points tonight, as the sharpshooter
went 10-of-17 from the field and was 5-of-10 from beyond the arc.
Junior guard Alani Adekambi added a season-high 10 points off the
bench. Junior center Chris Ross netted eight points and pulled down
a team-high seven rebounds, while junior guard Myson Jones scored
seven points and dished out a game-high six assists.
Senior forward Brent Evans led the Royals with a double-double,
scoring 16 points and grabbing a game-high 13 rebounds. Stokes
finished with 13 points and junior guard Trey Ervin chipped in 13
points for Queens.
The game featured eight ties and nine lead changes, including
six inside the final seven minutes.
Neither team was able to build more than a nine-point advantage,
with the Trojans claiming the early lead and holding the edge for
the first six-plus minutes. A Stokes' 3-pointer gave Queens its
first lead, at 10-9, with 13:37 left in the opening half and less
than two minutes later, the Royals gained their largest lead of the
contest, at 14-9.
But Adekambi and Hash combined for five unanswered points to
quickly even the score and the lead changed hands four times in the
next two minutes.
Leading by one with just more than three minutes remaining in
the opening frame, AU junior guard Nick Jackson fueled an 8-0 run
by scoring five points and the Trojans took a 36-27 halftime
advantage.
The Royals stayed within striking distance and used a late 9-1
surge to take their first lead, 63-61, since midway through the
first half.
With the two teams trading free throws and 3-pointers down the
stretch, Queens managed to hold off the Trojans on Stokes' accuracy
at the stripe.
2014 Food Lion SAC Men's Basketball
Championship
Quarterfinals - March 5
No. 8 Wingate at No. 1 Lincoln Memorial, 8 p.m.
No. 7 Coker at No. 2 Carson-Newman, 8 p.m.
No. 6 Queens at No. 3 Anderson, 7 p.m.
No. 5 Newberry at No. 4 Lenoir-Rhyne, 8 p.m.
Semifinals - March 8
No. 1/No. 8 vs. No. 4/No. 5, Noon
No. 2/No. 7 vs. No. 3/No. 6, 2:30 p.m.
Final - March 9
Semifinal 1 winner vs. Semifinal 2 winner, 1 p.m.