UAB Over Southern Methodist, 47-28

Filed under Game Recap on February 16th, 2012

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On February 15th on the road, the Blazers beat the Mustangs, 47-28.

Some notes on this pairing: In terms of RPI ranking, UAB was the better team, #124 to #195. A year ago, UAB beat Southern Methodist 67-53. Over the last four years, the Blazers have a record of 5-0 with a record of 3-0 at Moody Coliseum.

UAB took this one while dominating Southern Methodist in rebounding and assists.

UAB used a big advantage on the boards to win the possession battle with 46 rebounds to 27 for Southern Methodist. UAB beat Southern Methodist with assists, 13 to three, and facilitated more balanced scoring.

K.C. Whitaker was the leading scorer for the Blazers with 17 points in 19 minutes, including 15 from three-point range. Cameron Moore added 11 big rebounds.

UAB Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A+ K.C. Whitaker 19 17 6 2 1 0 2 A+ Cameron Moore 36 12 11 4 0 0 2 A Jordan Swing 34 6 11 3 1 0 1 C+ Ovie Soko 18 3 4 2 1 0 3 C Robert Williams 15 0 4 1 0 0 1 C Quincy Taylor 39 6 2 1 0 0 3 C Preston Purifoy 30 3 5 0 0 0 1 - Herb Harrison 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 - Jekore Tyler 4 0 0 0 0 0 0

SMU Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Leslee Smith 11 5 6 0 2 0 1 B- Ryan Manuel 13 4 1 1 1 0 1 C+ Jalen Jones 28 6 5 1 1 1 0 C Robert Nyakundi 33 9 1 0 2 1 1 D+ A. Patsevich 20 0 2 0 2 0 0 D+ J. Samarrippas 32 2 2 1 1 0 2 D R. Clinkscales 33 2 2 0 0 0 0 D Shawn Williams 22 0 4 0 0 0 1 - C. Cunningham 8 0 1 0 1 0 1

The Blazers have a record of 11-14. They improve to 6-6 and remain in 7th place in the C-USA. And they've won 4 out of their last 5 games.

The next game is against Tulane at home on February 18th.

• Jordan Swing recorded the 1st double digit rebound game of his career.
• The Blazers have won 75% of the time this season (6-2) after recording 13 or more assists.
• UAB set a season low for blocks.
• UAB beat the spread by 19.5 points. That makes the 12th time this season the Blazers have beat the spread.
• The top two rebounders (Cameron Moore and Jordan Swing) accounted for 47.8% of the rebounds.

• Southern Methodist lost and did not cover the spread.
• This was the 3rd foul out of the season for Robert Nyakundi.
• Robert Nyakundi has led the team in scoring 16 times in 26 games this season.
• Leslee Smith has led the team in rebounding 3 times in 26 games this season.
• Robert Nyakundi accounted for 32.1% of the team's points.

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Tags: K.C. Whitaker, Cameron Moore