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Taylor Blue
52
Hampton Hamp 11-14,10-9 Big South
67
Winner Radford Rad 15-11,12-6 Big South
Hampton Hamp
11-14,10-9 Big South
52
Final
67
Radford Rad
15-11,12-6 Big South
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Hampton Hamp 29 23 52
Radford Rad 35 32 67

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Jules’ Double-Double Propels Men’s Basketball into Big South Semifinals

RADFORD, Va. – Shaquan Jules notched his first double-double in a Highlander uniform and propelled the No. 2 Radford men's basketball team past No. 7 Hampton, 67-52, on Monday night and into the semifinal round of the 2020-21 Hercules Tires Big South Championship.
 
Jules finished with a career-high 15 points and 10 rebounds shooting 5-for-6 from the floor. He was one of three players scoring in double-figures as Lewis Djonkam tallied 12 points and Dravon Mangum added 11 points and eight rebounds.
 
The Highlanders finished with the game with a 49.0 field goal percentage and got off to a hot start shooting 51.9 percent in the first half. Radford held the Pirates to a 35.7 percent in the first half and just 33.3 percent for the game.
 
The strong defensive play in the first half ensured the Highlanders lead wire-to-wire, that included an early 11-2 run led by the big men – Djonkam, Jules and Chyree Walker. Hampton cut the deficit to two points on three different occasions in the first half with the latest coming at 1:37 in the first half. However, a Bryan Hart layup and a Jules dunk pushed the lead to six at the half.
 
Radford maintained a double-digit lead from the 9:40 point in the second half to the end of the game. The lead was built thanks to tenacious defense that held Hampton without a field goal for nearly eight minutes from 17:11 to 9:27.
 
The lead grew to as many as 21 with just over five minutes remaining thanks to hot shooting by Radford that included three straight 3-pointers – two by Mangum and one by Xavier Lipscomb. Lipscomb tallied nine points in his postseason debut.
 
The Highlanders shot 40.0 percent (4-for-10) from long range in the second half and held the Pirates to just 12.5 percent (1-for-8) from long range in the second half.
 
Stat of the Game
Radford held the Pirates to just a 16.7 3-point percentage in the game – the lowest an opponent has shot all season long against the Highlanders. The second-lowest 3-point percentage was also claimed by Hampton at 22.7 percent on Jan. 5.
 
Inside the Box Score
Radford outrebounded the Pirates, 38-27, on Monday night. The Highlanders also notched 34 points in the paint, compared to HU's 18. Fah'Mir Ali led all players with seven assists. First Team All-Conference member Davion Warren led all players with 22 points, but was 6-for-19 from the floor and 1-for-10 from 3-point range. Russell Dean contributed 14 points for the Pirates. Radford had the lead for 39:12 after Walker hit the opening bucket. The Highlanders are 3-0 when playing on Monday night this season.
 
Tweet of the Game  
Up Next
Radford will host Campbell in the semifinals on Thursday night at 6 p.m. 
 
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