Mocs 85, Longwood 50

FOUR FACTORS (plus two)

eFG%
Mocs- 55.3%
Longwood- 30.8%
Advantage- Mocs

TO%
Mocs- 21.4%
Longwood- 20.1%
Advantage- Longwood

OR%
Mocs- 42.1%
Longwood- 18.1%
Advantage- Mocs

FTRate
Mocs- 31.8%
Longwood- 36.7%
Advantage- Longwood

FT%
Mocs- 57.1%
Longwood- 59.1%
Advantage- Longwood

3PtRate
Mocs- 40.9%
Longwood- 58.3%

PLAYER RATER

Overall

1) Keegan Bell 40.9
2) Omar Wattad 26.6
3) Drazen Zlovaric 24.1
4) Z Mason 19.1
5) Jahmal Burroughs 18.4
6) Ricky Taylor 15.0
7t) Rico White 9.6
7t) Dontay Hampton 9.6
9) Jared Bryatn 8.5
10) Drew Baker 7.6
11) Trey Brown 0.6
12) Martynas Bareika -1.4

Per 40

1) Drew Baker 76.0
2) Omar Wattad 48.4
3) Keegan Bell 48.1
4) Jahmal Burroughs 46.0
5) Z Mason 40.2
6) Drazen Zlovaric 35.6
7) Rico White 27.4
8) Jared Bryant 26.2
9) Ricky Taylor 26.0
10) Dontay Hampton 18.3
11) Trey Brown 8.0
12) Martynas Bareika -14.0

ANALYSIS

This was a tremendous performance by the Mocs. They hung around in the first half when they were not playing well, and then put together a near perfect second half performance. Sure, it was just Longwood, but the Lancers played Virginia and Vanderbilt just about to the same margin as the Mocs. That makes this an impressive win.

The most impressive thing was the way the Mocs dominated the boards. They completely dominated them. They won the battle of the boards by 25. Rebounding like that will make the Mocs very difficult to beat the rest of this season.

Ricky Taylor scored his 1000th point in this game, and that made this game special for him. On top of that, Keegan Bell was dominating. He scored 10 points, had 16 assists (one short of a school record) and nine rebounds. That means that he was one rebound from his second triple double of the season, which would have been something for this game.

The biggest problem here is that the Mocs did not shoot free throws well. They are going to have to shoot free throws well to win more consistently. But the Mocs will take this. This was their best performance of the year, and it is hard to complain about it honestly. I know people aren't exactly excited about beating Longwood, but this was a team that was capable of beating the Mocs, and with how they played against Gardner-Webb and Kennesaw State, and even Savannah State, coming up with a 35 point win is incredibly satisfying.

GO MOCS!