PJay Smith (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Furman’s PJay Smith Jr. is a finalist for the Lou Henson Award, which is given annually to the top mid-major men’s basketball player in the country. Smith, a native of LaVergne, Tenn., averaged 18 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game this season while guiding the Paladins …
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Terriers get their shooting dialed in, 92-85
By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser guards Corey Tripp (10) (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – It’s not the first time I’ve invoked the memory of the late Jim Beauchamp on such occasions, and it probably won’t be the last. I think of “Beech” (his name was pronounced “BEE-chum”) often because he was larger …
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Two tickets to Camelot left
By MONTE DUTTON Nick Anderson (7) maneuvers. Trey Bonham (2) pursues (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – It’s the time of basketball season that leads grown men to cry.March brings tears of joy and tears of sorrow. When Furman and Wofford play on Monday night for the Southern Conference championship, eyes from both …
All in for the Paladins thus far
By MONTE DUTTON And away they go (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A college basketball tournament has much in common with a living organism. Mostly new sets of fans file in and out, the Harrah’s Cherokee Center forever breathing with new life.Sitting at my seat, often cracking wise with colleague John Hooper, …
Slow starts back home
By MONTE DUTTON Gardner-Webb coach Jeremy Luther took his medicine in Johnson City (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Being away on my great basketball road trip spared me an inglorious period back home.It was sorrowful in Johnson City, Tenn., too. (I can’t say those three words without thinking of “Wagon Wheel.”) I was moved by …
Paladins face tough SoCon opener
PJay Smith Jr. (Furman photo) Click here. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- When Furman takes on Samford on Saturday night in the Ingles SoCon Basketball Championships, this much is certain.It’s going to be aggressive.The Bulldogs are the reigning champions. They are seeded fourth, the Paladins fifth. Furman (23-8) won both regular-season games. Both were testy. In both, …
Free throws were few and far between for Blue Hose
By MONTE DUTTON Kaleb Scott works the paint (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- It wasn’t the shot selection. That was excellent. It was inaccuracy at the free-throw line that ran Presbyterian College’s Hose out of the Hercules Tires Big South Basketball Championships.Shooting was where the rubber met the road. Or didn’t. …
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Smith finds nothing but net at Wofford
By MONTE DUTTON The Terriers couldn't contain PJay Smith (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. A trip to Spartanburg is seldom easy for the Furman Paladins, whether it’s basketball, football or club rugby.As head men’s basketball coach Bob Richey said later, “We knew [Wofford wasn’t] going away.”The final 1.1 seconds of the Paladins’ 78-75 victory over …
Furman women pull overtime upset at Chattanooga
Tate Walters (Furman photo) Click here. If Furman is to make an unlikely run in the women’s basketball bracket at the Ingles SoCon Championship, the Paladins will need to put together more performances like Thursday evening’s 74-70 road upset at Chattanooga.Tate Walters converted two free throws to tie the game and followed it up with …
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Paladins dig a little deeper in The Well, 85-42
By MONTE DUTTON Tom House perfectly splashed The Well (Furman photo). Click here. Many years ago, a broadcaster who wasn’t occupied with play by play at the time was holding court on a baseball press row when he proclaimed, regarding a certain football team, that it was “the best 0-9-2 team in the country.”’A nearby …
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