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Furman loses close one to College of Charleston Thursday, Jan 4, 2001 By Rick Nelson |
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (BP)--As Furman coach Larry Davis walked into the interview room Wednesday, he quickly found College of Charleston center Jody Lumpkin and shook his hand. "Hurry up and graduate - please," Davis told the fifth-year senior. Lumpkin used his 6-8, 250-pound frame to bull his way to a game-high 16 points, including the winning basket with 18 seconds left to lift the Cougars to a 54-51 win before 3,167 at Timmons Arena and a regional television audience. Lumpkin, who is working on his master's degree in math, had a line score full of big numbers: 8-of-12 shooting, nine rebounds, five steals and two blocked shots. His last basket was his biggest. After Guilherme Da Luz drove the lane to tie the game at 50-50 with 47 seconds remaining, the Cougars came down court looking to get the ball inside. With a 3-inch and 40-pound edge over Furman center Kenny Zeigler, Lumpkin took a pass from Leighton Bowie, backed toward the basket and sent Zeigler sprawling as he laid in the ball. "He was trying to get around me and ended up behind me," Lumpkin said. "I was so deep he didn't have a choice." Da Luz made 1-of-2 free throws with 12.5 seconds remaining to cut the margin to one, but Cougars forward Jeff Bolton hit both of his foul shots with 11.1 left to push the lead to 54-51. Furman's last chance came with two seconds on the clock, but Karim Souchu misfired on a long 3-pointer. Charleston improved to 10-2 overall and 2-0 in the Southern Conference. Furman dropped to 5-5 and 0-1. "This was for sure a carbon copy of our win here last year (56-51)," Cougars coach John Kresse said. "Larry Davis had a great game plan, slowed us up, changed defenses and confused us at times. "We didn't play our best basketball, but surviving and just holding on by the skin of our teeth on the road is what you have to do. We'll take it." Bolton added 15 points and six rebounds for Charleston, which made 50 percent of its shots in the second half and 41.8 percent for the game. A.J. Harris, getting the start at point guard, had six assists with no turnovers. Souchu scored 12 of his 15 points in the second half for the Paladins. Da Luz, who used his 6-3 height to post up and drive against Charleston's smaller point guards, contributed 13 points and 11 rebounds but had seven turnovers and just four assists. Zeigler added seven points and 10 rebounds. Furman hit 11-of-18 free throws but could not make them when they needed them most. The Paladins managed to come back from a nine-point deficit with less than seven minutes left, but they were just 7-of-12 from the line over that period. "It would have put us in a much better position," Davis said. Both teams struggled offensively in the first half, which ended with Charleston clinging to a 20-16 lead. Furman shot just 28.6 percent in the first 20 minutes, compiling nearly twice as many turnovers (11) as field goals (6), and finished at 37.5 percent for the game. The last time the Cougars held a team to 16 or fewer points in a half was 86 games ago, when they took a 34-8 halftime lead en route to a 65-39 win over Campbell on Jan. 29, 1998. "We should have shot the ball better, but I'm sure the college's defense had something to do with it," Davis said. Charleston also stumbled offensively in the opening half, making only 9-of-27 shots from the field (33.3 percent). The Cougars also were outrebounded 35-30 by the smaller but quick Paladins. Lumpkin was the last Cougar to get five steals in a game, turning the trick 58 games ago on Jan. 18, 1999, in a 70-63 win over Chattanooga. His two blocks give him 195 for his career, moving him into fourth place on the SoCon's all-time list. He trails Thaddeous Delaney by eight for the school record, which was set from 1994-97. Freshmen Thomas Mobley and Quinton Hollis did not dress out after being suspended one game for violating team rules. They are expected to be back in the lineup for Charleston's next game Saturday against Georgia Southern (4-8, 0-1), which lost an 82-74 decision to Wofford in its SoCon opener Tuesday. The game, which starts at 4 p.m. at John Kresse Arena, will be broadcast on Comcast Sports Southeast. --30- This was first published in the Post and Courier
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