STATESBORO – Tray Boyd III scored 17 points, and Patrick Good hit a dagger triple inside the last minute to lift ETSU to a 69-64 men's basketball win over Georgia Southern Tuesday night in Hanner Fieldhouse.
Eagles of the Game
Tookie Brown made 6-of-11 from the field and tallied 16 points, five assists and four rebounds, and
Quan Jackson returned to action with 13 points, six boards and a pair of steals.
Key moments
A 6-0 Georgia Southern (5-1) run, capped by a transition lay-up by Brown gave the Eagles their last lead of the game at 59-58. ETSU (6-2) responded with an 8-3 spurt, triggered by consecutive 3-pointers from Good and Boyd III, to open a 66-62 cushion with 1:37 to play. Brown made two free throws to draw GS within two points with 57 seconds left, but Mladen Armus found Good for an open 3-pointer from the wing to push the margin to five and put the game out of reach.
Stat of the Game
ETSU held the Eagles to a season-low 41 percent shooting, and GS made just 6-of-26 from long distance.
Quotables from head coach Mark Byington
"ETSU is a good team that is probably going to win 20 games for the fourth straight year. That's why we schedule games against good teams like them – to see our strengths and our weaknesses, learn from them and get better."
"I thought it was a highly-competitive game. It wasn't always the prettiest, but I thought we competed, we battled, and I thought we showed toughness. It's a November game that will come back and help us later on. We missed some shots the last three or four minutes, and they made the shots the last three or four minutes. I thought we did a lot of things right, and the things we didn't do right, I know we can fix."
"We're going to be a work on progress because we're getting guys back, and we have some guys with lingering injuries who aren't practicing as much so I think you saw we were out of rhythm at certain parts of the game. We have to learn what we're like as a whole because we haven't been that way in five or six weeks. We have to learn how to play with each other a little better."
Next up
The Eagles have a quick turnaround and a near cross-country trip as they travel to Arizona for their first meeting against the Wildcats. Tipoff is set for 9 p.m. ET Thursday on the Pac-12 Network.
