CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Trent Wiedeman scored 17 points to lead College of Charleston to a 75-58 victory over Towson Friday night in the season opener for both teams.
It was the first victory for first-year Cougars' coach Doug Wojcik, who took over the reins of the program after the retirement of Bobby Cremins in March.
Andrew Lawrence, a London native, scored 16 points, and Anthony Thomas and Anthony Stitt scored 12 points each for Charleston, which led 40-14 at the break.
The Cougars shot 56.3 percent for the game, including 44.4 percent on 3-pointers. The winning margin could have been larger, but the Cougars shot only 58.6 percent from the free-throw line.
Jerrelle Benimon led the Tigers with a game-high 23 points, Bilal Dixon had 15 and grabbed 10 rebounds and Kris Walden had 10 points. Towson shot only 36.8 percent from the field.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Towson (0-1) | 14 | 44 | 58 |
| College of Charleston (1-0) « | 40 | 35 | 75 |
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| Towson Tigers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Benimon, F | 33 | 7-18 | 8-9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 23 |
| M. Damas, F | 24 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| B. Dixon, C | 29 | 7-12 | 1-2 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 15 |
| M. Burwell, G | 30 | 1-8 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| J. Hairston, G | 29 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| K. Walden | 19 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| R. Guthrie | 14 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| B. Alston | 8 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| T. Parker-Rivera | 8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| B. Blackstone | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Flash | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Schulkin | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 21-57 | 12-17 | 32 | 5 | 23 | 58 | |
| 36.8% | 70.6% | ||||||
| College of Charleston Cougars | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Thomas, F | 31 | 3-6 | 5-8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| T. Wiedeman, F | 31 | 8-13 | 1-1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 17 |
| A. Baru, F | 26 | 4-7 | 1-4 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| A. Stitt, G | 30 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| A. Lawrence, G | 29 | 5-7 | 6-6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| W. Hall | 17 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| N. Johnson | 14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| T. Johnson | 12 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| P. Branin | 2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| T. Dixon | 2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Sundberg | 2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Benton | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| H. Bowne | 1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| C. Cooke | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Hall | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 27-48 | 17-29 | 34 | 11 | 18 | 75 | |
| 56.3% | 58.6% | ||||||
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