MACON, Ga. (AP) - Travis Smith tallied 21 points and Langston Hall scored seven of his 17 points in overtime of Mercer's 77-70 win over Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday night in Atlantic Sun Conference play.
Jakob Gollon added 12 points for Mercer, including 3-pointers to open the first half and overtime.
Mercer (9-6) led 62-57 with just 1:28 remaining, but Chase Fieler made two free throws and Filip Cvjeticanin sank a 3-pointer with 26 seconds showing to send the game into overtime.
After Gollon's 3 opened overtime scoring, Daniel Coursey scored five straight points for Mercer to put the Bears up 70-66 with 1:40 left in the extra period. Florida Gulf Coast cut it to two, 70-68, but Hall converted seven free throws over the final minute to pull away.
Fieler led the Eagles (9-6) with 17 and Bernard Thompson, whose layup at the buzzer created the final margin, had 16.
| Scoreboard | ||||
| Final | 1 | 2 | OT | T |
| Florida Gulf Coast (9-6) | 30 | 32 | 8 | 70 |
| Mercer (9-6) « | 28 | 34 | 15 | 77 |
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| Florida Gulf Coast Eagles | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Fieler, F | 37 | 5-12 | 7-8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 |
| E. McKnight, F | 21 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| B. Thompson, G | 39 | 7-13 | 1-1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| S. Brown, G | 36 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 |
| B. Comer, G | 35 | 0-6 | 2-2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| F. Cvjeticanin | 23 | 5-12 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| C. Varidel | 20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| E. Murray | 10 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| D. Graf | 4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-61 | 11-15 | 38 | 11 | 16 | 70 | |
| 41% | 73.3% | ||||||
| Mercer Bears | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Gollon, F | 36 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| B. Thomas, F | 34 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| D. Coursey, F | 32 | 4-12 | 1-1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| T. Smith, G | 41 | 7-14 | 4-4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 |
| L. Hall, G | 39 | 4-10 | 7-8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Brown | 10 | 0-2 | 3-4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| T. Hallice | 9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| K. Canevari | 6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| A. White Jr. | 6 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| J. Bryan | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Smith | 4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Moten | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-63 | 16-18 | 33 | 14 | 15 | 77 | |
| 39.7% | 88.9% | ||||||
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