FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Chase Fieler scored 13 points and Florida Gulf Coast easily handled poor-shooting Kennesaw State in a 67-49 win Saturday in the regular-season finale for both teams.
Bernard Thompson, Christophe Varidel and DaJuan Graf each finished with 11 points for the Eagles (21-10, 13-5 Atlantic Sun Conference), who finished second in the conference standings behind Mercer. Sherwood Brown added 10 points.
Kennesaw State's Nigel Pruitt made a jumper with 18:08 left in the second half to trim the deficit to 34-28. But the Owls (3-27, 2-16) pulled no closer, as Florida Gulf Coast answered with eight straight points to claim a 42-28 advantage with 13:46 remaining.
The Eagles took their largest lead of the game at 65-47 when Brown converted on a three-point play with 2:03 left.
Delbert Love scored 18 points for Kennesaw State, which shot 25 percent (14 of 56) from the floor. Aaron Anderson had 22 rebounds.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Kennesaw State (3-27) | 24 | 25 | 49 |
| Florida Gulf Coast (21-10) « | 34 | 33 | 67 |
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| Kennesaw State Owls | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Anderson, F | 36 | 4-9 | 0-4 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| M. Cummings, F | 33 | 3-7 | 3-3 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| N. Pruitt, F | 20 | 2-10 | 0-2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| D. Love, G | 36 | 4-14 | 7-10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18 |
| M. Hamilton, G | 27 | 1-11 | 5-6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| Y. Brown | 27 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| B. Dawson | 10 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| J. Montgomery | 8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Osemhen | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| K. Drees | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 14-56 | 17-27 | 43 | 4 | 24 | 49 | |
| 25% | 63% | ||||||
| Florida Gulf Coast Eagles | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Fieler, F | 22 | 5-9 | 3-3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| E. Murray, F | 20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| S. Brown, G | 32 | 4-13 | 2-5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| B. Comer, G | 25 | 1-4 | 2-6 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| B. Thompson, G | 19 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Varidel | 21 | 2-6 | 5-6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| F. Cvjeticanin | 19 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| D. Graf | 19 | 4-5 | 3-5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| E. McKnight | 18 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| A. Blessig | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L. Livingston | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| M. Blake | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 22-50 | 19-34 | 39 | 8 | 20 | 67 | |
| 44% | 55.9% | ||||||
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