DELAND, Fla. (AP) - Travis Smith scored 15 points to lead five Mercer starters in double figures as the Bears beat Stetson 77-65 Saturday in each team's season finale to claim their first Atlantic Sun Conference regular-season championship since 2002-03.
Bud Thomas and Daniel Coursey scored 14 points apiece, Langston Hall added 12 and Jakob Gollon had 11 for Mercer (21-10, 14-4), which closes the season winning 9 of its last 10 games.
On top 55-50 with just over 7 minutes to play, Mercer used a 12-2 run, capped by Thomas' 3-pointer to extend its lead to 67-52 with 3:25 remaining. The Bears led by double figures the rest of the way.
Mercer shot 50 percent (27 of 54) compared to Stetson's 38.5 percent (20 of 52), and the Bears held a 17-10 advantage on turnovers.
Joel Naburgs scored 14 points to lead the Hatters (14-15, 11-7), who had their four-game winning streak snapped.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Mercer (21-10) « | 30 | 47 | 77 |
| Stetson (14-15) | 28 | 37 | 65 |
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| Mercer Bears | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Gollon, F | 28 | 4-14 | 3-4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| D. Coursey, F | 25 | 5-7 | 4-4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 |
| B. Thomas, F | 20 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| L. Hall, G | 33 | 2-4 | 8-8 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 12 |
| T. Smith, G | 31 | 6-12 | 1-1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Brown | 14 | 2-5 | 0-2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| K. Canevari | 12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Hallice | 12 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| C. Smith | 12 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| A. White Jr. | 12 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| D. Moten | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 27-54 | 17-21 | 30 | 17 | 19 | 77 | |
| 50% | 81% | ||||||
| Stetson Hatters | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| W. Green, F | 26 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| A. Pegg, C | 29 | 5-18 | 1-3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| C. Perez, G | 36 | 4-11 | 1-2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| J. Naburgs, G | 31 | 3-10 | 6-7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
| H. Miller, G | 18 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Graham | 25 | 3-6 | 4-4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| L. McInerney | 23 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| D. Diaz | 9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| T. Plemmons | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L. Solanke | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Weston | 1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-52 | 18-22 | 30 | 11 | 16 | 65 | |
| 38.5% | 81.8% | ||||||
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