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Bears breeze past Rangers in offensive masterclass

| By: by Cody Junkin
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Box Score Southwest Mississippi Men's Basketball played the Northwest Rangers on Monday, February 16th at home in an incredible 125-92 Bear win.

The Bears knew they would have their plate full against a Northwest team averaging 99 points per game on the season.

The first few minutes of the game were back and forth until Southwest began to pull away.

A Chidi Nwosu three pointer followed by a Leano Rolle slam began to build the momentum for the Bears giving them an early 11-2 lead.

The Bears offense could not be stopped as they reached a 30-17 lead over the Rangers with 10:00 left in the first half.

With 2:08 left in the first half, 5 different Bears had made three pointers with 7 total first half threes made.

Four straight buckets from Brian Foxworth and Courterius Scott closed out a dominant first half for Southwest who held a 59-40 lead at the half.

The Bears offense showed no signs of slowing down in the second half with an easy Cy Merrett bucket opening up the half followed by a long three from Courterius Scott.

Leano Rolle, Courterius Scott, and Brian Foxworth continued to lead the offense with four back to back three pointers to give the Bears an 83-57 lead with 14:13 left in the game.

Keeping the foot on the gas, the Bears eclipsed 100 points on a Robert Flantroy II slam.

Jon Jackson and Jay Kennedy finished out the scoring for Southwest combining for the teams final 12 points.

A Kennedy lob ended in a Jon Jackson slam to put the Bears at 119 points.

Back to back Jay Kennedy three pointers closed out the scoring for the evening putting the Bears at an impressive 125 points in the contest.

The powerful offensive display led to a dominant 125-92 Southwest home win.

The Bears had six players score double digit points in the contest.

Courterius Scott and Leano Rolle topped the scoring column with 24 and 23 points.

Brian Foxworth had 17 points, his most of the season for the Bears.

Cy Merrett was just behind him with 16 points. Chidi Nwosu contributed 14 points to the total, and Robert Flantroy II had 12 points of his own.

The team shot 65% from beyond the arc combining for 15 made three pointers as a team.

Leano Rolle had 4 made three pointers while Courterius Scott and Jay Kennedy each had 3 made three pointers.

The Bears also went 17-23 at the free throw line.

"Complete execution of a game plan. We really understood what the game was going to be and what we needed to do to attack them, take them away. They had 92 points, that's below their season average," said Head Coach Corey Schmidt, "I mean they scored 92 points, but I think we guarded them really well. Just complete execution of a game plan. Very proud of our guys for that."

The Bears (13-13, 7-3*conference) look to keep the momentum going on the road as they take on Co-Lin on Thursday, February 19th.
 
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