{"id":238752,"date":"2026-01-15T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238752\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:22:11","slug":"furman-77-73-samford-jan-14-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238752\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman 77-73 Samford (Jan 14, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5314511\/alex-wilkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Wilkins<\/a>&#8216; 28 points helped Furman defeat Samford 77-73 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>              Wilkins was 11-of-20 shooting and added five assists for the Paladins (13-5, 4-1 Southern Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5243230\/charles-johnston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Johnston<\/a> scored nine points and added 14 rebounds before fouling out. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5314509\/cole-bowser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Bowser<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5107369\/ben-vander-wal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Vander Wal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176133\/eddrin-bronson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddrin Bronson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5314508\/abijah-franklin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abijah Franklin<\/a> all scored eight points each.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176193\/dylan-faulkner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Faulkner<\/a> led the Bulldogs (9-9, 2-3) in scoring, finishing with 19 points and 11 rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4684838\/will-shaver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Shaver<\/a> added 15 points and two blocks for Samford off the bench. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4702680\/jadin-booth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jadin Booth<\/a> finished with 12 points, five assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>              The game was tied 40-40 at the half, with the Bulldogs going on a 9-0 run and the Paladins going on a 8-1 run. The Paladins never trailed in the second half after opening on a 10-2 run. The Bulldogs got the deficit to a point with 4:33 remaining before the gap opened back up.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8212; \u2014 Alex Wilkins&#8216; 28 points helped Furman defeat Samford 77-73 on Wednesday. Wilkins was 11-of-20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-238752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}