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2011-12 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON MEN’S BASKETBALLGEORGE MASON RECAPGeorge Mason 84, CofC 76• For the 13th-straight game, CofC went with the starting five of junior Andrew Lawrence, sophomore Jordan Scott, senior Antwaine Wiggins, sophomore TrentWiedeman and freshman Adjehi Baru (10-3).• With the loss, George Mason claimed its first-ever victory in the all-time series with College of Charleston (1-3).• The Patriots halted the Cougars’ 15-game home-court win streak which was tied for the 11th-longest in the nation. They are only the seventh opponent to leave TDArena with a victory since the venue first opened in 2008.• It marked the first-ever career meeting between CofC Head Coach Bobby Cremins and George Mason Head Coach Paul Hewitt after both formerly led Georgia Techfrom 1980-2000 and 2001-2011 respectively.• CofC went 10-3 in non-conference play (excluding its ESPN BracketBusters game in February and postseason play) which is the second-best out of conference markprior to the New Year in the Bobby Cremins Era.• Antwaine Wiggins continues on his career-best nine-game double-digit scoring streak with a team-high 19 points against George Mason. He was one of five CofCplayers in double figures.• The Cougars trailed at halftime for only the fourth time this season. It was their largest halftime deficit (-8) this year against an opponent and are now 2-2 when notleading at the half.• Adjehi Baru scored in double figures for the third time of his career with 12 points, seven rebounds and a career-high three assists.• George Mason’s Ryan Pearson scored a game-high 35 points which was the third-highest scoring game in TD Arena history. It was third-best performance in the venue(aside from the home-hosted ESPN Charleston Classic) behind 39 points registered by CofC great Andrew Goudelock vs. Dayton in the NIT First Round on March 15,2011 and 36 points by Wofford’s Noah Dahlman vs. CofC on Feb. 26, 2009.• CofC was called for 20 fouls in the ballgame with Wiggins fouling out for the first time of his career.• Nine of CofC’s 13 games this season have now been decided by 10 points or less including the loss to George Mason (-8).• The Patriots scored 25 of its 84 total points off of just 13 CofC turnovers which was the second-most by an opponent this season next to 28 points off 19 miscuesagainst Charleston Southern on Dec. 17.FOUNTAIN OF YOUTHCofC has been successful with a plethora of youth this season returning just eight letterwinners who accounted for only 31 percent of the team’s scoring and 45 percentof the team’s rebounding in 2010-11. However, three of the team’s current starters played at least 24 minutes or more in each game a year ago including top returningrebounder Trent Wiedeman who was named to the preseason All-Southern Conference Team along with Antwaine Wiggins.COUGAR SOUND BITES“We are coming off a disappointing home loss, but again, I give George Mason a lot of credit. We played so well and were playing at home with a great crowd duringthe holidays. It was disappointing we didn’t play better. The good thing is, it was out of conference, and now, we go back into conference play. I can’t say enough goodthings about Wofford. They have been one of the best teams in the Southern Conference winning the tournament championship the last two years. (Wofford Head Coach)Mike Young does a fantastic job. They kind of dethroned Davidson (as the SoCon leader) and now Davidson is coming back. We would like to be in the mix. Winning thetournament two years in a row is a wonderful thing and everyone says, ‘they lost a lot of players?’ I don’t think Mike Young was sitting around and doing nothing for the lasttwo years. He knew he was losing those players and he went out and got some very good players. Thank God Noah Dahlman isn’t there. I’m sure they are saying the samething about Drew Goudelock. We have had great games with Wofford. They are tough to defend. We have to bounce back.” – CofC Head Coach Bobby Cremins on travelingto Wofford and trying to rebound from the George Mason loss“We are trying to compete for a conference championship in the SoCon. We have to be more serious and more focused and get better as a team. We have to be ready to playdefense in clutch situations and not let our opponent get easy baskets like we did against George Mason. We know it will be a tough road trip. Their fans will be really loud.We just have to stay focused and not let it affect us. I know they will be hyped to play us, but we are ready to play them, too, after they beat us in the championship gamelast year.” – CofC Senior Forward Antwaine Wiggins on restarting up conference play at Wofford“We have been working on our defensive rotations and have been competing hard in practice. We are excited for this road trip and to go there and play. We feel like we owethem, since they got us last year (in the SoCon championship game). They are a really good team this year, despite losing a lot of last year’s starters. They are coming off agreat win at Wake Forest and are 1-1 in conference. It’s going to be a tough game, but every game is a tough one in our conference. We just have to stay focused, work hardand play hard.” – CofC Junior Point Guard Andrew Lawrence on traveling to WoffordCOUGAR BASKETBALL WEEKLY SCHEDULE1 2 3 45 67Practice @11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.Practice @4:00-6:00 p.m.Practice @4:00-6:00 p.m.Practice @WoffordGAME DAYat Wofford@ 8:00 p.m. (ET)Benjamin Johnson Arenaat Spartanburg, S.C.[MyTV/ESPN3]Practice @FurmanGAME DAYat Furman@ 2:30 p.m. (ET)Timmons Arenaat Greenville, S.C.[Comcast/CSS]