Freshman Eric Marshall came off-the-bench to score a career-high 27 points, including 25 in the second half, as Wofford led throughout the game in posting an 85-76 victory over the College of Charleston tonight in Spartanburg, S.C.

Marshall more than doubled his previous career-high of 13 points set in last month's 83-76 win over Davidson. Howard Wilkerson had 10 points and a game-high 14 rebounds for his third straight double-double and sixth in the last 11 games. Greg Taylor added a career-high nine rebounds for the Terriers.

Wofford scored the game's first seven points and led by as many as 14 in the first half before taking a 33-26 lead into the locker room at the intermission.

Charleston (17-5, 9-3) opened the second half with a 13-8 spurt to close within 41-39 on a pair of Joe Weurding free-throws with 16:22 to play.

The Terriers (8-15, 4-8) answered by scoring the next seven points to build their margin back to 48-39 on a Byron Fields layup with 14:43 remaining.

The Cougars came within 68-65 on a Marcus Johnson 3-pointer with 4:14 remaining and still trailed just 72-69 after a Donte Draper layup with 2:49 left. A David Eaton bucket extended Wofford's lead to 74-69. Marshall then hit a jumper while being fouled. His free-throw to complete the 3-point play extended the Terrier advantage to 77-69 with 1:49 to play. The Cougars would get no closer than six points the remainder of the game.

"This is a tremendous win," Wofford coach Mike Young said. "We played extremely hard and did the little things necessary to beat an outstanding team.

"Eric Marshall had a great game, 25 points in the second half for a freshman. We did a great job on the glass (the Terriers outrebounded the Cougars by a 45-42 margin) which helped us get up and down the floor."

The Cougars had 23 offensive rebounds as they took 29 more shots (81-52) than the Terriers. However, Charleston was just 9-of-42 (21.4 percent) from the field in the first half while shooting 34.6 percent (28-of-81) for the game. The Cougars actually made one more field goal (28-27) than Wofford. The Terriers shot 51.9 percent on the night, their second straight effort of 50.0 percent or better.

"This was tremendously frustrating," Charleston coach Tom Herrion said. "Our inability to start a game again hurt us.

"I'm tremendously disappointed with our defense. Eric Marshall is a terrific young player and we did a poor job of defending him."

Marshall was 5-of-8 from the field in the second half, including 3-of-4 from 3-point range. He was 12-of-15 at the line with all his attempts coming over the final 20 minutes.

The 14 boards for Wilkerson represented the second-best game of his career. He had 11 rebounds in the first half, including eight boards in the opening 6:43.

Sam Daniels continued his torrid 3-point shooting for Wofford as he scored 16 points. He's averaging 18.0 points over the last three contests while going 10-of-18 (55.6 percent) behind the arc.

Mike Benton had 13 points and 13 rebounds for the Cougars. Johnson had a team-high 14 points while Draper scored 12 and Stanley Jackson added 10.

Wofford closes a three-game homestand Saturday when it hosts Furman at 7 p.m. Charleston will be home Saturday to host The Citadel at 6 p.m.