Conway, S.C.- Freshman Jeremy Lorenz scored a career high 22 points and junior Dillon Bailey added a season high 21 points as Wofford men's basketball downed the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 88-80.

The Terriers led nearly wire to wire in the victory, save for a 1:50 stretch from 19:44-18:13 and 17:39-17:20 in the second half in which the Chanticleers pulled ahead by as many three. However, after taking that three-point lead Wofford rattled off a quick 8-2 run to take the lead for good. A lead that would swell as high as 15 after Wofford used a 13-7 run in between the under-eight and under-four media timeouts to effectively slam the door shut on any Chanticleer comeback hopes.

Sophomore Chase Cormier was at his most active during the run- scoring all nine of his points in a 3:15 span on 3-for-5 perimeter shooting. The Northeastern transfer's second half performance was only outdone by Junior Jackson Sivills and Jeremy Lorenz. Sivills, in addition to also shooting 3-for-5 from deep, added two free throws to finish his second half with 11 points, two rebounds and four assists. Meanwhile Lorenz led all scorers with 12 points in the second half, shooting an efficient 5-for-9 in just over 12 minutes played.

Something the three of them had in common is that all of them were on the receiving end of a Corey Tripp assist. The junior guard dished out six of his seven assists in the closing half and posted his second consecutive game with seven assists and no turnovers.

Wofford men's basketball will return to Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium for a one game pit stop on Sunday, December 17, to face Kentucky Christian before flying out to Stillwater, Oklahoma to face former Wofford associate head coach Mike Boynton's Oklahoma State Cowboys on Wednesday, December 20.

Other Notes of Interest

• Wofford's 28 team assists is a program best against a division-one opponent since at least the 2001-02 season and are the most total assists since dishing out 34 against Virginia Wise on December 6, 2016.
• Sivills and sophomore Chase Martin both dished out a new career high five assists.
• Coastal Carolina season leading rebounder Ginika Ojiako was outrebounded for just the third time this season when junior Kyler Filewich pulled down 11 rebounds to Ojiako's 10.
• Filewich became the first Terrier to pull-down double-digit rebounds in three consecutive games since Lee Skinner did so in four straight games from 1/09/14-1/20/14.
• Dillon Bailey scored 15 points in the first half- the first time he's scored double figures in the first half of a game this season.
• Bailey in the three games after the Northern Classic is averaging 19.7 points per game on 50% shooting.
• Jackson Sivills over the current winning streak is 9-for-17 from beyond the arc.
• 17 three-pointers are the most since draining 19 threes against North Greenville in 2019 and the most against a division-one opponent since hitting 20 threes against The Citadel on Feb. 2, 2019.