Mercer University NCAA News

When you annually sneak up on big-time teams and upset them, the surprise factor starts to wear away.

If you told any PC fan before the weekend started that the Friars would be 3-0, they would have taken it in a heartbeat - even if it included a panic-attack inducing closing 5 minutes of the final game to win out the World Vision Invitational by edging Mercer 79-77.A It wasn't easy, but 3-0 sounds pretty good to me.A Three games in three days is ...

It was a blowout from the beginning. The Bears took the tipoff to start the game and then proceeded to mount a 16-2 lead before the five-minute mark over the Nashville-based NAIA Fisk University.

E.J. Kusnyer and Daniel Emerson scored 14 points each and Mercer broke the University Center scoring record Wednesday night while hammering an outmatched Fisk squad 110-45. James Florence, the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Week, and Ridas Pulkauninkas added 13 points apiece for the Bears , who broke the mark they set in a 105-101 win over ...

Mike Muscala scored 12 points and Bryan Cohen added 11 to lead Bucknell past Bryant 59-56 on Sunday.

James Florence and Sharaud Curry are old friends. On Sunday, they'll finally get a chance to meet up with each other as foes.

Marshon Brooks scored 26 points and Jamine Peterson added 22 rebounds, the most for a Providence player since 2000, as the Friars sneaked past Mercer 79-77 on Sunday.

E.J. Kusnyer scored 22 points and Daniel Emerson added 16 points and eight rebounds as Mercer rolled over Bryant 80-56 on Saturday.

James Florence scored 33 points to lead Mercer past Bucknell on Friday night, 89-80. Daniel Emerson had a double-double with 13 points and 13 rebounds for the Bears , who pulled away in the final minutes of a game that had 10 second-half lead changes.

With professional sports all but removed from Macon, the Mercer Bears are starting to fill the void for a city in need of a sports team.

For all of today's sports news, click here. Now, they laugh, with and at each other.

Call it the wake-up from hibernation or whatever you want, but the men's basketball team's exhibition win over Georgia College and State wasn't that impressive.

For all of today's sports news, click here. As usual, Georgia College & State made life miserable for Mercer.

A pair of local squads provided an unofficial tip-off to the college hoops season.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: There are six freshmen on the roster, including perhaps James Florence's successor in 5-11 Tevin Swann, a lightning-quick point guard from the same Hampton , Va.

Playing at home doesn't always assure a team of winning a conference tournament title, but it doesn't hurt one's chances.

The Mercer Bears put together one of their best seasons in recent decades a year ago.

Today, we continue our conference countdown. We're working backward, from our No.

Roddy White did everything right at San Francisco last week -- except stick his landing.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. After a three-day weekend, the Bears return to the practice field today at Halas Hall to begin preparing for Sunday night's game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome.