Final Score: James Madison 87, College of Charleston 53
Location: Charleston, S.C. (TD Arena)
Records: CofC (9-8, 2-4 CAA) JMU (13-3, 4-1 CAA)
The Short Story: The College couldn't overcome JMU's fast start as the Cougars fall to the preseason favorites to move to 9-8 on the season and 2-4 in CAA play.
 
QUICK FACTS

• Sophomores Madison Taylor and Latrice Perkins led the Cougars in scoring with 14 points apiece.
• Sophomore Tyler Collins poured in 13 points and grabbed six rebounds.  
• Sophomore Arynn Eady snagged a game high 14 rebounds while scoring seven points as well.
• Each team turned the ball over 13 times in the ball game.
• CofC shot just 29.2% from the from the field and 11.8% from deep compared to JMU's 44.4% from the field and 40% from beyond the arc.
• The College shot its best percentage from the free-throw line this season with 76.5%
  (13-17).

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Cougars won the toss and got on the board first with a made free throw, before the Dukes went on an 11-0 run.
• JMU went on a 9-2 run to start the second quarter and led by as much as 22 points.
• Consecutive triples from Collins and Taylor brought us within 14 points at the 4:09 mark of the second.
• Perkins opened up the scoring for the Cougars with back-to-back buckets which cut the Dukes' lead to 13.
• JMU went on a 12-0 run over a two-and-a-half-minute span and took its largest lead of the day (25 pts) up to that point.
• The Dukes didn't allow CofC to bring the score within 24 points throughout the entire fourth quarter and led by as much of 34 points.

 
HEAD COACH ROBIN HARMONY
"We saw our measuring stick with JMU. They're a great team. They have size, they have strength, they have depth and they're a great shooting team. The thing I like about it is that our kids didn't quit, they still played hard. What we tried to work on today was not giving up defensive transition layups. We adjusted that but they just had open threes and shot the lights out. We didn't get a lot of production out of a couple of our kids, so we felt like it was a four on five or a three on five at times that we played on offense. But our kids are getting better and that's what we have to do, continue to improve and get better. We have almost a whole entire week to get ready for UNCW and we have to get a win at home."
 
WHAT'S NEXT
The Cougars look to bounce back from a four-game losing skid as they play host to UNCW on Sunday, Jan 26 at 1 p.m.