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Old Dominion Advances To CAA Semifinals With Dominant Performance Against Towson

Old Dominion Advances To CAA Semifinals With Dominant Performance Against TowsonOld Dominion Advances To CAA Semifinals With Dominant Performance Against Towson

March 6, 2010

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RICHMOND, Va. - Senior Gerald Lee tallied a game-high 17 points to lead Old Dominion to an 86-56 victory in the quarterfinals of the 2010 Virginia 529 College Savings Plan CAA Men's Basketball Championships Saturday afternoon. The 30-point margin of victory is the largest ever for ODU in a CAA Tournament game.

Old Dominion (24-8), the 2009-10 CAA regular season champion, advances to the semifinals for the second consecutive year and for the third time in the last four seasons.

The Monarchs had four players in double-figures and all 11 players scored. Junior Keyon Carter joined Lee in double-digits with 16 points and he grabbed nine rebounds.

Classmate Frank Hassell posted his third double-double of the season with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Senior Marsharee Neely also scored 11.

Old Dominion's tournament-record 60 rebounds gave them a tournament-record rebound margin of 34. Sophomore Kent Bazemore pulled down nine boards and freshman Nick Wright led the team with five offensive rebounds.

ODU had a 41-0 advantage in bench scoring and a 44-20 edge in points in the paint.

The nation's fifth ranked scoring defense held Towson (10-21) to a 32.2 percent shooting clip. Josh Thornton led the Tigers with a game-high 18 points on 5-of-18 shooting.

Towson took an early lead in the game, going up 7-4 on a Robert Nwankwo slam. The Monarchs immediately responded though, rattling off the next seven points to go up 11-7 at the 14:40 mark.

After a Josh Thornton triple pulled the Tigers to within a point, the Monarchs went on a 6-0 run. ODU continued to pull away in the opening half as eight different players scored, led by eight each from Lee and Hassell.

A 12-1 spurt to close the half sent the Monarchs into the intermission with a 39-21 advantage.

Old Dominion came out of halftime hot as well, making its first seven shots from the field. A Marquel DeLancey driving lay-up would put the Monarchs up 59-31 with 14:43 remaining. ODU would lead by as many as 37 in the second half.

The Monarchs will take on the winner of the George Mason/Virginia Commonwealth game which was set to tip at 2:30 p.m. The first 200 ODU students are admitted free at the Fifth Street entrance of the Richmond Coliseum.

Old Dominion split matchups with both the Patriots and Rams this season.

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