Southern Miss leaves Marshall behind with a 91-76 win (Feb 02, 2017)

By AP
Published

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) Quinton Campbell scored 24 points and Cortez Edwards had 16 points and Southern Mississippi ran away from Marshall in the last eight minutes for 91-76 win Thursday night.

John Elmore made 1 of 2 free throws for Marshall with 8:16 to play to bring the Thundering Herd within 66-65. Southern Miss (7-15, 4-6 Conference USA) then outscored Marshall 25-11 to close the game.

Marshall led 44-37 at half and was up 58-49 with 14:01 to play, but back-to-back scores by Michael Ramey and Bilal Adbur-Rahim triggered a 16-6 Golden Eagles run. Edwards' dunk with 9:03 remaining gave the Golden Eagles the lead (65-64) for good.

D'Angelo Richardson added 11 points and Abdur-Rahim 10 points for Southern Miss.

The Golden Eagles shot 17 for 28 from the field in the second half and had a 42-35 rebounding advantage for the game.

Elmore led Marshall (13-10, 6-4) with 21 points, Stevie Browning had 18 points, and Ryan Taylor had 11 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out.