HARRISONBURG, Va. – The Shenandoah University men's basketball team could not sustain its strong start in a 96-48 exhibition loss to Division I James Madison University Wednesday afternoon at the Convocation Center.
 
Shenandoah (0-2) jumped out to a 17-12 lead over the Dukes (2-1) in the first 7:58 of the contest only to see JMU answer.

IN BRIEF

Trailing by five following an Avery White 3-pointer, James Madison scored 10 straight points and 27 of the final 33 of the first half to take 39-23 lead into the break.
 
The Dukes kept up the pressure to start the second, opening the stanza with a 23-4 run to push their lead out to 35-points, 62-27, by the 12:29 mark.
 
Christopher Chaney, who scored the final point of the first half on a free throw before opening the second half scoring with a layup, snapped the Dukes spurt with a layup at 12:02.
 
Unfortunately, JMU answered with another run, this one 15-4 over 3:37, to increase the lead out to 44.
 
The hosts lead grew to 49 points before Chris Oates scored five of the game's final nine points on a 3-pointer and a layup in the final 90 seconds of the contest.

BY THE NUMBERS

Shooting: SU 19-of-77, 25 percent; JMU 38-of-80, 48 percent
3-point shooting: SU 5-of-31, 16 percent; JMU 12-of-17, 27 percent
Rebounding: SU 43, JMU 60
Individual Leaders:
Scoring: SU, Christopher Chaney 11. JMU, Michael Christmas 19
Rebounding: SU, Chaney 9. JMU, Christmas 15

NOTES

• Today's game is the third lifetime matchup between the two schools, but first since 1970.
• JMU leads the all-time series 3-0
• Today's game was an exhibition for SU and a game for JMU
• This is the ninth straight year at Shenandoah has played a higher division opponent

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