Game Story; JMU 72, George Mason 64

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2/7/2004 1:43:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

HARRISONBURG, Va. (2/7/2004) – Daniel Freeman scored a career-high 24 points, including an overtime layup that put JMU in front stay in a 72-64 victory over George Mason.

Neither team scored in overtime until Freeman hit on a driving layup at the 3:25 mark off a pass from Ray Barbosa. Freeman added another overtime field goal with 1:01 left off the rebound of a missed David Cooper shot for a 70-64 JMU lead. The play began with an inbounds pass from under JMU's basket and two seconds on the shot clock. The rebound was Freeman's team- and career-high ninth of the game.

Freeman had a career-high 11 field goals in 20 attempts and played a career-high 42 minutes.

JMU outscored George Mason 8-0 in overtime after the Patriots erased a 62-57 deficit during the last two minutes of regulation and pulled into a 64-64 tie on Terry Reynolds' layup with 0:05 left. Reynolds used a screen and drove down the right of the lane for his key field goal, and an off-balanced shot by Cooper missed at the horn.

Freeman's two baskets in the overtime sandwiched a floating shot by Chris Williams for a 68-64 JMU lead with 1:59 left. JMU's final points came on two free throws with 0:47 left by Barbosa, who finished with 14 points.

George Mason missed on all six of its shots – four from three-point range – and missed on two free throws in overtime. The Patriots also had two overtime turnovers.

George Mason shot only 35.4 percent, hitting on 23 of 65 shots, including 10 of 34 three-point tries. JMU shot better than 50 percent for the second straight game, hitting on 30 of 58 attempts (51.7 percent). George Mason had a 41-32 rebounding advantage.

JMU's Dwayne Broyles reached a milestone when he scored his eighth point of the game with 12:37 to play in the first half. He finished with 19 points in the game on eight-of-14 shooting and became the 21st player in JMU men's basketball history to score 1,000 career points.

Williams had eight points and six rebounds for JMU.

George Mason got a team-high 19 points and a game-high 12 rebounds from Jai Lewis. Reynolds finished with 15 points and a game-high seven assists. Lamar Butler had 12 points, including a three-pointer that tied the game at 62-62 with 1:01 to play in regulation. Mark Davis was in foul trouble less than four minutes into the game and finished with 11 points.

The JMU victory avenged a 74-70 loss to the Patriots Jan. 24 and marked the first time during the season that the Dukes won back-to-back games.