Men’s basketball postseason ends early

Sports – The Signal Georgia State men's basketball team looks from the bench near the end of the second half .

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Georgia State men’s basketball ended the season with back-to-back losses over spring break.
The Panthers began the Sun Belt Tournament with an 86-76 victory over Louisiana. Senior forward Jeremy Hollowell led the effort for the Panthers, with a double-double that consisted of 16 points and 14 rebounds.
“As a senior, I just want to go out and do all the little things I can do to help the team win,” Hollowell said.
Freshman guard D’Marcus Simonds led the Panthers with 17 points and eight rebounds of his own in the winning effort.
“I was a little shaky at first, shaky the whole game honestly,” Simonds said of his first collegiate post regular season game. “I felt like this was a good experience for me and I’ll be better moving forward.”
There were four total technical fouls during the game, which Head Coach Ron Hunter said was in large part due to the conference rivalry developed between the two teams these last few years.
Georgia State expected to win the tournament as overwhelming favorites after the Louisiana win, with UT Arlington losing its star player and being eliminated by No. 4 Texas State in the semifinals.
Then there was heartbreak. Smiles were all over the faces of the Panthers when members of the team watched UT Arlington loss before their matchup against Troy. The Panthers lost to the eventual Sun Belt champion Trojans, 74-63 after Georgia State built a lead as large as 15 late in the first half.
“We’ve been down like this before and came back and got wins,” Troy guard Wesley Person said after the Trojans upset victory. “We just stayed together and believed in each other that we were going to make our run to get ...


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