Monday, February 26
7:00 p.m. – Kennesaw State at Jacksonville
 
Location: Jacksonville, Fla. | Historic Swisher Gymnasium
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Preview
Kennesaw State will begin the ASUN Championship by playing Jacksonville in Historic Swisher Gymnasium on Monday, February 26 at 7 p.m.
 
The Owls split with Jacksonville in the regular season with both teams winning at home.
 
Jacksonville finished this season with the three seed after topping their cross-town rival North Florida in the regular season finale.
 
The Dolphins finished with a 14-17 record overall and an 8-6 record in the conference.
 
They are led by Jace Hogan, who averages 16.6 points per game and had the ASUN Freshman of the Year in guard JD Notae.
 
The Dolphins are led by Tony Jasick.
 
Post-Season Awards
Nick Masterson has worked extremely hard throughout his career and has been honored this past week with three post-season awards.
 
He became the first Kennesaw State men's basketball student-athlete to be named ASUN Scholar Athlete of the Year. That award came after landing on the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team for the second year in a row.
 
Then, Masterson was voted by the coaches ASUN Second Team All-Conference. It is the first all-conference award that Masterson has won in his career.
 
50-50-90
Over the past four seasons, Nick Masterson has been one of the deadliest long-range shooters in college basketball.
 
He is second all time in the ASUN making 47.6 percent of his three-point attempts over his career.
 
The past two seasons he has made over 54 percent of three-point attempts. Last season, he made 54.1 percent and has followed that up this season by making a staggering 54.7 percent of them.
 
It's not only three pointers that Masterson shoots a high percentage from. He shoots 90.4 percent from the free throw line and has only missed eight attempts all season.
 
From the field overall, he shoots 55.9 percent to complete the trio of 50-50-90. In the latest game, he was 12-16 from the floor against Lipscomb to score 30 points.
 
When you combine his shooting percentage on two-point field goals, three-point field goals and free throws, Masterson has a total shooting percentage of 70.8 percent. That is the fourth best mark in the country.
 
Second Half Comebacks
In three of the Owls wins in ASUN play, the Owls have trailed in the second half. Against UNF, KSU trailed by six with 5:49 left and went on a 12-2 run to take back the lead and seize control to get the win.
 
The other two games came against USC Upstate. In the first game, KSU trailed by as many as 13 in the second half before making a comeback to get the win on the road.
 
At home, Kennesaw State didn't let the Spartans build a lead and instead caught fire in the second half outscoring them 57-32 in the second half to get their biggest win of the season.
 
Scott Fuels the Offense
James Scott has been explosive on offense at times this season helping the Owls reach double-digit wins for the fourth straight season.
 
He is fourth in the ASUN averaging 17.0 points per game. The sophomore guard has posted two 30-point games this season and was huge scoring 27 against FGCU.
 
He has scored in double figures in 23 games and has posted nine 20-point performances.
 
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