Emory junior Jake Davis and senior Alex Greven combined for 32 points and the Eagles turned in solid defensive effort Saturday afternoon in posting a win at Rhodes College.  Emory upped its record to 5-2 following a 70-48 over the Lynx who fell to 2-4.

Davis paced the Emory scoring attack with 17 points, and grabbed a game-high nine boards, while Greven added 15 points in the victory.  The Eagles connected on 46.0 percent (23-of-50) of their field goal attempts, including a season-high 56.3 percent (9-of-16) from three-point range, compared to Rhodes' mark of 37.3 percent (19-of-51), the third time this year that an Emory opponent shot less than 40 percent from the floor.  Emory enjoyed a 32-22 edge in rebounding and turned 16 Lynx turnovers into 20 points. 

Emory put the clamps on Rhodes in the first half, allowing the home squad just a 21.7 percent (5-of-23) showing from the floor.  The Eagles trailed by an 11-8 count with 14:52 left in the opening stanza before closing out the half on a 19-2 run that gave them a 27-13 bulge at the break.  The Lynx converted just one of  16 field goal attempts in that stretch and went scoreless over the last 9:33.  Rhodes was hampered by a dozen turnovers in the first half that the Eagles parlayed into 11 points.  

Greven scored 12 points in the second half, ending the game by sinking five-of-nine from the floor including four-of-six from beyond the arc.   After a bucket by Andrew Galow of Rhodes drew the Lynx to within 11 points with 9:14 remaining, the Eagles ran off 10 unanswered points over a two-minute stretch, capped by a three pointer by Greven, that boosted Emory's advantage to 53-32 with 7:02 on the clock.  The closest Rhodes would get from that points was 18 points while Emory led by as many as 26 points after freshman Davis Rao canned a triple.  The 48 points scored by Rhodes represented the second-lowest opponent total against an Emory-coached Zimmerman team with the lowest effort being 44 points by Chicago on Jan. 29, 2010.

Emory returns to action on Wednesday (Dec. 5) when it hosts Oglethorpe University.