The Emory men's basketball team received a game-high tying 23 points from senior Jake Davis and 15 points from junior Michael Florin but it wasn't  enough as the Eagles came out on the short end of a road game at Birmingham Southern on Sunday.  The Eagles saw their record slip to 1-1 following a 90-76 setback to the Panthers who raised their mark to 2-0.

BSC had the upper hand in field goal shooting, knocking down 56.3 percent (27-of-48) of its opportunities compared to the Eagles' 39.4 percent (26-of-66).  The Panthers were successful on seven-of-16 from three-point range while Emory finished with a 29.2 percent mark (7-of-24).

Davis ended the game, hitting eight-of-14 from the floor and five-of-six from the foul line in notching his 27^th career game of 20 or more points.  Florin sank six-of-15 from the field, including a pair of three pointers, while senior McPherson Moore rounded out the team's double-figure scorers with 13 points.  Sophomore Alex Foster tied for game honors with seven boards while sophomore Davis Rao and junior Josh Schattie snatched six rebounds each.

Emory trailed by a 40-37 count at halftime as the Panthers hit 53.8 percent of their field goal attempts.   Moore paced the Eagles' scoring effort in the opening stanza by scoring all of his 13 points, sinking five-of-11 from the floor. 

Emory trailed by four, 52-48, with 15:34 left in the game following a bucket by Will Trawick, but went without a field goal for nearly seven minutes, a stretch where BSC upped its lead to 13 points.  Emory began to chip away at the deficit with Davis getting the rally started with a triple that cut the gap to 10 points with 6:14 remaining.  Davis scored four straight points and helped the Eagles creep to within five points at 74-69 with 3:59 on the clock.  After the teams traded baskets, BSC's Griffin Schamp converted four straight free throws to give the home team a nine-point cushion with 1:48 left. Schamp led BSC in scoring with 23 points.  A basket by Florin with 1:05 remaining kept Emory alive but the proved to be the team's final points as BSC scored its final seven from the foul line. The Panthers sank 29-of-40 of their free throw tries while Emory was successful on 17-of-25.

Emory returns to action on Thursday (Nov. 21) when it plays at Virginia Wesleyan in a 7:00 pm start.