{"id":7849,"date":"2018-11-16T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/26\/lyons-ncaa-record-15-3-pointers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:47:06","slug":"lyons-ncaa-record-15-3-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/lyons-ncaa-record-15-3-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyons ties NCAA record with 15 3-pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week, the Furman men&#8217;s basketball team finds itself in the national sports news\u2014this time compliments of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/2018-19\/bios\/lyons_jordan_10t7?view=bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan Lyons &#8217;20<\/a> tying the NCAA Division I record with 15 3-pointers Thursday at Timmons Arena in a 107-67 win over North Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>Lyons, a 5-11 guard from Peachtree City, Georgia, had 31 points and nine 3s at halftime and finished with 54 points, the most scored by an NCAA Division I player since 2009 and the most by a Paladin since Darrell Floyd &#8217;56 dropped 62 on The Citadel in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN compiled all 15 of Lyons&#8217; treys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/video\/clip?fbclid=IwAR3qZ5GVHizgJqVGrA4KtonK4JMA7Dd6o5bx3TIsksNgpNEIGTNJQUdMufQ&amp;id=25289272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in this video clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 9, a dramatic dunk by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/2018-19\/bios\/mounce_clay_tgzl?view=bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clay Mounce &#8217;21<\/a> was No. 2 on SportsCenter&#8217;s Top 10 plays. The 6-7 forward from Mount Airy, North Carolina, powered home the winning points over a defender with 1.6 seconds left to propel Furman to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/2018-19\/releases\/20181109za7hou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60-58 upset<\/a> of Loyola-Chicago, which advanced to the Final Four in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2MWEpwJ-Q40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Mounce&#8217;s dunk here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Paladins are off to a 4-0 start for the first time since 1987-88 and will face another Final Four team Saturday when they travel to Philadelphia to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/2018-19\/releases\/20181116ey2ufw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take on defending national champion and eighth-ranked Villanova<\/a>. Tip-off is 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Lyons&#8217; record-breaking night and Furman basketball <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/2018-19\/releases\/20181115xfu8wx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at FurmanPaladins.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week, the Furman men&#8217;s basketball team finds itself in the national sports news\u2014this time compliments of Jordan Lyons &#8217;20 tying the NCAA Division I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}