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JACKSONVILLE - The Jacksonville State men's basketball team will say farewell to its four senior members on Saturday, when the Gamecocks host Belmont at 4:30 p.m. in the 2013-14 season finale at Pete Mathews Coliseum.
The Gamecocks wrap up the 2013-14 season against the first-place Bruins on Senior Day for four members of the JSU basketball program. Guards
Brian Williams,
Giovanni Smith and
Rod McReynolds and forward
Nick Cook will all play their final game in a Gamecock uniform this afternoon.
Williams and Cook are both four-year players that have played in more games than any other duo in the program's Division I history. Williams enters the season finale with 118 games played and 92 starts, both JSU Division I records.
Cook's 116 games are the second-most by a player in the school's 19 years as a Division I program.
The two also have their names in the record books. Williams has scored 1,252 points, the second-most in JSU's Division I history and 14th all-time, while his 366 assists are tied for third on the JSU Division I list and are tied for 8th overall. He is one of just three players in school history (Robert Lee Sanders and Melvin Allen) to score 1,200 points and dish 350 assists in a career.
Cook has blocked 132 shots in his career, the second highest total in JSU's Division I history. He also blocked 48 shots in a season twice, tying himself for second on the Division I single-season list. His 507 rebounds are fourth-most on the Division I list, while he has dished over 100 assists from the post.
Smith is junior college transfer that has seen time in the starting lineup as a senior, and been a 3-point threat off of
the bench. He is shooting 46 percent from 3-point range on the year, including a career-high 14 points on four 3-pointers earlier this season against Fort Valley State.
McReynolds is a walk-on that has been at JSU since 2009. He has played in 13 games in his career, but has been regarded as one of the hardest workers in the program. A player that gives 100 percent on every play in every practice, he has doubled his career scoring totals this season alone.
The Gamecocks will have to play a red-hot Belmont team that has won five in a row and 14 of its last 16 games, including a 94-75 win at SIU-Edwardsville on Wednesday. A win over the Gamecocks would clinch their second OVC regular-season crown in as many years in the league and guarantee them the No. 1 seed and a bye into the semifinals in next week's OVC Championship in Nashville.