Sophomore guard David Schneider’s three-point field goal from beyond the top of the key with 1.5 seconds to play lifted William & Mary to a 58-57 victory over Georgia State in the second opening-round game of the 2008 Aeropostale CAA Men’s Basketball Championship at the Richmond Coliseum today (Friday).

Schneider’s sixth three-pointer gave the fifth-seeded Tribe its only lead of the final 33 minutes and sends 15-15 Wm. & Mary into a 2:30 p.m. Saturday quarterfinal game against fourth-seeded Old Dominion. Georgia St. finished the season with a 9-21 record.

Schneider scored all of his team’s eight points during the final 46 seconds and finished with a game-high 20 points. He hit on seven of 12 shots, including six of eight from three-point range, and had three assists and two steals in 38 minutes. His game-winner came after Georgia St. junior guard Leonard Mendez hit on the second of two free throws with 7.9 seconds remaining for a 57-55 Panther lead.

Georgia St. shot 46.7 percent (14-30) to Wm. & Mary’s 31.8 percent (7-22) during the opening half but only 34.8 percent (8-23) during the final period when the Tribe shot 50.0 percent (10-20). Georgia State had a 37-27 rebounding advantage but committed 14 turnovers to only nine by Wm. & Mary and sent the Tribe to the foul line 29 times.

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Seventh-seeded Delaware used a balanced scoring attack with four players in double figures to defeat #10 Drexel, 60-51, in game three.

Junior guard Marc Egerson led Delaware with 15 points and nine rebounds, while senior forward Herb Courtney had 14 points and eight boards and freshman Alphonso Dawson chipped in 13. Center Jim Ledsome scored 10 points on 4-of-4 FG shooting and also blocked three shots, including a key rejection with 31 seconds left after Drexel had cut the lead to three.

Drexel (12-20) got a team-high 15 points from senior center Frank Elegar, but 13 of those came in the first half. The Dragons were hurt by 11-of-22 shooting from the free throw line.

Momentum shifted between both teams in the first half as neither squad led by more than four. Delaware (14-16) scored six of the final nine points to take a 28-25 lead into the locker room.

Delaware held a 10-point advantage midway through the second half before Drexel (12-20) used a 10-3 run, capped off by a Gerald Colds three-pointer, to cut the Blue Hens’ lead to three with just over 1:30 to go.

A pair of free throws by Egerson with 18 seconds remaining put Delaware up by five. After the Dragons missed a three-pointer, Colds was called for an intentional foul on a fast break by Ledsome, who converted the four-point opportunity, giving the Blue Hens a nine-point lead with 7.5 seconds to go.

Delaware advances to the CAA quarterfinals and will face #2 seed UNC Wilmington on Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Sixth-seeded Northeastern had five players score in double figures as the Huskies defeated #11 James Madison 73-55 in the final first round game of the 2008 Aeropostale CAA Men’s Basketball Championship at the Richmond Coliseum.

Sophomore guard Matt Janning paced Northeastern (14-16) with 13 points, while sophomore forward Manny Adako scored 12 and freshman Chaisson Allen added 11. The Huskies, who shot 52.2% from the floor and made 8-of-17 from 3-point range, also got 10 points apiece off the bench from sophomores Baptiste Bataille and Eugene Spates.

James Madison (13-17) got a team-high 15 points and six rebounds from senior forward Terrance Carter and sophomore guard Pierre Curtis contributed 12 points, four assists and three steals.

Northeastern led just 21-20 with 5:55 to go in the first half before closing the period on 17-5 run to take a 13-point lead into intermission. The Dukes battled back and rallied to within three at 49-46 on a layup by Curtis with 9:50 to play. But the Huskies got back-to-back three-pointers from Allen and Bataille to build the advantage back to nine and steadily pulled away after that.

Northeastern advances to the CAA quarterfinals for the third year in a row where it will face third-seeded George Mason on Saturday night at 8:30 p.m.

– The information above was provided by Rob Washburn, CAA Assistant Commissioner/Communications