Mercer University Athletics

MACON, GA – Mercer’s James Florence and EJ Kusnyer are enjoying successful seasons and have added some rare and distinctive accomplishments to their senior resumes.

Florence, who owns the nation’s sixth-best scoring average at 24.1 points per game, is tied for second with the longest streak for consecutive games of scoring in double figures at 30. Florence and Kevin Plamer, of Texas A&M Corpus Christi, trail Lipscomb’s Adnan Hodzic who leads the nation with 35 straight games of double-digit scoring.

Kusnyer scored a career-high 26 points against Piedmont last night, hitting 8-of-10 from three-point range and added two free throws. The Pittsburgh, Penn. native scored all 26 points without attempting a shot from two-point range which ties him with New Mexico’s Roman Martinez for most points in a game without attempting a two. Arkansas’s Rotnei Clarke scored 32 points earlier this season with one two-point attempt, a miss.

Florence began his streak last December with an 11-point effort in a 75-52 Mercer win against Loyloa-Marymount on Dec. 22, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. The Marietta, Ga. native’s last single-digit game came two days earlier, Dec. 20, 2008, against UCLA when he scored nine points in Pauley Pavilion.

During this run, Florence has scored 10-19 points 10 times, 20-21 points 13 times, 30-39 points six times and 40 or more, once. His career high of 40 points came against Georgia Tech on Nov. 27, 2009 in Atlanta, Ga.