The Piedmont College men's basketball team put together its worst shooting performance of the season tonight as the Lions dropped a 71-55 non-conference road game at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC. Piedmont was 2-22 (9%) from behind the three-point line and committed 17 turnovers as the team falls to 7-8 overall on the season after producing the lowest point total of the season.

Piedmont started the game slowly connecting on just 31% of its first-half shots including 0-11 from three-point land as the Lions trailed 33-23 at intermission. Piedmont would show some spark to open the second half and cut the Monarchs' lead to five, but MU responded with an 11-2 run over the next five minutes to jump ahead by fourteen and keep PC at bay for the remainder of the contest.

Jake Baldwin led all scorers with a game-high 17 points to go along with a season-best 18 rebounds. Teammates Jake Green and Tyler Whitlock added 16 and 11 points respectively with Green dishing out a game-high nine assists.

Methodist placed five players in double-figures as Adrian Bascom (15 points and 10 rebounds) and Antwin Shuford (13 points and 11 rebounds) each recorded double-doubles.

With the loss the Lions and Monarchs split the season series with both team winning on their respective home court.

Piedmont will return to action on Thursday, January 18th with a non-conference home game versus Atlanta Christian College with tip off set for 7:00 in PC's Cave Arena.