Box Score ATLANTA-Senior Kane Williams and sophomore Jalen Thomas each scored career highs as Georgia State won for the fourth-straight time with an 85-71 win over Appalachian State on Tuesday night in the regular season home finale at the GSU Sports Arena.

Williams finished with 24 points, going 8-of-11 from the floor, including six 3-pointers which were also a career-high. Thomas scored a career-high for the third-straight game, finishing with 22 points on 10-of-15 shooting with eight rebounds.

Georgia State (12-5, 6-4 Sun Belt) won for the fourth-straight time which now sets up a showdown in Mobile, Ala., this Friday and Saturday with first-place South Alabama. If the Panthers win both games against the Jaguars, they will win the Sun Belt Conference East Division.

Appalachian State (12-10, 6-7) lost for the fifth-straight time and dropped to 1-5 all-time in the GSU Sports Arena. The Mountaineers were led by Michael Almonacy who scored 24 points, knocking down four 3-pointers.

Senior Corey Allen added 16 points while going 4-of-4 from the free throw line, helping the Panthers to a nearly perfect 10-of-11 from the charity stripe on Tuesday night. Redshirt-junior Eliel Nsoseme just missed another double-double with eight points and eight assists.

On a 3-pointer by Roberts just over two minutes into the game, Georgia State took a 7-5 lead and would never trail again.

The Panthers pushed the lead to eight, 17-9, after Williams knocked down a 3-pointer in the corner and was fouled, making the free throw.

Appalachian State cut Georgia State's lead to one, but back-to-back 3-pointers by Allen gave GSU a 27-23 lead with 8:45 to play. It was the start of a stretch holding the Mountaineers without a field goal for more than eight minutes. During that time, the Panthers used a 10-0 run to take a 34-23 lead with just over five minutes to play.

Georgia State went into the locker room with a 41-31 lead, forcing the Mountaineers into eight first half turnovers which led to 11 GSU points.

A 3-pointer by Williams capped a 7-0 run early in the second half to give Georgia State a 50-39 lead with 16:43 to play. After another 3-pointer by Williams with 10:51 remaining, the Panthers took a 60-45 lead, their biggest of the game until the final three minutes.

The Mountaineers responded with a 7-0 run to cut Georgia State's lead to 60-52 with 9:11 to play, but Allen responded with another 3-pointer to halt the run.

One more 7-0 run by the Panthers, capped by an Evan Johnson 3-pointer gave the Panthers a 73-58 lead with just over four minutes remaining in the game.

Game Highlights
• Georgia State, the most successful team in the Sun Belt since returning to the league for the 2013-14 season, now has 95 league wins during that time.
• With 24 points, senior Kane Williams moved ahead of Jeff Thomas and into 15^th place on Georgia State's all-time scoring list with 1,169 career points. He is now just seven points shy of Shellord Pinkett for 14^th on the list.
• With two steals tonight, Kane Williams moved into a tie for fifth with Zavian Smith with 157 career steals.
• Georgia State improved to 8-7 all-time against Appalachian State.
• Since returning to the Sun Belt in 2013-14, Georgia State has finished in the top two of the final regular season conference standings five times in seven seasons.
• During that same time, GSU has won more games (164) than any other NCAA Division I team in Georgia.
 
Georgia State close out the regular season with a pair of games at South Alabama this Friday (9 p.m./ESPN2) and Saturday (7 p.m./ESPN+). Both games will also air live on WRAS-FM 88.5.