Men's Basketball Set for Rematch with Coastal Carolina Thursday

ATLANTA-Looking to avenge a loss from last month, the Georgia State men's basketball team will start a two-game Carolinas road trip at Coastal Carolina on Thursday night at 7 p.m., at the HTC Center.

Georgia State (9-10, 3-5 Sun Belt) has won three of its last four games and will now look to split the season series with Coastal Carolina (12-9, 4-5 Sun Belt) following a 72-68 overtime loss to the Chanticleers in Atlanta last month.

Since returning from injury, senior Eliel Nsoseme has been heating up while averaging 9.8 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. He has recorded a pair of double-doubles in his first seven starts back and garnered double figure rebound totals in five of his last six games, including a double-double of 19 points and 15 rebounds in the first match-up with Coastal.

Senior Corey Allen leads the Panthers averaging 14.6 points and 3.7 rebounds per game with a team-high 43 3-pointers. He enters play on Thursday just five points shy of 1,000 for his career in a Panther uniform. The All-Sun Belt Preseason First Team member is also third on the team in steals and second on the team in assists.

Senior Kane Williams, who moved into fifth place on Georgia State's all-time scoring list last month, is now the all-time wins leader, free throws made, and free throws attempted leader in program history. He is averaging 12.0 points and 4.0 rebounds per game while shooting 80.2 percent from the free throw line after going 11-of-11 last Saturday as a part of a 17-point performance.

Senior Justin Roberts, who scored a team-high 17 points against Troy on Thursday, is adding 12.0 points per game and shooting 76.6 percent from the free throw line. Along with Williams and Allen, he is one of three Panthers in the starting line-up with at least 1,000 points for his career.

Roberts and Allen are both now within 170 points of becoming the 24^th and 25^th 1,000-point career scorers in GSU program history. Both started their careers at other schools before transferring to GSU.

Broadcast Information

Radio: GSU Mobile App; PbP: Dave Cohen
Television: ESPN+; PbP: Jeff McCarragher, Color: Nate Ross

Game Notes
• Georgia State and Coastal Carolina will be meeting for the second time this season and the 13th time overall.
• Coastal took the first games 72-68 in overtime after a Ja'Heim Hudson 3-pointer as time expired in regulation was just off the mark.
• GSU has won 101 regular season Sun Belt games since the start of the 2013-14 season, the most in the league, while finishing in the top two of the final regular season conference standings six times.
• Georgia State has a 38-25 (.603) record in the month of February since the start of the 2013-14 season.
• Head coach Rob Lanier earned his 100th career win on Jan. 27, at Louisiana.
• Three of Georgia State's Top 29 scorers all-time are currently on the team. Kane Williams is 5th with 1,455 points, Corey Allen is No. 24 with 995 points, and Justin Roberts is No. 29 with 930 career points. Allen could become the 24th Panther to score 1,000 career points tonight.
• Corey Allen has 1,846 career points scored (two years at Detroit) which is among the top 30 career active scorers in the country.
• With the win on Dec. 6, senior Williams became the all-time wins leader in GSU program history moving ahead of Ryann Green and Chris Clerkley. He now has been a part of 92 wins in four-plus seasons.
• Williams has now moved into the top 20 in Sun Belt Conference history with 455 assists.
• Kane Williams broke Terrence Brandon's school record of 531 career free throw attempts last year and now has 630. He broke R.J. Hunter's school record of 448 made free throws on Jan. 20 and now has 476 made free throws attempts.
• Jalen Thomas is now No. 9 on GSU's all-time blocked shots list with 95, more than halfway to Zavian Smith's school record of 182.
• Allen has moved into 8th place on GSU's career 3-pointers list with 176.
• The Panthers tied a school-record with 21 steals in the win over Brewton-Parker on opening night. Georgia State also allowed just 10 first half points, a school record and tied for the fewest in the NCAA this year.
• Georgia State is ranked 10th in the country is turnovers forced (17.74) and sixth in turnover margin at +5.6. The Panthers also rank No. 11 with 9.5 steals per game, which is first in the Sun Belt Conference. Leading the Panthers is Nelson Phillips who is ranked No. 72 in the NCAA averaging 1.82 steals per game.
• The Panthers rank No. 22 in the nation in fewest turnovers (231) and 20th in fewest fouls (306).
• Freshman Ja'Heim Hudson is ranked No. 94 in the country averaging 2.65 offensive rebounds per contest, which is helping GSU to 13.53 offensive rebounds per game which is ranked 10th in the country.
• Georgia State has won 56-straight games dating back to 1999 when scoring 90 or more points.
• Georgia State is under the leadership of third-year head coach Rob Lanier. His first two-season .648 winning percentage (35-19 record) is the best of any GSU head coach in their first two years leading the program.
• Since 2013-14, GSU has won more games (178) than any other NCAA Division I team in Georgia.

Following the game on Saturday, Georgia State will remain on the road and head up the mountain to Appalachian State for a game set for Saturday at 4 p.m. The game will air live on ESPN+ and can be heard on the GSU Mobile App.

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