GEORGIA STATE (13-14, 7-8) vs. TEXAS STATE (11-17, 4-11)
Saturday, Feb. 24 | 2 p.m. | GSU Convocation Center

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THE TIPOFF: Coming off a last-second win over Coastal Carolina on Toneari Lane's buzzer-beating 3-pointer, Georgia State hosts Texas State Saturday at 2 p.m. at the GSU Convocation Center. The game is a doubleheader with the GSU women, who host Old Dominion at 5 p.m.

> Georgia State has won four of its last five games.

> The Panthers have won back-to-back games over Old Dominion and Coastal Carolina despite trailing by seven points in the last eight minutes of both games.

> Toneari Lane's 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left gave Georgia State a 72-71 win over Coastal Carolina Thursday at the GSU Convocation Center. Dwon Odom hit the tying 3-pointer with 31 seconds left and then fed Lane for the game-winner. The Panthers trailed 67-61 with 1:30 left. Lane led GSU with 16 points, including three 3-pointers in the final five minutes. Odom had 14 points, five rebounds, seven assists and two steals, and Jay'Den Turner contributed eight points, eight rebounds and five steals.

> Last Saturday at Old Dominion, Georgia State scored the final seven points of the game to rally for the 68-65 win. Julian Mackey came off the bench to score a game-high 16 points, none bigger than his 3-pointer that gave the Panthers a 66-65 lead with 1:23 to play. Georgia State scored the game's last seven points and held ODU scoreless for the final 4:41. Jay'Den Turner sealed the win as he stole an inbounds pass under the ODU basket with four seconds left and then sank two clinching free throws.

> Mackey's 16-point game vs. Old Dominion followed a career-high 18 points one game earlier at James Madison.

> Senior post player Leslie Nkereuwem is just three points away from 1,000 for his career. He would become the current Panther to hit the milestone, along with Brenden Tucker, Jay'Den Turner and Dwon Odom.

> Georgia State is No. 8 in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage defense, holding opponents to 28.5 percent from beyond the arc.

> Dwon Odom scored a career-high 30 points Jan. 27 at Coastal Carolina for the first 30-point game by a Panthers since 2019. That followed a 21-point effort at Marshall.

> Odom, the Preseason All-Sun Belt guard and GSU's top returning scorer, is averaging 11.8 points, 5.0 rebounds (second on team) and 4.4 assists per game. He is third in the Sun Belt in assists and second assist-to-turnover ratio at +2.7. The 6-2 guard also leads the team with 16 blocked shots.

> Odom is the only Sun Belt player who is averaging at least four assists AND five rebounds per game. He has three double-figure rebounding games, and he approached a triple-double vs. Old Dominion with 14 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists.

> Lucas Taylor is the Panthers' leading scorer at 13.9 points per game, which ranks 11th in the Sun Belt. Taylor scored a career-high 28 points against Georgia Southern. In his second game in a GSU uniform, the Wake Forest transfer scored 27 points in the 77-70 win at Western Michigan, and he added 22 points in the win at South Alabama and 22 vs. Troy.

> Toneari Lane leads the Sun Belt in 3-point percentage (.333) and 3-pointers per game (2.8). His 76 3-pointers are the 10th-highest season total in GSU history.

> Jay'Den Turner leads the Panthers and ranks No. 4 in the Sun Belt with 8.5 rebounds per game, along with 9.6 points. He is averaging 9.3 rebounds in Sun Belt games. 

> Turner has grabbed double-figure rebounds eight times in conference games. He had six straight double-figure efforts to open Sun Belt play, a streak that is the longest by a Panther since 1990.

> Four of the Panthers' top five scorers are transfers: Lucas Taylor (14.1), Toneari Lane (12.8), Jay'Den Turner (9.6) and Leslie Nkereuwem (8.6). Dwon Odom is third on the team at 11.9 ppg.

> In Georgia State's three straight wins over South Alabama, Old Dominion and Georgia Southern, Toneari Lane averaged 20.3 points while going 14-for-33 (43 percent) from 3-point range. Lane scored 20 points at South Alabama (6-for-12 3P) and followed with 23 points (5-for-12 3P) vs. ODU and 18 vs. Georgia Southern. Earlier this season, he also scored 23 points, his career high, in each of the back-to-back wins over Little Rock.

> Sophomore post player Edward Nnamoko had perhaps the best two games in GSU's back-to-back wins over Louisiana and Miami. He contributed nine points, six rebounds and two blocks off the bench at Louisiana and then followed with four points and nine rebounds vs. Miami. He played valuable minutes in the win over Coastal Carolina, including a huge blocked shot and rebound in the final.

> Georgia State leads the Sun Belt in free throw percentage at .756. Dwon Odom is third  in the Sun Belt at .841. 

SERIES NOTES: Georgia State leads the series with Texas State 11-7, including 11-5 in the Sun Belt era.

> Last season,the teams met in the Sun Belt Championship, when Texas State won 81-76.

> Georgia State and Texas State are meeting for just the second time in the last four seasons. The last regular-season meeting was on Feb. 22, 2020, when the Bobcats won 86-76. The last meeting in Atlanta was an 81-69 GSU win on Dec. 21, 2019.

> Georgia State is 5-3 against Texas State in Atlanta, but the Bobcats are playing at the GSU Convocation Center for the first time.