6:32 pm
January 13

Coastal Carolina @ Appalachian State

Who will WIN this matchup?

Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (9-6)

@ Appalachian State Mountaineers (8-9)

 

Current odds:

Coastal Carolina Chanticleers: (+140)

Appalachian State Mountaineers: (-160)

 

• The line for this game is Appalachian State by 3 points.

• The Chanticleers continue to search for their first road win of the season. CCU is 0-3 on the road and coming off a tough 69-59 loss at Troy last week. The Chanticleers game scheduled for last Saturday at South Alabama was canceled due to COVID-19 protocols within the Jaguars program.

• The Chants are second in the Sun Belt Conference in scoring, averaging 77.1 points per game, and is sixth in the conference in defensive scoring allowing 64.7 points per game. CCU’s defense leads the conference in defensive field goal percentage, holding its opponents to just a 37.4 shooting percentage. The opponents are also only managing to hit 29.9 percent of their three-point attempts.

• Essam Mostafa continues to lead a trio of Chants in double-digit scoring with an average of 15.9 points per game. Vince Cole (13.5) and Rudi Williams (13.4) are the other scoring leaders in double figures.

• Josh Uduje has moved into the starting lineup for the past four games and has averaged 11 points per game during those contests.

• Ebrima Dibba continues to be one of the top assist leaders in not only the Sun Belt but across the nation as well. He comes into this week’s action averaging a team and conference-leading 6.5 assists per game. He is also seventh nationally in assists per game.

• The Mountaineers return four starters and 12 returners from last season’s Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship team. In the Sun Belt Conference preseason coaches’ poll, they were picked to finish fourth with 109 total points and also picked up two first-place votes.

• Adrian Delph is the lone double-digit scorer for the Mountaineers, averaging 16.0 points per game. Michael Almonacy (9.5), Donovan Gregory (9.4), and Justin Forrest (8.6) round out App State’s top four season-leading scorers.

• Defense is where the Mountaineers have been making their living this season, as their opponents are only averaging 63.1 points per game and are only shooting 41.7 percent from the field. App State out rebounds its opponents by two rebounds per game and has forced 231 turnovers with 98 steals and 47 blocked shots.

4/10
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Appalachian State Mountaineers
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