Men's Basketball 12/20/2020 12:00:00 PM

Men's Basketball Hosts College of Charleston Monday Night

Panthers off to best start since 2000-01

ATLANTA-Closing out the non-conference portion of the schedule and looking to continue to build on the program's best start in 20 years, Georgia State will host the College of Charleston on Monday night at 7 p.m., at the GSU Sports Arena.

Georgia State (5-1) has won three-straight after scoring over the century mark again on Friday as a school-record tying seven Panthers finished in double figures against Carver College. The Panthers are averaging 97.2 points per game, ranked No. 3 in the NCAA, and have already matched the most times scoring 100 or more points in a game in a single season in program history.

The College of Charleston (2-4) comes to Atlanta looking to extend a 12-game winning streak over the Panthers. The two teams met last season with the Cougars winning 84-80 in a thriller in Charleston that wasn't decided until the final seconds.

The Panthers are currently ranked No. 10 in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll and are off to their best start since the 2000-01 season when a 7-0 start led to a school-record 29 wins and the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Redshirt-junior Eliel Nsoseme leads the Panthers averaging a double-double of 14.2 points and 10.7 rebounds per game. He is shooting 62.7 percent from the floor for a Panther squad shooting 50.0 percent from the floor this season.

Junior Justin Roberts leads the Panthers in scoring averaging 15.5 points per game, while senior Kane Williams, who became the 23^rd Georgia State player to score 1,000 career points earlier this year, is averaging 14.8 points and 5.0 rebounds per contest. Fellow senior Corey Allen rounds out the double figure scorers adding 14.5 points per game. He has knocked down a team-high 21 3-pointers this year.

Broadcast Information

Radio: WRAS-FM 88.5/GSU App/TuneIn Radio, PbP: Dave Cohen, Color: Lamont McIntosh
Television: ESPN+, PbP: Dave Cohen, Color: Lamont McIntosh
Live Stats: GeorgiaStateSports.com

Game Notes
• Georgia State and College of Charleston, former conference foes, will meet for the 17th time on Monday. The Cougars lead the series 12-4 and have won 12-straight meetings between the two.
• Georgia State enters the day ranked No. 10 in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll. The Panthers have been as high as No. 6 (Nov. 30) this season.
• Georgia State is looking for its best seven-game start (6-1) to a season since beginning the 2000-01 season 7-0.
• Georgia State has scored 100 or more points in three games this year, matching the school record for times going over the century mark in a season (1988-89 and 1991-92).
• The Panthers are currently ranked No. 3 in the NCAA averaging 97.2 points per game, while holding an assist/turnover ratio of 1.95 which ranks No. 5 in the NCAA. GSU had 34 assists to just four turnovers against Carver College.
• Eliel Nsoseme is No. 2 in the NCAA averaging 5.33 offense rebounds per contest and No. 16 averaging 10.7 rebounds per game. He grabbed 20 rebounds against Mercer, tied for the fifth-most in a game in school history, while earning his first career double-double.
• Corey Allen is No. 17 in the nation knocking down 3.5 3-pointers per game. He has drilled 21 so far this year.
• Kane Williams is one of two active Sun Belt players (Marquis Eaton-Arkansas State) with career totals of at least 1,000 points (1,045), 250 rebounds (327) and 250 assists (320). There are 45 active NCAA Division I players with those milestones.
• Williams, an All-Sun Belt Preseason First Team member, enters with 1,045 career points, 14 shy of Jim Jacobs for 19th on GSU's all-time list. He is the 23rd Panther to reach the milestone.
• Senior Justin Roberts was named the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week on Dec. 1, a day after being named the Lou Henson National Player of the Week.
• GSU's win over Georgia Tech on opening night gave the Panthers their first win ever over an ACC opponent. The Panthers set school records for points scored (123), combined points (243), fouls (37), combined fouls (65) while playing the first triple and quadruple overtime game in school history.
• Also in the win over Tech, four Panthers (Allen, Nsoseme, Roberts, and Williams) each scored 20 or more points marking the first time in program history that feat has been accomplished in a game.
• The win over Tech also gave the Panthers three wins over Power 5 programs in the last two-plus seasons.
• In Georgia State's win over Carver, the Panthers set school records for field goals made (51) and assists (34) while seven players scored in double figures, tying a school record.
• 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 (158) than any other NCAA Division I team in Georgia.
• Georgia State is under the leadership of second-year head coach Rob Lanier. His 19 wins in his first year at the helm is the third-most by a first-year head coach in program history.
• GSU was selected to win the East Division of the Sun Belt this year in the annual preseason poll by the coaches and media.

Following the game on Monday night, Georgia State will take a break for the holiday before opening Sun Belt Conference play with a pair of games at Coastal Carolina starting on Jan. 1, in Conway, S.C.

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