Afternoon Special: Panthers Host Northeastern Friday

ATLANTA-Coming off an impressive opening night win, the Georgia State men's basketball team will host former CAA foe Northeastern on Friday afternoon at 1 p.m., in the GSU Sports Arena.

Georgia State (1-0) is coming off a 60-point win on Tuesday but will face a much stiffer opponent in Northeastern (0-1) which is among the favorites to win the Colonial Athletic Association this year.

All-Sun Belt Preseason First Team member Corey Allen led the Panthers with 20 points on Tuesday night, while fellow senior Justin Roberts added 19 points and a team-high six steals. Georgia State finished the game tying a school record with 21 steals while forcing 31 turnovers.

Georgia State is looking to start the season 2-0 for a second-straight year before embarking on four-straight games away from the GSU Sports Arena over the next two-plus weeks.

Northeastern leads the all-time series with Georgia State 10-6 with the last game coming in the 2012-13 regular season finale which was also the final CAA game for the Panthers. GSU has won three of the last five games in the series and two of the last three match-ups in Atlanta have gone to overtime.

Broadcast Information

Radio: WRAS-FM 88.5 (stream), GSU App, PbP: Dave Cohen, Color: Rodney Turner
Television: ESPN+, PbP: Dave Cohen, Color: Rodney Turner

Game Notes
• Georgia State will host former CAA Northeastern for the first time since the 2012-13 regular season finale which was also the Panthers final game in the CAA.
• Northeastern leads the all-time series 10-6, however the Panthers have won three of the last five meetings.
• Georgia State is looking to start 2-0 for the second-straight season after earning a 97-37 win over Brewton-Parker on Tuesday night.
• Georgia State has now won nine-straight regular season openers and 14-straight home openers.
• The Panthers tied a school-record with 21 steals in the win over Brewton-Parker. Justin Roberts set a career-high with six steals, while Nelson Phillips added five.
• GSU earned the top spot in the annual Sun Belt Conference Preseason Poll as selected by the coaches.
• Seniors Corey Allen (1st Team), Kane Williams (Second Team) and Eliel Nsoseme (Second Team) were all selected to the All-Sun Belt Preseason Teams before the start of the season. Allen (Second Team) and Nsoseme (Third Team) earned postseason All-Sun Belt honors last spring.
• Kane Williams broke Terrence Brandon's school record of 531 career free throw attempts last year and now has 547 entering the season. He is second all-time with 396 made free throws, trailing only R.J. Hunter's school record of 448.
• Williams moved into a tie for ninth on GSU's all-time scoring list with 1,238 career points on Tuesday. He is currently tied with Leonard Mendez and is 581 points behind R.J. Hunter's school record of 1,819.
• Senior Corey Allen now has 1,633 career points scored which is among the top 25 career active scorers in the country. He has scored 782 of those points in a Panther uniform.
• Senior Justin Roberts now has 862 career points including 733 in a Panther uniform. He and Allen are looking to become the 24th and 25th 1,000-point scorers in program history.
• Georgia State has won 55-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 .648 winning percentage (35-19 record) is the best of any GSU head coach in their first two years leading the program.
• Since returning to the Sun Belt in 2013-14, Georgia State has finished in the top two of the final regular season conference standings six times in eight seasons.
• During that same time, GSU has won more games (170) than any other NCAA Division I team in Georgia.

Following the game on Friday, Georgia State will take to the road to face Richmond on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The game can be seen on ESPN+ or heard live on WRAS-FM 88.5

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