Final GSU Sports Arena Home Games Begin Wednesday with ULM

ATLANTA-The Georgia State men's basketball team will look to close out the GSU Sports Arena in style this week and build upon a five-game winning streak hosting ULM on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Georgia State (13-10, 7-5 Sun Belt) has won seven of its last eight games to climb into fourth place in the Sun Belt Conference standings with two games to play which coincide with the final two games in the history of the GSU Sports Arena.

The Panthers will first welcome ULM (13-15, 5-11 Sun Belt) which has lost three-straight games following a three-game winning streak. Georgia State won the first match-up between the two schools, 73-62, last month, and have now won three-straight in the series.

Since returning from injury, senior Eliel Nsoseme has been heating up while averaging 8.6 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. He has three double-doubles in his first 11 starts back and is shooting 55.7 percent from the floor.

Senior Corey Allen leads the Panthers in scoring averaging 13.6 points and 3.7 rebounds per game with a team-high 49 3-pointers. He is tied for sixth in Georgia State history with 182 career 3-pointers.

Senior Kane Williams, who currently stands in a tie with Rodney Hamilton for third place on Georgia State's all-time scoring list with 1,515 points, also tied Hamilton for the most games started in a career last Saturday with 105. Williams is already the all-time wins leader, free throws made, and free throws attempted leader in program history. He is averaging 12.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per game while shooting 80.3 percent from the free throw line having made 57 of his last 66 attempts over the last eight games.

Senior Justin Roberts is adding 12.0 points per game and shooting 77.0 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 is now just 23 points of becoming the 25^th 1,000-point career scorers in GSU program history after Allen became the 24th.

Broadcast Information

Radio: WRAS-FM 88.5; PbP: Dave Cohen, Color: Rodney Turner
Television: ESPN+; PbP: Dave Cohen, Color: Rodney Turner

Game Notes
• Georgia State and ULM will be meeting for the second time this year and 20th time overall. The Panthers topped the Warhawks 73-62 last month and have won three-straight in the series.
• GSU is currently in 4th-place in the Sun Belt standings. GSU controls its own destiny to receive a first-round bye in the championship - win both remaining games and GSU can be no worse than the No. 4 seed.
• Georgia State has held its last four opponents to a combined 211 points, an average of just 52.75 ppg.
• GSU has won 5-straight games, tied for the 19th-longest winning streak in the country.
• Georgia State has won 7 of its last 8 games.
• Georgia State has won five-straight road games which is tied for the sixth-longest streak in the country.
• GSU has won 105 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 42-25 (.626) record in the month of February since the start of the 2013-14 season.
• Three of Georgia State's Top 28 scorers all-time are currently on the team. Kane Williams is tied for third with 1,515 points, Corey Allen is No. 22 with 1,034 points, and Justin Roberts is tied for 25th with 977 career points. Allen became the 24th Panther to score 1,000 career points on Feb. 10.
• Allen has 1,885 career points scored (two years at UD) which is among the top 30 career active scorers in the country. He is also among the top 15 active 3-point shooters.
• Kane Williams is one of just two players in Sun Belt Conference history to combine for 1,500 points, 450 rebounds, 450 assists, and 200 steals. The other is former UT Arlington star Erick Neal.
• 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 96 wins in four-plus seasons.
• Williams has now moved into the top 20 in Sun Belt Conference history with 469 assists. He is also in the top 5 all-time in free throws made and just four free throw attempts shy of the top 5.
• Williams broke Terrence Brandon's school record of 531 career free throw attempts last year and now has 681. He broke R.J. Hunter's school record of 448 made free throws on Jan. 20 and now has 504 makes.
• Jalen Thomas is 7th on GSU's all-time blocked shots list (105), more than halfway to Zavian Smith's record of 182.
• Allen has moved into a tie for sixth place on GSU's career 3-pointers list with 182 (Malik Benlevi).
• Georgia State is ranked 13th in the country is turnovers forced (17.17) and seventh in turnover margin at +5.0. The Panthers also rank No. 15 with 9.2 steals per game, which is first in the Sun Belt Conference. Leading the Panthers is Corey Allen who is ranked No. 109 in the NCAA averaging 1.70 steals per game.
• The Panthers rank No. 30 in the nation in fewest turnovers (278) and 18th in fewest fouls (362).
• Freshman Ja'Heim Hudson is ranked No. 133 in the country averaging 2.48 offensive rebounds per contest, which is helping GSU to 13.35 offensive rebounds per game which is ranked 10th in the country.
• GSU has won 56-straight games dating back to 1999 when scoring 90 or more points.
• Since 2013-14, GSU has won more games (183) than any other NCAA Division I team in Georgia.

Following the game on Wednesday, Georgia State close out the GSU Sports Arena and the regular season hosting Louisiana on Friday 7 p.m. The game will air live on ESPN+ and can be heard on WRAS-FM 88.5.

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