GEORGIA STATE (13-16, 7-10) vs. MARSHALL (12-18, 7-10) 
Friday, March 1 | 7 p.m. | GSU Convocation Center

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THE TIPOFF: Georgia State concludes the regular season by hosting Marshall for Senior Night in a 7 p.m. game at the GSU Convocation Center. Seniors Leslie Nkereuwem, Jay'Den Turner, Brenden Tucker and Dwon Odom will be honored in pregame ceremonies.

> GSU and Marshall both have 7-10 conference records and are part of a four-way tie, along with South Alabama and Georgia Southern, for seventh place in the Sun Belt standings.

> Georgia State fought back from a 21-point deficit with 10 minutes left to pull within four points with four minutes to play before falling 84-78 to second-place James Madison. Five Panthers scored in double figures, led by Lucas Taylor with 18 points.

> The Panthers won back-to-back games over Old Dominion (Feb. 17) and Coastal Carolina (Feb. 21) 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 last 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.

> On Feb. 17 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 scored the 1,000 for his career last game vs. James Madison. He would is the fourth current Panther to hit the milestone this season, along with Brenden Tucker, Jay'Den Turner and Dwon Odom. That quartet has combined or 4,389 points.

> Georgia State is No. 9 in the nation in 3-point field goal percentage defense, holding opponents to 28.9 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 12.0 points, 4.9 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 +2.6. The 6-2 guard is also tied for the team lead with 18 blocked shots.

> Odom 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 (.331) and 3-pointers per game (2.8). His 80 3-pointers are tied for the eighth-highest season total in GSU history.

> Jay'Den Turner leads the Panthers and ranks No. 5 in the Sun Belt with 8.6 rebounds per game, along with 9.6 points. He is averaging 9.4 rebounds in Sun Belt games. 

> Turner has grabbed double-figure rebounds 12 times this season, including 10 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. Turner has five double-doubles on the season.

> Turner is also ninth in the Sun Belt in steals (1.4 pg), including a career-high five in the win over Coastal Carolina.

> Four of the Panthers' top five scorers are transfers: Lucas Taylor (13.9), Toneari Lane (13.0), Jay'Den Turner (9.6) and Leslie Nkereuwem (8.0). Dwon Odom is third on the team at 12.0 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 scored a career-high 11 points, along with four rebounds, vs. James Madison. He had two of the best games of his career 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. Nnamoko played valuable minutes in the win over Coastal Carolina, including a huge blocked shot and rebound in the final minutes. 

CHARITY CASE: Georgia State leads the Sun Belt in free throw percentage at .767 (No. 23 in D1).

> That is the second-best team free throw percentage in GSU history, bettered only by the 2013-14 team that shot 77.8 percent.
> Dwon Odom is second in the Sun Belt at .851, which ranks among the Top 10 seasons in school history.

> The Panthers hit 29-of-32 free throws last game vs. James Madison, season highs for makes and attempts. 

SERIES NOTES: Georgia State and Marshall only began playing last season when the Thundering Herd joined the Sun Belt. Marshall has won the first three meetings, including a 77-68 win in Huntington earlier this season. Dwon Odom led GSU with 21 points and five assists.