Chants Resume Conference Play Friday With Radford
12/30/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Dec. 30, 2010
Coastal Carolina (10-2, 1-0) vs. Radford (3-9, 0-2)
Friday | 12.31.10 | 2:00 p.m.
Conway, S.C. | Kimbel Arena (1,039)
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CONWAY, S.C. - Following 10 days off for the Christmas break, the Coastal Carolina men's basketball team returns to action and resumes Big South play Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. when the Chants welcome Radford to Kimbel Arena.
Coastal Carolina (10-2) won its 10th straight game Dec. 20 following its 125-70 win over Thomas More. The Chants featured seven players in double figures and set a school record for the most points in a game, surpassing the previous record of 122 set during the 1979-80 season.
Anthony Raffa scored a season-high 21 points and went 3-for-3 from the three-point line, while Desmond Holloway added 21 points of his own to register his fifth game of the season with at least 20 points.
Chad Gray and Danny Nieman poured in 14 points apiece, while Sam McLaurin finished with 12 points and seven rebounds and was a perfect 6-for-6 from the field. Dexter Moore collected 11 points and hit three 3-pointers and Mike Holmes posted his second double-double of the season after finishing with 11 points and 10 rebounds to go along with three blocked shots.
Individually, Holloway leads the Chants and ranks second in the Big South with 18.8 points per game. Holloway is also second on the team and ninth in the conference with 6.7 rebounds per game.
Holmes is averaging 13.7 points per game and a team-high 9.0 rebounds per game and was recently tabbed as the Big South Men's Basketball Player of the Week.
Senior Chad Gray is third on the team with 12.4 points per game to go along with 4.8 rebounds per game. In addition, Gray is also shooting 52.2 percent from the field and 46.7 from three-point range. As a team, Coastal paces the Big South with a .494 field goal percentage.
Radford enters the weekend having lost nine of its last ten games. The Highlanders, however, snapped their nine-game losing streak following an 86-59 win over Dickinson College Wednesday afternoon. The Highlanders are also 0-6 on the road and have lost all six games by double digits. As a team, Radford ranks last in the Big South with 58.1 points per game and is also at the bottom of the league as the Highlanders are losing by an average of 10.0 points per game.
Individually, Radford is led by the 10.3 points per game of sophomore guard Gorkem Sonmez. Sonmez also leads the team with a .382 shooting percentage from three-point range. Junior forward Johnathan Edwards paces the Highlanders with 6.0 rebounds per game and ranks 11th in the Big South.
Coastal Carolina and Radford will be meeting on the hardwood for the 52nd time when the two teams tipoff Friday afternoon in Conway. Radford owns a 34-17 record against Coastal in the all-time series that dates back to the 1984-85 season. The Highlanders have also won three of the last four meetings against the Chanticleers. Coastal, however, won the most recent meeting between the two with a 52-51 win at Radford last season. Radford has also enjoyed a great deal of success when facing Coastal in Kimbel Arena. In fact, Radford is 15-10 all-time against Coastal in Kimbel Arena and has won two straight in Conway.
Each of the last six games between Radford and Coastal Carolina have been decided by 10 points or less.
