CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina University men's basketball team will be back home to host Regent University, Saturday, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m. ET at the HTC Center in the second meeting between the two programs.
Head Coach
Cliff Ellis is looking to pick up career win No. 900 with a victory over the Royals, becoming the third active collegiate coach to have 900 wins. He would also become just the seventh coach in the NCAA Division I coaching ranks to have 900 career wins, joining Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim, Jim Calhoun, Bob Huggins, Roy Williams, and Bob Knight.
After consecutive road contests, the Chants (4-4) will look to pick up their fourth win on their home court, while the Royals (1-3) will look for their first road victory of the season.
The Chanticleers are led in scoring by transfer
Jomaru Brown and his 15.9 points per game average. Redshirt junior
Essam Mostafa is coming off a down game at Wofford but is still averaging 12.9 points per game and a team-best 10.5 rebounds per game.
While Mostafa continues to work his way up CCU's career scoring and rebounding list, he has now moved into the career blocked shots top 10 list. His three blocks at Wofford give him 68 for his career and has moved him into ninth place on the all-time list.
Linton Brown leads the Chants in three-point field goals with 17 and is averaging 11.8 points per game, while sophomore
Josh Uduje is averaging 10.9 points per game.
Regent comes into the game coming off their first win of the season, a 75-59 home victory over Christendom College. The Royals boast one of the top players in the NCCAA in Stanley Adjei. The 6' 4" guard is averaging 17.0 points per game, while shooting 58.1 percent from the field, 50.0 percent on his three-point attempts, and is a 92.9 percent free throw shooter.
The game can be heard on WRNN 99.5 Hot Talk and can be watched live on ESPN+. Links for both along with live stats can be found at
www.GoCCUSports.com.
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