CONWAY, S.C. — Coastal Carolina opens a two-game homestand Thursday night when it hosts Texas State in a Sun Belt Conference match-up at 7 p.m. inside the HTC Center.
The Chanticleers (11-9, 4-4 SBC) and Bobcats (11-9, 4-4) enter the contest tied in the league standings, with Coastal carrying a three-game winning streak after a 79-75 overtime win at Georgia Southern on Saturday. Texas State is coming off a 74-67 victory over Southern Miss and has won three of its last five games.
Coastal's win in Statesboro featured a career-high 28 points from
Rasheed Jones and a dramatic finish in regulation. With Georgia Southern leading 70-68 and three seconds left,
Joshua Beadle made a free throw to cut the deficit to one, intentionally missed the second and
Derrick Green secured the offensive rebound and scored on a putback layup with one second remaining to force overtime.
AJ Dancler later provided the go-ahead jumper with 1:33 left in the extra period, and Jones sealed the win at the free-throw line.
Beadle has scored 18 or more points in four straight games, averaging 21.8 points per game during that stretch, while Dancler has scored 20 points in each of the last two contests and is averaging 23.0 points per game over that span.
Texas State has been tough at home this season, going 10-1 in San Marcos, but the Bobcats are just 1-8 away from home. DJ Hall (13.6 points per game) and Mark Done (13.1) lead Texas State in scoring, with Hall also ranking third in the Sun Belt at 7.8 rebounds per game while shooting 55.2% from the floor. Guard Kaden Gumbs is second in the conference in steals at 2.1 per game.
Thursday's game is the final scheduled meeting between the programs, with Texas State set to join the Pac-12 next season. The Bobcats lead the all-time series 10-3, though Coastal won the most recent match-up 71-63 in San Marcos on Jan. 4, 2024, snapping a seven-game losing streak in the series. Texas State is 3-0 all-time against Coastal in Conway.
A Coastal win would be its 12th of the season, its most since the Chanticleers won 19 games in 2021-22, and would give CCU its first four-game winning streak since the 2020-21 season. It would also mark Coastal's first home win over Texas State and its first four-game Sun Belt winning streak since 2019.
