CONWAY, S.C. — Coastal Carolina will look to earn its first win of 2026 and snap a two-game losing streak Thursday night when they host Sun Belt Conference rival Old Dominion at the HTC Center.
Coastal Carolina and Old Dominion each enter the contest with a 1–3 record in Sun Belt play. The Chanticleers dropped back-to-back league games after posting a 76–74 win over the Monarchs in Norfolk, Va., on Dec. 20, while Old Dominion has lost three straight since beginning Sun Belt play with a victory over James Madison.
The teams are producing similar offensive numbers, each averaging approximately 73 points per game, though Coastal holds a plus-5.3 rebounding margin in the head-to-head match-up.
Coastal is coming off an 89–71 loss to Georgia State on Saturday at the HTC Center, a game in which the Chanticleers led 34–25 at halftime and extended the margin to 11 early in the second half before the Panthers seized control. Georgia State connected on 14 of 15 3-point attempts after the break and closed the game on a 25–7 run to pull away.
Rasheed Jones led Coastal with 18 points in the setback, while
AJ Dancler added 16. The Chanticleers finished with a 38–32 rebounding advantage and collected 16 offensive boards but shot 39.3 percent from the floor.
Old Dominion enters Thursday's match-up having dropped four straight games overall and is 4–11 on the season. The Monarchs are winless on the road at 0–9, with an average margin of defeat of 15 points away from home. ODU features three double-figure scorers in KC Shaw (16.3 ppg),
Jordan Battle (13.4) and LJ Thomas (11.3), and ranks fifth in the Sun Belt in free-throw percentage at 73.9 percent.
Battle, a former Chanticleer who led Coastal in scoring during the 2024–25 season, also paces the Monarchs in rebounding (5.4 rpg) and steals (23).
Old Dominion holds a 6–3 all-time series advantage overall and has won two of the three meetings at the HTC Center. Seven of the nine all-time meetings have come since Old Dominion joined the Sun Belt in the 2022–23 season, with six of those decided by four points or fewer.
