App State returning home to start three-game homestand with ODU

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Boone, NC – Fresh from a seasonal four-game road trip, App State Men’s Basketball Team (12-8, 6-3 SBC) returns to Holmes Convocation Center for the first time since January 11 Wednesday Wednesday meeting the old dominion Monarchs (9-12 , 5-4 SBC) for the first of three straight matches in Boone. Wednesday’s meeting marks the second competition between mountaineers and monarchs in the last 13 days. Tipoff from Holmes Center is set to 18:30 and can be streamed on ESPN+.

Wednesday’s competition against ODU is Subaru value evening at Holmes Center. Fans running their Subaru to the game and showing their Subaru key to the companion of the ticket office will receive reduced recording and an app state labeled Subaru-Badge. Wednesday’s game is also a Greek evening, and all members of the app -state fraternities and sororities are encouraged to participate.

App State is ready to return to Holmes Center on Wednesday, a place where it has won 22 of its last 24 competitions since the start of last season. The Mountaineers ’22 -2 mark on their home floor is the best home-woning percentage in the Sun Belt conference since the start of last year (92 percent) and is the only brand over 90 percent in the league. In addition, mountaineers are tied to the most home winnings since the start of last season (JMU and Troy) and boasts the fewest home losses in the league.

With the monarchs coming to town on Wednesday, the App State will see the first of two consecutive Sun Belt East opponents enter the Holmes Center. On the way to action Wednesday, mountaineers have won 17 straight matches against their enemies from Sun Belt East Schools and Outscores them with 14 points a game. Since 2019, the App State is 39-15 against Sun Belt East (72 percent wins percentage).

Head coach Dustin Kerns Submitted its 61. Career-Conference Victory in App State last Saturday with the 66-58 victory over Ulm in Monroe. This victory helped him pass the Buzz Peterson to the third most conference victory of an app state’s head coach with 61. He only tracks Tom Apke (70) and Houston Fancher (79) on this list. Currently, he owns the fifth most victories in the program history with 109 and is one of the seven app state’s head coach to place 100 wins with the program.

Matchup

  • WHO: App State vs. Old Dominion

  • Where: Holmes Convocation Center // Boone, NC

  • When: Wednesday, January 29 // 18:30

Stand in

  • See: See (ESPN+) | David Jackson (PXP), John Reisterer (Color)

  • Hear: Flagship 97.3 (North Wilkesboro), 96.3 (Winston-Salem/Greensboro), 1350/96.1 (Asheville), 1250/103.9 (Marion), 790/93.7 (Johnson City) | Matt present (Pxp)

  • Live Statistics: AppStateports.com

Last Time Out

In a low-scoring, defensive match in Monroe, the App State scored 12 of the last 18 points in the game to pull away from Ulm to place a 66-58 win. The App State fought through nine revenue in the 2nd half and only eight played field goals in the second half to finish its season long road trip at 3-1.

App State’s defense gave another strong performance against Warhawks, which held Ulm to only three 3-Pointers on 19 attempts and a 31.3 percent mark from the field. Mountaineers have not let an opponent shoot better than 40 percent in each of their last seven matches, while also extending their strip of consecutive matches that keep their opponents below 40 percent from three to 19.

The trio of Jalil Beaubrun, CJ HUNTLEY And Myles Tate reached double against Warhawks and combined for 36 of the mountaineering 66 points. Huntley spoke another double-double on the season and ended the game with 10 points and 12 rebounds along with three assists.

Scout mountaineers

Winners of six of its last seven competitions, App State leading into Wednesday’s match against the monarchs with a 12-8 record overall and a 6-3 conference record. Mountaineers just sit a game behind Arkansa’s State for first place in the Sun Belt position. Over the last seven games, mountaineers have sent four double -digit wins and Outscores their opponents with 79 points (+7.9 scoring margin).

Stifling Defense has continued to be the story of the App State this season as they enter the game Wednesday with Sun Belt’s best scoring defense and the country’s ninth best scoring defense, allowing only 62.2 points a game. App State has not lets an opponent get over 70 points in each of its last 12 games, which is the longest line in which the app state has kept its opponents under 70 points since it kept 13 even opponents under 70 years of the 2021 season -22.

Mountaineers have been particularly excellent to defend the three this season and keep their opponents to only 136 made triangles on 496 attempts, which is good for a mark of 27.4 percent. App State boasts the second best 3-point defense in the country from Wednesday, which only draws No. 8 Tennessee in this category. Mountaineers have not let an opponent shoot over 40 percent behind the arch since his first match of the season against Miami (Ohio) and has had 13 opponents under 30 percent from the long line coming in Wednesday.

One of the best duos in the conference is a resident of Boone, NC, as both Tate and Huntley enter Wednesday’s match against the monarchs in the top 10 in the league in the scoring. Tate leads the way in Wednesday, an average of 15.6 points a game, while Huntley scores 15.1 points at night, making them the only Sun Belt duo for each score at least 15 points a game from Wednesday. These average are good for the fifth and sixth best tallies at the conference respectively.

Scout the monarchs

Since starting conference games by winning four of their first five matches, the monarchs have slowed down a bit and have lost three of their last four. However, Odu comes to Boone Fresh from a 22-point victory over Coastal Carolina in Norfolk last Saturday. Old Dominion is tied with James Madison and Texas State for third place in the league.

Odu also boasts a talented duo in Robert Davis Jr. And Sean Durugordon, who both go on Wednesday in the top 15 in the league in the scoring. In Sun Belt Games, Davis Jr. And Durugordon was even better and scored 19 and 16 points respectively a game. Davis is number two at the conference in scoring in Sun Belt game coming in Wednesday.

Rebounding is where the monarchs thrive as they grab 39.5 boards a game from Wednesday. Odu is especially excellent with offensive rebounding as it carries the 12th best offensive rebounding average in the country that comes into play against the app state. The monarchs have seized at least 10 offensive rebounds in 19 straight competitions.

Series history

Mountaineers and monarchs are set to meet for the second time this season and sixth time gathered on Wednesday. Each meeting between the two teams has come since Old Dominion joined Sun Belt in 2022.

App State goes in Wednesday after winning three equal competitions against Old Dominion with at least 19 points and owning a 4-1 record in the series. Odu’s only victory in the series came in Boone in February 2023. Each of the previous five matches in the series has been decided by at least 10 points, with the closest margin of victory for both sides is 11 points.

The last time the two troops met was just 13 days ago when mountaineers traveled to the Chartway Arena to start their season long road trip. The App State kicked its turn with a suffocating performance on the defense, which allows only 43 points, which was the fewest mountaineers have given up to a division in opponent since 2015. CJ HUNTLEY Was excellent in the first competition against ODU, where he recorded a 26-point, 12-bound double-double to hack his third double-double in four games.

Next up

If the team’s three-games continue to swing, the app State will welcome Georgia State Panthers to Boone on Saturday for the first of two matchups this season. Tipoff from Holmes Center is scheduled until 10 pm. 13 and can be streamed on ESPN+.

Men’s basketball season 2024-25 is presented by foscoe companies.