Old Dominion scores 66.1 points per game, 3.0 fewer points than the 69.1 Georgia State allows. Georgia State averages 66.3 points per game, 4.3 more than the 62.0 Old Dominion gives up. The Monarchs and Panthers face off Wednesday for the first time in conference play this season.
Winning conference games isn’t easy. Even with a perfect Sun Belt record, James Madison found that out last week with tough tests against Southern Miss and Coastal Carolina. Now the
The James Madison team that flew into town on Saturday is only a shell of the one that won the Sun Belt Conference Tournament and reached the second round of the NCAA playoffs, but the Dukes still had enough to handle Georgia State.
Georgia Southern entered play tops among Sun Belt teams in bench points scored at 32 per game. Marshall had the edge in this one, 20-16. The Herd snapped Georgia Southern’s win streak at three. It now leads the overall series 14-4 with the two-game season sweep.
The truth is UL men’s interim coach Derrick Zimmerman is far too focused on his current issues to comment on an individual game’s important on th Ragin’ Cajuns months from
Bryce Lindsay scored 19 points to guide James Madison to an 86-79 victory over Georgia State on Saturday. Lindsay also had five rebounds for the Dukes (12-9, 5-4 Sun Belt Conference). Xavier Brown scored 17 points and added three steals.
It was a long-time coming for first-year Marshall women’s basketball coach Juli Fulks, as her team finally notched their first Sun Belt Conference victory of the 2024-25 season over Georgia Southern 67-60.
Jalen Speer's 16 points helped Marshall defeat Georgia Southern 71-67 on Saturday. Speer went 6 of 10 from the field (2 for 4 from 3-point range) for the Thundering Herd (13-9, 6-3 Sun Belt Conference).
James Madison had started to get used to dominating in Sun Belt play, but Sunday afternoon at the Atlantic Union Bank Center against Coastal Carolina, the Dukes got to be
Georgia Southern Eagles (9-11, 2-6 Sun Belt) at Appalachian State Mountaineers (10-8, 6-2 Sun Belt) Boone, North Carolina; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Appalachian State faces Georgia Southern in a matchup of Sun Belt teams.
Marshall Thundering Herd (12-9, 5-3 Sun Belt) at Georgia Southern Eagles (11-9, 4-4 Sun Belt) Statesboro, Georgia; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Marshall visits Georgia Southern after Jalen Speer scored 25 points in Marshall's 92-79 victory over the Georgia State Panthers.
James Madison Dukes (11-9, 4-4 Sun Belt) at Georgia State Panthers (7-13, 3-5 Sun Belt) Atlanta; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Dukes -7.5; over/under is 146.5 BOTTOM LINE: Georgia State takes on James Madison after Cesare Edwards scored 21 points in Georgia State's 92-79 loss to the Marshall Thundering Herd.