CONWAY, S.C. \u2014 Coastal Carolina will close its home schedule Saturday when it hosts Marshall at the HTC Center, looking to secure its first winning season in four years.<\/p>\n
Saturday also marks the final home game for seven seniors and graduate players: Joshua Beadle<\/a>, Charles Dunlap<\/a>, Reggie Hill<\/a>, Jackson Keil<\/a>, Connor Martin<\/a>, Jerry Ngopot<\/a> and Nadjrick Peat<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coastal is coming off a narrow 67-65 loss to James Madison on Wednesday. The Chanticleers led by five with 7:40 to play before being outscored 15-8 down the stretch. Beadle scored 31 points, while Hill added 11 rebounds and Peat recorded four blocks.<\/p>\n Close games have become the norm. Seventeen of Coastal’s contests have been decided by six points or fewer, with the Chants posting an 11-6 record in those games. Ten of their last 11 victories have come by six points or less.<\/p>\n Beadle, Rasheed Jones<\/a> and AJ Dancler<\/a> have powered the offense throughout the season. The trio ranks first, second and third on the team in scoring, combining for a league-best 47.5 points per game. Each averages approximately 15 points per contest and ranks among the Sun Belt’s top 20 scorers. Coastal is 10-4 when all three score in double figures.<\/p>\n The Chanticleers have used the same starting lineup in 26 consecutive games dating to Nov. 11 and recently recorded their first five-game winning streak since the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n Marshall (18-10, 10-5) enters tied for first place in the Sun Belt and is one of the conference’s top offensive teams, averaging 80.9 points per game. The Thundering Herd lead the league in 3-pointers per game (10.4), assists (17.0) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.45).<\/p>\n Coastal defeated Marshall 85-83 in Huntington, W.Va., earlier this season for its first road win in the series. Dancler and Beadle scored 26 points apiece in that matchup, and Peat delivered the game-winning basket.<\/p>\n All seven meetings between the programs have come since Marshall joined the Sun Belt. Coastal is 1-2 at home in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONWAY, S.C. \u2014 Coastal Carolina will close its home schedule Saturday when it hosts Marshall at the HTC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-494718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}