The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and Stetson Hatters meet Tuesday in the college basketball CBI Semifinal at the Ocean Center.
The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers look for another win after beating Bryant in the quarterfinal. The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers are averaging 80.4 points on 46.4 percent shooting and allowing 66.8 points on 39 percent shooting. DeVante’ Jones is averaging 20 points and 7.3 rebounds while Deanthony Tipler is averaging 14.5 points and 1.8 assists. Essam Mostafa is the third double-digit scorer and Tyrik Dixon is grabbing 2.9 rebounds. The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers are shooting 37.1 percent from beyond the arc and 72.1 percent from the free throw line. The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers are allowing 31.3 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 40.7 rebounds per game.
The Stetson Hatters look for another win after beating Bowling Green in the quarterfinal. The Stetson Hatters are averaging 72.3 points on 43.6 percent shooting and allowing 70.4 points on 44.5 percent shooting. Rob Perry is averaging 14.3 points and 4.4 rebounds while Chase Johnston is averaging 14.1 points and 2.3 rebounds. Christiaan Jones is the third double-digit scorer and Mahamadou Diawara is grabbing 6.2 rebounds. The Stetson Hatters are shooting 37.9 percent from beyond the arc and 69.8 percent from the free throw line. The Stetson Hatters are allowing 34.8 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 32 rebounds per game.
The Hatters are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 neutral site games and 7-0 ATS in their last 7 Tuesday games. The Chanticleers are 3-12 ATS in their last 15 games following a ATS win and 2-12 ATS in their last 14 Tuesday games. The over is 8-1 in Hatters last 9 overall. The under is 8-3 in Chanticleers last 11 overall.
The Stetson Hatters earned some respect to get to this point, but the bottom line is they don’t have the balance or the defense to put up much of a fight here. The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers are winning their last five games by an average of 9.4 points and are one of the better defensive teams in the country while shooting a healthy percentage from everywhere on the court. Coastal Carolina is comfortably the better team here and should pull away in the second half. I’ll lay the chalk.