The Charleston Southern Buccaneers and the Kennesaw State Owls meet in college basketball action from the KSU Convocation center on Sunday.
The Charleston Southern Buccaneers come into this one looking to bounce back form a 91-59 loss at the hands of Clemson last time out. Tahlik Chavez leads the Buccaneers in scoring with 12.5 PPG while Keith Clinton has 10.7 PPG with 4 RPG and Deontaye Buskey has 10.2 PPG as well this season. Sean Price also has team-highs of 7.2 RPg and 3.2 APG as well this season. As a team, Charleston Southern is averaging 82.2 PPG on 43.1% shooting from the field, 28.7% from three and 70.3% from the foul line while allowing 83 PPG on 44.5% shooting from the field and 34.2% from three this season.
The Kennesaw State Owls will try to bounce back from a 92-61 loss at the hands of Wake Forest last time out. Chris Youngblood leads the Owls in scoring with 13.2 PPg along with 4.8 RPG while Kasen Jennings and Terrell Burden each have 11.2 PPG with Burden logging a team-high 5 APG as well this season. Spencer Rodgers has 10.8 PPG with 5.3 RPG to make up the group of double-digit scorers for Kennesaw State so far this season while Demond Robinson has 8.8 PPG and a team-high 5.7 RPG as well on the year. As a team, Kennesaw State is averaging 75.7 PPG on 44.5% shooting from the field, 30.7% from three and 70.3% from the foul line while allowing 73.2 PPG on 45.7% shooting form the field and 31.9% from three this season.
Charleston Southern is 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games overall and 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games against a team with a winning record while the over is 5-0 in their last 5 games overall. Kennesaw State is 7-19 ATS in their last 26 games against a team with a losing record and 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games following an ATS loss while the over is 11-1-1 in their last 13 games overall.
This feels like a lot of points to be giving up with Kennesaw State, even against Charleston Southern, but we saw how competitive the Owls were against teams like Iowa State and Creighton so tstart the year and I have to think that that brings up some measure of confidence for the Owls here. Charleston Southern’s a decent team but they have struggled on the road and I think this spot is no different. Give me the Owls here.