The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (11-19, 5-13 Sun Belt) play the Arkansas Red Wolves (12-19, 4-14 Sun Belt) on Tuesday at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Florida in the opening round of the 2023 Sun Belt Conference Tournament. Coastal Carolina completed its regular season with a 95-74 loss to the Troy Trojans and finished 12th in the conference standings. Arkansas State won its final game of the regular season 64-61 over Louisiana-Monroe and finished 13th in the conference standings. Coastal Carolina and Arkansas State do not have any players on their respective injury lists.
Coastal Carolina finished the regular season 8 games under .500 due to poor performances on the defensive end of the court. The Chanticleers allowed an average of 73.6 points per game. Opponents shot 42.4% overall against Coastal Carolina and 34.9% from behind the 3-point line. The Chanticleers allowed an average of 33.0 rebounds per game while averaging 37.3 boards per contest led by Essam Mostafa with an average of 9.9 boards per game. Jomaru Brown led Coastal Carolina in steals with an average of 1.2 per game and Jimmy Nichols was the swat leader with an average of 0.9 blocked shots per game.
Coastal Carolina's offense generated an average of 73.5 points per game which was 135th in the country. The Chanticleers had a field goal shooting percentage of 43.5% and a 3-point shooting percentage of only 31.4% which were 251st and 323rd respectively. Josh Uduje was the leading scorer for Coastal Carolina with an average of 13.4 points per game but shot only 42.5% overall and 31.4% from downtown. Brown was the second leading scorer with an average of 12.7 points per game but shot even lower at 40.9% overall and 26.9% from three point land. Coastal Carolina has only one player in its top nine scorers that shoots over 50%. Henry Abraham is the leader in assists with an average of 2.6 dishes per contest.
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