Presbyterian College opens the Hercules Tires Big South Championship as the #9 seed and will face a first round match at #8 seed Charleston Southern Tuesday, Mar. 3 ... Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m., and will air live on ESPN3, as well as on the radio at WPCC ... CSU leads the overall series, 24-8 ...

Game Information
Opponent: Charleston Southern
Date: Mar. 3, 2020
Site: Buccaneer Field House (Charleston, S.C.)
Radio: WPCC (https://tunein.com/radio/Large-Time-Network-1410-s21875/)
Announcers: Ryan Clary (PbP), Kenn Blankenship (Analyst)
TV Broadcast: ESPN3 (www.ESPN3.com)
Live Stats: www.CSUSports.coom (http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=311498)
Twitter: @BlueHoseSports
 
CSU leads the series 24-8
Last 2 meetings:
2020: PC 76, CSU 656
2020: CSU 74, PC 66
 
Charleston Southern
Record: 13-17, 7-11
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 29, 2020, vs. Presbyterian College, L 65-76, in Clinton, S.C.
Head Coach: Barclay Radebaugh
Career Record: 176-262 (16th year)
CSU Record: 155-254 (15th year)
vs. PC: 20-5
 
Presbyterian College
Record: 10-21, 7-11
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 29, 2020 vs. Charleston Southern , W 76-65, in Clinton, S.C.
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell
Career Record: 10-21 (1st year)
PC Record: 10-21 (1st year)
vs. CSU: 1-1
 
NOTES
Presbyterian College opens the Hercules Tires Big South Championship as the #9 seed and will face a first round match at #8 seed Charleston Southern Tuesday, Mar. 3 ... Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m., and will air live on ESPN3, as well as on the radio at WPCC ... CSU leads the overall series, 24-8 ...
 
PC is 2-7 overall in tournament play ... In 2015-16 PC picked up its first Division I postseason win, advancing to the quarterfinals with a 65-64 win over #7 Radford ... The second tournament win came in 2018-19, when the Blue Hose took a 106-59 decision over UNC Asheville in the first round ...
 ... PC and Charleston Southern last met in tournament action two seasons ago, falling to the Bucs, 51-68 ...
 
In the last meeting PC outscored Charleston Southern, 43-33, in the second half to break open a one-point halftime lead and earn the 76-65 win in the final regular season game ... Ben Drake recorded his fifth career- double-double with 21 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Blue Hose. ...
 
Charleston Southern is 13-17 overall and 7-11 in the conference after a 65-76 loss to the Blue Hose in its last contest ... Dontrell Shuler leads the team in scoring with 17.9 ppg, with Phlandrous Fleming close behind with 17.6 ppg, to go along with his team-leading 8.5 rebounds per game ... The Bucs are averaging 69.1 points, 32.4 rebounds, and 13.3 assists per game ...
 
PC is 10-21 overall and 7-11 in the league, and ended the regular season with a 76-65 win over Charleston Southern ... Cory Hightower leads the team in points (13.2), and rebounds (6.1) per game ... The Blue Hose are averaging 67.5 points, 33.6 rebounds, and 12.2 assists per game  ...
 
With 13 points at Radford earlier this season JC Younger hit the 1,000-point career plateau, which made him the fifth player in PC DI history to reach the historic number ... He is now in the top five in PC DI career scoring with 1033 ... With a three-pointer at Longwood JC also took over the top spot in the PC Division I career record book with 215 ... He now has 233 …
 
With 12 points against Gardner-Webb Cory Hightower eclipsed 500 career points (now at 736) ...
 
PC experienced a five-game winning streak earlier this season, which tied for the longest winning streak since the 2017 season when the team picked up five straight ... The Blue Hose have won at least four games in a row just twice in their Division I history ...
 
Ben Drake's career-high 16 rebounds in the first meeting against Gardner-Webb tied for fifth in the PC DI record book ... The team's 52 rebounds that same game tied for sixth in the PC DI record book ...
 
A young team in 2019-20, the Blue Hose have enlisted several new starters this season ... 11 times this season, four freshmen have started along with sophomore Cory Hightower ... Other starters have been Michael Isler, who is averaging 26.8 minutes, as well as Zeb Graham, Sean Jenkins, and Owen McCormack, who are averaging over 16 minutes a game ...
 
Michigan was the third and final team that PC played this season from one of the Power 5 conferences ... The Blue Hose faced ACC's Clemson on Nov. 7 and Notre Dame Nov. 18 ... Michigan was the only ranked opponent, sitting 14th/15th ...
 
The Blue Hose made their marks in the PC DI season stats record book this year ... Currently PC is third in scoring average (67.5), second in field goal percentage (.452), third in free throws made (408), rebounds (1042), and rebounding average (33.6), second in assists (378) and in assists average (12.2), and first in rebounding margin (0.4) ...
 
Several Blue Hose have shown up in the Big South stats ... Cory Hightower is 14th in scoring (13.2) and seventh in rebounds (6.1), while Ben Drake is 11th in rebounding (5.5) ... Chris Martin is 11th in assists (2.6), Hightower is 13th (2.5) ... Hightwoer is also seventh in free throw pct. (.774) ... Martin is tied for ninth in steals (1.4) ... Hightower is eighth in minutes played (32.6) ...
 
In conference play the Blue Hose are in the top five in several categories, including free throw percentage (.732 - 2nd), field goal percentage (.475 - 2nd), rebounding defense (30.6 - 1st), as well as third in rebounding margin (+2.8 - 3rd) ...
 
A new season brought a new coaching staff with the addition of 2007 PC alum Quinton Ferrell ... An integral member of the basketball team as a student-athlete he served as an assistant coach from graduation to 2012 ... After stops at The Citadel and Army, he settled at College of Charleston for five seasons from 2014-19 ... In his fourth season the Cougars made a memorable run that included the program's second-straight 25-win campaign, an impressive 26-8 overall record and 14-4 mark in CAA play ... The co-regular-season champions won the CAA Men's Basketball Championship and earned their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1999 ...
 
Ferrell brought with him a new staff with the additions of Ben Korren, Trey Meyer, Nick Lagroone as assistant coaches, Trey Johnson as Director of Basketball Operations, and Erik Goldbach as Video Coordinator ...
 
The Blue Hose are looking for another strong season at the Templeton Center in 2019-20, after finishing 12-3 at home last season ... The 12 wins at home was the most in its DI history ... PC finished 7-6 at home this season ...
 
The 20 wins in 2018-19 by the Blue Hose were most in PC DI history ... The Blue Hose recorded 14 wins in 2011-12 (14-15) ... The record for most wins all-time is 27, set in 92-93 and 2002-03 ... The last time the Blue Hose won at least 20 games was in 2006-07, the final year of Division II, the team went 20-9 ...
 
Last season PC posted nine conference wins (9-7), which was tied for the most in its DI history ... The Blue Hose were 9-9 in 2008-09 ... The team finished 7-11 in Big South play ...
 
PC has made at least one three-pointer in the last 406 games ... PC has hit one three-pointer in several games, the last against Clemson in 2015, but has not been held without one in its entire Division I history ...