Game Information
Presbyterian Blue Hose at Charleston Southern
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.   
Site: Charleston, S.C. (Buccaneer Fieldhouse)
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: Sidearmstats.com
 
PRESBYTERIAN
Record: 10-15, Big South: 3-7
Last Game: February 5, 2025 – Presbyterian 75, USC Upstate 64
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell (Presbyterian, 2007)
Record at PC: 58-118 (6^th Season)
Career Record: Same

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN
Record: 9-17, Big South: 5-6
Last Game: February 8, 2025 – Charleston Southern 79, Gardner-Webb 72
Head Coach: Saah Nimley (Charleston Southern, 2015)
Record at Charleston Southern: 17-32 (2nd Season)
Career Record: Same
 
LAST TIME OUT – Presbyterian defeated USC Upstate, 74-64, in the Templeton Center last Wednesday. Kaleb Scott paced the Blue Hose with a double-double with 22 points and 14 rebounds. Kory Mincy scored 18 points. Iverson King scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds. Kobe Stewart scored 12 points. Presbyterian scored 54 points in the paint while recording 15 steals which is the most steals by the Blue Hose since December 7, 2015. The Blue Hose finished the game on a 10-0 scoring run holding USC Upstate scoreless for the final four and a half minutes of the game.
 
BLUE HOSE BY THE NUMBERS – Presbyterian averages 75.0 points per game and 34.6 rebounds. The Blue Hose are shooting 46.9 percent from the field and 36.5 percent from beyond the three-point arc. Mincy leads the team in scoring at 15.2 points per game and assists with 4.0 per game. Mincy has dished out 101 assists this year. Stewart is second on the team in scoring at 14.5 points per game. Stewart grabs 5.0 rebounds per contest. Jaylen Peterson leads the team in rebounding averaging 6.4 boards per game. Peterson is tied for the Big South lead in blocked shots with 38, averaging 1.5 blocks per game. Scott is second on the team in rebounding grabbing 5.8 boards per game while scoring 8.5 points per game. Jamahri Harvey, who has connected on 43 three-point field goals, averages 8.1 points per game. Carl Parrish is fifth on the team, scoring 6.7 points per game.
 
TWO-TIME BIG SOUTH FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK - Iverson King has earned the Big South Freshman of the Week award for two straight weeks (January 20, January 27). King is the eleventh player in the program's history to earn the Big South Freshman of the Week award and the seventh player to earn multiple Big South Freshman of the Week awards. He earned his first award after scoring 13 points while shooting 8-for-9 from the free throw line, grabbing three rebounds, and recording three steals at High Point (January 18). He claimed his second award after averaging 9.5 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 50 percent from the field in Presbyterian's two games that week.
 
BIG SOUTH PLAYERS OF THE WEEK - Mincy and Stewart have captured the Big South Player of the Week awards this season. Mincy and Stewart are the 10th and 11th players in the program's history named Big South Players of the Week. Mincy was named Big South Co-Player of the Week on November 11. Mincy earned the award after averaging 18.7 points and eight assists in Presbyterian's home game against Carolina Christian and road games at Charlotte and NC State. Stewart was named Big South Player of the Week on January 27 after averaging 22 points, four rebounds, and three assists in Presbyterian's two games while shooting 70.8 percent from the field and 60 percent from beyond the three-point arc.
 
THREE-POINT FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE - Presbyterian ranks third in the Big South and 66th in the NCAA in three-point field goal percentage at 36.5 percent (188-515). Presbyterian has had 11 games this season shooting over 40 percent from beyond the three-point arc which includes a season-best 50 percent (9-18) in the win over Wofford on Nov. 13, at South Carolina (5-10) on Dec. 30, and at home against UNC Asheville (11-22) on Jan. 11.
 
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE - Presbyterian has had eight games this season shooting at least 50 percent from the field. The Blue Hose are currently fifth in the Big South and 75th in the nation in field goal percentage at 46.9 percent (680-1450). The Blue Hose picked up right where they left off last season shooting 56.1 percent (32-57) from the field at Charlotte on November 4.  PC shot 62.3 percent (43-69) from the field in the win over Carolina Christian on Nov. 6. The Blue Hose shot 58.7 percent (37-63) from the field in the win over Columbia College on Dec. 11. Presbyterian shot 64.2 percent (43-67) in the win over Virginia Lynchburg (Dec. 18). PC shot 59.2 percent (29-49) against UNC Asheville (Jan. 11). The Blue Hose shot 55.6 percent (30-54) in the win over Charleston Southern (Jan. 22). PC shot 53.3 percent (32-6) in the win over USC Upstate (Feb. 5). Last season, Presbyterian had 12 games shooting 50 percent or higher from the field while leading the Big South in field goal percentage at 47.2 percent.
 
1,000 CAREER POINTS - Jonah Pierce recorded his 1,000th point in his college career with a basket with six seconds left in the Charlotte game  (November 4). Pierce went over the 1,000 points mark in impressive fashion scoring 22 points (shooting a perfect 11-for-11 from the field) in the game.
 
Stewart went over the 1,000 points mark in his Presbyterian career also in dramatic fashion after needing one point to reach 1,000, he scored a career-high 28 points against Radford (January 25). He scored his 1,000th point with a jumper in the lane at the 15:55 mark of the first half.
 
PC COACH QUINTON FERRELL - Quinton Ferrell is in his sixth season as the head coach of his alma mater, Presbyterian College. Ferrell, a former Blue Hose team captain and a 2007 PC graduate, is one of 50 coaches in the NCAA Division I ranks who are coaching their alma maters.
 
PRESBYTERIAN-CHARLESTON SOUTHERN SERIES  - Wednesday's game will be the 41^st meeting between Presbyterian and Charleston Southern, who leads the series 27-13. Presbyterian has won five of the last six matchups including the last three. Presbyterian defeated Charleston Southern, 71-61, in their first meeting this season in the PC's Templeton Center on January 22. Stewart and Mincy scored 16 points apiece. Parrish scored 11 points off the bench. King grabbed 10 rebounds in the win. Presbyterian beat Charleston Southern, 68-61, in their last matchup at CSU on January 3, 2024. Harvey scored 10 points in the game.

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN – The Buccaneers have won three of their last four games. CSU averages 73.7 points and 37.8 rebounds per game. Senior forward Taje Kelly leads the Big South in scoring (20.7 ppg) and rebounding (9.1 rpg).