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Aug. 8, 2024
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NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference and App State announced the 2024-25 conference schedule on Thursday. The 18-game slate includes nine games at the Holmes Convocation Center against conference foes, where the Mountaineers went unbeaten a season ago.
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The Mountaineers will open Sun Belt play on Dec. 18 at Louisiana before hosting Troy on Jan. 2 in their conference home-opener.
Other home highlights include contests with James Madison on Jan. 11, Georgia State on Feb. 1, and a homestand against Georgia Southern and Marshall Feb. 20 and Feb. 22 to close out the home schedule.
App State will also welcome Southern Miss to the Holmes Center on Feb. 5., marking the first time the Golden Eagles will visit the Holmes Center and their first trip to Boone since 1991.
Coach Kerns and his squad will tip off the 2024-25 season at the Holmes Center on Nov. 4 against the Miami (OH) RedHawks as part of the MAC-SBC Challenge. It will mark the first meeting between the two teams.
Following the regular-season schedule, the Mountaineers will trek to the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla., for the Sun Belt Tournament, which is slated to begin March 4, with the winner punching its ticket to the NCAA Tournament.
The 2024-25 conference schedule includes 12 matchups against Sun Belt East Division opponents. The Mountaineers went undefeated a season ago against Sun Belt East foes and are 35-14 (.714 winning percentage) against East Division opponents in the Dustin Kerns era.
App State will enter the 2024-25 season as the reigning Sun Belt regular-season champions after posting a program-best 16-2 record in Sun Belt play last season. It was the program’s first regular-season conference title since 1978-79. The Mountaineers were one of 13 teams in the country to post at least 16 conference wins in 2023-24.
Additionally, the Mountaineers were one of 12 teams in NCAA Division I to go undefeated at home. Entering the 2024-25 season, the Mountaineers own the 10th-longest home winning streak in the country and haven’t lost a game at the Holmes Convocation Center since Feb. 18, 2023.
The 2024-25 squad will feature two veteran returners in CJ Huntley and Myles Tate as well as an experienced group of newcomers and three freshmen. App State has posted five consecutive seasons with a winning percentage of .500 or better for the first time since 1987-92.
App State Men’s Basketball 2024-25 Conference Schedule
Home games in bold
Dec. 18 at Louisiana
Jan. 2 Troy
Jan. 4 Texas State
Jan. 8 Coastal Carolina
Jan. 11 James Madison
Jan. 16 at Old Dominion
Jan. 18 at James Madison
Jan. 23 at Arkansas State
Jan. 25 at ULM
Jan. 29 Old Dominion
Feb. 1 Georgia State
Feb. 5 Southern Miss
Feb. 8 at MAC Opponent TBD (opponent to be announced in January)
Feb. 13 at Coastal Carolina
Feb. 15 at Georgia State
Feb. 20 Georgia Southern
Feb. 22 Marshall
Feb. 25 at Georgia Southern
Feb. 28 at Marshall
March 4-10 SBC Tournament (Pensacola, Fla.)
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