CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Andrew Lawrence scored 16 points, Anthony Thomas had 14 with seven rebounds, and College of Charleston went on a 21-6 second-half run to beat Appalachian State 72-59 on Wednesday night.
Trent Wiedeman and Anthony Stitt had 10 points apiece for the Cougars (15-7, 6-3 Southern Conference), who have won three in a row.
Tevin Baskin scored 16 points off the bench and Jay Canty had 11 for Appalachian State (8-12, 4-5), which has lost four of its past five.
Appalachian State closed to within two at 44-42 on Tab Hamilton's jumper with 14:28 left, but the Cougars pushed it to 58-48 with 9:02 remaining and led 65-48 on Wiedeman's layup with 4:16 left.
Appalachian State trimmed the lead to 65-55 on Michael Obacha's layup with 3:33 remaining, but the Cougars cruised to the victory.
Charleston made 17 of 25 from the line, while Appalachian State hit 7 of 10.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Appalachian State (8-12) | 35 | 24 | 59 |
| College of Charleston (15-7) « | 33 | 39 | 72 |
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| Appalachian State Mountaineers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| N. Healy, F | 38 | 2-13 | 0-0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| M. Obacha, F | 23 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| M. Neal, G | 35 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| J. Canty, G | 31 | 5-13 | 1-2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| T. Hamilton, G | 30 | 4-8 | 0-1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Baskin | 20 | 6-12 | 3-3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| J. Trice | 18 | 2-7 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| C. Burgess | 5 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Totals | 24-64 | 7-10 | 37 | 9 | 19 | 59 | |
| 37.5% | 70% | ||||||
| College of Charleston Cougars | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Thomas, F | 35 | 6-10 | 1-2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| A. Baru, F | 32 | 1-1 | 7-10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| W. Hall, F | 21 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| A. Lawrence, G | 36 | 4-11 | 6-7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| A. Stitt, G | 35 | 4-10 | 1-4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Wiedeman | 21 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| N. Johnson | 11 | 0-3 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| T. Johnson | 5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| M. Sundberg | 4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-55 | 17-25 | 39 | 16 | 11 | 72 | |
| 45.5% | 68% | ||||||
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