CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Mathiang Muo scored 17 points to lead Charleston Southern to a 75-64 victory over Coastal Carolina to claim the Big South Conference's regular-season championship on Saturday in the regular-season finale for both.
Arlon Harper and Saah Nimley had 15 points each for Charleston Southern (17-11, 12-4), which ended a two-game losing streak.
Charleston Southern shot 45.2 percent from the field (28 of 62) and made 15 of 34 3-pointers.
Anthony Raffa scored 23 points and Warren Gillis 19 for the Chanticleers (14-14, 9-7), who shot 48 percent (24 of 50) but managed only 3 of 16 of their 3-point shots.
Charleston Southern led 38-30 at halftime, and a 15-6 run to open the second half pushed its advantage to 53-36 on Tristian Curtis' layup with 12:16 remaining.
The Buccaneers stretched the lead to 20 points at 61-41 on Paul Gombwer's layup with 10:45 left and were never threatened.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Coastal Carolina (14-14) | 30 | 34 | 64 |
| Charleston Southern (17-11) « | 38 | 37 | 75 |
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| Coastal Carolina Chanticleers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| B. Diagne, F | 26 | 1-6 | 1-1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| E. Ndieguene, C | 30 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| A. Raffa, G | 32 | 7-16 | 7-8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 23 |
| W. Gillis, G | 31 | 8-11 | 2-3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 19 |
| K. Greenwood, G | 27 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Enanga | 32 | 1-5 | 1-3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| T. Curtis | 15 | 4-4 | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| C. Ashford | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Daniel | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 24-50 | 13-19 | 32 | 6 | 10 | 64 | |
| 48% | 68.4% | ||||||
| Charleston Southern Buccaneers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Muo, F | 33 | 6-12 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
| A. Fullah, C | 10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Sexton, G | 33 | 3-11 | 2-2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| A. Harper, G | 31 | 5-12 | 0-0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| S. Nimley, G | 29 | 6-13 | 0-1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| P. Gombwer | 25 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| M. Kennedy | 18 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| C. Bowen | 15 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| S. Strickland | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| M. Bernard | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 28-62 | 4-5 | 31 | 16 | 15 | 75 | |
| 45.2% | 80% | ||||||
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