By Marc Lawrence, Playbooksports.com — From this week’s PLAYBOOK Basketball Newsletter: When Georgia state fell to Appalachian State in the championship game of the Sun Belt tourney as 7-point favorites last season, the plug was immediately pulled on a terrific 16-6 season.
And while they finished the campaign with the highest win percentage of any team in the loop, it meant little with COVID lurking in the background for second-year coach Rob Lanier’s troops.
Had they beat App State, and cut down the nets, they would have gone dancing. And today is their shot at revenge.
The host team in this series is 10-3 ATS, with Georgia State going 5-0 ATS in its last five games as the host.
