College of Charleston NCAA News

Tennessee center Brian Williams knocks the ball loose from College of Charleston guard Tony White Jr.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn . - After allowing a double-digit lead to slip away in the waning minutes of the game, the ETSU men's basketball team held on to defeat College of Charleston 77-71 on Wednesday night at Memorial Center in Johnson City, Tenn.

Scotty Hopson scored 21 points and Tyler Smith added 18 to lead No. 9 Tennessee to an 86-69 win over College of Charleston on Friday night.

After a difficult ending to a week in paradise, No. 9 Tennessee looks to bounce back Friday night when it hosts the College of Charleston.

Justin Tubbs scored a career-best 29 points as East Tennessee State survived a late rally by the College of Charleston to win 77-71 on Wednesday night.

Dikembe Mutombo is joining the NBA as a global ambassador. The league announced Mutombo's hiring to the newly created position Tuesday, with commissioner David Stern calling the eight-time All-Star "one of sports' outstanding humanitarians." Besides being a four-time defensive player of the year, Mutombo is known for his charitable work.

Andrew Goudelock scored 18 points and Jeremy Simmons added 14 to help College of Charleston beat Winthrop 69-57 for its first win of the season on Monday night.

The 30,600-plus people who follow StephenCurry30 on Twitter know that the chef for the Golden State Warriors makes "some bomb waffles" and that the former Davidson star almost left his basketball shoes in his hotel room in Phoenix.

Joseph Harris scored 21 points and Coastal Carolina defeated College of Charleston 70-59 in the season opener for both teams on Friday night.

Men's college basketball gets into full swing throughout the Palmetto State tonight with all teams in action.

It's been a long road for one area basketball star back to his home state. Now he'll start his senior season against a college not too far from his hometown.

The College of Charleston men's basketball team got a little more than it wanted but emerged with a 94-92 overtime win over USC Aiken in an exhibition game played before 2,008 at Carolina First Arena.

CHARLESTON, S.C. a ' Byron Faison scored a game-high 35 points, but a Tony White, Jr.

SPARTANBURG - College of Charleston and Western Carolina are the favorites to capture the Southern Conference's divisional men's basketball titles in 2009-10, according to a vote by the leagues head coaches.

Behind eight first-place votes, College of Charleston was picked to win the South Division.

With the backcourt intact from last year's 27-win season -- led by star scorer Andrew Goudelock , the College of Charleston is poised for another 20-win season.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: The last time a Southern Conference team plucked a big name out of Charlotte Christian School, the basketball world started to pay attention to a relatively unheard of school named Davidson .

College of Charleston junior forward Antwaine Wiggins will miss the 2009-10 basketball season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

It wasn't long ago that Bobby Cremins wondered if he was done coaching. Now, he's agreed to stick around the College of Charleston even longer than he had planned.

It might be Charleston 's toughest ticket since the hanging of notorious pirate Stede Bonnet at White Point.