Dukes Embark on Final Regular-Season Road Trip at Coastal

Wednesday, February 18

Conway, S.C.

7 p.m.

James Madison University

Coastal Carolina

Dukes Embark on Final Regular-Season Road Trip at Coastal

2/17/2026 11:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball

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Game 28
Opponent: Coastal Carolina
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 18
Tipoff: 7 pm (eastern)
Location: Conway, S.C.
Arena: HTC Center
Watch: ESPN+
Radio: WSVA 92.1 FM | 550 AM

DUKES BEGIN STRETCH RUN AT COASTAL ON WEDNESDAY

James Madison men's basketball is set to embark on its final road trip of the regular season with a tilt against the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers on Wed., Feb. 18, in Conway, S.C. at 7 p.m.
JMU has won three straight games and enters Wednesday with a record of 14-13 (6-8 Sun Belt). Coastal Carolina is 16-11 (8-6 Sun Belt) after most recently taking down Louisiana 69-65 on Thurs., Feb. 12.
After Wednesday's game, the Dukes will head to Atlanta, Ga., to take on Georgia State on Sat., Feb. 21.

LAST TIME OUT: DUKES STIFLE MOUNTAINEERS, 69-58

Justin McBride scored 21 points and James Madison held App State to 35.2 percent shooting from the field in a 69-58 win over the Mountaineers on Saturday, Feb. 14 at the Atlantic Union Bank Center in Harrisonburg, Va.
The win gave JMU its first win against App State since Feb. 4, 2023 and first home win against the Mountaineers since Nov. 22, 2017. The Dukes got 11 points from Cliff Davis and 10 from Bradley Douglas and finished with a season-low five turnovers.
McBride's 21 points marked the junior's 10th game this season with 20 or more points – making him the first JMU player since Terrence Edwards Jr. in 2023-24 with 10 20-point games in the same season.
Luke Wilson and Alonzo Dodd each scored 18 points to lead the Mountaineers' scoring output. App State finished just 19-of-54 (.352) from the floor and 6-of-28 (.214) from behind the arc, while also going just 14-of-24 (.583) from the charity stripe.

LAST TIME VS. COASTAL CAROLINA

Mark Freeman scored the last eight points for James Madison men's basketball as the Dukes overcame a double-digit deficit against Coastal Carolina to win 74-73 on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025 in Conway, S.C.
JMU (17-10, 10-4 SBC) trailed Coastal Carolina (8-19, 1-13 SBC) by 10 with 12 minutes left but used a 10-0 run to take a 60-58 lead and the eight straight from Freeman at the end was enough to fight off the Chanticleers for its seventh consecutive Sun Belt win.

SERIES HISTORY VS. COASTAL CAROLINA

James Madison and Coastal Carolina have met seven times, with the Dukes taking all seven games.
All but one matchup has occurred since JMU joined the Sun Belt in 2022-23 - a 110-95 win for the Dukes on Jan. 8, 1987.
JMU is 3-0 in Conway and 4-0 against the Chanticleers in Harrisonburg.

NUMBERS TO KNOW

10: Justin McBride notched a pair of 20-point games last week, scoring 22 points against Georgia State and 21 against App State. He now has 10 20-point games this season, one of five Sun Belt players with that mark and one of nine JMU players to do so in the last 20 seasons.
42: JMU freshman Christian Brown finished with a block Thursday against Georgia State, bringing his 2025-26 season total to 42. He is now second on the JMU all-time freshman list for blocks, trailing only Andre Nation (47, 2012-13).
84: JMU guard Cliff Davis made six threes against Georgia State on Thursday, leading the Dukes with 26 points. Davis has 84 three-pointers this season, leading the Sun Belt and ranking eighth the JMU single-season threes list, needing one to tie Stuckey Mosley's 2017-18 output.
3: JMU enters this game with a three game winning streak for just the second time this season. The Dukes sit at 14-13 overall and 6-8 in the Sun Belt. As of Feb. 16, 12 of 14 Sun Belt Conference teams sit within three games of each other in the standings with two weeks left to play.