Rantavious Gilbert, a 6-foot-8, 230-pound forward from Albany, Ga., has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Appalachian State, coach Jason Capel announced Friday.
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The Virginia women's basketball team, playing its third straight home game, took full advantage of the opportunity to beat Appalachian State 74-58 in the semifinals of the Women's NIT on Thursday night.
A loss to Samford for the second consecutive year in the Southern Conference championship game two weeks ago didn't exactly point to Appalachian State making a very deep run in the Women's NIT.
Appalachian State's women picked up the school's first-ever WNIT victory in a 79-73 win against UNC Wilmington on Thursday.
For Appalachian State's women's basketball team, which will have to settle for second place again, Monday's loss in the Southern Conference tournament championship game might have hurt worse than last season's.
Most of Appalachian State's players have a haunting memory of last season's loss in the championship game of the Southern Conference women's tournament.
Just when Appalachian State appeared to be getting the traction that had eluded it all season, UNC Greensboro put the brakes on any further momentum in the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference tournament on Saturday.
There's nothing like tournament time to bring about best efforts.
Andre Williamson had his alarm clock set for 7:30 this morning.
An accurate description of Anna Freeman, Appalachian State's "franchise player," and her style of play requires about as much intense effort as Freeman puts in on the basketball court.
Mike Young, who has coached Wofford to two straight Southern Conference men's basketball championships, remembers when he was an assistant at Wofford, before it joined the SoCon.
Taylor Hall hit 5 of 6 shots from 3-point range and scored a game-high 24 points to lead Chattanooga to an 80-71 Southern Conference win against visiting Appalachian State on Monday night.
Western Carolina avenged a previous loss to Appalachian State on Saturday and will enter next weekend's Southern Conference men's tournament on a roll.
Appalachian State's men's basketball team will play College of Charleston in the opening game of next weekend's Southern Conference Tournament in Asheville.
The Citadel ended Appalachian State's chances of landing a first-round bye for the Southern Conference tournament.
Appalachian State couldn't gain any ground in its Southern Conference race by stepping outside of league play Saturday for a BracketBusters matchup, but, for a team hoping to build late-season momentum, it might have helped the cause.
It hasn't been the senior season Omar Carter envisioned, but he is quick to point out that the season isn't over yet.
Appalachian State got a career-high 23 points from freshman point guard Mike Neal on Wednesday night. And it got a season-best 16 rebounds from senior big man Ike Butts.
Mike Neal said that neither he nor his Appalachian State teammates will give up.
Wofford continued its mastery of Appalachian State on Saturday, getting a masterful performance from floor leader Brad Loesing in a 66-64 victory at the Holmes Center.
Valorie Whiteside recently had a mammogram, which didn't detect anything unusual. Four months later, last October, which coincidentally was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, she found a lump in one of her breasts.
Appalachian State snapped a three-game losing skid Thursday night with a 79-69 victory against Furman in Greenville, S.C.
Much has changed in nine days for Appalachian State basketball.
Three days ago, Appalachian State was pondering the potential for a hot streak in the early stages of three straight home games. By day's end Saturday, the Mountaineers were left only with what could have been.
College of Charleston will visit Appalachian State at 2 p.m. today, but won't have venerable coach Bobby Cremins with it.
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