App State men’s basketball fell to University of South Carolina Upstate 80-74 in the first round of the College Basketball Classic Tuesday in the Holmes Convocation Center, concluding its season.
“I think that this group has made losses hurt, and that hasn’t been the case around here,” head coach Dustin Kerns said. “I think this group changed the narrative. It’s not ‘Oh, App State won,’ it’s ‘Oh, they lost.’”
The Mountaineers entered the postseason tournament after suffering a 71-66 defeat in the Sun Belt Tournament semifinals against Georgia State.
Both teams traded blows through the first 10 minutes, knotting the score up at 16 apiece until the 9:13 mark.