Andrew Goudelock scored 19 points including the go-ahead basket with 25 seconds left as the College of Charleston scored the game's final 10 points over the last 1:57 en route to a 68-63 Southern Conference win over Appalachain State before 2,692 at the Holmes Center on Thursday.
The Cougars, who improved to 11-12 overall and 6-7 in league play with their second straight win, play at Davidson at 3:00 on Saturday. ASU fell to 14-8 and 9-4.
Appalachian overcame an 11-point second-half deficit to take a 63-58 lead on Ryann Abraham's three-pointer with 2:50 remaining in the contest.
However, Charleston's Tony White, Jr., who finished with 16 points, scored four straight points on a pair of free throws and a jumper in the lane to cut the ASU advantage to 63-62 with 1:16 to play.
The Mountaineers missed a jumper on their next possession and Goudelock answered with his game-winner in the lane. White, Jr. sank both ends of a one-and-one with 14.5 seconds left to give Charleston a 66-63 lead. After and ASU turnover, Jeremy Simmons hit both ends of his one-and-one opportunity with 6.6 seconds left to seal the win.
The lead changed hands 18 times in the back-and-forth affair. Neither team led by more than three in the first half, as the lead switched 12 times before the Cougars took a three-point halftime advantage.
Charleston opened the second half with an 8-0 run to stretch its lead to 11 less than two minutes into the period. Appalachian responded with a 20-8 run to take the lead back at 49-48 midway through the second half and advantage went back and forth four more times before ASU took its biggest lead of the game on Abraham's three-pointer, which unfortunately proved to be its final points of the evening.