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Western Carolina

Season: 2026 2025 2024
Also known as: Western Carolina Catamounts
Program History
Coach: Tim Craft

2026 Team Stats (53 games)

68.3
PPG
77.3
Opp
+1.2
Margin
41.0%
FG%
31.5%
3P%
72.9%
FT%
37.0
RPG
11.8
APG
15.4
TO
81.8
Pace

Model Outputs

2025-2026

Output is shown as model rating with league rank in parentheses when available.

Model Output Notes
Bradley-Terry Recency 997 (#332) -
Margin Recency -19.6 (#600) HCA +2.5
Points Off/Def Recency 0.441 (#521) AdjO 71.7 | AdjD 74.3
Core Ensemble 0.143 (#632) Blend of elo, bradley_terry_recency, margin_recency, pythagorean_log_adjusted, points_off_def
Recency Ensemble 0.191 (#632) Blend of elo, bradley_terry_recency, margin_recency, pythagorean_log_adjusted, points_off_def_recency
KenPom Kitchen Sink 0.030 (#701) -
Dynamic BT 872 (#570) HCA +45.0

2026 Schedule & Results

Date Vs/At Opponent Result Score
2025-11-03 @ Cincinnati L 63 - 94
2025-11-08 @ Duke L 54 - 95
2025-11-13 vs Voorhees W 95 - 44
2025-11-16 vs Stetson W 76 - 65
2025-11-19 vs UNC Asheville W 80 - 73
2025-11-22 @ Lipscomb L 62 - 83
2025-11-29 @ High Point L 73 - 93
2025-12-02 vs Virginia-Lynchburg W 124 - 62
2025-12-06 @ USC Upstate L 67 - 78
2025-12-11 @ Virginia Tech L 74 - 96
2025-12-18 @ Georgia L 82 - 112
2025-12-31 vs Wofford L 74 - 79
2026-01-03 @ Furman W 80 - 77
2026-01-07 @ Samford L 77 - 82
2026-01-10 @ The Citadel L 77 - 79
2026-01-14 vs ETSU W 72 - 68
2026-01-17 vs Chattanooga L 82 - 90
2026-01-21 @ Mercer L 76 - 88
2026-01-24 vs VMI W 88 - 58
2026-01-29 @ ETSU W 90 - 88
2026-02-01 vs Samford L 74 - 88
2026-02-04 @ UNC Greensboro L 78 - 81
2026-02-07 @ Wofford L 66 - 77
2026-02-11 vs The Citadel W 87 - 49
2026-02-14 @ Chattanooga W 81 - 76
2026-02-18 vs UNC Greensboro W 91 - 77
2026-02-21 @ VMI W 81 - 62
2026-02-25 vs Mercer W 78 - 74
2026-02-28 vs Furman W 86 - 67
2026-03-07 @ Mercer W 77 - 73
2026-03-08 @ ETSU L 67 - 69

2026 Roster

Minutes by Position

The surface stays filled across the five on-court roles, with four dividers separating the position buckets.

Player Pos GP MIN PTS REB AST STL BLK TO FGA Numbers PM PM/G PM/40 FG% 3P% FT% RAPM TS% eFG%
Cord Stansberry G 29 33.0 16.2 4.2 2.2 0.9 0.0 1.4 13.7 8.4 - - - 37.3 30.0 79.4 - 51.2 45.1
Marcus Kell F 30 34.7 15.8 5.7 1.1 0.7 0.2 1.3 12.7 9.5 - - - 44.1 31.4 70.1 - 54.4 50.7
Julien Soumaoro G 26 28.8 12.6 3.6 2.4 0.8 0.0 2.0 10.6 6.9 - - - 41.5 38.9 77.3 - 55.5 53.3
Tidjiane Dioumassi G 28 29.0 10.1 3.3 3.3 1.0 0.1 2.2 8.9 6.7 - - - 44.2 36.5 68.4 - 51.4 48.8
Tahlan Pettway G 29 24.5 9.9 2.3 2.6 1.1 0.0 1.4 7.7 6.8 - - - 44.4 39.8 73.5 - 58.7 56.3
Samuel Dada F 30 21.9 7.3 8.2 0.8 0.6 0.9 0.8 4.6 12.4 - - - 67.9 0.0 79.1 - 70.5 67.9
Justin Johnson G 29 17.2 7.1 2.6 0.9 0.6 0.3 1.1 6.3 4.0 - - - 39.7 21.3 62.5 - 47.0 42.4
CJ Hyland G 21 14.6 6.0 1.1 1.1 0.5 0.1 1.2 4.7 3.0 - - - 39.4 40.0 82.5 - 54.5 47.5
Abdulai Fanta Kabba C 28 19.9 5.3 6.6 0.4 0.8 1.0 1.0 3.6 9.6 - - - 67.3 0 31.0 - 62.4 67.3
Fischer Brown G 11 11.9 2.7 1.3 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.5 2.7 1.6 - - - 46.7 11.8 0 - 50.0 50.0
Chase McKey F 4 8.6 2.0 1.8 0.2 0.5 0.0 0.2 1.2 3.0 - - - 60.0 0 100.0 - 68.0 60.0
Drew Hollifield G 7 2.0 1.9 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.7 0.1 - - - 41.7 28.6 50.0 - 50.5 50.0
Tayeshaun Smith F 29 10.8 1.6 1.8 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.5 1.4 2.4 - - - 40.5 15.4 78.6 - 48.8 42.9
Vernon Collins F 6 6.6 1.0 3.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.2 1.0 3.3 - - - 50.0 0.0 0 - 50.0 50.0
Max Williams G 7 1.6 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 - - - 0.0 0 0 - 0.0 0.0
Titian DeRosa Titian DeRosa G 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 - - - 0 0 0 - 0 0

Advanced: Numbers = PTS+REB+AST+STL+BLK-TO-FGA, PM = total +/-, PM/G = per game, PM/40 = per 40 minutes, RAPM = Regularized Adj Plus-Minus, TS% = True Shooting, eFG% = Effective FG