Greenville, S.C. – Furman men's basketball opens a four-game road swing on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Charleston Southern for a 2 p.m. tip-off at Buccaneer Fieldhouse.
 
Saturday's contest will be streamed live on ESPN+. There will be no Furman radio broadcast due to its conflict with the Paladins' season football finale at Mercer on Saturday afternoon.
 
The Paladins, who are receiving votes in this week's Associated Press Top 25 Poll and are ranked No. 15 in the latest College Insider Mid-Major Top 25, are in search of their sixth straight win to start the 2024-25 season after rolling to a 124-48 win over Oglethorpe on Wednesday night to improve to 5-0. Furman's 124 points versus the Stormy Petrels were the most by a Paladin squad since a 126-33 victory over Virginia Intermont on December 29, 2004. The 76-point margin of victory was also the largest since the Virginia Intermont contest.
 
Senior PJay Smith Jr., despite playing only 14 minutes, paced the Paladins with 29 points and set a new school standard for three-point percentage on seven or more attempts by draining 9-of-10 triples. Freshman Mason Smith added a career-high 20 points, and the Paladins matched a school record with 34 assists on the night.
 
Saturday's road game marks the 18^th all-time meeting between the Paladins and Bucs with Furman holding a 10-7 series advantage. Furman has won the last two meetings and four of the last five, including a 91-47 decision in the most recent encounter on November 12, 2019, at Buccaneer Fieldhouse.
 
Charleston Southern enters the match-up at 1-5 on the season following a 77-68 loss at LSU on Tuesday night. The Bucs downed Morris College in their only previous home game this season, 108-50.
 
Following Saturday's trip to Charleston, Furman is scheduled to face Seattle in the Terry's Chocolate Vegas Showdown on Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., before tangling with top-ranked Kansas at Phog Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan., on Saturday November 30. The four-game road swing ends with a visit to Florida Gulf Coast on December 4.