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The Appalachian State women's basketball team, coached by Angel Elderkin, was one of the top teams in the Southern Conference, laying claim to six SoCon tournament titles and six regular season championships in a 26-year span. On February 19, 2011, the Appalachian State Mountaineer Women's Basketball Team won the 2011 Southern Conference ...
On December 7, 2019, Appalachian State also played in and won the second ever Sun Belt Championship Game, again hosting the Ragin' Cajuns of University of Louisiana at Lafayette at Kidd Brewer Stadium. The Mountaineers won an offense-laden game, 45–38. [105] Appalachian State went on to win the 2019 New Orleans Bowl over UAB, 31–17.
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The Mountaineers beat an AP Top 25 team for the first time as an FBS team. App State was still in the FCS when it beat No. 5 Michigan in 2007.
Appalachian State won two Southern Conference championships in 1986 and 1987 under Sparky Woods. [1] After Woods left to coach South Carolina, Jerry Moore was hired to replace him. Moore went on to become the longest-tenured and winningest coach in team history; the Mountaineers recorded a losing season only once in Moore's 24 seasons as head ...
Appalachian State finished second in the Sun Belt then defeated Miami (Ohio) in the Cure Bowl. Murphy earned All-Sun Belt third team honors for his play in 2023.
Appalachian State played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium on the school's Boone, North Carolina, campus, and competed as a member of the East Division of the Sun Belt Conference. The Mountaineers finished the season 6–6, going 3–5 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference's East Division.
The Appalachian State and Western Carolina rivalry dates back to 1932 with the Appalachian State Mountaineers holding a 59–18–1 advantage over the Western Carolina Catamounts. The two teams had squared off for 68 consecutive years since the game was suspended for World War II , 1942–1945.