LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two days after nearly upsetting ranked ACC program North Carolina, App State opens its Southern Conference on Sunday at Bellarmine. The match in Knights Hall begins at 1 p.m. and will be streamed on the BU Knights Sports Network.
The Mountaineers (0-2) took three of the first six matches against No. 5 NC State and split the 10 matches in a 17-15 loss to the 20
th-ranked Tar Heels.
Jonathan Millner and
Will Formato, who both have top-20 rankings from Flo Wrestling, each went 2-0 in those duals.
Under coach
JohnMark Bentley's direction, in the past seven seasons, App State's 44-5 conference record ranks No. 5 nationally in all of Division I wrestling behind just Missouri, Oklahoma State, Cornell and Penn State.
Bellarmine is 1-8 this season with a 19-18 win against SIU-Edwardsville to open the year.