The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Sports Arena competing as members of the Sun Belt Conference.

[18] The Panthers would go on to beat ULM as the Eagles beat UT-Arlington, pushing the Warhawks out of first place with no chance to recover, and making the final regular-season game at the Sports Arena the determining game for the winner of the Sun Belt regular season title.

[20] During the first half of the game, leading Sun Belt scorer Ryan Harrow fell with an injury to his knee, being helped off the court and unable to put pressure on his leg.

The Panthers would end up beating the Ragin' Cajuns 83–79 after allowing them to come back in the final minutes.

[31] After the final buzzer rang, the Panthers' head coach Ron Hunter rushed off the sidelines to embrace his son R. J.

The events on the court would make the team "the darlings of the NCAA tournament[36]", shooting the Panthers, and especially R. J. and Ron Hunter into fame.

Numerous memes and videos would be made in reference to Coach Hunter's fall, while the father-son story would result in news specials and national exposure to the team.

[38] After the season ended, attention to the Hunter family and the Georgia State program grew almost immediately as the TV channel covering the game switched its feed over to the post game press conference, airing video of a crying Ron Hunter explaining how proud of his team and his son he was.

[40] At the same time, the second and fourth most talked about moments of the tournament were Georgia State beating Baylor and R.J. Hunter hitting the game winning three-pointer, respectively, while R. J.

[44] It was later reported that Hunter had negotiated raises for his assistant coaches, and put pressure on the administration to begin the process of building a practice facility for the basketball team and improving the Sports Arena for the coming season.

[45] It was later reported that Ron and R. J. would join the Turner Sports broadcast team as guest analysts in their Atlanta studio during the following weeks games.