Austin Peay: It is "Coming Home Week" at Austin Peay where the Men's and Women's basketball programs will play host to Tennessee Tech on Thursday Night. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the "Hoops for Haiti" project APU has intiated, and the students of APU will be inacting a whiteout for the event.
Eastern Illinois: The Panthers have signed an additional two Junior College transfers. On the first day JUCO players could sign National Letters of Intent in mid December the Panthers signed three players. New additions Eric Varela and Clinton Simpkins will add to the offensive and defensive lines respectively and also add to the new faces around campus.
Eastern Kentucky: EKU baseball has announced that it will kick off their season with the 11th annual Daimond Legacy Dinner on Saturday, Febuary 5th at 6pm in the Keen Ballroom. Key note speaker for the dinner will be Josh Anderson. Anderson was drafted by the Houston Astros and is a former player and hall of famer of EKU's program.
Jacksonville State: JSU's Laveeta Oliver set a new JSU indoor track and field record with a time of 7.56 in the 60 meter dash. Also, former JSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux signed a future/reserve contract with the New York Giants.
Morehead State: Last week standout Kenneth Faried was named to the Wooden Award Midseason watch list, one of the most prestigous awards for college basketball. His coach Donnie Tyndall has stated, "there's no question he (Faried) is one of the top 20 players in college basketball and he deserves to be on the list." Faried is definitely making some noise around the nation, and why not when you can fly like this.
Murray State: Planning is under way for a new basketball specific practice facility at Murray State. The new facility could be completed and ready for start of the fall 2012. The new facility would legitimize MSU as a top program, according to the Head Men's Coach Billy Kennedy. Other planning like adding luxury boxes to the CFSB Center and moving the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame there is under way as well. Read more in the article outlining the new plans.
Southeast Missouri State: State has announced the "Show Me Sellout- Part II". The event will take place as the Redhawks host Tennessee Tech in a double header January 29th. Students are orgainizing a blackout and the University is offering ways to help disadvantaged youth get out to see the game on their website.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: SIUE has just announced that for the fall semester of 2010 the University's student athletes posted the highest cummalitive GPA in the last decade, 3.172. "Timely graduation continues to be a top priority for our student athletes and Intercollegiate Athletics. The support and stucture that is in place hel
ps our student athletes excel in the classroom," said Director of Athletics Dr. Brad Hewitt.Tennessee State: TSU Men's Basketball currently sits third in the OVC after handing Austin Peay their first conference loss of the season in OT. Wil Peters was awarded Adidas Athlete of the Week after scoring seven of TSU's eleven overtime points, while Kenny Moore was named Adidas OVC Co-Newcomer of the Week after scoring a game high 20 points and securing his fourth double-double of the season.
Tennessee Tech: Kevin Murphy has become the 32nd Golden Eagle to joing the 1,000 point club while dropping 31 points against Murray State on Saturday night. On the women's side Tacarra Hayes is edging ever closer to achieving the same feat, needing just 81 more points to reach the mark.
UT Martin: Adidas OVC Freshman of the Week Jasmine Newsome and the UT Martin Skyhawks will put their 10 game home winning streak on the line tonight as they face Southeast Missouri tonight. Get live stats here.
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