Murray State
Eastern Kentucky
MSU Drops 60-47 Puzzler At EKU
2/8/2008 6:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The Murray State Racers ran into a bad shooting stretch in a 60-47 loss to Eastern Kentucky at McBrayer Arena in
MSU's Bruce Carter gave the Racers a 6-3 lead when he drilled a three-pointer at the 15:49 mark.
However, over the next four minutes, the colonels came up with five three-pointers of their own to jump in front 22-14 with 10:57 before half. EKU hit 8-of-11 from long range to start the game.
Carter scored a field goal on a dish from Ray George at the 10:26 mark and the Racers trailed 23-16. While the Racers were playing solid defense, they didn't score another point the rest of the half going 0-of-10 from the field. The Colonels didn't do much better, hitting only 1-of-13 to take a 29-16 lead at the break.
It was the Racers' defense that kept them in the game.
MSU held EKU to 10-of-26 (.385) from the field. The Racers were 7-of-22 (.318).
Tony Easley scored a three-point play to cut the EKU lead to 15 with 17:05 remaining in the second half.
The Racers made a run at the Colonels with six minutes left.
Kevin Thomas hit four straight from the line and added a baseline runner to cut the EKU lead to 47-34 with 5:10 left.
Thomas made a steal seconds later and fed Tyler Holloway for a three-pointer and the lead was down to 10 with 5:00 remaining.
The Racers never got any closer in the 60-47 final.
MSU suffered 24 turnovers in the game that led to 26 points by the Colonels.
Bruce Carter and Kevin Thomas each scored 10 points to pace the MSU attack.
GAME NOTES
MSU's 16-point half was the lowest of the season in 23 games. Their previous low was 23 points in both games at the UT-Chattanooga tournament against the Mocs and Belmont. The half was the Racers lowest since scoring 17 points on Nov. 12, 2006 at Saint Mary's CA at the beginning of last season.
Kevin Thomas has hit six straight free throws. The best of the season for MSU is 19 from Tyler Holloway.
Thomas also has a streak of 21 straight games with at least one assist.
Danero Thomas had a streak of 10 straight games with a three-pointer end tonight when he went 0-1.
MSU travels to
In their first meeting of the season on Dec. 8, the Racers won at the
