Murray State University Athletics
Murray State
East Tennessee State
Racers Open Season At CFSB Center With ETSU
11/14/2010 5:11:43 PM | Men's Basketball
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CFSB Center
The 86th season of Murray State Basketball begins Monday (Nov. 15) when the Racers host the East Tennessee State Buccaneers at 7:30 p.m. at the CFSB Center. The Racers are coming off an 86-55 win last Tuesday over Freed-Hardeman in a game that saw 12 different MSU players score. Isaiah Canaan led MSU with 18 points, while Donte Poole added 17 and Ivan Aska had 13 to go with a team-high seven rebounds.
The Racers are playing their 13th home opener in the CFSB Center and are 12-0 in the building and 59-3 since 1948 and have won the last 20 since a triple-overtime loss to Southern Illinois at old Racer Arena in 1989. When it comes to season openers, the Racers are 50-12 since 1948 and are 2-3 in the last five seasons. Those three losses all came away from home to Cincinnati, San Diego State and last season against California.
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After putting together the best season in the history of the program in 2009-10, with a 31-5 record and a win over Vanderbilt in the NCAA Tournament, the Racers are indeed being noticed in the preseason by a variety of national media. The biggest attention so far has been in the two prominent national polls where MSU has received votes. MSU got 15 votes in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll and are 35th. MSU received four votes in the ESPN-USA Today Coaches Poll and are 43rd. This week ESPN's Andy Katz mentioned one of the games he'd like to see in the exempt tournaments at the beginning of the season is Murray State vs Virginia Tech at the 76 Classic in Anaheim, Calif., during Thanksgiving week.
The Racers were also selected fifth in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top-25 Poll (They finished sixth last season), 35th by The Sporting News, 37th by SportsBank.net, 41st by CollegeHoops.net and 47th by CollegeInsider.com.
MSU begins the 2010-11 season on a 19-game home winning streak which is fourth-best in the nation, behind Duke and Kentucky with 20. Kansas has the longest streak at the moment with 59 in a row. During MSU's streak, 13 wins have come against OVC opponents and six have come against non-conference teams including Morgan State and Chattanooga.
