Murray State University Athletics
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MSU At JSU Saturday For Share Of OVC Title
2/12/2010 6:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Game 27
Murray State
(23-3) (14-0 OVC)
at
Tennessee Tech
(11-13) (7-7 OVC)
Saturday 4:30 p.m.
Mathews Arena
Jacksonville, Ala.
Racer TV Network
The Murray State Racers play their second road game of the week in Jacksonville, Ala. Saturday in a 4:30 p.m. tip at Pete Mathews Colliseum on the Racer Television Network.
The Racers continue to be one of the hottest teams in all of college basketball after they defeated Tennessee tech Thursday 94-62 to push the nation's second-best winning streak to 14 and their overall mark to 22-3. B.J. Jenkins scores a career-high 23 against the Golden Eagles with 18 points coming in the second half. The Racers are undefeated in the Ohio Valley Conference at 14-0 and have won 21 straight OVC regular season league games.
MSU can clinch a share of the league title with a win.
The Racers enter the contest seventh-place in the Mid-Major Top-25 poll and they're still ranked in the upper echelon in several statistical categories. MSU is second in the country in field goal percentage (.512) 14th in scoring defense (.383). MSU is also second in steals per game (11.0) and 17th in blocked shots per game (+5.8). They also have the distinction of being the only team in NCAA D-I leading their conference in both scoring offense (78.3) and scoring defense (59.8).
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The Racers' 14-game win streak has put them in the neighborhood of the program's all-time best of 16 straight set twice in the late 1930's under MSU's first head coach Carlisle Cutchin. The Racers started 1935 16-0 before a loss to WKU, and had another 16-game streak that bridged the final four games of that season and the start of 1936. That second 16-game streak was also stopped by a loss to the Hilltoppers.
The Racers have won 21 straight OVC regular season games dating back to the last time they lost Feb. 7, 2009 at Austin Peay. MSU is currently tied with the 2003-05 Austin Peay teams that also won 21 straight. MSU can tie the Racers teams from 1997-99 with 22 straight with one more win. WKU has the all-time mark of 25 set between 1965-67.
The Racers and Gamecocks can be seen on the Racer Television Network.
All Racer TV Network games are available to the combined 85,000 subscribers of NewWave, Mediacom and Comcast at no additional charge.
NewWave customers will see the games on channel 79 in all areas west of Kentucky Lake and on channel 3 in Hopkinsville and Madisonville.
Mediacom subscribers in Marshall, Calloway, Trigg, and Caldwell Counties can see the games on channel 23, except in Oak Grove, Ky., and Dover, Tenn., where the games will be seen on channel 97.
Comcast subscribers in McCracken and Massac County will see the game on channel 17.
The Racers' games at Morehead State (Feb. 25) and Eastern Kentucky (Feb. 27) are also on the RTVN.
