Murray State University Athletics
Saturday, March 1
Cape Girardeau, Mo.
5:30 p.m.
Murray State
at
Southeast Missouri
Photo by: Tab Brockman
Regular Season Final - Racers At SEMO Saturday
2/28/2014 11:28:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Game Notes I Live Audio I Live Stats I ESPN3 I OVC Digital
Date-Time: March 1, 5:30 p.m. CTÂ
Date-Time: March 1, 5:30 p.m. CTÂ
Site: Cape Girardeau, Mo.Â
Arena: Show Me Center
TV: Racer TV Network - Dave Winder & Eric Foister Radio: Racer Radio - WFGE 103.7 FM Neal Bradley & Paul Bubb
Web Streaming: Audio-GoRacers.com & Froggy103.com Video-ESPN3.com & OVC Digital Network
Live Stats: GoRacers.com
Twitter In Game: @MSURacers @RacerDave23
Series: Â MSU leads 52-18 Home: MSU leads 25-9Â Away: MSU leads 26-8 Neutral: Tied 1-1Â
OVC Series: MSU leads 39-9
OVC Tournament: SEMO leads 2-1
First Meeting: 1931
Last Meeting: 1-2 MSU won H 85-72
MSU Last Game: 2-27 A UTM won 86-72
MSU Next Game: 3-7 N OVC Semifinals
Steve Prohm vs SEMO: 4-1
SEMO Last Game: 2-27 H Won 83-80 APSU
SEMO Next Game: 3-5 N OVC Tournament
The Murray State Racers have their eye on the prize and that is their 24th Ohio Valley Conference regular season championship. The Racers (18-9) are 13-2 in the OVC and tied with the Belmont Bruins each with one game to play. The Racers are at Southeast Missouri Saturday, while BU is at Jacksonville State.
MSU at SEMO will be carried by the Racer TV Network locally on the cable systems of Time Warner, Murray Electric and Mediacom. ESPN3.com will also carry the game. All MSU games are on Racer Radio over the air on Froggy 103.7 FM. Online audio is available on Froggy103.com and GoRacers.com. The OVC Digital Network has free streaming video online
MSU's 5:30 p.m. tip at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is against a Redhawks squad that secured a spot in next week's OVC Tournament with an 83-80 win over Austin Peay Thursday night.
The Racers and Redhawks close the OVC season after they opened it in Murray on Jan. 2. MSU won that game 82-75.
In Thursday's action, the Racers used a 32-18 run in the final 15 minutes to get past UT Martin on the road 86-72. MSU's fifth straight victory matches their previous long win streak that came at the start of the OVC season. T.J. Sapp led MSU with 20 points off the bench and Cameron Payne scored 17 points and dished out eight assists. Jarvis Williams was a rebound shy of a double-double with 14 points and nine rebounds.
On the final day of the regular season, the OVC Tournament field will be set by the end of the day's play. There are many things we already know about next week's conference bash at Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. We know that Belmont (13-2) and Murray State (13-2) will be either the No. 1 or No. 2 seeds and will receive double byes to the semifinals. We also know that the Racers, Bruins and Eastern Kentucky, Morehead State, SEMO, SIUE and Tennessee Tech have clinched spots in the field. We know one spot remains and it will go to only one.....Austin Peay or Eastern Illinois. Morehead State and EKU have clinched the No. 3 & No. 4 seeds and get single byes to the quarterfinals. Which one is No. 3 and No. 4 will be decided Saturday.
Cameron Payne had already set the MSU record for single-season OVC Freshman of the Week awards when he earned the honor Monday for the ninth time this season. Payne, out of Bartlett, Tenn., eclipsed the MSU mark of four by Lamont Sleets in the 1979-80 season and is only two off the OVC record of 11. Eastern Kentucky's Matt Witt set the mark in 2002-03.
The Racers have started the same five (Cameron Payne, Dexter Fields, Jeffery Moss, Jarvis Williams and Jonathan Fairell) in every game this season except for one. At EIU (Jan. 16) Fields was a scratch moments before tip when he slipped on a wet rug. T.J. Sapp was the emergency starter. Fields ended up playing 27 minutes in the game was wasn't injured in a major way.
The Murray State Racers have their eye on the prize and that is their 24th Ohio Valley Conference regular season championship. The Racers (18-9) are 13-2 in the OVC and tied with the Belmont Bruins each with one game to play. The Racers are at Southeast Missouri Saturday, while BU is at Jacksonville State.
MSU at SEMO will be carried by the Racer TV Network locally on the cable systems of Time Warner, Murray Electric and Mediacom. ESPN3.com will also carry the game. All MSU games are on Racer Radio over the air on Froggy 103.7 FM. Online audio is available on Froggy103.com and GoRacers.com. The OVC Digital Network has free streaming video online
MSU's 5:30 p.m. tip at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is against a Redhawks squad that secured a spot in next week's OVC Tournament with an 83-80 win over Austin Peay Thursday night.
The Racers and Redhawks close the OVC season after they opened it in Murray on Jan. 2. MSU won that game 82-75.
In Thursday's action, the Racers used a 32-18 run in the final 15 minutes to get past UT Martin on the road 86-72. MSU's fifth straight victory matches their previous long win streak that came at the start of the OVC season. T.J. Sapp led MSU with 20 points off the bench and Cameron Payne scored 17 points and dished out eight assists. Jarvis Williams was a rebound shy of a double-double with 14 points and nine rebounds.
On the final day of the regular season, the OVC Tournament field will be set by the end of the day's play. There are many things we already know about next week's conference bash at Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. We know that Belmont (13-2) and Murray State (13-2) will be either the No. 1 or No. 2 seeds and will receive double byes to the semifinals. We also know that the Racers, Bruins and Eastern Kentucky, Morehead State, SEMO, SIUE and Tennessee Tech have clinched spots in the field. We know one spot remains and it will go to only one.....Austin Peay or Eastern Illinois. Morehead State and EKU have clinched the No. 3 & No. 4 seeds and get single byes to the quarterfinals. Which one is No. 3 and No. 4 will be decided Saturday.
Cameron Payne had already set the MSU record for single-season OVC Freshman of the Week awards when he earned the honor Monday for the ninth time this season. Payne, out of Bartlett, Tenn., eclipsed the MSU mark of four by Lamont Sleets in the 1979-80 season and is only two off the OVC record of 11. Eastern Kentucky's Matt Witt set the mark in 2002-03.
The Racers have started the same five (Cameron Payne, Dexter Fields, Jeffery Moss, Jarvis Williams and Jonathan Fairell) in every game this season except for one. At EIU (Jan. 16) Fields was a scratch moments before tip when he slipped on a wet rug. T.J. Sapp was the emergency starter. Fields ended up playing 27 minutes in the game was wasn't injured in a major way.
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