Racers Run Past Bruins In OVC Home Opener

Thursday, January 15

CFSB Center

8 p.m.

Murray State

14-4 (4-0OVC)

Belmont

10-7 (2-2OVC)

Belmont

Murray St.

Photo by: Tab Brockman

1/15/2015 11:04:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

The Murray State Racers put on a show for the home fans Thursday in taking a 92-77 win over the visiting Belmont Bruins at the CFSB Center in Murray, Ky.

The Racers improved to 14-4 and 4-0 in the Ohio valley Conference. They moved their winning streak to 12 straight, the third longest in the nation the nation.

Cameron Payne led a group of six Racers that scored in double figures with 23 points. Jarvis Williams scored 19 and T.J. Sapp added 15. Jeffery Moss tossed in 13 points, while the Racers got 10 each from Justin Seymour and Jonathan Fairell.

Fairell and Williams each had a double-double with 11 and 10 rebounds.

It was a game of runs and at the end of the day, the Racers had more of them.

With a 16-5 start, the Racers were rolling when Williams dunked off a Sapp assist, but the Bruins answered to cut the lead to 25-20 at the 7:39 mark. The Racers pushed to a 15-point lead at the 5:45 mark which was highlighted by a Moss three-point play and a 3-point basket from Seymour.

Belmont was able to trim MSU's lead to 46-37 at the half.

Again the lead was cut in the early second half to five points at the 18:37 mark and again the Racers answered with an impressive burst. Sapp capped a 15-3 run with a steal and slam to put the Racers in front 64-47 with 16:11 remaining. Another 9-3 run at the 4:23 mark put MSU up by 22 points at 90-68.

Game Notes
The Racers again made the 80-point mark a magic number tonight. MSU is 10-0 this season when getting to 80 and 37-3 in the Coach Steve Prohm era.

Prohm is now 89-27 (.767) in his fourth season at MSU.

The Racers had another lead at half tonight and are 11-1 this season when doing so. They're 67-9 in the Prohm era.

Since the season opening loss to Houston, the Racers have won seven straight at the CFSB Center. MSU's home OVC win streak is eight in a row since their last loss to SEMO on March 2, 2013.

Jonathan Fairell has back-to-back double-digit rebound games for the third time in his MSU career. The last was in the CIT run last spring against Omaha and Towson.

Jeffery Moss' six assists is a season-high.

The Racers return to action Saturday when they host the Tennessee State Tigers at 7 p.m. MSU has won the last four meetings in the series.