Racers Push Win Streak To 19 With APSU Win

Saturday, February 7

Clarksville, TN

7 p.m.

Murray State

21-4 (11-0OVC)

Austin Peay

7-17 (2-8OVC)

Murray State

Austin Peay

Photo by: Tab Brockman

2/7/2015 9:18:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

Box Score

The Murray State Racers won for the 19^th straight time Saturday in an 82-72 victory at Austin Peay in the Dunn Center in Clarksville, Tenn.

The Racers improved to 21-4 and 11-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference, while APSU fell to 7-17 and 2-8.

T.J. Sapp and Cameron Payne each scored 27 points and combined for 15 of MSU's 25 field goals.

Sapp was mostly responsible for an amazing 11-0 for the Racers in the final 1:41 of the first half. Sapp scored 10 points in the run as the Racers jumped in front at the intermission 42-26.

When Payne hit a 3-pointer to start the second half, MSU had its largest lead of the day at 19 points 45-26.

MSU led by as many as 21 points with 16:00 remaining before APSU cut the lead to 56-50 at the 8:52 mark.

The Racers managed foul problems and pushed the lead back to 79-66 with a minute left and made it to the 82-72 final.

The Racers get ready for another big week in the OVC. They host SIUE Thursday at 7 p.m., then travel to Cape Girardeau, Mo., next Saturday (Feb. 14) to play Southeast Missouri State at the Show Me Center at 6 p.m..

Game Notes
MSU pushed their road winning streak to eight with the win. MSU hasn't lost on the road since the Xavier game (Nov. 24) in Cincinnati.

The Racers made it to the magic 80-point mark tonight and are 14-0 this season when doing so. MSU is 41-3 in the Coach Steve Prohm era.

Prohm is 7-0 against Austin Peay in four seasons. MSU leads the all-time series with the Govs now 77-41. MSU is 28-27 in road games. MSU has won six straight at APSU since their last loss in 2009.

MSU hosts Austin Peay at the CFSB Center on Feb. 21. The 1 p.m. tip will be televised by the CBS Sports Network.

APSU was the final team in the OVC that MSU had not played. The rest of the season, the Racers play all West Division teams.

T.J. Sapp set a career-high tonight with 27 points. He bested his 25-point performance from a game at Western Kentucky (12-21-14), which was his second game in a MSU uniform.

The Racers extended the nation's second longest win streak to 19 tonight. Kentucky still has the top mark with their 23-0 start. The Wildcats won at Florida tonight 68-61. Stephen F. Austin has the third longest streak at 18 after they won at Houston Baptist 95-59. SFA plays at Northwestern State Monday in Natchitoches, La. UK plays at LSU Tuesday.

Senior Jarvis Williams took a step closer to becoming the 41^st member of the MSU 1000-Point Club. With his nine points tonight, he has 900 in his two-season career at Murray State. Jeffery Moss, a junior, stands at 845. Sophomore Cameron Payne made it to the coveted 1,000 mark in the UT Martin game (Jan. 31).