Road Racers Take On Purple Aces in Evansville

Wednesday, January 29

Evansville, IND.

7 p.m.

Murray State

Evansville

Photo by: David Eaton-Murray State Athletics

1/28/2025 11:28:00 AM | Men's Basketball

The Racers are looking for their fourth road win this season in MVC

Game Day Story Lines

2024-25 is the 100th season of collegiate basketball at Murray State & third in The MVC.
For the 45th time overall and the sixth time in MVC, MSU meets the Evansville Purple Aces.
The Racers won first meeting this season in early December 63-61 in Murray.
MSU is 13-9 at Evansville all-time.
In the Ford Center MSU is 11-4 all-time, which includes several seasons as members of the Ohio Valley Conference, when they won three OVC tournament championships there in 2018, 2019 & 2022.
Since joining the Missouri Valley Conference in the 2022-23, MSU has won both of their games in the Ford center against the Purple Aces.
The Racers had a mixed bag of results last week with a road win in Carbondale 74-64 against Southern Illinois and a home defeat 95-77 to Belmont.
JaCobi Wood became the 48th player to join Racers' 1000-point club in Belmont game and has 1,010 points in 85 career games with MSU.
Alden Applewhite has 499 career points in 75 career games with Mississippi State, Portland and Murray State.
The Racers No. 55 in the nation in defending the 3-point shot (.305), have not given 10 or more in 21 games this season.
It's a double road trip week for the Racers as they travel to Springfield Saturday to take on the Missouri State Bears in their first and only meeting of the 2024-25 season.