2013-14 Murray State Basketball Game Notes
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2013-14 MURRAY STATE BASKETBALL GAME NOTES Dave Winder, Assistant AD - Media Relations • Office: (270) 809-4271 • Cell: (270) 293-0566 • [email protected] @MSURacers @RacersHoops • www.facebook.com/murraystateracers • www.GoRacers.com • Press Row: (270) 809-5551 GAME-34•COLLEGEINSIDER.COM TOURNAMENT•CHAMPIONSHIP•MURRAY, KY. GAME INFORMATION YALE BULLDOGS (19-13) (9-5 IVY LEAGUE - 2ND PLACE) Date-Time: April 3 - 6 p.m. Head Coach: James Jones (Albany, 1986) Site: Murray, Ky. Career Record: 209-220 (.487) (15th season) • At YALE: Same Arena: CFSB Center (8,600) TV: CBS Sports Network - Dave Popkin & Dave Calloway MURRAY STATE RACERS (22-11) (13-3 OVC - 2ND PLACE - WEST CHAMP) Radio: Racer Radio - WFGE 103.7 FM Head Coach: Steve Prohm (Alabama, 1997) Neal Bradley & Paul Bubb Career Record: 74-23 (.762) (3rd season) • At MSU: Same Web Streaming: Audio-GoRacers.com & Froggy103.com Live Stats: GoRacers.com STORY LINES Twitter In Game: @MSURacers @RacerDave23 The Murray State Racers will play the final game of the season in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. The Series History: First meeting Racers host the Yale Bulldogs in the CIT championship game Thursday (April 3) in a 6 p.m. tip off at the Steve Prohm vs Yale: 0-0 CFSB Center in Murray, Ky. CBS Sports Network will air the game live to a national television audience. All MSU CIT Appearance(Record): First (4-0) MSU games are heard on Racer Radio on Froggy 103.7 FM. Online audio is available on Froggy103.com and MSU NCAA Appearances(Record): 15 (3-15) GoRacers.com. The Racers (22-11) are looking for their first post-season title since taking the Ohio Valley MSU NIT Appearances(Record): 7 (2-7) Conference Tournament title in 2012. MSU Total Post-Season Appearances: 23 Including this season in the CIT MSU and Yale (19-13) have each survived four tough games to reach the final. The Racers began their first MSU Total Post-Season Record: 9-22 Including this appearance in the CIT with a road win at Missouri State (March 19). They’ve followed that with three straight season in the CIT home wins over Omaha, Towson and Pacific. Yale beat Quinnipiac at home (March 19) before winning three MSU Last Game: 4-1-14 CIT semifinals Won straight road games over Holy Cross, Columbia and VMI. home vs Pacific 98-75 The Racers and Bulldogs have met only once and that was on a neutral court. In 1978, they met in Greenville, S.C. at the Poinsettia Classic where the Bulldogs won 71-63. MSU is 2-1 against the Ivy League with neutral 2013-14 SCHEDULE-RESULTS court wins over Penn in 1984 in Portland, Ore., and Columbia in 1993 in Toledo, Ohio. NOVEMBER 08 Valparaiso (HorizonLeague.org) Away Lost 77-74 MSU has proved to be an offensive powerhouse in the CIT. In four wins, MSU is scoring 83 points per 12 Brescia (OVC Digital) Home Won 97-69 game and making 48 percent of their shots from the field. MSU has made as many free throws (60) as their 15 Old Dominion (ODUsports.com) Away Lost 70-60 opponents have attempted (60). Cameron Payne leads MSU with 19.8 points per game. The Racers are just a 19 Bethel (OVC Digital) Home Won 91-64 tick from having five players in double-figure scoring as lone senior Dexter Fields scores 9.8. Fields has been 23 Auburn (AuburnTigers.com) Away Lost 75-67 a hot shooter in the CIT in hitting 13-of-26 from 3-point range. 26 Middle Tennessee (OVC Digital) Home Lost 80-62 30 Saint Mary’s (SMCGaels.com) Away Lost 89-64 Fields has come to his final game as a Racer and is a loved and respected member of the team. Fields will be DECEMBER playing in his 65th game and making his 63rd start. 04 Evansville (OVC Digital) Home Won 65-63 07 Lipscomb (OVC Digital) Home Won 73-69 The Racers have won 14 straight games at home including going 8-0 this season in conference games. MSU 17 Southern Illinois (OVC Digital) Home Won 73-65 is 16-1 at home this season with the one loss coming to Middle Tennessee (Nov. 26). This will be MSU’s 21 Western Ky. (Racer TV/ESPN3) Away Lost 71-64 18th home game of the season which is a program record. MSU played 16 home games three times in the 29 Dayton (Fox Ohio) Away Lost 72-51 seasons of 1982-83, 2003-04 and 2007-08. This set of home games mark the first time MSU has hosted post- JANUARY season games since 1983 when Wake Forest visited old Racer Arena. MSU is playing in the CIT for the first 02 *SE Missouri (OVC Digital) Home Won 82-75 time and Thursday’s game marks MSU’s 32nd all-time post-season game in their 23rd all-time appearance. 05 *UT Martin (CBS Network) Home Won 91-77 MSU has 15 trips to the NCAA Tournament, seven to the NIT and now one to the CIT. The Racers are 6-3 in 08 *Eastern Ky. (Racer TV/ESPN3) Away Won 77-64 post-season games since 2010 which includes two wins in the NCAA’s and four in the CIT. 11 *Austin Peay (OVC Digital) Home Won 89-67 16 *Eastern Illinois (Racer TV/ESPN3) Away Won 70-66 The Racers have secured their fifth-straight 20-win season, the first in MSU history spanning 89 seasons. Billy 18 *SIUE (Fox Midwest) Away Lost 67-60 Kennedy’s teams were 31-5 and 23-9 in 2009-10 and 2010-11. Steve Prohm’s first two teams went 31-2 in 23 *Tennessee Tech (OVC Digital) Home Won 92-53 2011-12 and 21-10 in 2012-13. In the last five seasons, the Racers are 128-37 (.775) and have averaged 25 25 *Jacksonville State (OVC Digital) Home Won 73-65 wins per season. Steve Prohm has guided his program into it’s second post-season in three seasons with the 31 *Austin Peay (CBS Network) Away Won 96-88 Racers. Prohm is the only coach in MSU history to win 20 games in his first three seasons. FEBRUARY MURRAY STATE PROBABLE STARTING LINEUP - CIT STATS 06 *Belmont (ESPNU) Away Lost 99-96 08 *Tennessee State (Racer TV/ESPN3) Away Won 73-65 13 *SIUE (OVC Digital) Home Won 82-72 15 *Eastern Illinois (OVC Digital) Home Won 72-60 22 *Morehead State (OVC Digital) Home Won 69-58 27 *UT Martin (Racer TV/ESPN3) Away Won 86-72 MARCH 01 ^*SE Missouri (Racer TV/ESPN3) Away Lost 118-115 07 #Eastern Kentucky (ESPNU/3) Neutral Lost 86-83 19 $Missouri State (collegeinsider.com)Away Won 66-63 G • 6-2• FR G • 6-2 • SR G • 6-4• SO F • 6-8• JR F • 6-7• JR 24 $Omaha (collegeinsider.com) Home Won 86-62 CAMERON PAYNE DEXTER FIELDS JEFFERY MOSS JARVIS WILLIAMS JONATHAN FAIRELL 27 $Towson (collegeinsider.com) Home Won 85-73 APRIL PTS 19.8 PTS 9.8 PTS 12.3 PTS 17.5 PTS 9.3 01 $Pacific (CBSSportsNetwork) Home Won 98-75 REB 4.8 REB 3.8 REB 3.8 REB 8.3 REB 8.5 03 $Yale (CBSSportsNetwork) Home 6 p.m. * OVC Games OVC Digital - OVCDigitalNetwork.com AST 5.0 AST 1.3 AST 2.0 BLK 3.0 BLK 1.7 # Nashville, Tenn., Municipal Auditorium - Semifinals STL 2.5 STL 1.5 STL 0.3 STL 0.3 STL 0.2 ^ Double Overtime $ College Insider Tournament 2013-14 MURRAY STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL GoRacers.com / @MSURacers / @RacersHoops 30 Evan Roquemore; Santa Clara CIT HISTORY/RECORDS (at San Francisco, 03/22/11) 2009 (16 TEAMS) 30 Desmond Yates; Middle Tennessee SEMIFINALS (at Missouri State, 3/17/10) Bradley 59, Pacific 49 30 Donald Sims; Appalachian State Old Dominion 81, James Madison 43 (at. Marshall, 3/22/10) CHAMPIONSHIP 30 Alex Renfroe; Belmont Old Dominion 66, Bradley 62 (at Evansville, 03/18/09) 2014 CIT SCORES/SCHEDULE 2010 (16 TEAMS) REBOUNDS SEMIFINALS 21 Mike Rostapoour; Omaha FIRST ROUND Pacific 64, Appalachian State 56 (vs North Dakota, 03/19/14) Holy Cross 68 @ Brown 65 (15-14) Missouri State 67, Creighton 61 21 Papa Dia; SMU VMI 111 @ Canisius 100 (20-13) CHAMPIONSHIP (vs Northern Iowa, 03/21/11) Wright State 73 @ East Carolina 59 (17-17) Missouri State 78, Pacific 65 19 Nigel Spikes; Marshall Norfolk State 54 (19-15) @ E. Michigan 58 (vs Ohio, 03/15/11) Chattanooga 66 (18-15) @ ETSU 79 2011 17 Josh Davis; Tulane Columbia 58 @ Valparaiso 56 (18-16) SEMIFINALS (24 TEAMS) (at Bradley, 03/23/13) Ala. St. 49 (19-13) @ Sam Houston St. 71 Santa Clara 72, SMU 55 17 Sam Willard; Pacific Portland State 65 (17-15) @ San Diego 87 Iona 83, East Tennessee State 80 (at Loyola Marymount, 03/17/10) Quinnipiac 68 (20-12) @ Yale 69 CHAMPIONSHIP 16 Ricardo Glenn; USC Upstate Towson 63 @ USC Upstate 60 (19-15) Santa Clara 76, Iona 69 (at Old Dominion, 03/18/12) Cleveland State 62 (21-12) @ Ohio 64 16 Isaac Butts; Appalachian State Akron 91 (21-13) @ IPFW 97 2012 (32 TEAMS) (vs. Marshall, 03/22/10) North Dakota 75 (17-17) @ Omaha 91 SEMIFINALS 15 Maurice Kemp; East Carolina Texas A&M CC 82 @ N. Colo. 71 (19-13) Mercer 65 @Fairfield 59 (vs Rider, 03/23/13) Pacific 69 @ Grand Canyon 67 (15-15) Oakland 81 @Utah State 105 15 Brandon Brekke; North Dakota Murray State 66 @ Missouri St.