2012-13 Ohio Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Report January 7, 2013 Ohio Valley Conference FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 215 Centerview Drive, Suite 115 Contact: Kyle Schwartz Brentwood, Tennessee 37027 Phone: (615) 690-6685 www.OVCSports.com Email: [email protected] www.OVCDigitalNetwork.com OVC STANDINGS (In Games Through January 6) ONFERENCE VERALL C vs. vs. O EAST DIVISION W L Pct. Home Away Streak East West W L Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak Tennessee State 3 0 1.000 1-0 2-0 W3 2-0 1-0 9 7 .563 5-0 3-6 1-1 W4 Eastern Kentucky 2 0 1.000 2-0 0-0 W2 0-0 2-0 12 3 .800 9-0 3-3 0-0 W2 Belmont 2 0 1.000 0-0 2-0 W2 2-0 0-0 11 4 .733 4-0 5-3 2-1 W2 Morehead State 2 0 1.000 2-0 0-0 W2 0-0 2-0 8 8 .500 7-2 1-6 0-0 W3 Jacksonville State % 2 2 .500 1-2 1-0 L2 1-2 1-0 10 5 .667 5-2 3-3 2-0 L2 Tennessee Tech 0 3 .000 0-2 0-1 L3 0-3 0-0 6 9 .400 4-3 2-6 0-0 L5 vs. vs. WEST DIVISION W L Pct. Home Away Streak East West W L Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak Murray State 2 0 1.000 0-0 2-0 W2 0-0 2-0 11 3 .786 4-1 5-1 2-1 W2 Southeast Missouri 2 1 .667 2-1 0-0 L1 0-0 2-1 10 7 .588 6-2 4-3 0-2 L1 UT Martin 1 3 .250 1-2 0-1 W1 0-1 1-2 4 12 .250 4-4 0-8 0-0 W1 SIUE 0 2 .000 0-0 0-2 L2 0-2 0-0 4 8 .333 4-1 0-7 0-0 L3 Austin Peay 0 2 .000 0-0 0-2 L2 0-0 0-2 4 12 .250 3-2 0-7 1-3 L8 Eastern Illinois 0 3 .000 0-0 0-3 L3 0-3 0-0 3 13 .188 1-5 0-8 2-0 L9 % - Due to a NCAA APR penalty, Jacksonville State is ineligible for the OVC Championship and OVC/NCAA postseason competition THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE LAST WEEK’S RESULTS Wednesday, January 9 Monday, December 31 *Morehead State at Austin Peay, 7:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *Jacksonville State 64, @UT Martin 54 *Eastern Kentucky at Murray State, 7:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) Thursday, January 3 Thursday, January 10 *@Eastern Kentucky 65, Eastern Illinois 54 *Southeast Missouri at Belmont, 7:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *@Morehead State 68, SIUE 64 *Tennessee Tech at Eastern Illinois, 7:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *@Southeast Missouri 86, Austin Peay 84 *Jacksonville St. at SIUE, 7:00 p.m. *Murray State 73, @UT Martin 62 (OVC Digital Network - Delayed at 9 p.m. on FOX Sports Midwest) *Tennessee State 72, @Tennessee Tech 66 *UT Martin at Tennessee State, 7:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *Belmont 73, @Jacksonville State 62 Saturday, January 12 Saturday, January 5 *UT Martin at Belmont, 4:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *Tennessee State 66, @Jacksonville State 57 *Morehead State at Eastern Kentucky, 6:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *Murray State 74, @Southeast Missouri 66 *Jacksonville State at Eastern Illinois, 6:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *@UT Martin 76, Austin Peay 74 (OT) *Southeast Missouri at Tennessee State, 7:00 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *@Eastern Kentucky 78, SIUE 72 *Tennessee Tech at SIUE, 7:30 p.m. (OVC Digital Network) *@Morehead State 65, Eastern Illinois 50 *Murray State at Austin Peay, 7:30 p.m. (OVC Digital Network/ESPN3) *Belmont 83, @Tennessee Tech 52 * Indicates OVC Contest ALL TIMES CENTRAL 2012-13 OVC Men’s Basketball Weekly Release - Jan. 7 • 1 THIS WEEK’S adidas® OVC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK OVC MEDIA INFORMATION Kyle Schwartz PLAYER Asst. Commissioner/Media Relations M.J. Rhett, F • So., 6-9, 225 • Columbia, S.C. • Tennessee State Offi ce: (615) 690-6685 Cell: (615) 690-6685 Rhett averaged a double-double last week as Tennessee State won a pair of road games E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.OVCSports.com to improve to 3-0 in Conference play. Without senior leader Robert Covington in the lineup (he has now missed four games), Rhett helped pick up the slack averaging 12.5 points, 14.0 ONLINE PRESS BOX: The OVC Basketball Online Press Box is a one-stop shop for gathering information about the OVC and its member rebounds and 2.5 blocks/game while hitting 72.7 percent (8-of-11) from the fi eld in victories schools. Media can access it on the Basketball page at OVCSports. over divisional foes Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State. Rhett scored a career-high com and will fi nd important related fi les and links. 15 points, hitting 4-of-4 shots and 7-of-11 free throws in the six-point win over Tennessee SOCIAL MEDIA: Get breaking news about the OVC by following the Tech last Thursday. The sophomore also grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked four shots. Two OVC through Social Media. Check out the OVC sites at http://www. days later he established a new rebounding high, pulling down 16 boards against JSU to twitter.com/OVCSports and http://www.facebook.com/ovcsports. Also check out www.YouTube.com/ohiovalleyconference and the league’s go along with 10 points, a block, assist and steal. Rhett currently ranks ninth in the OVC in blog at ovcinsider.blogspot.com. rebounding (6.5/game). WEEKLY NOTES: The OVC will release its Players of the Week and weekly notes report each Monday throughout the season by 5 p.m. Others Nominated: Will Triggs, Austin Peay; J.J. Mann, Belmont; Mike DiNunno, Eastern CT. The report is available via e-mail, and is posted on the league’s Kentucky; Darion Rackley, Jacksonville State; Ed Daniel, Murray State; Myles Taylor, UT Martin. Web site in text and PDF versions. Statistics are updated after each gameday on the OVC Website. NEWCOMER OVC SID DIRECTORY Travis Betran, G • Jr., 6-3, 185 • Harlem, N.Y. • Austin Peay AUSTIN PEAY Betran earned his fourth OVC Newcomer of the Week honor of the season after averaging Brad Kirtley (931) 221-7561 26.0 points, 5.5 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals/game and hitting 43.6 percent (17-of- Cell Phone (931) 801-7875 39) from the fi eld, 44.4 percent (8-of-18) from 3-point range and a perfect 10-of-10 from the Email [email protected] Website LetsGoPeay.com charity stripe in a pair of road games. The transfer from Kilgore College scored a season-high Press Row Number (931) 221-7155 30 points (including 12 of the team’s fi rst 21 points) in the Govs loss at Southeast Missouri to begin the week. Betran hit 12-of-24 shots and 6-of-10 3-pointers in the game while also BELMONT Greg Sage (615) 460-6698 pulling down fi ve rebounds, dishing out fi ve assists and netting three steals in 37 minutes Cell Phone (615) 512-3633 of action. He followed that with 22 points, a season-high six assists, two rebounds and two Email [email protected] Website BelmontBruins.com steals in the team’s overtime loss at UT Martin on Saturday. He was a perfect 10-of-10 at the Press Row Number (615) 460-8554 free throw line in that contest. Betran currently ranks second in 3-point percentage (47.5%), third in 3-pointers made/game (2.9), fi fth in scoring (17.1 points/game), eighth in minutes EASTERN ILLINOIS Rich Moser (217) 581-7480 played (33.3/game) and ninth in free throw percentage (79.6%) in the OVC. Cell Phone (217) 508-8317 Email [email protected] Others Nominated: Corey Walden, Eastern Kentucky; Chad Posthumus, Morehead State; A.J. Website EIUpanthers.com Jones, Southeast Missouri; Jeremiah Samarrippas, Tennessee Tech; Justin Childs, UT Martin. Press Row Number (217) 581-7770 EASTERN KENTUCKY FRESHMAN Kevin Britton (859) 622-2006 Cell Phone (859) 358-8359 Lanerryl Johnson, G • R-Fr., 6-0, 175 • Atlanta, Ga. • Tennessee Tech Email [email protected] Johnson earned his second OVC Freshman of the Week award of the season after averaging Website EKUSports.com 13.0 points, 1.5 assists, 1.0 rebounds and 1.0 steals/game in a pair of contests last week. Press Row Number (859) 622-5908 He opened the week with his second 20-point performance of the season, hitting 6-of-14 JACKSONVILLE STATE (42.9%) shots, 3-of-7 (42.9%) 3-pointers and 6-of-8 (75%) free throws on his way to 21 Josh Underwood (256) 782-5915 points against Tennessee State. He also dished out an assist in 22 minutes of action off the Cell Phone (256) 453-0545 Email [email protected] bench against the Tigers. That performance earned Johnson his fi rst start of the season two Website JSUGamecockSports.com days later against Belmont; in that contest he scored fi ve points, pulled down two rebounds, Press Row Number (256) 782-5583 dished out two assists and had two steals in 24 minutes of court time. MOREHEAD STATE Matt Segal (606) 783-2557 Others Nominated: Jeffery Moss, Murray State; Dee Oldham, UT Martin.