The Eastern men’s basketball team hosted and won its first two conference games of the year, but the teams Eastern faced, Tennessee-Martin and Southern Illinois Edwardsville, are not like Eastern’s...
Not very many coaches in the Ohio Valley Conference had the Eastern women’s basketball team pegged as a conference tournament team prior to the season, slotting them in 11th place of 12 teams in the...
Jacksonville State found itself put in third place in two preseason men’s basketball polls, behind last year’s champion Murray State and this year’s favorite Belmont.
But the Gamecocks opened their...
Eastern’s new offensive coordinator John Kuceyeski comes to Eastern with one large thing in common with all of the other new coaches joining Eastern’s football program: a long relationship with new...
Eastern’s men’s basketball team got an important, and very dramatic, start to its conference season by winning its first two OVC games in overtime.
Both games were back and forth throughout, with...
The Ohio Valley Conference has already seen more action in its women’s basketball standings this season than it did all last year, and it’s only two conference games into the season.
In a year...
The Eastern women’s basketball team won as many games in a 13 day stretch between Dec. 21 and Jan. 3 as they did all last season, rattling off three wins in a row against Indiana State, Eureka College...
The Eastern men’s basketball team won its first two conference games by winning both contests in overtime.
The Panthers (9-6) defeated Tennessee-Martin (5-8) Thursday in the OVC opener for Eastern...
Saturday was Western Illinois’ chance to avenge a close 68-66 overtime loss to Eastern in Lantz Arena on Nov. 17.
Eastern (5-5) won in a not-so-convincingly way, having to fight its way to a tie score...
Eastern senior point guard Grace Lennox made a go-ahead free throw with nine seconds remaining in what would be a 64-62 win for the women’s basketball team over Western Illinois on Friday that gave the...
Adam Tumino, Women's Basketball Reporter
• December 9, 2018
It is finals week at Eastern and at campuses around the country, and the all-important conference season is around the corner for OVC women’s basketball teams.
Eight of the 12 teams in the OVC are...
Last season when the Eastern women’s basketball program scheduled Western Illinois and Southern Illinois in the Compass tournament, a tournament that pits Western, Southern, Eastern and Northern Illinois...
