Tom O'Connor, Basketball Reporter
• November 14, 2018
With 19.8 seconds left and Eastern ahead 40-26 in the quarter finals of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, Governors star Dayton Gumm, who was then a freshman, barreled into the lane, showed the pump...
Adam Tumino, Basketball Reporter
• November 14, 2018
After playing three games and facing some vastly different opponents, the Eastern women’s basketball team will begin playing more evenly-matched games.
At noon on Thursday, they will play host to...
When Matt Bollant took over as the head coach of Eastern’s women’s basketball team, it was no secret that a couple of years of transition and new faces around the program would be coming as Bollant...
The season-long journey of the men’s basketball team getting its cohesiveness and togetherness at the high-enough level has had a, as head coach Jay Spoonhour put it, bad start.
“This is part of...
The 2018-19 college basketball season tipped off last week, and Eastern finds itself at the bottom of the Ohio Valley Conference early.
Eastern opened the season with two road matchups, falling to Texas...
Adam Tumino, Women's Basketball Reporter
• November 13, 2018
So far in the 2018-19 women’s basketball season, five OVC teams are over .500. Four of those teams are currently unbeaten.
Sitting at 2-0 are Morehead State, Murray State and Tennessee-Martin. Southern...
The Eastern women’s basketball team’s Monday game against Lincoln Christian University was essentially supposed to be a confidence booster for the Panthers. After stomping Lincoln Christian 97-34,...
For the second straight game, a scoring run by Eastern’s opponent in the opening minutes of the second half is what put the men’s basketball team far enough behind to finish with a loss.
Eastern...
Adam Tumino, Women's Basketball Reporter
• November 11, 2018
After winning its home opener on Tuesday, the Eastern women’s basketball team traveled to Butler on Friday and suffered their first loss of the season.
Before the game, head coach Matthew Bollant...
Despite being down more than 20 points a few times during a 5-minute span in the second half, Eastern’s men’s basketball team can go into the weekend with some positive takeaways from Tuesday’s season-opener.
Facing...
The Eastern women’s basketball team knows exactly what it is walking into Friday when the Panthers will travel to Butler to face a team that they are well aware may be the strongest opponent on their...
Adam Tumino, Women's Basketball Reporter
• November 7, 2018
The 2018-19 season began on Tuesday for six of the OVC’s 12 women’s basketball teams. Four of the teams won their opening games, and the other two suffered losses.
Among the four victorious teams,...
