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,...

Last season there were eight games where the Eastern women’s basketball team failed to score 51 or more points in an entire four quarters. Tuesday night in the Panthers’ season opener, they had put...

Josiah Wallace stopped the bleeding for the men’s basketball team going into halftime. But even though his shot clotted the wound at that point in time, Texas carried momentum into an early second...

The women’s basketball team struggled on defense in its 86-82 exhibition win over Illinois-Wesleyan last Thursday, allowing the Division III school to shoot 45 percent from the field and make eight three-pointers.  Luckily...

The men’s basketball team opens the season Tuesday in what may possibly be its biggest challenge of the season. Eastern will face the University of Texas on the Longhorns’ own turf. Although Texas...

The beginning was not pretty, but the results show what the men’s basketball team was able to do against Eureka College on Friday. The 79-44 final score was indicative of what the Panthers accomplished...

Jay Spoonhour is not expecting Friday’s exhibition match against Eureka College to be the end-all-be-all for the upcoming basketball season. The men’s team’s head coach does expect the contest...

The Eastern women’s basketball team was not everything the team hoped it would be in its first exhibition of the season, as defensive and rebounding concerns lingered throughout the game, but nonetheless,...

Eastern’s women’s basketball head coach, Matt Bollant, wants his team to play at a faster pace this season than they did last year. Bollant feels he has the personnel to do so and will get a look at...

Last season did not go as planned for the Eastern women’s basketball team under first-year head coach Matt Bollant. The team lost point guard Grace Lennox, the team’s main creator on offense, just...

Belmont women’s basketball was picked once again to finish first in the Ohio Valley Conferene preseason coaches’ poll, coming as little surprise to anyone. After an 18-0 finish last season and a conference...

An injury bug derailed the Eastern men’s basketball team’s season last year, affecting, for the most part, the Panthers’ guard play. With starting and key players on the bench, Eastern’s offense...