Last week I talked about how the Eastern men's basketball team was on the rise.

Eastern women's basketball team played 30 solid minutes of basketball before falling on the road 73-53 to Austin Peay Monday night.

Eastern's athletic department's proposal to replace the natural grass field at O'Brien Stadium with an artificial playing surface was removed from the agenda of Monday's Board of Trustees meeting.

Eastern Illinois head coach Bob Spoo lost a staff assistant and a neighbor on the same day.

The Eastern Athletics department gets about 50 calls from non Division I-A schools wanting to play the Eastern basketball team every year.

The attempt of the Eastern women's basketball team to win three consecutive games for the first time since the 1997-98 season was literally off by just a few inches in a 71-68 loss to Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne Friday.

The Eastern men's and women's track teams had another good showing at home on Saturday in the EIU Quadrangular by posting first place finishes in several events.

It wasn't super at all.

Senior women's swimmer Gayle Tanis's second career win was one of the highlights in Eastern men's and women's swimming team victory over Valporaiso Saturday.

It's very possible that the Aurora Spartans had the crowd at Lantz Arena asking themselves one question - who would've known?

Panthers head wrestling coach Ralph McCausland is going through what he calls the "frustration period" of this season due to the numerous injuries.

Eastern women's basketball will have the chance Friday to win three consecutive games for the first time since the 1997-98 season.