MURRAY — At to start with look of Tennessee Tech, there does not feel as well lots of causes to think that the Golden Eagles will be a lot of a menace tonight to Murray Condition at the CFSB Center.
Even so, in his previous remarks Saturday evening after his crew remained undefeated in Ohio Valley Conference participate in with a residence win in excess of UT Martin, Murray Point out Head Mentor Matt McMahon was calling Tech a really unsafe crew, and it was based on the Golden Eagles’ past efficiency, a 20-issue earn over a Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville team that gave the Racers all they could deal with a handful of weeks back.
“They scored 94 points, experienced 27 assists, just superb,” McMahon stated of Tech, who is coming to Murray tonight (tipoff is established for 7) only 5-12 over-all and 2-2 in conference engage in.
That history, nevertheless, would seem really deceptive. Bundled in that is an 11-stage loss to a Tennessee team that most likely will return to the best-20 nationally this week after a large acquire Saturday more than No. 13 Louisiana Point out. Also in that mark is a shut decline to perennial energy Cincinnati.
In Thursday’s 94-74 defeat of SIUE in Cookeville, Tech was led in scoring by forward Kenny White Jr., who had 23 details and was 4-of-6 from 3-place variety. In the meantime, Tech’s biggest lengthy-vary menace, guard Junior Clay had 20 factors himself, likely 3-of-5 from driving the arc. Clay is Tech’s leading scorer at 11.6 points per match, followed by guard Keishawn Davidson at 10.7.