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Jordan Lathon earned the program's third OVC Player of the Week honor this year and his first-ever POTW accolade this week. Lathon scored 30 points in the Eagles' one-point setback at Indiana and added 18 against Alice Lloyd.
• Morehead State's 9-4 start is the best record after 13 games in 40 seasons. The 1983-84 team also sat at 9-4 following 13 games. MSU's nine non-conference regular-season wins is the program record.
• Morehead State currently leads the OVC in 12 stats categories - assist/turnover, assists per game, effective FG pct., FG pct., FG pct. defense, rebound margin, scoring defense, scoring margin, 3-pointers attempted per game, 3-point FG pct. defense, 3-pointers made per game and win-loss percentage.
• The Eagles shot 50 percent or better in seven of the 13 non-conference games.
• Morehead State ranks in the top 10 in the nation in Division I in field goal percentage defense, rebound margin and rebounds per game.
• Morehead State is 44-12 in OVC games over the past three seasons, winning 79 percent within the conference.
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Drew Thelwell had the most masterful passing game in program history against Alice Lloyd (Ky.) on Dec. 21. The Orlando native dished out a school-record 19 assists, which is the most for any Division I player this season and just one short of the OVC single-game record. That was just a week after handing out 13 assists against St. Mary-Of-The-Woods (Ind.)
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Drew Thelwell ranks No. 1 in the OVC in assists (79), assists per game (6.1) and assist/turnover ratio (2.7). His 79 helpers are the 12th most in the nation among D1 players this season. Last season at SEMO, Thelwell led the Eagles to a 65-59 win after leading scorer
Mark Freeman went down on the first play. Thelwell scored a game-high 24 points.
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Jordan Lathon raised his scoring average 7.3 points in the past seven games, scoring 20+ in four of those. Lathon knocked down six triples and a scored a career-high 30 at Indiana and had 26 in a comeback win at North Alabama.
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Riley Minix, who ranks in the top five in the league in scoring, also leads the OVC with six double-doubles. He ranks second in rebounding with 9.1 per outing. In his collegiate career (4 seasons at Southeastern [Fla.]), Minix now has 64 double-doubles.
• It's somewhat rare for two double-doubles on one team in the same game and even rarer for three double-doubles in the same contest. But, the Eagles have done that twice - against Alice Lloyd (Ky.) and St. Mary-Of-The-Woods (Ind.).
• Morehead State, the OVC's only remaining team in Kentucky, is easily the winningest Division I MBB program in the state in the past three seasons with 76 wins.
