Record vs. SIUE: 15-5
First Meeting: 1/19/10 MSU won 66-46 at MSU
Last Meeting: 1/28/23 MSU won 55-50 at MSU
Streak: MSU, 2 games
Record in Edwardsville, Ill.: 5-3
Record in Morehead: 9-2
Neutral Record: 1-0
• MSU is 27-3 in January games in the past four seasons.
• Saturday's ESPNU game marks the fifth straight season the Eagles have appeared on ESPNU in the regular season and MSU is 5-0 in those contests.
• MSU has won 18 straight games against non Power 5 Conference teams.
• In league action, MSU owns a +20.0 scoring margin, averaging 80.3 points in the four outings.
• MSU's 4-0 OVC start in just the third perfect record after four league games since 2000-01. The 2009-10 and 2020-21 (OVC champion) teams also started 4-0.
• Morehead State is 48-12 in OVC games over the past four seasons. In the past four seasons, the Eagles are 22-8 in OVC road games. Since 2020-21, MSU sports an OVC best 81-35 record.
• Morehead State has 10 straight games where its leading scorer has 20+ points.
• The Eagles rank in the top 20 in the nation in seven stats categories - rebound margin, FG percentage defense, rebounds, scoring margin, scoring defense, blocked shots and defensive rebounds.
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Jordan Lathon earned his second OVC Player of the Week and added Newcomer of the Week too. On the season, MSU now has 10 individual OVC weekly awards.
Riley Minix has been Player and Newcomer three times, Lathon has three accolades and
Eddie Ricks III was Freshman of the Week once.
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Jordan Lathon's two 30-point games and
Riley Minix's one, this marks the first season since 2003-04 that the Eagles have produced 3+ 30-point efforts. Former OVC Player of the Year and MSU Hall of Fame member Ricky Minard scored 30+ five times in 2003-04.
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Drew Thelwell is just seven wins away from becoming the winningest individual player in program history. The program standard for success is 88 by Terrence Hill from 2008-09 to 2011-12.
• MSU is the only OVC team to boast two players averaging 20+ points in conference games.
Jordan Lathon (23.0) ranks second, while
Riley Minix (22.5) is fourth.
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Riley Minix is on the Lou Henson Award Watch list, an accolade honoring the nation's top player from Mid-Mjor conferences.
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Riley Minix has recorded 65 career double-doubles in his time at MSU (OVC-best 7) and Southeastern (Fla.) (58). An NAIA All-American, Minix was also the 2022-23 NAIA Academic All-American of the Year.
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Drew Thelwell ranks first in the OVC and ninth nationally with 106 assists. He has 11 games with 5+ assists, including a school-record 19 against Alice Lloyd (Ky.) on Dec. 21. It's the most by a D1 player in a game this season.
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Jordan Lathon's scoring rise has been meteoric. Since Nov. 22, Lathon hasn't missed double figures (11 straight games) with eight of the 11 being 20+ point efforts and two 30+ scoring outbursts. Since Nov. 22, his scoring average has risen 9.4 points. He has scored 20+ in four consecutive games.
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Kalil Thomas sits just 32 points away from 1,000 for his college career, while
Jordan Lathon is only 51 points shy of the millennium mark.
• 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 81 wins.
