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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- The final week of the Ohio Valley Conference regular season for basketball has arrived, and Morehead State has the luxury of being at home for its final two games. The men's basketball Eagles host Southeast Missouri on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Morehead State will look to put a halt to a two-game winning streak by SEMO over the Eagles in games played in Johnson Arena. MSU won the previous meeting 83-64 in Missouri in December. The Eagles are 19-9 all-time against the Redhawks at home.
The game can also be heard on the Eagle Sports Radio Network (
WIVY-96.3 FM flagship station as well as
WGOH in Grayson, Ky.) with Chuck Mraz and Drew Barnette. It is also available on MSUEagles.com. ESPN+ has the game with Jared Stacy and Dean Hardin.
2023-24 RECORDS
MSU: 21-8, 12-4 OVC | SEMO: 8-21, 3-13 OVC
THE SERIES IN DEPTH
Record vs. SEMO: 36-22
First Meeting: 1/18/92 SEMO won 85-74 at SEMO
Last Meeting: 12/31/24 MSU won 83-64 at SEMO
Streak: MSU, 1 game
Record in Cape Girardeau, Mo.: 16-12
Record in Morehead: 19-9
Neutral Record: 2-1
NOTABLE
• Morehead State, the OVC's only remaining team in Kentucky, is easily the winningest Division I MBB program in the state in the past four seasons with 89 wins.
• The Eagle program now has nine 20+ win seasons in the last 15 seasons.
• MSU now has four straight 20+ win seasons, which has never happened before in MSU history.
• MSU owns 56 OVC wins in the past four seasons, easily the highest win total in that span for any current league member.
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Drew Thelwell became the winningest individual player in program history Feb. 10 vs. Eastern Illinois with 88 (now with 89). He broke Terrence Hill's record of 87 from 2008-09 to 2011-12.
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Riley Minix is the conference's leading scorer on average, putting in 20.6 per outing. He has posted eight consecutive 20+ games and averaged 25.5 points in that span.
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Riley Minix has seven consecutive games with a double-double and now 16 for the season. Its the most double-doubles in a year since Johni Broome's 22 in 2021-22. The MSU record is 29 in a season by Kenneth Faried in 2010-11.
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Riley Minix is now only the third MSU player in the last 10 seasons (Jordan Walker 2018-19, Johni Broome 2021-22) to score 500+ in a season.
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Riley Minix's 598 points is the 12th best single-season total in program history.
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Riley Minix needs just two points to become only the eighth player in program history to record a 600+-point season.
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Riley Minix has 15 20+ point efforts this season, including 10 of the last 11 games, and has now scored 2,646 career collegiate points to go along with 1,331 career rebounds. He has also scored 30+ thrice this year.
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Riley Minix has recorded 74 career double-doubles in his time at MSU (OVC-best 16) 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 has 185 total assists this year, easily leading the league and ranking sixth nationally. Thelwell needs just 20 more assists to set the MSU single-season record of 204 (Nik Stojokovic 2007-08).
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Kalil Thomas has made 146 career three-pointers in just his two seasons at MSU, which ranks 10th on the program career list. In his career, Thomas has drained 240 triples.
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Kalil Thomas needs only 14 more three-pointers made to set the MSU single-season mark, held by Maze Stallworth with 95 in 2009-10. His 82 triples this year has tied Chez Marks (2002-03) for fourth highest total in a season.
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Jordan Lathon has 19 double-figure scoring games and 11 games with 20+. Despite missing four games, Lathon still ranks sixth in the OVC in scoring at 16.1 per game.
• MSU has 267 total three-pointers made this season. It's the third straight season with 250+ triples.
• MSU leads the OVC in scoring defense, scoring margin, FG percentage, FG percentage defense, 3-pointers made per game, rebounding defense and rebounding margin.
