OVC Championship game:  

#3 Morehead State beat #1 Little Rock 69-55

Attendance = 1,421

Looks like we got out of the Summit League at the right time.

It appears that the Tournament is not available on ESPN + as it had been in past years.
 
 

Championship game:

#1 Southern Indiana beat #3 Tennessee-Martin 81-53

Attendance = 1,715

The attendance at the Summit League's two play-in games (#8 vs #9) on Friday night was 7,611

In Friday's other semi-final game, #3 Morehead State beat #2 Tennessee-Martin 84-78.

Attendance for the evening session = 1,277

I saw bands from Morehead State, SIU-Edwardsville, and Eastern Illinois.  

#1 Little Rock wins 82-57 JJ Kalakon was Western's lead scorer with 15 points. Western shot 30% (20 of 67).  Little Rock shot 53% (34 of 64). Western was 61% on free throws (11 of 18). Little Rock had 54 points in the paint.  Western had 20. Little Rock had 25 Fast Break Points.  Western had 7. 13 W...

Friday's Semi-final games:

#1 Southern Indiana beat #4 Eastern Illinois 69-54

#3 Tennessee-Martin beat #2 Little Rock 54-48


Attendance for the afternoon session = 1,157
 

Mindrup feels called to serve as WIU’s interim president.
From Tri-States Public Radio, WIUM-FM:
https://www.tspr.org/tspr-local/2024-03 ... -president
 
 

The conference honored a lot of elementary school kids from around the conference at half time.  Pep band did a fantastic job of keeping those kids dancing in their seats the whole game.      The radio half-time show talked about this.  Each team in the tournament is "adopted" by a 4th gr...