Leatherneck Nation

From the McDonough County Voice:

A look at the race for eighth in the Summit.
https://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/sports/2 ... -in-summit

No backing in, WIU needs to win.
https://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/sports/2 ... eds-to-win

Men’s Basketball needs a win to keep post-season hopes alive.
From the Western Courier:
https://westerncourier.com/47176/sports ... pes-alive/

Wednesday night's games:
Purdue Fort Wayne beat Denver 58-51.
Omaha beat North Dakota 84-83 in overtime.

The Peoria Journal-Star has Oral Roberts as a 14-point favorite in tonight's game.

Watch the game here: https://oruathletics.com/sports/mbkb/20 ... 7_ielf.xml

These guys are shooting on fire tonight. Down 63-33 at the half. Might be time to cry UNCLE and save the energy for Saturday.

Oral Roberts won the game 113-70.

Ben Pyle led the Western scoring with 21 points. Kobe Webster had 17.

Oral Roberts shot 63% (44 of 70). Western shot 39% (26 of 67).

Oral Robert made 17 of 27 three-point attempts (63%).

Attendance at Oral Roberts = 3,463.

Next game will be at Denver on Saturday (Feb 29). This will be the battle for the last spot in the conference tournament. Game time is 2:00 PM.

Denver beat ORU 100-96 last week in Denver. It could not have been this same ORU team.

The only positive I walk away with tonight is that Pyle seems to have found his stroke again.

We will need him again Saturday.

Oral Roberts seals first winning record in 5 years with victory against Western Illinois.
From the Tulsa World:
https://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/colle ... f8af0.html

I may be totally wrong but it just maybe that this group has finally run out of "emotional" gas. jc