Leatherneck Nation

WGEM Prediction:  Western Illinois 70, Tennessee Tech 66
 

Tenn Tech did us a favor last nite by convincingly knocking off Tenn State, one of the teams we were tied with for the #2 conference position.
Even with the win, they are still on the outside looking in right now with respect to making the conference tournament this year.
You never like to be playing a team fighting for survival on their court (ask Tenn State) but we have faced adversity on the road before and came away with the W.  This will be a tough one.  My statistical-based neurall nets all favor us with average margin differential of 10 points but they dont factor in very well those intangible emotions of the moment.  I do have some season-long trend analysis built in to the intelligence, maybe I need to weight the recent results more heavily?  As someone once said, learning is a lifelong journey.

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Western wins 62-55 

Jesiah West led the Western scoring with 19 points.  He also had 8 rebounds.

Ryan Myers had 11 points.

Drew Cisse had 8 rebounds.

Western was 5 of 8 on free throws.

Attendance at Tennessee Tech = 998

Morehead St goes down.  With a W on Sat, we could possibly be wiithin a single game of top spot in conference.

We have locked into the conference tournament now. I only caught the second half but love the aggressiveness we rebound with

Go get em tomorrow