Leatherneck Nation

The moon and stars were aligned just right for the Lady Tigers today.  Maybe it will be our turn today.

Not looking like it lol. 

WIU getting beat bad both ends of the court, on nearly every possession. 

The men are playing for pride at this point.  Serious question:  as AD and assuming the opponents would be agreeable, would you consider moving the men's games to the early start and give the women the prime time slot?
 

The team and coaches don’t care anymore, time to shut it down. 

Tennessee State won 83-56

Lucas Lorenzen led the Western scoring with 24 points.  Makai Kvamme had 13.

Tennessee State shot 52%, while Western shot 33%.

Attendance at Tennessee State = 327

Next game will be at Western Hall on Tuesday (Feb 10) vs Eastern Illinois.  Game time is 7:30 PM.

Current OVC Standings:
Tennessee-Martin  11-3
Southeast Missouri State  10-4
Tennessee State  10-4
SIU-Edwardsville  9-5
Lindenwood  9-5
Morehead State  9-5
Little Rock  6-8
Eastern Illinois  6-8
Tennessee Tech  5-9
Southern Indiana  2-12
Western  0-14
 

Call Bob Huggins. If we don’t have a desire to be successful we should drop out of d1 

wiu2008 wrote: Sun Feb 08, 2026 9:02 am Call Bob Huggins. If we don’t have a desire to be successful we should drop out of d1 

 

However, without getting the early season money games to offset a significant portion of the program expenses......dropping out of D1 would make attracting talent even more difficult. Also, it would likely lower the budget.

There are no $$$ games coming consistently from lower levels.

Necks2003 wrote: Sun Feb 08, 2026 1:18 pm

wiu2008 wrote: Sun Feb 08, 2026 9:02 am Call Bob Huggins. If we don’t have a desire to be successful we should drop out of d1 



 

However, without getting the early season money games to offset a significant portion of the program expenses......dropping out of D1 would make attracting talent even more difficult. Also, it would likely lower the budget.

There are no $$$ games coming consistently from lower levels.


 

I am alum of late 70s, early 80s when we were d2.  I dont think most people found it to be shortcoming.  All we knew is that we had that "Ole Jack Magic" making things happen in Western Hall.  Watching that game yesterday, Tenn St had like 18 points at the 17:00 minute mark or so.  I thought to myself,  Damn they on pace to hit 25 points 5 minutes into game just like Lilly, Banks, and Dyktsra did more than once I am sure, well before the 3pt shot was added to college basketball.
 
Update:  Looking at the play by play in box score, my timing might have been off a bit.  lol

Watched coach put his head down and hands over face quite often on the bench. 

sad sad effort. Tennessee state diving for 50/50 balls while wiu lightly jogging and barely bending over for them.