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...

In Thursday's other quarter-final game, #3 Morehead State beat #6 SIU-Edwardsville 78-63.

Attendance for the evening session = 1,140

Western wins 61-59 Quinlan Bennett was Western's lead scorer with 18 points.  He also had 10 rebounds. Jesiah West, Ryan Myers, and JJ Kalakon each had 12 points. Drew Cisse had 12 rebounds. Western had 19 turnovers which resulted in 25 points for Tennessee State. Western was 16 of 29 (55%) on free ...

Thursday's games:

#4 Eastern Illinois beat #8 Tennessee State 60-48

#3 Tennessee-Martin beat #6 Tennessee Tech 79-71

Attendance for the afternoon session = 830