Jeremiah Crutcher News

Jeremiah Crutcher scored 25 points and Tennessee State rallied to defeat Alabama A&M 80-77 on Tuesday night.

Former Hunters Lane player Jeremiah Crutcher hit a jumper with 25 seconds left to rally Tennessee State to a 70-69 victory over host Detroit on Tuesday night.

Jeremiah Crutcher's basket with 25 seconds left pulled Tennessee State to a 70-69 nonconference victory over Detroit on Tuesday night.

Anthony Allison scored 18 points to lead Southeast Missouri to a 74-66 win over Tennessee State on Saturday night.

Tyler Laser scored 15 points and hit big shots in the second and third overtimes to help Eastern Illinois to an 83-81 win over Tennesse State on Thursday night.

If Monday night's game is an indication, Belmont is further along in the rebuilding stage than Tennessee State.

Liberty rallies over Tennessee State 63-60 Eds: APNewsNow. Liberty 63, Tennessee State 60.

No one around the Siena men's basketball team knows quite what to expect from Tennessee State, a program that's gotten a top-to-bottom makeover in the past nine months.

Coach. Dave Loos Last year. 19-14, 13-5, second in OVC Outlook. The Governors have advanced to the OVC Tournament championship game six of the last seven years and were picked third in the preseason poll.

John Cooper has paid his dues as an assistant coach in college basketball. He's been an assistant for 15 years, with jobs at Auburn , Oregon , South Carolina and Fayetteville State.

The veterans of the TSU squad shouldn't feel weird with John Cooper doing some changing of the lineups early on.

John Cooper won't be the only new face on the Tennessee State men's basketball team in 2009-2010. Cooper, who was hired at the end of last season to replace Cy Alexander, has signed five players to go with three prospects Alexander signed in November, bringing to eight the number of newcomers on the Tigers' roster.