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If Morehead State ever plays Louisiana Monroe again, MSU coach Donnie Tyndall will be glad Tony Hooper won't be on the court.

Louisiana-Monroe beats Morehead State 74-73 Eds: APNewsNow. Louisiana-Monroe 74, Morehead St.

Morehead State men's basketball picked up its first win of the 2009-10 season, rolling through in-state foe Brescia, 86-51 Monday night at Johnson Arena.

Kentucky beat Morehead State men's basketball at its own game. MSU fell 75-59 to the No.

Kentucky's Eric Bledsoe had 24 points as he started in place of highly touted fellow freshman John Wall.

Kentucky freshman Eric Bledsoe -- who starred at Birmingham's Parker High School -- scored 24 points while starting in place of John Wall , and the fourth-ranked Wildcats opened the John Calipari era with a 75-59 win over Morehead State on Friday night.

Led by a double-double from senior Kenneth Faried, the Morehead State Eagles trounced Asbury 91-57 in its final pre-season tune-up Monday night at Johnson Arena.

BASKETBALL: UK vs. Morehead St. When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 Radio: WBUL-FM 98.1; WLAP-AM 630.

In expressing his wariness going into the opening game, Kentucky Coach John Calipari noted that Morehead State is an NCAA Tournament team.

A possible contender : Austin Peay: The Governors are always in the hunt. They have won four regular-season OVC championships this decade and two tournament titles.

Kenneth Faried is a low-key big man on Morehead State's campus. He thinks of himself as a regular student, but the 6-foot-8 junior forward is far from that.

Morehead State men's basketball opened the 2009-2010 exhibition season with a decisive 90-58 win over Cedarville Wednesday evening at Johnson arena in front of 2,012 fans.

Ballard High School forward Keisten Jones, who is considered one of the top seniors in Louisville, committed to Bellarmine University on Tuesday night.

C Kenneth Faried grabbed 20 or more rebounds in a game three times last year and finished with at least 10 rebounds in 30 of 36 games.

MOREHEAD, Ky.a 'Morehead State men's basketball has been chosen as Ohio Valley Conference preseason co-champions and Eagle junior Kenneth Faried has been selected as the OVC Preseason Player of the Year.

Dickey Nutt was not one bit surprised by where his first Southeast Missouri State basketball squad ranked in the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll announced Thursday.

Today, we continue our conference countdown. We're working backward, from our No.

With 347 Division I basketball programs, not every player or team gets its fair share of attention.

John Calipari is continuing his quest to take over the Internet. Last week the Kentucky coach's new Web site, www.coachcal.com, was launched.

Editor's note: This is the second in an occasional series this summer looking at college sports in the commonwealth at schools other than Kentucky and Louisville.