Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders NCAA Basketball News

The Middle Tennessee mena s basketball team will play three games over the next six days beginning with Belmont on Tuesday night.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The MTSU men's basketball team would love to knock off Alabama-Birmingham tonight.

The UAB men's basketball team will continue its six-game homestand when it takes on Middle Tennessee on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at Bartow Arena.

Maybe the MTSU men's basketball players still had some Thanksgiving tryptophan running through their systems Friday night.

MTSU basketball's recent woes have stemmed from a backwards view of its own offense.

The MTSU men's basketball team came up with a timely second-half spurt and late free-throw shooting to stave off Lamar's rally in a 74-66 win on Thursday night at Murphy Center.

James Washington scored 19 points and had six assists to lead Middle Tennessee to a 74-66 home victory over Lamar on Thursday night.

Middle Tennessee evened its season record at 2-2 with a fast-paced 74-66 win over visiting Lamar University Thursday night in Murphy Center.

Middle Tennessee never gave up on Tuesday night against Marshall with a chance to force overtime in the final seconds but fell 63-60. Two free throws by junior James Washington made it a one possession game, 63-60, and then the Blue Raiders got the ball back on a Marshall turnover on the inbounds pass.

The Thundering Herd trailed 54-51 with just over 4 minutes to play, but Pitts hit a pair of free throws and Baines had consecutive dunks to put Marshall up 57-54 with 3:37 remaining.

What the MTSU men's basketball team lacks its opponent has in spades. The Blue Raiders struggled in the paint in their last game, particularly scoring and rebounding with any consistency.

Steven Coleman scored 21 points, including 14 in the second half, to lead Ohio past Middle Tennessee 81-68 on Sunday.

Like a new pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers, MTSU must break in its new lineup on the run.

James Washington scored 24 points to lead Middle Tennessee to a 93-73 win over King College in the Blue Raiders' season opener on Friday night.

MTSU men's basketball fans found out a few things about this season's squad in a 99-60 exhibition win over North Alabama Monday night.

At the beginning of last season, the Blue Raiders were picked as the team to beat in the Sun Belt Conference.

MTSU basketball fans will get a double treat tonight when the men and women play a doubleheader at Murphy Center.

MTSU basketball standout Desmond "Boogie" Yates will miss at least the first month of the season with a knee injury.

MTSU sophomore Alan Gendreau out-kicked himself Saturday. Gendreau made his ninth and 10th consecutive field goals in MTSU's 62-24 win over Western Kentucky, breaking his own record for the longest field goal streak in school history.

The Blue Raiders should be one of the top rebounding teams in the Sun Belt with the return of center Theryn Hudson and forwards Montarrio Haddock and Desmond Yates .