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Post by eaglefan on Feb 4, 2024 10:14:02 GMT -6
Date: 2/8, this Thursday Time: 7:30 pm CT Where: Screaming Eagles Arena Watch: ESPN+
The fighting Panthers and Marty Simmons rolls into town on Thursday. All I know is that they replaced their top 5 players last year and is a different team. They also just got blown out by UALR at home
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Post by shorthaircut on Feb 4, 2024 11:25:27 GMT -6
There is absolutely no excuse not to win this game. USI went in to Eastern a few years with Alex Stein and company and beat them as a D2 school. And that year Eastern was actually fairly good as they beat Illinois a few days before.
USI doesn’t have the offensive firepower to blow anyone out, so I will go with:
USI 72 EIU 66
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Post by eagle87 on Feb 4, 2024 11:34:11 GMT -6
They have been a roller coaster team this year. They have won games most thought they would lose and vice versa. I hope the bad team shows up on Thursday and we can get the win. I have a feeling there are still some big Marty fans in the area that will come out to support him. I’m hoping we can play like we have recently against conference teams because that would be enough to beat EIU. I’ll say:
USI 74 EIU 71
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Post by eagle87 on Feb 4, 2024 11:56:10 GMT -6
Attachment DeletedHere are the standings as of today. We sit in 8th place even after dropping a ton of close games. EIU is only a game ahead of us in 7th place. If we win this Thursday against them we will be tied for 7th in the conference. The important part is that since we only play them once this season, it would give us the tie breaker if it comes down to USI and EIU for the last spot. This game really has post season tournament implications for us and we better play like it. This could very well decide if we get in or not and I hope Stan is drilling that on their heads all week.
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Post by letsgoeagles on Feb 4, 2024 13:25:18 GMT -6
I anticipate a very close game. Gotta win this one. I take USI 62 - 60.
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Post by eagle87 on Feb 6, 2024 14:40:40 GMT -6
Attachment DeletedLooks like the Evansville Courier has a temporary replacement for Anthony. Ex sports writer Pat Hickey is doing some articles about USI and UE for the rest of the season. This was the first article today and I like the way he lays out how the season is going for each and what needs to be done to close out the regular season. I’m happy to see they have brought in someone that can give us coverage until they find a full time replacement for Anthony.
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Post by eaglefan on Feb 6, 2024 17:23:35 GMT -6
Should be a decent crowd on Thursday
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Post by aujarhead on Feb 7, 2024 8:56:55 GMT -6
It's homecoming weekend. Since this is my first homecoming at USI, what are the crowds usually like for Thursday and Saturday?
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Post by eagle87 on Feb 7, 2024 9:11:54 GMT -6
It's homecoming weekend. Since this is my first homecoming at USI, what are the crowds usually like for Thursday and Saturday? Thursday I expect a modest crowd. Saturday I keep hearing sellout, but I’m not sure it will happen. With that said, it should be our largest crowd of the season and it could be our largest ever at the SEA if we get over 4k.
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Post by eaglefan on Feb 7, 2024 9:30:00 GMT -6
It's homecoming weekend. Since this is my first homecoming at USI, what are the crowds usually like for Thursday and Saturday? Thursday I expect a modest crowd. Saturday I keep hearing sellout, but I’m not sure it will happen. With that said, it should be our largest crowd of the season and it could be our largest ever at the SEA if we get over 4k. seems like sellout is usually misused a lot recently, I’ve seen schools saying sellout and on a tv it looks like there could be 2,000 empty seats.
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Post by eagle87 on Feb 7, 2024 9:48:14 GMT -6
That’s why I am a bit skeptical. Plus, lots of season ticket holders don’t always show up. I have 4 tickets, but usually only my wife and I go consistently. Sometimes my kids go or we invite friends, but that’s 2 tickets sold that show empty for several games. I wish I knew how many season ticket holders there actually are to see if USI counts them in all games. Im fairy confident they use scanned tickets as the official attendance because many women’s games have had the attendance figure in the 4-6 hundred range, but there are way more season ticket holders than that. If they counted every season ticket holder, the attendance would never be less than 13-15 hundred for any game.
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Post by eaglefan on Feb 7, 2024 10:32:17 GMT -6
However, a lot of the upper bowl seats are getting filled pretty quick too thanks to Family Weekend
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Post by eaglefan on Feb 7, 2024 13:17:48 GMT -6
EIU Projected Starters;
G 6’4 180 Corey Sawyer JR (8.6 PPG) G 5’10 190 Tiger Booker (15.4 PPG) G 6’5 210 Dan Luers (5.9 PPG) G 6’5 200 Kyndall Davis (8.5 PPG) F 6’8 240 Kodolfo Bolis (2.0 PPG)
This is their 12th different starting lineup this season, and this group was just blown out by UALR at home. EIU may be out with G 6’3 180 Naykel Shelton (11.5 PPG), who has started in every game expect their last one. No idea about his status, but the EIU preview mentioned they have been plagued with the injury bug. Their best player is obviously Booker who has been on a roll recently. He isn’t the greatest 3-point shooter (27.1%), but expect to go like 4-6 tomorrow night. Sawyer and Davis are pretty solid too, but get into foul trouble a lot in away games. Luers was a main starter, but has seen the bench recently. He is now in the starting lineup due to injuries on the team. Solid player too for the Panthers as he shoots 40% from the 3 in away games. Bolis has seen his minutes increased and has been a decent rebounder the last few games.
F 6’10 240 Jermaine Hamlin (4.5 PPG) was their primary starter at the 5 until his injury back in early December. He is back now, but is coming off the bench after 2 games. F 6’7 200 Kooper Jacobi (10.5 PPG) and their best rebounder on the team has played in a month. For actually reserves, Simmons likes to unleash his entire bench.
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Post by shorthaircut on Feb 8, 2024 9:07:32 GMT -6
USI opens as a 4 point favorite. To say this is a big game tonight doesn’t give it justice. This one is HUGE!
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Post by eaglefan on Feb 8, 2024 9:25:27 GMT -6
USI opens as a 4 point favorite. To say this is a big game tonight doesn’t give it justice. This one is HUGE! Up to 4.5 now, wonder if EIU has another injury bug they’ve been hiding
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