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bongaboi · 1 year

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Southeast Missouri State: 2022-23 Ohio Valley Men's Basketball Champions

EVANSVILLE — Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn shared a teary-eyed embrace with his parents. After an emotional 89-82 overtime win over Tennessee Tech in the United Fidelity Bank Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship, all the family could do was shed joyful waterworks. That clinched SEMO’s first NCAA Tournament berth in 23 years and the SEMO faithful showered the players and coaches with praise.

At long last, and after four games in as many days, the wait was over. A timeline concluded with a story fitting enough for tears.

“You don’t do anything on your own,” the third-year coach said. “They get to share in that moment as well. I heard a long time ago, that surround yourself with amazing people (and) you’ll be surprised how far they can take you. I know I’m extremely blessed with these guys, this university, my family.”

The emotions of the night can’t be summed by the numbers. The six lead changes and five ties don’t come close to showing why a family cried in the stands. The Golden Eagles were about one shoe size away from snapping their 60-year danceless run.

Fifth-seeded SEMO took a two-point lead with 2.2 seconds remaining in front of 1,728 fans at Ford Center, leaving TTU needing a miracle it was painfully close to achieving. Jaylen Sebree chucked a Hail Mary pass to Diante Wood, who turned and hit an off-balance shot he thought was for the win. It was a similar play to that which ended Eagles’ coach John Pelphrey’s playing career 31 years prior.

Bucket, but his foot was on the 3-point line — “buzzer tier,” Korn called it. He sent TTU to overtime instead of the dance. Korn’s tears were nearly for a loss and Tech’s wait was almost over.

SEMO players were in tears but quickly needed to dry them. There was still overtime.

“They said, ‘Hey, remember this feeling. We’ve got five minutes to not feel this way,’” Korn said of Phillip Russell, Chris Harris and Dylan Branson. “I give them all the credit in the world for that and having the perseverance and the grit and the toughness to get it done.”

Tears fell again, but for joy and accomplishment on the Redhawks’ end. Wood watched from the opposite baseline after being an inch from ending a generational waiting period.

“I wanted to soak it all in, see how it felt, the pain,” Wood said. “(I can) come back next year, know about the feeling. Don’t want to be in that position again.”

Four games in four days. Austin Peay in 2016 was the only other team to win the OVC tournament after playing on opening night. The odds were against SEMO. Korn knew it but presented a challenge to his team before departing for Evansville.

Believe they can win the championship. Pack for four days.

Those were the options, or the players were instructed not to board the bus. That resulted in a 23-year wait ending and the Redhawks heading to March Madness.

“The guys have had a calmness, a steadiness about them all week,” Korn said. “The moment was not too big.”

“Everybody always had the right attitude,” Harris said. “We don’t want to be the outlier. It’s been so long since we actually won a championship and we see other teams winning championships all the time, so figured it’s our turn to step up.

It feels good to bring a basketball championship back home.”

A daunting task lies ahead for Korn and his Redhawks. They’ll likely be paired as a 16-seed against one of the tournament favorites or in the First Four to have the chance at playing one of the top teams. But Korn has experienced the Madness, albeit as an assistant at Kansas State.

“The balls are different, the floor is different, the arena — everything is different,” Korn said. “It’s going to be different coaching in the NCAA Tournament than it was as an assistant.

“This is what we do. This is what these guys do. To be able to have that, these guys are going to be able to see and experience, it’s at a different level. You literally walk around like royalty, people treat you so well. I’m looking forward to it.”

Amidst all the celebration, cheering and jubilation, it could be easy to forget how close it was to going the other way around. An inch, a shoe size, a step — one of those things changing is the difference between SEMO going to the tournament and watching the opposition celebrate; between tears in celebration and those in agony.

In essence, it was everything college basketball is supposed to be.

“If that’s not the definition of March Madness,” Korn said, “I don’t know what is.”

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qazastra · 1 year

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to be real. the catastrophizing about the train in Ohio seems to be making it easy to overlook over the fact that the one reporter that was arrested by local police (and as far as i know is still being charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing) was a Black man subjected to police violence caught on camera. Evan Lambert was released after five hours but I think it's important to recognize that what happened to him was likely more the product of racism than an elaborate coverup for an incident that has indeed, despite some rumors I've seen to the contrary, been reported on.

it's bullshit that Lambert was threatening anyone. they're trying to use that as an excuse as to why he was "tackled to the ground and placed in handcuffs (via NewsNation)." don't buy it.

for some background, the town where this took place, East Palestine, Ohio, is known to have put on their last minstrel show (albeit absent any blackface and reportedly closer to an "Old Timey Musical Revue" than what the name would otherwise suggest, it was still billed as a 'minstrel show') in 2019:

feel free to put more links to reporting on the situation in reblogs!

text for the last article is below the readmore as it is behind a paywall:

The last minstrel show

A journey to East Palestine, Ohio, reveals a surprising minstrel show

TONY NORMAN

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Columnist

[email protected]

APR 28, 2019

7:00 AM

The journey to East Palestine, Ohio, on a rainy Saturday evening in early March, began with a phoned-in tip a few days before.

The caller, a colleague at another news outlet, assumed that I would jump at the chance to write about a show that billed itself “The 57th Year East Palestine All Eagles Minstrel Show.” Her instincts were correct. A quick Google search confirmed that a performance was scheduled for March 9.

Further web sleuthing turned up photos from past E.P. Eagles productions, including at least one blackface performer and several white-faced minstrels. What in the name of Jim Crow was wrong with these people, I wondered.

It would’ve been too much to expect the good people of East Palestine, with a population of 4,700 with less than one percent black residents, to be “woke,” but I assumed everyone in America had the internet by now. After all, we weren’t that far removed from blackface controversies that ensnared Virginia’s governor, that state’s attorney general and the Republican speaker of the Virginia house.

This image shows Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. The page shows a picture, at right, of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to different pictures of the governor.(Eastern Virginia Medical School via Associated Press)

When I told my friend and PG colleague Steve Mellon about a minstrel show being performed an hour away in an obscure corner of Ohio’s post-industrial valley, he was even more eager to see, experience and photograph it than I was.

It seemed hard to believe that a tradition that can be traced to 1828, when Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice became the first white man to perform in blackface as Jim Crow, was still alive and kicking in the 21st century.

After another colleague drove to East Palestine to procure tickets for us before the show sold out, Steve and I were prepared for an evening of predestined, righteous outrage.

Concerned that he might be barred from bringing his camera into the venue to shoot, Steve contacted the East Palestine Eagles, the sponsor of the annual minstrel show fundraiser, to let them know we were coming.

They were cordial, but firmly insisted cameras wouldn’t be welcome in the hall. At that point, we both had visions of stereotypes running wild on the stage. If we couldn’t shoot whatever awaited us, we at least wanted to witness it.

As a Philadelphian, I figured that whatever awaited us couldn’t be worse than what a person would see marching down Broad Street in my home town during annual Mummers Day parades in the 1960s and ‘70s.

I figured there would be a few people wearing dark grease paint while finger-plucking banjos and singing in what they imagined to be old Negro dialect. Yeah, I was expecting a heavy dose of Stephen Foster songs.

We were relieved to have our tickets in hand just in case the East Palestine Eagles decided to impose a media blackout (so to speak). When we went back online to double-check a few things about the performance, the images of blackface and whiteface minstrels we’d seen earlier were gone. Geez, were they trying to gaslight us already?

Fortunately, Steve made screen grabs when they were up, but it was already looking pretty weird. Why pretend that minstrels and minstrelsy somehow wouldn’t be a major part of a contemporary minstrel show?

Curiosity, suspicion

The hourlong drive was uneventful, though we ran into a torrential downpour as we crossed the street from the crowded parking lot to 320 East Taggart St., the combination lodge, performance space and bar/restaurant known to locals as the East Palestine Eagles Nest.

From the moment we stepped dripping wet through the door, it was obvious we weren’t from those parts. A waitress took our tickets and politely escorted us to our seats through throngs of smiling and nodding East Palestinians. The vibe in the room was one more of curiosity and neighborliness than suspicion about our motives.

I was definitely the only black person there that night, but Steve probably wasn’t the only white Kentuckian in that building by a long shot. People were very cool, but there was never any doubt we were deep in the heart of Appalachia.

Unexpected performance

The first thing we noticed once the show started was the complete absence of blackface or whiteface on any of the performers. With few exceptions, the roughly 25 musicians and performers crammed into the performance space wore white tuxedos, red carnations and red suspenders. They could’ve been a musical revue put together by East Palestine’s Chamber of Commerce.

Because they were mostly middle-aged and older white men with only a few under-30 performers among them, they looked more like the Lawrence Welk Orchestra than anyone’s idea of a minstrel troupe. They were various town officials, small business owners, entrepreneurs, retirees, actual musicians, blue-collar workers and folks who had figured out how to stay in East Palestine with their dignity intact after the economy went south.

Yet, they were minstrel troupe adjacent. They opened with a very sanitized version of “Bring Back Those Minstrel Days,” with lyrics that hint at minstrelsy’s inglorious past without embracing it too wholeheartedly.

Minstrel shows, such as the one advertised on this poster from 1900, historically featured white performers in blackface, with much of the content mocking black people.(Library of Congress)

Like all classic minstrel shows, the “Old Fashion Minstrel Show 57th Year 2019” featured a revolving cast of “endmen” — officially designated rascals whose job it was to introduce songs while sparring light-heartedly with the other performers.

Sometimes the jokes would get bawdy and sexually suggestive, but nothing even remotely denigrating about black people or other minorities was said or sung on the stage that night — and I was listening closely.

The musical performances, while solidly amateurish, appeared heartfelt and well rehearsed. After all, it was an annual fundraiser for several local charities and agencies that help people in the community.

When soloist Rex Wilson stepped to the mic to sing “Mack the Knife,” he knew how to connect with the audience. When Jim Bacon sang “Travelin’ Man,” he demonstrated superior vocal skills.

The musical offerings that night were standard and inoffensive, with highlights that included “Basin Street Blues,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” “Anything But Love,” “You Can’t Take That Away From Me” and an instrumental take on “My Blue Heaven.”

While there were sentimental songs, there was no equivalent of “The Old Darky” trope or anyone waxing nostalgic over slavery and racial oppression. No one sang in a plantation dialect or wept for the return of antebellum life (the chorus to “Bring Back Those Old Minstrel Days” being the only exception).

Other than a truly funny penile enlargement joke that brought down the house, this was the most family-friendly entertainment I’d experienced in years. Yet, there remained a yawning chasm between what is implied by identifying with the minstrel show tradition and what was ultimately delivered on stage that night.

Why court the controversy, negative media coverage and hurt feelings that would automatically be generated by invoking offensive stereotypes by promising a “minstrel show,” even if in name only? The relative blandness of the performance made it feel anticlimactic.

Of course, Steve and I wondered what happened to the blackface and white-faced performers that had once been a part of the show and had recently been featured on the website. Their swift removal was a clear acknowledgement, even if unspoken, that times had changed. Even as we applauded the men who bowed on stage after their performance of “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” we had a lot of questions.

PC minstrelsy

After the performance, Steve and I were immediately approached by members of the cast and various support people eager to get our take on the evening. Speaking for myself, I was entertained, if somewhat disappointed by the lack of outrage-producing moments. As a columnist, I live for those moments. This was like going to Las Vegas to see Don Rickles but having to settle for Pat Boone.

Far from being offended by my lack of outrage, they were pleased by it. They were desperate not to have offended anyone, especially a black person. Because I have a very distinctive laugh, they knew they were half way home.

More than one person asked us if we were aware that one of the youngest performers on stage that evening was biracial. No one would come out and say it, but they wanted us and all the people an hour away in Pittsburgh to understand how not-racist they are in East Palestine, Ohio.

They wished the estimated 10 to 15 black people who lived in the area had come to the show to see for themselves how non-racist it was rather than believe media reports that weren’t based on having seen the show.

Though offered sincerely, it was disingenuous to complain about black people believing negative press about the show when there are certain expectations baked into what any reasonable person can assume when stumbling upon something advertised as a “minstrel show.”

There was grudging acknowledgment that what was performed on March 9 was a completely different show than it would’ve been in the 1960s and 70s or even a decade ago.

At one time, even the family-friendly show in East Palestine reflected some of the problematic elements of minstrel shows. But it hasn’t been that in a long, long time, the people who talked to us insisted. No one would say the last time they’d seen someone wearing blackface on the stage — or even white-face, for that matter. There are limits to what they’re willing to talk about even on background.

Then there is the biggest question of all — why call the annual musical review fundraiser a minstrel show at all if all the worst aspects of minstrelsy have been removed from it? Why not just call it “The East Palestine Old Timey Musical Revue” or something less fraught with the weight of historical judgment?

Many conspiratorial whispers later, we’ve heard the same excuse from several people used to explain why a non-minstrel show advertises itself as a minstrel show — tradition. Some people just don’t want to let go of the term “minstrel show” even as every element of a real minstrel show is left on the cutting room floor.

“We really shouldn’t use the term at all,” one performer who was intimately involved in the production said. “It’s not worth the trouble, but you have oldtimers who don’t want to let it go. I think this may be the last year you see the word minstrel in the program booklet.”

On the drive back to Pittsburgh, Steve and I compared notes about what we saw on stage that night. We were both disappointed by the lack of antebellum drama and controversy, but we were also relieved that the good people of East Palestine are beginning to realize that singing “Bring Back Those Minstrel Days,” even without the makeup, really isn’t a good look for them.

Tony Norman: [email protected] or 412-263-1631.

First Published April 28, 2019, 7:00am

#sorry i don't normally post about news but this is something that i've seen NO mention of on the dash in contrast to the several reblogs of #information and misinformation relating to the derailment itself and resulting pollutants #cw police violence #news #important

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Complete schedule: https://t.co/eWCQKomOe3#OVCit | #OVCTourney pic.twitter.com/YgxyXoUgDR — Ohio Valley Conference (@OVCSports) March 2, 2024Link to PDF bracketWhen it starts: WednesdayWhere: Evansville, Ind.Title game: Saturday, March 9, 7 p.m., ESPN2Top seed: Little Rock (20-11, 14-4 Ohio Valley)The skinny: Little Rock, UT Martin and Morehead State finished in a three-way tie at 14-4, with Little Rock earning the tiebreaker for the No. 1 seed. No. 8 seed Southern Indiana is ineligible for the automatic bid as it is still transitioning to Division I.Patriot Patriot League Tournament Bracket. pic.twitter.com/NKqD4jDsNY — Mid-Major Madness (@mid_madness) March 3, 2024Link to PDF bracketWhen it starts: TuesdayWhere: Campus sitesTitle game: Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m., CBS Sports NetworkTop seed: Colgate (22-9, 16-2 Patriot)The skinny: Colgate might be the biggest favorite in any conference tournament, as it ran away with the regular-season crown by a full six games. The Raiders are looking to represent the Patriot League in the fifth straight NCAA Tournament.Southern The men’s stage is set 🏀 | #SoConHoops Click the link below for the full schedule, tickets and more⬇️ https://t.co/hsQDgSk8xm pic.twitter.com/dpEcJNzSIK — The Southern Conference (@SoConSports) March 3, 2024Link to PDF bracketWhen it starts: FridayWhere: Asheville, N.C.Title game: Monday, March 11, 7 p.m., ESPNTop seed: Samford (26-5, 15-3 Southern)The skinny: Samford dominated the league and has won a school-record 26 games already. The Bulldogs are seeking their first SoCon tournament title.SouthlandWhen it starts: SundayWhere: Lake Charles, La.Title game: Wednesday, March 13, 5 p.m., ESPN2Top seed: McNeese State (26-3, 15-1 Southland)The skinny: The regular season continues until Wednesday when a bracket will be set. But Will Wade’s McNeese State Cowboys have already clinched the No. 1 seed.Summit 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐨 … The 2024 #SummitMBB Championship Bracket‼️ Sioux Falls is going to be fun 🤩 🗞️: https://t.co/od0Pp0Djcl#ReachTheSummit x #March2TheSummit pic.twitter.com/GkNTAsJbFn — The Summit League (@TheSummitLeague) March 3, 2024Link to PDF bracketWhen it starts: FridayWhere: Sioux Falls, S.D.Title game: Tuesday, March 12, 9:30 p.m., CBS SportsTop seed: South Dakota State (19-12, 12-4 Summit)The skinny: South Dakota State won the league by two games, and the Jackrabbits are looking for their eighth tournament title since 2012. Kansas City, which was 10-15 on Feb. 8, closed out with six straight wins to take the No. 2 seed. The nation’s leading scorer, Tommy Bruner, plays for No. 7 seed Denver.Sun Belt 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧. Have a look at the official bracket for the 2024 @HerculesTires #SunBeltMBB Championship. ☀️🏀 📰 » https://t.co/2BTNm8yw0G pic.twitter.com/i9y7PnFFDb — Sun Belt (@SunBelt) March 2, 2024Link to PDF bracketWhen it starts: TuesdayWhere: Pensacola, Fla.Title game: Monday, March 11, 6 p.m., ESPN2Top seed: Appalachian State (26-5, 16-2 Sun Belt)The skinny: James Madison got all the attention early, winning at Michigan State in the first week of the season and cracking the AP Top 25. But Appalachian State — which beat Auburn in December — swept the Dukes. There’s an outside chance both could make the NCAA Tournament.GO DEEPERInside James Madison's remarkable riseWest Coast It’s official‼️ The seeds are locked in for the @MyCreditUnion1 #WCChoops Championship 🎟️ https://t.co/ofOZIPvLBE pic.twitter.com/A16EXL2B5N — WCC Basketball (@WCChoops) March 3, 2024Link to PDF bracketWhen it starts: ThursdayWhere: Las VegasTitle game: Tuesday, March 12, 9 p.m., ESPNTop seed: Saint Mary’s (24-7, 15-1 West Coast)The skinny: Saint Mary’s claimed the regular-season title, but Gonzaga finished strong by winning on the road against the Gaels and No. 3 seed San Francisco in the final week. Saint Mary’s and the Zags should both make the NCAA Tournament no matter what happens in this event since both got byes to the semifinals. Could a surprise winner make this a three-bid league?Conference tournaments starting next week:American: March 13-17Atlantic 10: March 12-17ACC: March 12-16Big 12: March 12-16Big East: March 13-16Big Ten: March 13-17Big West: March 13-16Conference USA: March 12-16Ivy League: March 16-17MAAC: March 12-16MAC: March 14-16MEAC: March 13-16Mountain West: March 13-16Pac-12: March 13-16SEC: March 13-17SWAC: March 13-16WAC: March 13-16(Top photo of Colgate celebrating last year’s Patriot League tournament title: Adrian Kraus / AP) !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments); if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window, document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '207679059578897'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); [ad_2] Source link

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Events 3.2 (after 1910)

1917 – The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. 1919 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow. 1932 – Finnish president P. E. Svinhufvud gives a radio speech, which four days later finally ends the Mäntsälä Rebellion and the far-right Lapua Movement that started it. 1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry. 1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII. 1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact. 1943 – World War II: During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea Allied aircraft defeated a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea. 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. 1955 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit. 1962 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état. 1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points. 1965 – The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. 1968 – Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country. 1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted. 1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown. 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets. 1977 – Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People". 1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28. 1978 – The late iconic actor Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from his grave in Switzerland. 1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan. 1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century. 1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy president of the African National Congress. 1991 – Establishment of Kuwait Democratic Forum, center-left political organization in Kuwait. 1991 – Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War. 1992 – Start of the war in Transnistria. 1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, all of which (except San Marino) were former Soviet republics, join the United Nations. 1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark. 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities). 2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. 2012 – A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities. 2017 – The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia. 2022 – Russian forces capture the city of Kherson during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which subsequently began the start of the Russian occupation and military-civilian administration in Kherson. Kherson is the only regional capital in Ukraine that Russia captured.

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Morehead State: 2023-24 Ohio Valley Men's Basketball Champions

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Riley Minix scored 26 points and Drew Thelwell added 21, including 13 in the final 8-plus minutes, to help Morehead State blew a 17-point lead before the Eagles No. 1 seed Arkansas-Little Rock 69-55 Saturday night in the championship game of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament.

Third-seeded Morehead State (26-8), which played in the championship game for the third time in four seasons, set a program record for single-season wins and won its sixth OVC tourney. The Eagles will make their ninth NCAA Tournament appearance, their first since 2021.

Little Rock scored nine of the first 12 second-half points to take a 36-35 lead with 15:44 to play and Bradley Douglas hit a 3-pointer 2 minutes later that made it 39-all. Minix ripped off seven consecutive points to spark an 18-5 run that gave the Eagles a 57-44 lead with 6:59 remaining and UALR trailed the rest of the way.

Douglas led Arkansas-Little Rock (21-12) with 14 points, Robinson scored 13 and Jamir Chaplin 11.

UALR missed six consecutive shots and committed three turnovers during a 6-plus minute scoring drought in the first half as the Eagles went on a 17-0 run to take a 21-4 lead midway through the first half. The Trojans got right back in it with a 14-0 run of their own to trail 21-18.

Morehead State shot 50% (25 of 50) from the field while limiting the Trojans to 41% (23 of 56) shooting and outscoring UALR 10-2 from the free-throw line.

UALR won the lone regular season meeting between the teams, who finished tied with UT Martin atop the conference standings at 14-4.

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UTEP Football Opens ’23 Season, CUSA Action at Jax State Saturday on CBSSN

EL PASO, Texas – UTEP will open its 106th season at new Conference USA program Jacksonville State on Saturday, Aug. 26 with kickoff set for 3:30 p.m. MT/4:30 CT in Burgess-Snow Field at JSU Stadium in Jacksonville, Ala. The Miners and Gamecocks will be televised nationally on CBS Sports Network and can be heard on 600 ESPN El Paso

The Miners are opening on week 0 for the third consecutive season, while the Aug. 26 kickoff is the earliest UTEP will open a campaign.

UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel returns for his sixth season under the helm. The Miners are looking to be bowl eligible for the second time in three years after their 2021 New Mexico Bowl appearance.

Thirteen Miners who were All-CUSA in 2022 will suit in the new adidas gear as Praise Amaewhule, Deion Hankins, Tyrice Knight, Angelo Tejada, Marcus Bellon, Steven Hubbard, Kobe Hylton, Elijah Klein, Justin Mayers, Andrew Meyer, Joshua Sloan, Keenan Stewart, and Tyrin Smith will suit up in 2023. UTEP returns seven starters on offense, six on defense and five on special teams. Overall, 41 letterwinners return with the Orange and Blue.

Jax State finished its final campaign as an FCS program with a 9-2 overall record and 5-0 mark in Atlantic Sun Conference action. The Gamecocks rushed for over 2,900 yards, while averaging 251.0 yards per game and scored 37 TDs. JSU ranked first in the ASUN and fifth in FCS in rushing. It’s scoring offense (36.2 ppg) ranked 10th in FCS and first in conference.

“Any time a team goes 9-2, they know how to win, I mean, that's a strong season for them.,” Dimel said. “They did a great job. They're very, very athletic. They have great team speed on defense. On offense, they have their version of Frank Harris, a seventh-year quarterback coming back. So, I think he's got a little bit of experience to what he does. He's a very good player and very athletic. They got a bevy of runners in the backfield. They've got a lot of depth in their backfield. They got four of their five starters coming back on the offensive line, so they have a lot of depth there.”

UTEP came up short of bowl eligibility finishing 5-7 overall and 3-5 in CUSA play. The Miners’ run defense was something to talk about last year as they allowed the least rushing yards per game (136.0) since 1967. UTEP’s rushing attack gained over 2,000 yards for the first time since the 2016 season.

For Jax State, it’s the first time playing as an FBS program, while the Gamecocks are entering their first season in the new CUSA after playing in the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2022, and the Ohio Valley Conference the previous nine seasons (2003-2021).

The Miners will not only face a nine-win team on Saturday, the late-August forecast is calling for a high of 97 degrees and 66 percent humidity.

“We've had a very warm summer, as we all know, in El Paso, and we've run and conditioned at a higher level than we ever have throughout the summer. Our guys are very well conditioned. Our guys are very prepared to handle the elements that the first game will bring,” Dimel said.

UTEP (0-0, 0-0) at Jax State (0-0, 0-0)

Date: Saturday, Aug. 26

Time: 3:30 p.m. MT/4:30 CT

Location: Jacksonville, Ala.

Venue: Burgess-Snow Field at JSU Stadium (24,000)

Twitter Updates: @UTEPFB

TV: CBSSN

PxP: Rich Waltz

Analyst: Aaron Taylor

Sideline: Amanda Guerra

Radio: 600 ESPN El Paso

PxP: Jon Teicher

Analyst: Cole Freytag

Sideline: Mando Medina

WHERE TO WATCH & LISTEN

The contest will be nationally televised on CBS Sports Network with Rich Waltz (play-by-play) and Aaron Taylor (analysis) calling the action, and Amanda Guerra on the sidelines. Fans can tune into 600 ESPN El Paso with “The Voice of the Miners” Jon Teicher calling play-by-play in his 43rd season. ‘Teich’ is joined by former UTEP WR Cole Freytag (2012, 2014-16) in the booth providing analysis in his second season and Mando Medina reporting from the sidelines. The action can also be heard on the UTEP Miners app.

SERIES VS. JAX STATE

The Miners and Gamecocks will square off for the first time ever on August 26, 2023.

ABOUT JAX STATE

The Gamecocks, under the direction of Rich Rodriguez in his first season at the helm, finished 9-2 overall and 5-0 in the Atlantic Sun Conference during the 2022 season. Jax State, in its first season as an FBS program, returns 22 starters and 50 letterwinners for the 2023 campaign. Last season, the Gamecocks averaged over 36 points per game, while yielding just under 23 points. JSU averaged 423.6 yards of total offensive and gave up 398.7 per game. Leading rusher RB Anwar Lewis returns after gaining 818 yards on 115 carries (7.1 avg.) and eight TDs. QB Zion Webb also returns after rushing for a team-high 13 scores and 647 yards (5.6 avg.). Webb added 10 TD passes with 1,737 yards in the air and nine interceptions. Webb completed 55.2 percent (111-210) of his passes with a long toss of 76 yards. RB Ron Wiggins also returns after rushing for 461 yards and four scores. Leading receiver WR Galban Sterling returns after hauling in team bests in receptions (28), receiving yards (433) and receiving scores (three). Four of Webb’s O-linemen are returning: LT Will O’Steen, RG Clay Webb, C Treylen Brown and LG Brock Robey. FS Jeremiah Harris returns as the team’s leading tackler with 68 (third on the team in ’22). DE Chris Hardie returns after leading the defense with 5.5 sacks. BANDIT (OLB/Nickel hybrid) J-Rock Swain tallied 5.0 sacks, ranking second on the squad. Nickel Kolbi Fuqua led the team with two INTs. Rodriguez will enter his 26th season as a head coach and has 172-career victories.

EARLY START, AGAIN

For a school-record third straight season, the Miners will kick off the year in the month of August. UTEP had previously christened the campaign in the month on consecutive seasons twice, doing so in 1985 and 1986 and 2002 and 2003. Furthermore, the start date (at Jax State, Aug. 26) is the earliest in school history, eclipsing last season’s opener (vs. North Texas, Aug. 27) by a single day.

LEAGUE PLAY TO START

For the second straight season, UTEP will be tasked with playing a conference opponent in the opener. It marks the first time that has occurred in 31 years, when the Miners had a three-year stretch (1990-92) when they were members of the WAC. The Orange and Blue will battle new league member Jax State on the road on Aug. 26, hoping for a better start than the 31-13, setback in the season opener against North Texas on Aug. 27, 2022, in the Sun Bowl.

BEEN A LONG TIME

UTEP claimed its league road opener in both 2022 (W, 41-35, at Charlotte, Oct. 1) and 2021 (W, 26-13, at Southern Miss, Oct. 9). If the Miners can pull out a victory at Jax State on Aug. 26, it will mark the first time they’ve won their first conference road contest in three straight seasons since also doing so from 1948-50.

SMITH CHASING HISTORY

Tyrin Smith reeled in 71 receptions for 1,039 yards in 2022, giving him a chance to become the first player in program history with back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons if he can surpass that total again this year. He has already helped the Orange and Blue achieve something that had never happened before, teaming up with former Miner Jacob Cowing (1,354, 2021) to give UTEP 1,000-yard receivers in consecutive campaigns.

AMAEWHULE VYING TO BECOME SACK KING

Praise Amaewhule heads into the 2023 campaign with 17.5 career sacks, which is second at UTEP behind Gonzalo Floyd’s school standard (20, 1990-91, 93). He took sole possession of second place in the category last year by recording a pair of sacks, which propelled him past both Herman Whiting (16, 1979-82) and Chris Mineo (16.5, 2002-05).

SUSTAINING SUCCESS UNDER DIMEL

UTEP enters 2023 in search of a third straight season of at least five wins, something it hasn’t achieved since it did so from 2004-06. The Miners are also hoping to earn a spot to a bowl game for the second time in the past three seasons, which would make head coach Dana Dimel the first UTEP HC with multiple bowl bids since Mike Price. Prior to that, it hadn’t occurred since 1965-67.

LOTS OF ROAD GAMES EARLY ON

UTEP will play its season opener and three of the first four games of the year on the road. That’s the first time it has occurred since the 2015 campaign, which included three consecutive road contests out of the gates.

(PHOTO CREDIT: UTEP Athletics // REPORT BY: Mark Brunner)

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Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture

Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture is a custom furniture maker in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, serving customers all across the nation with high-quality, custom-crafted live edge, epoxy resin river tables, and CNC engraved wood furniture. The company is made up of a large woodworking facility, the most advanced furniture-making equipment and tools, and some of the finest furniture designers and woodworking artisans in America. Browse online or submit your design ideas for a one-of-a-kind, handcrafted desk, coffee table, dining table, or conference table today!

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Season 2, Episode 7. Tennessee State University Women's Volleyball team won the 2022 Ohio Valley Conference Championship. Head Coach Donika Sutton discusses the season, her team and career, and the institution with Lacy L. Rice Jr. of Rice FAME Group.

Photos courtesy of Tennessee State University Athletics

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College Football By State - Illinois.

FBS: Illinois Fighting Illini - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois - They first played in 1890. They are in the Big Ten.

Northern Illinois Huskies - DeKalb, Illinois - They first played in 1899. They are in the MAC.

Northwestern Wildcats - Evanston, Illinois - They first played in 1876. They are in the Big Ten.

FCS: Eastern Illinois Panthers - Charleston, Illinois - Their program was established in 1899. They are in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Illinois State Redbirds - Normal, Illinois - Their program was established in 1887. They are in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Southern Illinois Salukis - Carbondale, Illinois - Their program was established in 1904. They are in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Western Illinois Leathernecks - Macomb, Illinois - Their program was established in 1903. They are in the Missouri Valley, but they are going to join the Ohio Valley Conference.

D2: McKendree University Bearcats - Lebanon, Illinois - They are in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.

Quincy University Hawks - Quincy, Illinois - They are in the GLVC.

D3: Augustana (IL.) Vikings - Rock Island, Illinois - They first played in 1920. They are in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW).

Aurora Spartans - Aurora, Illinois - They first played in 1899. They are in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC).

Benedictine Eagles - Lisle, Illinois - They first played in 1917. They are in the NACC.

University of Chicago Maroons - Chicago, Illinois - They first played in 1892. They are in the Midwest Conference (MWC).

Concordia (IL.) Cougars - River Forest, Illinois - They first played in 1923. They are in the NACC.

Elmhurst Bluejays - Elmhurst, Illinois - They first played in 1920. They are in the CCIW.

Eureka Red Devils - Eureka, Illinois - They first played in 1891. They are in the NACC.

Greenville Panthers - Greenville, Illinois - They first played in 1998. They are in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC).

Illinois College Blueboys - Jacksonville, Illinois - They first played in 1890. They are in the MWC.

Illinois Wesleyan Titans - Bloomington, Illinois - They first played in 1887. They are in the CCIW.

Knox Prairie Fire - Galesburg, Illinois - They first played in 1884. They are in the MWC.

Lake Forest Foresters - Lake Forest, Illinois - They first played in 1882. They are in the MWC.

Millikin Big Blue - Decatur, Illinois - They first played in 1903. They are in the CCIW.

Monmouth (IL.) Fighting Scots - Monmouth, Illinois - They first played in 1888. They are in the MAC.

North Central (IL.) Cardinals - Naperville, Illinois - They first played in 1898. They are in the CCIW.

North Parks Vikings - Chicago, Illinois - They first played in 1934. They are in the CCIW.

Rockford Regents - Rockford, Illinois - They first played in 2000. They are in the NACC.

Wheaton (IL.) Thunder - Wheaton, Illinois - They first played in 1914. They are in the CCIW.

NAIA: Judson University Eagles - Elgin, Illinois. Olivet Nazarene University Tigers - Bourbonnais, Illinois. University of St. Francis (IL.) Fighting Scots - Joliet, Illinois. Saint Xavier University Cougars - Chicago, Illinois.

Awards: My Favorite Mascot - The Prairie Fire of Knox College. (Though the Blueboys of Illinois College, the Western Illinois Leathernecks, and the University Of Chicago Maroons are also cool.) The "What A Maroon" Award - The University Of Chicago Maroons. The "Thomas Gainsborough" Award - The Blueboys of Illinois College. The "Count The Seconds" Award - The Thunder of Wheaton (IL.). The "Arbor Day" Award - The Lake Forest Foresters of Lake Forest, Illinois. The "Clues" Award - The Millikin Big Blue. The "Audobon Society" Award - Illinois State Redbirds, Quincy University Hawks, Benedictine Eagles, Elmhurst Bluejays, North Central (IL.) Cardinals, AND the Judson University Eagles. The "Puddy Tat" Award - Northwestern Wildcats, Eastern Illinois Panthers, McKendree University Bearcats, Concordia (IL.) Cougars, Greenville Panthers, Olivet Nazarene University Tigers, and the Saint Xavier University Cougars. The "Going To The Dogs" Award - Northern Illinois Huskies AND the Southern Illinois Salukis. The "George Clooney" Award - The Western Illinois Leathernecks.

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