Jeff Bidwell
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One year ago today: Murray State's
@JaMorant
, if but for a moment, broke the internet vs. UT Martin.
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Sitting in the upper deck of the arena, I can't explain well enough how much every fan around me lost their mind when
@JaMorant
put that dude on skates.
Then he hit the 3, and the volume up there somehow got cranked up to an 11.
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Here's
@JaMorant
's postgame message to the Racer Nation after so many Murray State fans made the trip to Memphis to support him tonight.
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It was easy to take for granted, watching him every day in college, just how stupidly good
@JaMorant
was at Murray State.
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Despite losing earlier, Kentucky’s Kellan Grady was heading into the arena to watch one of his best friends, Carter Collins, play for Murray State.
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His dunk is getting all the attention tonight, but
@igotgame_12
's reverse layup in the first half all but defies physics.
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I asked Murray State's Matt McMahon how he handles players that may not be happy with their lack of playing time. I thought his answer could be applied to just about every walk of life. "If your role is not what you want it to be right now, what are you doing to change it?"
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Alex, I'll take, 'Coaches that never coached in the Ohio Valley Conference' for $400.
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Happy 8th birthday to the reigning, defending, and undisputed champion of postgame press conferences.
#MyWifeMyWife
#MerryChristmas
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When you’re facing the biggest moments of your life, I can only pray you’re as chill as this Abilene Christian assistant.
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Murray State's Shaq Buchanan has a workout with the Memphis Grizzlies this weekend.
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Longest current MBB home winning streaks in the country:
64 - Gonzaga
37 - Houston
20 - Morehead State
17 - Texas Tech
16 - Providence
15 - Kentucky
15 - Arizona
14 - Murray State
14 - Auburn
14 - South Dakota State
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Mornings like this are just a reminder of how helpless we are as parents. We send our kids to school, and the last thing you want to fear is they won't come home. Hug your kids today, and send all of your prayers to everyone in the Marshall County community.
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Murray State's Jonathan Stark was the 2017-18 Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year, but before that season, he walked into Matt McMahon's office and said he didn't need to be the team's point guard anymore -- Ja Morant did. Today, Stark explained why he believed that.
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In his two years at Murray State,
@JaMorant
was a 34.3% three-pointer shooter.
Apparently the line was too close.
This year with the Grizzlies, Morant is shooting 40.7% from beyond the arc.
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College teams with multiple players selected in the lottery since 2015 NBA Draft:
12 - Kentucky
10 - Duke
3 - Arizona
3 - Texas
3 - Gonzaga
3 - Michigan State
2 - Murray State
2 - Oklahoma
2 - Washington
2 - North Carolina
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McCracken County and Carlisle County players, cheerleaders, coaches, and students pray for Marshall County before tonight’s game.
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When I'm long since retired from this job, the Ben Clark helmet toss will be something I will always love and always, always remember.
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December 11, 2011:
Murray State 76, Memphis 72
December 10, 2021:
Murray State 74, Memphis 72
My gracious.
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Murray State's all-time assist leaders:
531 - Don Mann (111 games)
528 - Ja Morant (64 games)
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The commissioner just wanted a handshake. But first,
@MxSniperK_
had to let everybody know who the first team in the country was to go dancing this year.
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There have been four triple-doubles in Murray State basketball history.
@igotgame_12
now has three of them.
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If we're now officially calling Murray State's
@ShaqLeroy
and
@igotgame_12
"The Bounce Brothers", today they certainly lived up that name.
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With his last assist tonight, Murray State’s Ja Morant became just the 16th player in Division I history to record 300 assists in a season.
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Playing against Kentucky, McCracken County grad
@will_sivills
knocks down a 3. Not pictured:
@sivills5
's head exploding with joy.
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Small consolation on this night, but here's Jonathan Stark's ankle-breaking three-pointer vs. Middle Tennessee.
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Per Murray State: The men’s basketball team’s success led to more than $277 million in earned media coverage and publicity. Defined as Advertising Value Equivalency, this places a monetary value on earned media received through mass media coverage, such as TV, print and broadcast
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Murray State's KJ Williams: 2019 vs. 2022
The years may change, but the amount of joy this video brings me never changes.
@MxSniperK_
FTW
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I’ve seen some people questioning Matt McMahon’s “commitment to Murray State”.
Stop.
He has been at the University for 11 years, and spent 7 as Head Coach. The last MSU Head Coach to be there longer than that was 50 years ago.
If he chooses to leave, he’s earned that right.
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Yesterday, the New York Post reported Murray State's Ja Morant "never got major-conference attention, according to sources, because of academic issues." Today, Matt McMahon provided his rebuttal to that story.
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And the award for “Weakest technical foul received” goes to Murray State’s Matt McMahon. He really jumped over the line hiking up his pants, because that was the most violent act in that video.
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Former Murray State great Isaiah Canaan is in the house tonight to watch the Racers.
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I just spoke with
@PresMurrayState
, and he said since December 1st, the Murray State basketball team has brought in $46,000,000 in free publicity from national media coverage of the team.
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Going through some old video tonight, I found this interview from 1989 with WKU football coach Jack Harbaugh.
The similarities between Jack and Jim, on many levels, are incredible.
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If a Power 5 bubble team lost two February games because a starter was hurt, you’d never hear the end of it as they made their NCAA Tournament case.
I hope Indiana State is afforded the same grace after losing two games with Jayson Kent out — but I’m not holding my breath.
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Cullan Brown was one of Emma Talley's best friends in the world. She is playing this week at the LPGA's Marathon Classic to honor him after he passed away yesterday. I asked Emma what she would want people to know about Cullan who never got to meet him.
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Did Phil Fulmer have somewhere else to be today? This has to be a world record for fastest "hold up the jersey with the new coach and smile" photo op.
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Longest current winning streaks in college basketball:
11 - Murray State
11 - Michigan State
11 - Gonzaga
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1987: Murray State had a losing record.
1988: Murray State won an OVC Tournament championship and won a game in the NCAA Tournament.
2017: Murray State's first losing record since 1987.
2018: Murray State won an OVC Tournament championship and........
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Calloway County has hired Maddie Waldrop as their new girls basketball coach. Waldrop played her high school basketball at Murray, before having an outstanding collegiate career at UT Martin. Waldrop will lead her first program at 22 years old.
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Belmont beats Temple.
I hope the NCAA gives
@OVCSports
one of those big golf tournament checks showing off their 1.7 million dollar night.
For tho💰e 💰coring at home, that’💰 5.1 million dollar💰 for the OVC 💰o far.
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This is truly a landmark day in the Ohio Valley Conference. Can’t underscore it enough.
#2BidOVC
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Only 15 men in Division I college basketball history have had 300 assists in a single-season.
Murray State's
@igotgame_12
is sitting at 277 as we enter the final week of the regular season.
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My gracious -- who took this?!? And just go ahead and give him ALL the awards for this year and next.
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He will forever be “The Governor” to me. From the first time we stuck a mic in his face, to the several times he co-hosted my radio show, it was obvious Cullan Brown was one-in-a-billion. I know I’m just one of countless people who are broken-hearted tonight.
#PrayForCullan
🙏🏻❤️
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That feeling when
@MsuManagers
knows
@ShaqLeroy
just hit the three-pointer to put away Southern Illinois.
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Random find in the WPSD Sports archives from February 21st, 1997:
Come for the Lexington Catholic/Paintsville basketball highlights.
Stay for
@ryanlemond
getting escorted out by security.
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Sources: Matt McMahon has informed Murray State's players he is leaving the school to take over the head coaching position at LSU.
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Final: (7) Murray State 91, (10) San Francisco 87 (OT)
If there is a better game in the next three weeks, I’d love to see it.
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Tonight,
@JaMorant
will make his NBA debut with the Memphis Grizzlies. Today we talked to some of Morant's former Murray State teammates,
@Dnell_21
,
@YourFavBaller
,
@DevinGilmore23
, and
@BrionWhitley
, about watching their guy get to live out his basketball dreams.
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Murray State's history in the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament:
1988: Kansas 61, Murray State 58
2010: Butler 54, Murray State 52
2012: Marquette 62, Murray State 53
Will today be the day the Racers finally kick in the door to the Sweet 16?
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Before he left for Baton Rouge, Matt McMahon was asked if he had a message for Murray State fans. Here is that message:
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Here's former Paducah Tilghman standout Sayveon McEwen with the Northeast Conference championship trophy after the Colonials beat St. Francis (PA) to advance to the NCAA Tournament.
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How does Murray State affect road crowds?
Here is the increase in attendance Murray State's OVC opponents have seen when the Racers come to town vs. average OVC home attendance this season:
Jax State: 67%
EIU: 99%
SIUE: 113%
SEMO: 127%
UT Martin: 149%
Tennessee Tech: 161%
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Not that anybody asked, but no matter what happens tonight, I believe Matt McMahon has taken the throne as the greatest head coach in Murray State basketball history.
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Final: (2) Murray State 77, (1) Belmont 65.
For the first time in 20 years, Murray State is going back to the NCAA Tournament for a second-straight year.
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Check back in 5 years, but I think I love this. MT
@WojYahooNBA
: Philadelphia will select Joel Embiid with the No. 3 pick in the NBA Draft.
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After tonight's win over Austin Peay,
@igotgame_12
,
@Dnell_21
,
@DevinGilmore23
, and others jumped into the crowd to celebrate with the Murray State student section.
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20 years ago, if Murray State beat a Top 25 team, they might have burned couches in joy on campus.
Tonight they do it, while there is obvious excitement, there is more a sense of, “Yeah, this is who we are and what we do.”
It’s amazing how far the program has come in 20 years.
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I just spoke with Murray State’s Steve Prohm. He tells me fall signee Justin Morgan is not only committed, but is “all in.”
Prohm also says he is getting closer to announcing a staff, but there are some HR protocols that need to be completed before the staff can be announced.
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There is usually a process and some undetermined length of time that needs to pass before a jersey is retired. Murray State retiring
@JaMorant
’s was an inevitability. If we’ve learned anything the last few days, it’s that tomorrow isn’t promised. There’s no better time than now.
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On this day in 2019:
- Murray State beat Belmont 77-65 to win the OVC Tournament title
-
@JaMorant
wrecked a dude
-
@21_teemo
celebrated
-
@CoachMcMahon
was hilariously, yet quietly, agitated that no foul was called on the dunk while
#RacerNation
lost their minds around him.
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Murray State's Matt McMahon gives an update on DaQuan Smith after Smith missed nearly his entire freshman season with a foot injury.
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Murray State jumps from 75th to 38th in the NCAA’s newest NET rankings, after last night’s win over SIU.
Louisville is 20th.
Kentucky is 39th.
Belmont is 57th.
SIU drops from 63rd to 94th
WKU is 139th.
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Quick thought
#1
:
Matt McMahon said it to me after the game, and I agree: Tevin Brown’s block of Morehead’s game-tying three in the last minute should be remembered in Murray State lore forever. An incredible play from arguably the best Swiss Army knife player in Racer history.
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This was the sequence that won the game for Murray State.
@original_tev10
knocks down the 3 to put the Racers up 71-65 with 0:57 left -- and then
@Dnell_21
takes the biggest charge of his life.
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2013: 70-68 in overtime
2015: 88-87
Tonight: An exorcism
Murray State is headed back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2012 with a 68-51 win over Belmont. The Racers are the first team to punch their ticket to the Big Dance.
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In the last three years, Matt McMahon has won:
- 3 OVC regular season championships
- 2 OVC tournament titles (with the chance for another this week)
- 0 OVC Coach of the Year awards
Good thing Murray State has enough good players to overcome all that non-elite coaching.
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Here is
@CBSCoachNutt
in the locker room after
@racersfootball
won at Austin Peay on October 8th, 1994.
If you need me, I'll be over here looking for a wall to run through.
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2/17: Murray State 91, Austin Peay 56
2/24: Murray State 76, Belmont 43
Two nationally televised games; two everloving beatdowns.
If you’re trying to convince the masses how legitimate of a 27-2 team you are, I’m not sure what else Murray could have done.
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Several Murray State players, including Ja Morant, watched Mayfield and Marshall County play in the region tournament tonight. When Mayfield's Connor Guthrie hit a three in front of Morant, Guthrie played a little air guitar for him.
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It’s my last dance at The Bank, and I get to watch Murray State and Belmont?
Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
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McCracken County baseball coach Geno Miller told his team he'd dye his hair blonde if the Mustangs made it to the state semifinals.
The Mustangs will play in the semis tomorrow. Geno is a man of his word.
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Here is Murray State leaving for the 1990 NCAA Tournament, with cameo appearances from
@Sivills5
and
@Mr_Popeye_Jones
.
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Matt McMahon lost his 1st exhibition game as Murray State's head coach to an NAIA team.
After going 33-31 his first 2 years, the natives were restless, but so was McMahon.
On my podcast in 2018, he explained how a 2017 fork in the road moment became his legacy at Murray State.
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Transy's
@will_sivills
has taken two shots at Rupp Arena. Both of them were three-pointers, and he nailed both of them.
@sivills5
is likely now in need of oxygen.
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I’ve done this job for more than 20 years, and Cullan Brown is the only kid I’ve covered who has ever invited me to their graduation. It meant a lot then, and means even more now, especially as I look back at his speech from that night.
#PrayForCullan
"Keep good people close to you and keep the Bible closer." -- The future governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Cullan Brown, during his valedictorian speech.
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Four seconds into this, and you get a “blink and you’ll miss it” moment from Murray State basketball.
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The one thing I’m positive of tonight: Cullan Brown is Heaven’s new grill master with his eternal supply of FlavorDust.
#PrayForCullan
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Since the start of the 1991-92 season, here is the list of men's college basketball players with at least 2198 points, 571 assists, and 290 made three-pointers in their career.
1. Jonathan Stark (Murray State)
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"Keep good people close to you and keep the Bible closer." -- The future governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Cullan Brown, during his valedictorian speech.
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"So you want to try to double-team me with the clock running down? LOL." -- Ja Morant, probably.
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Today, the Milwaukee Bucks signed former Murray State star Isaiah Canaan to a 10-day contract. Tonight, Canaan scored six points, making both of his three-point attempts, in Milwaukee's 117-106 win over Chicago.
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"Damn, get him a Happy Meal or something."
Barkley is forever the best.
Ja Morant (
@igotgame_12
) stopped by the set during Game 1 to meet the Inside guys! 💯
#NBAPlayoffs
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For all the damage in town, and in our store, amazingly enough, this wall was left untouched.
#MayfieldStrong
🙏🏻
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Belmont and Murray State has justifiably become THE rivalry in the Ohio Valley Conference.
But when Murray State and Austin Peay are playing in front of 8600+ on the last night of the season, and playing FOR something, this conference is better for it. Much, much better.
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UT Martin junior forward
@maddiewaldrop
has been playing with a herniated disc and a bulging disc in her back since September. Tonight at 5, hear why she has decided to play through the pain as she and her
@UTMartinWBB
teammates close in on an OVC championship.
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What does
@Sivills5
do when his sons and their teammates win a district championship? Dance to DJ Khaled, of course.
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After last night, 87,067 fans have come to the CFSB Center this season to watch Murray State play. That's the highest number in the 21-year history of the CFSB Center.
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Me, in theory, planning on how I would call my first buzzer-beater: “It’s OK to show some excitement, but remain calm enough to get all the necessary info across to the listener.”
Me, in reality, during my first buzzer-beater: <Blacks out while losing my ever-loving mind>
Murray State's
@jacobiwood_
hit the game winner this afternoon for the Racers against Evansville.
Check out the epic shot along with the reaction from the
@MSURacers
crowd and the 'Voice of the Racers'
@AKAJeffBidwell
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