Ohio Valley Conference 2007-08 Preview
by Josh Bagriansky

The Ohio Valley Conference continued to prove impossible to predict last season. A young Austin Peay team that was seemingly on the decline proved everyone wrong by finishing the season on a tear to win the regular season title. And then Eastern Kentucky, another team not picked to [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Josh Bagriansky

The Best
Austin Peay (9-6, 6-1 OVC)
Surprise, surprise
No one was expecting Dave Loos’ bunch to make much noise this season. But the Governors have shocked the OVC with a balanced attack and solid defense.
Youth is served
With no seniors on the roster, sophomore Drake Reed has led the way with 15.4. [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Josh Bagriansky

When the regular season kicked off just over two weeks ago, there was no clear favorite. Now as the calendar rolls into December and conference play looms, the picture looks even more muddled.
It’s hard to see a clear favorite emerging until well after the holidays.
Conference play starts
Murray State and [...]

Ohio Valley Conference 2006-07 Preview
by Josh Bagriansky

2005-2006 saw a changing of the guard in the Ohio Valley Conference during the regular season. Tennessee Tech took the regular season crown for the first time in four seasons, but at the conclusion of the OVC tournament, the old guard once again reigned supreme. Murray State represented [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Championship Recap
by Ryan Glenn

No. 2 Eastern Kentucky 52, No. 5 Austin Peay 46

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Eastern Kentucky punched their ticket to the big dance on Saturday afternoon with a 52-46 win over Austin Peay in a tight one. Austin Peay came out looking for their second trip to the NCAA Tournament [...]

Ohio Valley Tournament Recaps
by Ryan Glenn

Quarterfinals

No. 1 Tennessee Tech (72), No. 8 Eastern Illinois 68

Before this game, nobody would have thought the final score would have been close to what it was. The top seed actually trailed by ten at the half, but fought their way back with a 50 point second half. [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Nathan Clinkenbeard

Bulldogs Showing Bark Early

No one believed in the Samford Bulldogs at the beginning of the season, evident by the Ohio Valley coaches and sports information directors picking them to finish 10th in a conference of 11 teams. However, six games into the conference season, the Bulldogs must have believers [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Preview
by Nathan Clinkenbeard

Sports writers, coaches and players can spend all the time in the world wondering who will be number one in the OVC by the end of the season, but the regular season hardly matters as much in a mid-major conference. Take the Austin Peay Governors, for example. The Govs [...]

Ohio Valley Conference 2003-04 Season Recap
by Neal Heston

Only one word can describe the way the season ended for the Ohio Valley Conference: disappointment. The first team to survive through league play undefeated in over three decades didn’t even qualify for the NCAA Tournament, and the lone team to go dancing was greeted with a [...]

Ohio Valley Finals Recap

Recap by Jeff Smith

Murray State 66, Austin Peay 60
The battle for supremacy in the OVC came down to a “Clash of the Titans” on Saturday night in the conference championship in Nashville, Tennessee. The conferences top two teams in Murray State and Austin Peay squared off in the [...]

Ohio Valley Semifinals Preview

Preview by Toni Jainez

No. 1 Austin Peay Govs vs. No. 4 Eastern Kentucky Colonels
The Govs may have had a close call in the quarterfinals versus the Tigers of Tennessee State, but they still managed to shoot 48% from the field, which is better than their average shooting [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Quarterfinals Preview

Preview by Jeff Smith

The Ohio Valley Conference is made up of 11 schools, of which only the top eight at the end of regular season play advance to the conference tournament. The top four seeds host the quarterfinals, with the winners traveling to Nashville, Tennessee’s Municipal Auditorium for the [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Quarterfinals Recap

Recap by Jeff Smith

No. 1 Austin Peay Governors 75, No. 8 Tennessee State Tigers 71
Austin Peay (20-8) won their 28th consecutive game at home and advanced to the semifinals, where they will face Eastern Kentucky on Friday with a 75-71 OVC first-round win over Tennessee State. Senior [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Jeff Smith

The regular season came to an end last weekend for the Ohio Valley Conference, and it was a season of firsts. Austin Peay (19-8, 16-0) became the first school to go undefeated in conference play since the 1960-70 season when Western Kentucky went 14-0. No team in the OVC [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Jeff Smith

February 14 means hearts, love and
Valentines for most of the free world, but not so this past Saturday night
for 6,000 plus fans of the Austin Peay Governors or the Murray State Racers.
The two teams met for a regular season showdown at the Dave Aaron Arena in
Clarksville, Tenn., for all [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Michael Protos

Hitting the home stretch

The Ohio Valley Conference is quickly approaching the final sprint of the regular season, and the teams are jockeying for the best spot – or any spot – in the OVC tournament.

Here’s quick refresher course in the OVC tournament: Only [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Michael Protos

Although the OVC is far from being a power conference, college basketball connoisseurs know that conferences like the OVC often produce an unheralded champion loaded with unappreciated talented that can upset an unsuspecting national powerhouse in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Although there is still [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Michael Protos

Racing out to a hot start

The Murray State Racers were picked to finish third in our conference
preview, but perhaps we missed by a bit. New coach Mick Cronin has the
Racers playing dominant basketball and a 5-0 start.

Cronin is a former Louisville assistant coach and appears determined to
bring the [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Preview
by Zach Van Hart

Welcome back to the OC, wait, I meant the OVC. Last year, Austin Peay swept the Ohio Valley Conference, tying Morehead State for the regular season crown, then defeating Tennessee Tech for the conference title and a birth in the NCAA Tournament. Scary enough, The Governors return all [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Offseason Update
by Adam Shandler

Change is good, or so it is said. Two new programs in the OVC get new coaches this year. And with new coaches comes new assistants. Two other schools make the conference jump after long stints in the Atlantic Sun.

Sometimes no change is good, too, as is the [...]

Ohio Valley Conference 2002-03 Season Recap
by Zach Van Hart

During the regular season, Morehead State and Austin Peay were the cream of the crop, while Tennessee State made the most headlines for their poor antics on and off the court. The final weekend of the season saw the Eagles and Govs go head-to-head, with the [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Finals
by Zach Van Hart

No. 1 Austin Peay vs. No. 3 Tennessee Tech
They say it takes a team to win a championship. Nothing personified this statement more than the Austin Peay Governors Saturday afternoon. All five starters scored in double figures as the Govs won a tightly contested battle with the Golden [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Semifinals
by Zach Van Hart

No. 1 Austin Peay vs. No. 4 Murray State
The Governors barely escaped an upset for the second straight game, this time needing an extra five minutes to finish the job. But after two nail bitters, they are exactly where they were expected to be – in the conference [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Quarterfinals
by Zach Van Hart

No. 1 Austin Peay vs. No. 8 Eastern Kentucky
Who would have guessed the No. 1 vs. No. 8 game would turn into the thriller of the quarterfinals? Probably not too many, especially the Governors. But when Corey Gipson’s three-pointer with 0.9 seconds remaining found nothing but net, Austin [...]

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook
by Zach Van Hart

The tango for the title

It all came down to the regular season finale between Austin Peay and Morehead State to decide the OVC regular season championship and the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament. Playing on their home court, the Governors were not going to be denied. [...]