BASKETBALL CUSA Tourney: (#3) Middle Tennessee (21-10, 12-6) vs (#6) Louisiana Tech (20-11, 9-9) (ESPN+), 8PM, Thursday, March 13, 2025

[SpaceRaider]

ESPN+
8PM Thursday, March 13, 2025

 

[SpaceRaider]

49.7%

 

[blueraider315]

How is everyone feeling about the tourney?

3-seed makes sense and this year has been a dog fight. Hope we can beat LA Tech. We've lost to them twice already. Beating a team 3 times in a season is tough.

 

[SpaceRaider]

 

[MidTennMtneer]

UTEP beats SHSU 79-65.

 

[sWiley]

Feels like La. Tech has our number. We will have to have hot shooting to win this one. I don't see it happening but I would love for nothing more than the team to prove me wrong.

Losing here would be an awful way to end the season. Really this season is championship or bust considering the mercenary roster and Nick's expiring contract

 

[ewglenn]

Attendance for the games last night compared to 2024:

2025
SHSU vs UTEP- 989
FIU vs WKU- 1,244

2024
1st round Jax St vs FIU- 444
Quarterfinals SHSU vs FIU- 628
Quarterfinals LT vs MTSU- 678

Seems like some locals are showing up this year. I can see why Huntsville chose to extend the tournament another year.

 

[SpaceRaider]

Men's Basketball prepped for CUSA Championship Quarterfinals against LA Tech - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Postseason basketball has officially arrived for the Middle Tennessee men's basketball team, as the squad prepares for the CUSA Championship

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[SpaceRaider]

 

[SpaceRaider]

49.7%

-1.5

 

[sWiley]

Line movement slightly in our favor here.

70% of bets on La. Tech but lined moved from -1.5 to -2.

Vegas has a slight lean with us tonight it appears. Normally with that kind of price action the line would move the other direction, but not always. We are getting some reverse line movement here in our favor which is one of my favorite indicators in betting.

 

[SpaceRaider]

MT Game Notes
Latech Game Notes

 

[SpaceRaider]

15:43

lt leads 12-10

Essam has two fouls

 

[SpaceRaider]

technical foul on CNM

 

[sWiley]

Nice

Coach unhinged 9 minutes into the game and giving La. Tech 2 free FT's....like they needed the help....

Game is going about how I thought it would

Season going to end in a whimper.

 

[SpaceRaider]

Loofe has 2 fouls

 

[SpaceRaider]

25-23 down just 2

7:02

 

[SpaceRaider]

batcho came up lame and to the lockerroom

 

[altshauf]

We are up. All the while the top guy from each team will be out the rest of the help at least. Porter and Counter making some plays we need!

 

[SpaceRaider]

MT leads 29-27

4:03

 

[SpaceRaider]

these refs are playing for batcho to get in

 

[sWiley]

they always play better after i bad mouth them.

They look awful tonight

 

[sWiley]

Really turned it around after a bad first 10 minutes.

Up 9 at the half

 

[SpaceRaider]

40-31 Middle Tennessee leads


Team Comparison

STATISTIC	LTU	MT
FG%	46%	43%
FGs	13-28	13-30
3FG%	0%	20%
3FGs	0-8	3-15
FT%	45%	85%
FTs	5-11	11-13
TOs	7	6
PtsOffTO	3	6
TotReb	16	21
DefReb	11	13
Off Reb	5	8
2ndChPts	5	7
BenchPts	1	9
PtsPaint	26	18
FstBkPt	2	2
Blocks	1	2
Steals	2	2
Assts	5	6
Times Tied:	5
Time Tied:	2:36
Lead Chg:	5
LeadTime	11:41	5:43

 

[SpaceRaider]

50-41 still leading

14:45

 

[SpaceRaider]

8:25

54-49 MT hanging on

 

[SpaceRaider]

7:58 media t/o

Loofe at the FT line

 

[SpaceRaider]

need offense 1 of last 9

 

[SpaceRaider]

porter fouled 3 pt shooter after loofe missed FT

 

[sWiley]

We are actually going to give this away

Major choke job

 

[sWiley]

We are averaging 1 point/minute in the second half.....

 

[SpaceRaider]

58-53

MT leads

3:28

 

[sWiley]

This is one of the most painful games I've ever watched us play. They've been missing their best player basically the whole game. They are hapless, 0% from 3...they are a sitting duck begging to be beaten....

And we just cannot do it...

Pathetic

 

[SpaceRaider]

1:44

MT 61-60

 

[MTOleBlue]

McDevitt sitting Mostafa the entire game pretty much especially after Batcho has sat for most of the second half is plain coaching malpractice. No way around it. Just awful decision making

 

[SpaceRaider]

62 - 62

:31

 

[SpaceRaider]

Mostafa in

 

[MTOleBlue]

My god. What a disaster this is.

 

[SpaceRaider]

Bufford doesn't get it off in time

 

[SpaceRaider]

OverTime