This past week has been a good week for our team.  We won both of our games at home.  The first game of the week we faced Eastern Illinois.  This was not just another game in our conference.  First place was on the line.  We came out a little slow to start the game, but we got it going and ended up winning by nine points.  Mallory Luckett and Angela Mullins had good games for our team, each scoring career or season highs.  The only thing that we did not do well in this game was we missed some easy layups. 

Our next game was against Southeast Missouri State.  They are the defending regular season champs of our conference.  We knew coming into this game that we would have to be ready to play because they are a great road team.  They came into the game with a 16-game road conference winning streak.  We started out the game great and went up by double digits at one point.  Then we let them back in the game and were down by seven points at halftime.  We started the second half like we ended the first half and saw ourselves down by double digits at the beginning of the half.  After the slow start, we came back and played well and ended up winning the game by 15 points.

Now we get to rest a little bit before our next game against UT Martin.  They have struggled a little bit this season, but we know that we have to be prepared for them because they are the type of team that can beat you if you are not ready.

Go Racers!

The last week has been good for the Murray State women's basketball team.  We were able to earn two victories at home against two tough teams.  We first played Tennessee State and knew that we would have to come out on the floor ready to play from the opening tip-off.

Last year when they came to Murray we didn't come out ready to play and Tennessee State got up on us early.  We fought back and scored 40 points to tie the game, but it wasn't enough.  We used that memory to prepare ourselves and came out ready to battle.

It was a quick turn around then to face Austin Peay on Saturday who has the best turn around in the conference this season.  They came into the game on a winning streak and we wanted to make sure that we took that momentum away from them.  So we came out strong and were able to win by 10.

The game against Jacksonville State was a good road win, we just need to make sure we are playing the whole game both offensively and defensively.  If we continue to play on both ends of the court like we know we can we should be alright the rest of the season.

So now we are in a tie for first in the Ohio Valley Conference standings, which is great.  But as a team we know that anything can happen since there is so much of the season left to play.  We have to make sure that we are ready to play each night so we don't end up with the short end of the stick.

Tomorrow we get to play on ESPNU against Tennessee Tech.  Tech is a very tough team to play in their gym so it should be a good game to watch.  We are planning on treating this game like any other game.  We have to play Racer basketball no matter if the game will be aired on national TV.