The All State

By ANTHONY SHINGLER | Senior Staff Writer

The Govs task was simple, win or go home. Behind senior guard Caleb Brown’s career-high 28 points, the Govs advanced to the semifinals of the OVC
Tournament over No. 7 Southeast Missouri 76-60.

The Govs had not advanced to the OVC Tournament semifinals since the 2008-09 season.

With the victory, the Govs advance to face No. 2 Morehead State Friday
night at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium at 9 p.m. The game will be
broadcasted live on ESPNU.

“We did enough good things here to win and advance, that is the important
thing at this point,” said head coach Dave Loos. “The objective at
this point is to advance and we got the kind of game I thought we
would.”

A scary moment occurred right before halftime. Tyshwan Edmondson was
fouled and fell awkwardly. He hit the floor grabbing his right knee.
But Edmondson was able to walk off into the locker room. He would
return coming out at halftime wearing a sleeve over his right knee.

“As long as I can play on it I will keep playing. I will have to tough
it through.” Edmondson said.

Brown’s 28 points came on 9-of-12 shooting from the field and 9-of-12 from the free throw line. Edmondson added 13 points while grabbing six rebounds.

Josh Terry scored 11 points. John Fraley added five points while grabbing nine rebounds and blocking seven shots.

“This will be a good game for us,” Brown said about playing Morehead State.
“They have a really good team, and it will be a challenge, and it won’t
be easy. I am ready though.”

GOVS VS. REDHAWKS LIVE UPDATES

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 62-53 with 3:45 left in the game. Caleb Brown leads the Govs with 22 points and Josh Terry has 11 points.

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 57-49 with 7:51 left in the game. Ole Miss Head Football Coach Houston Nutt is in attendance for tonight’s contest.

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 48-42 with 11:37 left in the game. Caleb Brown leads the Govs with 21 points setting a new career-high for points scored. SEMO is on a 6-0 run since Brown scored on a lay-up on a three point play.

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 47-36 with 15:36 left in the game. Caleb Brown is at the line coming out of the media timeout. Brown tied his career-high 18 points with a lay-up. Tyshwan Edmondson is back in the game with a knee sleeve on his right knee after leaving at the end of the first half with a knee injury.

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 41-32 at halftime. The Govs close out the first half on a 27-12 run. Senior guard Caleb Brown leads the way for the Govs with 14 points on four-of-five from the field and five-of-seven from the free throw line. Josh Terry has nine points on two-of-six shooting and five-of-five from the line. Tyshwan Edmondson has seven points on three-of-six shooting, while Will Triggs has five points and four boards. John Fraley has two points four blocks and three boards.

The Govs are shooting 13-of-30 (43.3 percent) from the field and 12-of-15 (80.0 percent) from the free throw line.

The Govs Edmondson fell to the floor on a foul grabbing his right knee. After laying getting checked out by the trainers he was able to walk back to the bench and locker room without help.

Anthony Allison leads SEMO with 13 points on three-of-five shooting and going a perfect five-of-five from the free throw line. SEMO is shooting 10-of-27 (37.0 percent) from the field.

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 18-17 with 7:43 left in the first half. The Govs Will Triggs is on the line for a three-point play. SEMO head coach Dickey Nutt was hit with a technical foul during the media timeout.

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 13-12 with 10:36 left in the first half. The Govs are led by Caleb Brown four points and
Josh Terry four points from his perfect four-of-four from the free throw line. Tyshwan Edmondson has three points while John Fraley has two points and three blocked shots.

UPDATE
The Govs lead SEMO 7-2 with 15:59 left in the first half. The Govs gave up two free throws to SEMO senior Anthony Allison and steam rolled scoring the next seven points. John Fraley has two blocks and two points.

By ANTHONY SHINGLER | Senior Staff Writer

The Govs played host to SEMO in their regular season finale Saturday, Feb. 26, in the Dunn Center. They ran away with a 75-52 victory and finished the season, winning four of their last five games.

The victory pushed the Govs into a tie for second place with Morehead State with a 13-5 conference record. The Govs improved to 19-12 overall on the season. SEMO ends the regular season 9-21 overall, 6-12 in conference play.

“I thought that we were a little lethargic in the first half and didn’t play well offensively,” said head coach Dave Loos. “In the second half, I thought our effort was better and we did better offensively. It’s a win, and this time of the year, I’ll take it.”The Govs were led by junior guard TyShwan Edmondson. He scored 17 points on 6-of-15 shooting (3-of-6 from three point range). Junior forward Josh Terry scored 16 points and pulled down nine rebounds.

Junior center John Fraley produced a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Sophomore guard Justin Blake came off the bench and made three-of-five from three-point range for nine points.

The Govs never trailed. As the clock wound down to 5:08 in the first half, Blake made one of his three 3-pointers to give the Govs a 29-11 lead. The Redhawks clawed their way back to within a dozen points by halftime, 33-21. “We talked about [not] letting them come back at halftime. I thought we kind of bowed our neck in the second half and played a little better,” Loos said.

The Govs opened the second half with a 15-6 run to take a commanding 48-27 lead. They established their biggest lead, 65-41 after Blake made his last 3-pointer with just over four minutes left in the game. The Redhawks would get no closer than 17 points the rest of the way.

SEMO was held to 18 of 55 (33 percent) shooting from the field. The Govs also dominated them on the boards, 47-36. The win was Loos’ 350th as the Govs’ head coach. It was also the last home game for senior guard Caleb Brown. TAS

By MARLON SCOTT | Senior Staff Writer

Everyone who witnessed Tennessee Tech guard Kevin Murphy hit a game-winning 3-pointer to eliminate the Govs from the OVC tournament quarterfinals in the Dunn Center last season can not wait for the Govs to play in the OVC tournament this year.

Part of the bitter taste from last year has already been washed away since the Govs earned a first round bye for being the third seed. However, the taste will not be completely eliminated until the Govs make it to the finals and win. Although the Govs do not yet know who they will be facing in the quarterfinals, they do know the road to the finals runs through Morehead.

The two teams split the series this season, 1-1, with both teams winning on their home courts. If the Govs make it to the semifinals, they welcome a chance to break the tie. TAS

By ANTHONY SHINGLER | Senior Staff Writer

When Tyshwan Edmondson scores 29 points, you would think the Govs would pull to victory. But when you commit 25 turnovers, you are almost certain to not win the game and the Govs did just that in the ESPNU Bracketbuster game at Fairfield 76-69 Saturday, Feb. 19.

Fairfield, who is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, (MAAC) has already wrapped up the championship to improve to 22-5 overall on the season.

While the Govs had their two-game winning streak snapped, dropping them to 17-12 overall as they head into the final week of the Ohio Valley Conference regular season.

The 25 turnovers, which the Govs committed, is the most since Nov. 27 2006 against Tennessee Wesleyan, when they committed 26.

Coming out of half, Fairfield held a 34-29 lead, but the Govs would attempt a comeback. Will Triggs scored four of the Govs’ six points to cut the Fairfield lead to 37-36 after a three-pointer by Edmondson with 17:10 left in the game.

But Fairfield went on a 17-5 run to take their biggest lead of 54-41 with 12:00 to go on a Colin Nickerson jumper.

But on the very next possession, Edmondson was fouled behind the three-point line sending him to the free-throw line for three attempts.

Edmondson sank all three free-throws as the Govs comeback was on. The Govs went on a 15-2 run capped off by a jumper in the paint from Tyrone Caldwell with 8:08 left in the game.

Fairfield would not lead the Govs back in the game for long and countered the Govs’ run with a 17-7 run to take a double digit lead of 75-65 with 38 seconds left after Nickerson drained two free throws.

The Govs came out the gates firing, as they would take their seven point lead three times with the last coming with 11:44 in the first half after Edmondson’s two free-throws.

The Govs were led by Edmondson’s 29 points on 10-of-18 shooting along with four-of-seven from three-point range.
Triggs added a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds while seven of his rebounds were offensive boards. The Govs however outrebounded Fairfield 34-to-33, while Fairfield dominated with points in the paint 42-to-26. The Govs return to action Thursday, Feb. 24, against EIU. TAS