On the Blog: Breaking down MacMurray
Allan Lewis
Issue date: 11/5/09 Section: Sports
Tonight is the night, basketball season finally gets started as the Cougars face the MacMurray Highlanders, a Division III team at the Vadalabene Center in exhibition action. As promised, the sports blog is going to be active every time Cougar news breaks throughout the season.
First, a couple of facts about MacMurray.
The school is incredibly small. Student population is 518, and it is located in Jacksonville, Illinois. They are members of the D-II St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, along with a few teams SIUE is used to playing by now, in Blackburn (106-53 win last season) and Robert Morris College of Springfield (88-58 win last season, 6-0 all-time against them.)
This looks to be the perfect tune-up for SIUE heading into their exhibition finale against Illinois College, and more importantly, their season opener at the University of Illinois next Friday.
MacMurray is no Duke, that's for sure.
To read the rest of this post, go to the Alestle Sports Blog.
First, a couple of facts about MacMurray.
The school is incredibly small. Student population is 518, and it is located in Jacksonville, Illinois. They are members of the D-II St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, along with a few teams SIUE is used to playing by now, in Blackburn (106-53 win last season) and Robert Morris College of Springfield (88-58 win last season, 6-0 all-time against them.)
This looks to be the perfect tune-up for SIUE heading into their exhibition finale against Illinois College, and more importantly, their season opener at the University of Illinois next Friday.
MacMurray is no Duke, that's for sure.
To read the rest of this post, go to the Alestle Sports Blog.
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