Exhibition season has been underway and I haven't seen anyone posting anything basketball related. How is everyone feeling before the season kicks off? How has your team performed?

WKU Basketball has had 2 exhibition games so far.

Game 1: Bowling Green State vs WKU

Tops won 65-62. WKU looked super sloppy in this one. Was hard to get a real gauge of everything but we look good on defense. Had a double digit lead in the 2nd half and let BGSU get back in the game to make it close at the end.

Game 2: WKU vs Indiana in a "neutral site" game in Evansville.

WKU fell to the Hoosiers 79-74. Indiana beat Butler 96-68 in their first exhibition game and then beat UNC 76-58 in their 2nd. Once again WKU had a double digit lead in the 2nd half and the Hoosiers came back to win. Not one to blame the officials but after WKU went up 11 the whistles started early and often. Changed the complete dynamic of the game. Tops still had their chances to win though. Hate morale victories but have to feel better about this one after Indiana dominated their first 2 opponents.

Pre-season CUSA player of the year Teagan Moore went for 30.

WKU kicks off it's season opener next Monday November 2nd against Morehead St. who is picked to finish 2nd in the OVC.

Jax State beat Alabama State 59-37 on October 16. Host Samford tonight.

We have zero returning players from last year.

Other exhibition scores:

Murray 86
FIU 79 (10-22); FIU led by five at Half. True Frosh Trey Beamer (CUSA C0-Newcomer of the YR) had 21 points. FOUR Star recruit.

KSU 88
Mercer 72 (10-11)

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If you have more Exhibition scores please post in this thread.

I don't have scores but we won our two scrimmages.

I assume you can only play two ?

Our women have scored 100 points and rolled to 50-point-plus wins in both of our exhibitions.

FYI, our coach mentioned that FIU hung tough with the Murray Mules in a scrimmage.

Some teams have played 3. See my post above about us being the Hoosiers 3rd game.

Forgot to add WKU also had a secret scrimmage against Sun Belt favorite Arkansas St in Nashville and beat them 104-91.

We lost 80-75 to Samford last night.

We had a secret scrimmage against Memphis (I think) and didn’t lose too badly.

If 3 is allowed, I think we have one more with Peayness, unless it's already been played.

FIU lost a tight scrimmage to U Miami, beat Louisiana Lafayette in Louisiana by 12, and lost to Murray State by 7 in a game FIU led most of the game.

Kats lost to SFA Friday and supposedly lost the other secret scrimmage to UTRVG
I am not too worried about either result because we used both as scrimmage playing everyone.

Bears played a closed door against Kansas City and were rumored to win that one, but no details really.

They played another closed door at Wichita State (American Conference favorite) and reportedly bot smacked around, but again, no specific score or anything.

I will say that everyone close to the program is really high on this Bears team and thinks they are way underrated going into the season. We'll see.

(10-26-2026 10:38 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  I don't have scores but we won our two scrimmages.

I assume you can only play two ?

Our women have scored 100 points and rolled to 50-point-plus wins in both of our exhibitions.

FYI, our coach mentioned that FIU hung tough with the Murray Mules in a scrimmage.

Who did we play and beat in our scrimmages?

(10-26-2026 04:15 PM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  We have zero returning players from last year.

Well, none that had playing time.

Jordan Vick is back. He redshirted last year.

And that's ... all.

Gotta love NIL and the Portal.

(10-29-2026 03:48 PM)MT FAN Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 10:38 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  I don't have scores but we won our two scrimmages.

I assume you can only play two ?

Our women have scored 100 points and rolled to 50-point-plus wins in both of our exhibitions.

FYI, our coach mentioned that FIU hung tough with the Murray Mules in a scrimmage.

Who did we play and beat in our scrimmages?

ETSU & UTC, I believe

(10-29-2026 04:59 PM)whupemall Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 04:15 PM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  We have zero returning players from last year.

Well, none that had playing time.

Jordan Vick is back. He redshirted last year.

And that's ... all.

Gotta love NIL and the Portal.

We got Erkins-Ford from you guys. Seems like an ok player in the 2 games I have watched of him so far. Makes some dumb decisions occasionally with the ball. Never got in a rhythm vs Indiana because of foul trouble.

Regular season begins at midnight tonight with the Field of 68 overnight marathon.
Liberty begins the marathon with a 12:01 am ET matchup against High Point.
For the first time in school history, Liberty will have five completely new starters.
High Point is coming off a 31-5 campaign including a win over #5 ranked Wisconsin in March Madness.

Game streamed live at:

https://www.youtube.com/live/5749eFXrjOQ...G9GItQ6FdC

Eesh! Watched the Liberty game early this morning. I know it was the first game, with a brand new roster, but from what I saw we will not be competitive in CUSA this season. Probably a bottom 3 team.

That’s an overreaction, High Point went on there run when Cooper and Carter got injured. Game was close when they were in plus High Point is probably the best mid major team this year and yes I don’t consider the Zags a mid major. We were missing a lot of good shots too.

What kind of crowd was there for a midnight tipoff?

These are six games today involving conference teams. Only WKU is playing a D1 (Morehead State). Also seven women’s games on tap.

(11-02-2026 06:39 AM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  What kind of crowd was there for a midnight tipoff?

These are six games today involving conference teams. Only WKU is playing a D1 (Morehead State). Also seven women’s games on tap.

On TV the crowd looked great. There were lots of loud and rowdy fans for both teams. Lots of students.

(11-02-2026 03:16 AM)LUbball23 Wrote:  That’s an overreaction, High Point went on there run when Cooper and Carter got injured. Game was close when they were in plus High Point is probably the best mid major team this year and yes I don’t consider the Zags a mid major. We were missing a lot of good shots too.

Yes, it is an overreaction. But also yes, they missed wide open shots, they were far less competitive when Carter was not in, they struggled on offense, thye struggled on defense, they don’t appear to be very athletic. My first impression was not a good one. But I certainly believe in McKay and his ability to coach up players.