(03-15-2013 10:40 AM)MTowho Wrote: One sided indeed.
Football
2012 - MT
2011 - WKU
2010 - MT
2009 - MT
2008 - MT
Men's Basketball
2013 - MT/MT
2012 - MT/WKU
2011 - MT/MT
2010 - MT/MT
Women's Basketball
2013 - MT/MT
2012 - MT/MT/MT
2011 - MT/MT
2010 - MT/MT
Yes, MT has owned WKU in those sports for the last 4 years and congrats to them. However, moving to FBS football had NOTHING to do with MT winning in men's basketball. WKU had a bad coaching hire in men's basketball in 2009. It happens. Luckily, in a program like WKU we don't keep a bad or mediocre coach for long. The expectations are way too high. We fired him halfway through the season last year so we corrected that problem.
Also, just a little info about the football wins. I notice he didn't list 2007 when WKU beat MT in our first year of transition from FCS to FBS in Murfreesboro. We were still FCS at the time. The 2008 MT win was our second year of transition to FBS.
In essence, MT lost to a FCS team in 2007, beat that FCS team in 2008, and then beat WKU, a fledgling FBS program 3 out of 4 years since then. Congrats.
In basketball, MT was able to beat WKU 4 games in a row in one of WKU's lowest periods (2010-2011) and one of MT's highest points in it's history. Congrats. Since our new coach took over last January 2012, WKU beat MT in the last game of the regular season (WKU had a losing record and MT had one of it's best teams in decades). WKU went on to win the SBC Tourney and played in the NCAA. MT went to the NIT. This year, WKU had 8 players injuried after an 8-2 start. MT won in Murfreesboro when our roster was depleted and WKU was playing with football players recruited to fill in spots. All our injured players were healthy when we played MT in the last regular season game this year. WKU, playing with a full roster that hadn't played together much in 2 months and with only 1 senior was able to give MT one of it's toughest games of the year and the game was tied with a minute to go. MT won. Congrats. Once again, MT choked in the SBC Tourney and WKU won the tourny and will be in the NCAA tournament again this year.
As to how the rivalry started. WKU and MT were in the Ohio Valley Conference together from 1952 to 1982, plus we're only 100 miles apart.