Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
Blue Raiders Host LA Tech in Final Regular Season Home Game
2/24/2023 11:04:00 AM | Men's Basketball
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee men's basketball wraps up the home portion of its schedule for the 2022-23 season Saturday as it takes on LA Tech at 3 p.m.
The Blue Raiders are rested after having not played since Saturday, when they erased a 24-point deficit to defeat FIU two nights after knocking off No. 25 Florida Atlantic.
Saturday's matchup against the Bulldogs can be seen and streamed on Stadium. 94.9 The Fan, 95.1 in Murfreesboro will carry the radio broadcast, along with GoBlueRaiders.com and the Varsity Network App.
Game 28: Middle Tennessee (17-11, 10-7 C-USA) vs. LA Tech (13-14, 6-10 C-USA)
» Saturday, February 25 – 3 p.m.
» Murphy Center
» Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Promotions
» Autism Speaks
All-Time Against LA Tech
» LA Tech leads the all-time series 13-6.
» This will be the Bulldogs' first trip to Murfreesboro in over three years.
Blue Raider Notes
» Thursday was the Blue Raiders' first home win over a ranked opponent in the 50-year history of the Murphy Center and their first overall since defeating Michigan State in the 2016 NCAA Tournament.
» MTSU over its last 30 home games limits opponents to 60.0 points per game in regulation, having gone 28-2 in that stretch. Over the last two years, the Blue Raiders allow 59.7 regulation ppg in neutral site games and 76.2 on the road.
» Eli Lawrence is the 35th player to score 1,000 points in a Blue Raider uniform and the eighth to amass 1,000 points and 100 steals. He is currently 30th on the all-time scoring list with 1,037 points, six behind Ken Riley for 29th.
» MTSU joins Navy as the only teams in the country to neither lose a player to the transfer portal nor add a player from it during the 2022 offseason.
» The Blue Raiders have scored 277 points in the second halves of their last six games. The team has shot .544 (98-180) from the floor and .558 (29-52) from 3-point range after halftime during that span.
» Teafale Lenard, Jr., is 30th in the country in blocked shots with 53, 32nd in blocks per game with 1.89, 95th in steals with 48 and 100th in steals per game at 1.71. He has 11 games with at least two blocks and two steals, three more than anyone else in the nation.
» In his sophomore season, Lenard is fourth in career blocks at MTSU with 111. His 53 rejections in 2022-23 are tied for sixth-most in a season. The Blue Raiders are 17th in the nation with 5.0 blocks per game.
» Lenard had a career game at Belmont in which he set personal bests in points (20), rebounds (8) and blocks (6) while adding three assists and three steals. His six blocks are tied for the fourth most in a game in program history, and MTSU's 13 blocks in the game established a new program record.
» DeAndre Dishman is one of just seven seventh-year players in Division I men's basketball.
» Camryn Weston has scored in double figures in a team-high eight straight games.
Scouting the Bulldogs
» LA Tech comes in having lost five straight games and is tied for ninth in Conference USA at 6-11 in league play.
» The Bulldogs are without C-USA's leading scorer, Cobe Williams, who has been dismissed from the team.
» Isaiah Crawford leads the Bulldogs in rebounding at 5.1 boards per game and is the team's leading active scorer with 13.2 points per game.
» Jordan Crawford is ninth in the conference with 94 assists on the year.
» Keaston Willis is averaging 16.8 points and 38.5 minutes played over his last four games.
Follow the Blue Raiders
Follow Middle Tennessee Men's Basketball on social media on Facebook //MTMensBasketball, Twitter (@MT_MBB) and Instagram (@mt_mbb).
The Blue Raiders are rested after having not played since Saturday, when they erased a 24-point deficit to defeat FIU two nights after knocking off No. 25 Florida Atlantic.
Saturday's matchup against the Bulldogs can be seen and streamed on Stadium. 94.9 The Fan, 95.1 in Murfreesboro will carry the radio broadcast, along with GoBlueRaiders.com and the Varsity Network App.
Game 28: Middle Tennessee (17-11, 10-7 C-USA) vs. LA Tech (13-14, 6-10 C-USA)
» Saturday, February 25 – 3 p.m.
» Murphy Center
» Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Promotions
» Autism Speaks
All-Time Against LA Tech
» LA Tech leads the all-time series 13-6.
» This will be the Bulldogs' first trip to Murfreesboro in over three years.
Blue Raider Notes
» Thursday was the Blue Raiders' first home win over a ranked opponent in the 50-year history of the Murphy Center and their first overall since defeating Michigan State in the 2016 NCAA Tournament.
» MTSU over its last 30 home games limits opponents to 60.0 points per game in regulation, having gone 28-2 in that stretch. Over the last two years, the Blue Raiders allow 59.7 regulation ppg in neutral site games and 76.2 on the road.
» Eli Lawrence is the 35th player to score 1,000 points in a Blue Raider uniform and the eighth to amass 1,000 points and 100 steals. He is currently 30th on the all-time scoring list with 1,037 points, six behind Ken Riley for 29th.
» MTSU joins Navy as the only teams in the country to neither lose a player to the transfer portal nor add a player from it during the 2022 offseason.
» The Blue Raiders have scored 277 points in the second halves of their last six games. The team has shot .544 (98-180) from the floor and .558 (29-52) from 3-point range after halftime during that span.
» Teafale Lenard, Jr., is 30th in the country in blocked shots with 53, 32nd in blocks per game with 1.89, 95th in steals with 48 and 100th in steals per game at 1.71. He has 11 games with at least two blocks and two steals, three more than anyone else in the nation.
» In his sophomore season, Lenard is fourth in career blocks at MTSU with 111. His 53 rejections in 2022-23 are tied for sixth-most in a season. The Blue Raiders are 17th in the nation with 5.0 blocks per game.
» Lenard had a career game at Belmont in which he set personal bests in points (20), rebounds (8) and blocks (6) while adding three assists and three steals. His six blocks are tied for the fourth most in a game in program history, and MTSU's 13 blocks in the game established a new program record.
» DeAndre Dishman is one of just seven seventh-year players in Division I men's basketball.
» Camryn Weston has scored in double figures in a team-high eight straight games.
Scouting the Bulldogs
» LA Tech comes in having lost five straight games and is tied for ninth in Conference USA at 6-11 in league play.
» The Bulldogs are without C-USA's leading scorer, Cobe Williams, who has been dismissed from the team.
» Isaiah Crawford leads the Bulldogs in rebounding at 5.1 boards per game and is the team's leading active scorer with 13.2 points per game.
» Jordan Crawford is ninth in the conference with 94 assists on the year.
» Keaston Willis is averaging 16.8 points and 38.5 minutes played over his last four games.
Follow the Blue Raiders
Follow Middle Tennessee Men's Basketball on social media on Facebook //MTMensBasketball, Twitter (@MT_MBB) and Instagram (@mt_mbb).
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