Middle Tennesee State University Athletics
NOTEBOOK: Thirty-One Straight wins over CUSA Opponents marks strong start for MTSU Women’s Basketball
1/6/2025 5:09:00 PM | General, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country and Track & Field, Track & Field/Cross Country
Men’s Basketball returns to Glass House for the first time in the new year! Track picks up indoor season in Nashville.
The Blue Raiders, with the win over the Flames on Saturday, won their 31st consecutive game against Conference USA opponents, a record for a single program in the league. The previous high was 30 straight wins, set by Rice from 2018-2020.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘆
— Middle Tennessee Women's Basketball (@MT_WBB) January 4, 2025
With today's win over Liberty, the Blue Raider now hold the @ConferenceUSA record for most consecutive wins over CUSA opponents!#TrueBlue | #Team50 pic.twitter.com/2rhI8XnkkR
Check out both of my sidebars from MTSU's big wins over the weekend, discussing the foundation of the 31-game streak and the defensive focus that powered MTSU to a strong start to CUSA play.
When people ask you what happened here, tell them that MTSU remembers. Tell them Winter is coming for CUSA.
— Middle Tennessee Women's Basketball (@MT_WBB) January 3, 2025
Staff writer @sjdoughton discusses "The Foundation" that pushes Women's Basketball towards Conference USA History in today's sidebar:https://t.co/kD3RgSar00
"If we don't have our defense, we're not going to make it where we want to be." - @GregoryJalynn
— Middle Tennessee Women's Basketball (@MT_WBB) January 6, 2025
Staff writer @sjdoughton discusses @MT_WBB's dominant start to @ConferenceUSA play in today's sidebar:https://t.co/f1AjJbLpsX
Men's Basketball returns to the Glass House after road split to start CUSA play
On the road in an incredibly deep Conference USA, Middle Tennessee men's basketball returned to Murfreesboro with a split from the trickiest road trip (by travel schedule) in the league this season, winning on Thursday night at FIU before falling at Liberty on Saturday.
Jlynn Counter paced the Blue Raiders in South Florida, scoring 17 points, including three critical free throws that stretched MTSU's lead to four points in the closing seconds for MTSU to pick up its first CUSA win of the year.
leading us in scoring, rebounds and assists, @CounterJlynn is your @MidSouthFord player of the game ⭐️ pic.twitter.com/d7VdY0FMM0
— Middle Tennessee Men's Basketball (@MT_MBB) January 3, 2025
MTSU starts the home slate in Conference USA this week, hosting Kennesaw State on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. and Jacksonville State on Saturday at 5 p.m. While MTSU students continue to have free tickets to all Blue Raider basketball games, this weekend, area college students from schools other than MTSU can get a Blue Zoo ticket for just $10 by showing their student ID at the ticket office on game day!
What's Happening in the 'Boro - presented by Ole South@MT_MBB returns for two in the Murphy Center!
— Middle Tennessee Athletics (@MTAthletics) January 6, 2025
🏀🎟️ https://t.co/FpVYoaILSx#BLUEnited pic.twitter.com/xGxAlB2AGm
Join us at the Boulevard for the return of the Basketball Coaches Radio Shows!
The New Year means it's time for the return of Rick Insell LIVE! and Nick McDevitt LIVE!, starting tonight with Rick Insell's show at 6 p.m. from the Boulevard Bar and Grill just off the campus of Middle Tennessee State University.
Join us at The Boulevard tomorrow night for the first coaches shows of the basketball season! 🏀🎙️@MT_WBB's @CoachInsell LIVE kicks us off at 6 PM, followed by @MT_MBB's @MTCoachNick LIVE at 7 PM. pic.twitter.com/42EDpYTQji
— Middle Tennessee Athletics (@MTAthletics) January 5, 2025
Rick Insell Live will air on WGNS 101.9 FM/1450 AM in Murfreesboro and WGNS 100.5 FM in Smyrna from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Nick McDevitt Live will follow on those same WGNS stations as well as 93.3 Classic Hits and 95.1 in Murfreesboro. Both shows will stream live on GoBlueRaiders.com and the Varsity Network App. Fans can watch on the Blue Raider Athletics YouTube and Facebook pages as well. The Blue Raider basketball coaches' shows will run the following dates:
The shows will air every Monday the rest of the season through March 3, with the exception of the January 20, the night of the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Rick Insell Live will be hosted by Joe Fisher while Nick McDevitt Live will be handled by Chip Walters.
🗣️ Calling all Blue Raiders
— Middle Tennessee Women's Basketball (@MT_WBB) January 6, 2025
Join us TONIGHT at The Boulevard for the first Blue Raider Basketball coaches shows of the season!
If you can't make it in person, be sure to tune in to the broadcast as @CoachInsell LIVE starts at 6 p.m.
#TrueBlue | #Team50 pic.twitter.com/DnxKA20yUW
join us at the boulevard tonight for the first Nick McDevitt Live of the year!
— Middle Tennessee Men's Basketball (@MT_MBB) January 6, 2025
if you can't make it in person, be sure to tune into the broadcast at 7 p.m. to hear from coach mcdevitt and a special guest 🤝 pic.twitter.com/NSmxBoxgaN
Don't Miss the Glass House Hoops Podcast
In case you missed it, MTSU Athletics released the first episode of the Glass House Hoops Podcast last week, featuring MTSU Women's Basketball. Hosts Jalynn Gregory and Ta'Mia Scott sat down with Courtney Blakely for the first episode. You can check out the first episode on YouTube below or listen to the audio only version under the "GoBlueRaiders.com Podcasts" feed on Spotify.
Stay tuned on Wednesday for this week's episode, the first featuring Men's Basketball! The two teams will alternate Wednesdays for releases the rest of this season.
Get your Tickets for the CUSA Tournament in the Rocket City!
Now that it's officially 2025 - the @ConferenceUSA Basketball Championships are coming at us fast! Make your plans NOW to join us in beautiful Huntsville as your @MT_WBB & @MT_MBB teams look to dance deep into the NCAA postseason!
— MT Ticket Office (@MT_tix) January 6, 2025
🎟️ - https://t.co/z2XSMQHqOk pic.twitter.com/mMjKohKZEi
Track earns nine medals at first indoor meet of the New Year
Middle Tennessee Track & Field had a successful trip to Nashville, Tenn. to compete in the Ed Temple Classic, taking home nine medals at the event hosted by Tennessee State. Five of those medals came from field events and the other four came from track events.
Bridgett Annan was the lone Blue Raider to take home a gold medal, doing so in the Women's 400 meter. Annan recorded a time of 57.65 seconds, a new personal record. Annan also finished fourth in the Women's 200 meter with a time of 26.11 seconds.
Results | Women's 400m
— Middle Tennessee XC/Track & Field (@MT_TrackField) January 5, 2025
🥇 Bridgett Annan - 57.65s - PR!#BLUEnited
The Track team will head back to Nashville this weekend for the Commodore Challenge, hosted by Vanderbilt.
Fan Experience Upgrades continue in Murphy Center
I know that #FacilityFriday posts that my former colleague Larry Maples put together were highly anticipated by many Blue Raiders on social media. I'm happy to report that Nathan Wallach, our Assistant AD for Broadcast Technology, Capital Projects & Game Operations, will be sharing more insight as some projects are being completed around campus this spring!
First up, continuing MTSU's investment in fan experience that started with new video boards in both Murphy Center last year and Floyd Stadium this fall, is the work done of the new broadcast and video board control room in Murphy Center. Not only will this be a big boost to MTSU's self-produced ESPN+ broadcasts, but it will also unlock many features in-venue as well on the video boards!
🚧 Construction is ongoing on our new $1.5 million broadcast control room! This space will power events at Murphy Center, Floyd Stadium, and the new SAPC.
— Middle Tennessee Athletics (@MTAthletics) January 4, 2025
Designed for videoboard and ESPN+ broadcasts, it sets the stage for future connections to all athletic venues.#BuildBlue pic.twitter.com/2D5XHFzKxd
This has been the upgrade I've wanted for almost a decade now. Getting my foot in the door of @MTAthletics through video production, I knew I wanted to build our first real broadcast control room one day. Excited for this to finally be online in the next month or two.
— Nathan Wallach (@n_wallach) January 4, 2025
This is… https://t.co/K5BGtUiijN pic.twitter.com/6Cuo0BRsEM
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