Middle Tennessee's offense thrives in Saturday night Showdown

Saturday, November 8

Murfreesboro, Tenn.

6:30 p.m.

Middle Tennessee

2-0,0-0CUSA

109

Webster

0-0,0-0SLIAC

Webster

Middle Tenn.

109

11/8/2025 9:21:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score Game Book

By: Anthony Fiorella

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee (2-0) cruised to a 109-56 win over the Webster Gorloks (1-1) on Saturday night in the Murphy Center, in the final home game in the month of November for the Blue Raiders.

Prior to the first stoppage of the game at the 15:50 mark of the first half, Middle Tennessee came out of the gates shooting 7-for-8 to jump out to a 16-6 lead. The Blue Raiders started out at 2-for-2 from beyond the arc with both Sean Smith and Kamari Lands sitting at five points.

Middle Tennessee took a 54-23 lead into the locker room, shooting an impressive 48.9 percent as a team. The Blue Raiders did a good job sharing the basketball, totaling 14 first-half assists led by Sean Smith with three. Chris Loofe led Middle Tennessee in the first half with 10 points, while grabbing five boards. Sean Smith had eight points to go with his three assists. The Blue Raider bench outscored Webster 25-4 and Middle Tennessee had 32 points in the paint to the Gorloks' 12.

The Blue Raiders kept the pedal to the floor in the second half, getting a total of five players into double-figures in scoring to end the night. Both Jahvin Carter and Chris Loofe led Middle Tennessee with 14 points, a career-high for the Alcoa High School product Carter. Sean Smith and Alec Oglesby finished with 13 points and Tre Green finished with 12 points, all on three-pointers.

Middle Tennessee finished the game with 21 offensive boards, 32 points off turnovers and 53 points off the bench while also outscoring the Gorloks 56-24 down low. The Blue Raiders hit 49.4 percent of their shots, including 35 percent from three and ended the game with 27 assists to just nine turnovers.

McDevitt's Mic
"We got off to a good start," said Middle Tennessee Head Coach Nick McDevitt. "Our attention to detail in our shootaround this morning was really good. We didn't have much tape on Webster. I told our staff we did a really good job of picking up on things from the film and if we can continue to do that it can be a big advantage for us, picking things up quicker than our competition."

By The Numbers
70 - Wins at home for Head Coach Nick McDevitt since he took over at MTSU.
2 - Tonight's win marks the first time since 1966 that the Blue Raiders have opened a season with a pair of 100-point scoring outputs. This is also the first time since the 2013-14 season Middle Tennessee has had at least two 100-point games in a year.
109 - The second-most points in a game in the McDevitt era at Middle Tennessee.