Colonels Set Record Home Winning Streak at 18 Straight

The EKU men’s basketball team cruised to a 79-63 win over Southeast Missouri Saturday night . The win, was the 18th straight at home dating back to December 2008, the Colonels (13-6, 6-2 OVC) established a new home court winning streak record.

For the third straight game, Eastern Kentucky shot at least 50 percent from the field. The Colonels netted 55.6 percent (30-of-54) of their field goal attempts with eight different players making at least two buckets.
The Colonels never trailed as they came out connecting on three straight three-pointers from Josh Taylor and fellow senior Papa Oppong for a 9-0 lead just a minute and a half into the game.

SEMO did rally with some impressive three-point shooting of its own and pulled to within one, 25-24, when Marland Smith rattled home a three with 9:38 left in the first half.

The Redhawks managed to get to within 1 sveral times over the next five minutes, but was never able to take  the lead. EKU went on to take a 47-33  into the locker room at the half.

  Southeast Missouri tried to rally in the second half, but would only manage to get back  back to within eight, at the 14 min point, but they would never get any closer

Eastern eventually pulled out to a 23 points lead and was never seriously challenged by Southeast Missouri..

The Colonels move outside the conference Tuesday night, Jan. 19, when they play host to Chicago State. Tip time is set for 7 p.m.