One MVC game Tuesday, Feb. 8

[Da Coach]

The one MVC game tonight, Tuesday, Feb. 8, featured 10th place Evansville playing at 9th place Indiana State.
Evansville played very well and beat Indiana State 65-56-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...meId/401403771

Evansville played very well coming off the 35-point loss to Bradley on Saturday. They shot 50% (24-48 ) overall, and 40% from three (6-15).
Evansville was playing without their 2nd leading scorer, Jawaun Newton, who missed the game with a knee injury that he injured late in the game at Bradley.
Indiana State was 22-30 on 2-pointers, but was 0-17 from three. Yikes.
It broke Indiana State's 420 game streak with at least one three pointer. The last time that happened with in 2008.
It was Evansville's first win at Indiana State since 2011. They had lost 11 straight at the Hulman Center, and 9 straight overall to Indiana State.
With the win, Evansville pulls into a tie with Indiana State for 9th place. They each have 2-9 conference records.

 

[Da Coach]

One other strange stat from tonight's Evansville-Indiana State game-
Both teams had 25 rebounds in the game, but neither team had an offensive rebound.
https://gosycamores.com/sports/mens-...boxscore/10991

It is rare for any team to go 40 minutes without a single offensive rebound, but extremely rare to see neither team get one.
Kevin Sweeney, a college basketball writer who focuses on mid-major teams, did a search back to 2010 and found only one game in the last 12 years in which neither team had an offensive rebound-
https://twitter.com/CBB_Central/stat...51478119731201

It was a game on November 22, 2016 between Nebraska-Omaha and a small Division III team, the Buena Vista University Beavers, from Storm Lake, Iowa.
Omaha 112 Buena Vista 65
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb....fcgi?id=Y9pBM