Eastern Illinois adds 2nd assistant

Jay Spoonhour‘s staff at Eastern Illinois is beginning to fill out, adding Dejan (Dan) Matic to his staff.

Matic is about as close to a “home” selection as you can get as a coach. Matic was raised in Deerfield, Illinois, … Read More

Announcing OVCBoards.net

OVC Ball is expanding. Now, you can join the conversation on the new OVCboards.net Message Boards. To sign up, just click “register” on the new sign in box on the right.

As always, thanks for reading, and I hope … Read More

Donnie Tyndall leaves for Southern Mississippi

Last year, it was Murray State’s head coach, Billy Kennedy heading to Texas A&M late in the coaching carousel, leaving the Racers scrambling for a coach during the heart of the spring recruiting season.

This year, it’s Morehead State. On … Read More

Tennessee Tech signs 3-star recruit, DeOndre Haynes

I’m a bit behind on this one, but Tennessee Tech opened up the spring signing period signing 3-star recruit (according to Rivals) DeOndre Haynes. (ESPN has Haynes listed as a 2-star recruit.)

Haynes actually verbally committed to the Golden Eagles … Read More

Austin Peay signs 6’2″ combo guard AJ Lynch

The OVC has been slow to announce signings so far during this spring recruiting period, but Austin Peay is on the board with 6’2″ combo guard AJ Lynch.

As a senior at Blount High School in Mobile, Alabama, Lynch averaged … Read More

Spoonhour filling out staff, hires Bob Sundvold

Jay Spoonhour has made his first hire onto this staff in Charleston, hiring his former boss, Bob Sundvold.

In the mid-90′s Spoonhour was a graduate assistant on Sundvold’s staff at Division II Central Missouri. Sundvold has coached in Division I, … Read More

[Update] Lester Hudson’s Picked Up By Grizzlies

[Update: The Commecial Appeal is reporting that the Grizzlies have picked up Memphis for the rest of the season, including the playoffs. They are reporting that Hudson is eligible for postseason play because he had not been waived by the … Read More

The Transfer Epidemic and Belmont’s 9-year streak

Players transferring between schools isn’t anything new in college athletics, and it’s not without good reason. If a player is recruited by a coach that leaves after a season, you can’t expect the player to stay when he went there … Read More

Kevin Murphy’s Draft Prospects

With Murray State’s Isaiah Canaan deciding to return to Murray State, that only leaves one OVC player with a realistic shot of being drafted: Tennessee Tech’s Kevin Murphy.

Murphy, as hard as this is to believe, might actually have been … Read More

Travis Williams Promoted To Head Coach

As a general rule, when a head coach leaves a school for greener pastures, I love when they can promote their next coach from within. Tennessee State has done just that, promoting 3-year assistant Travis Williams to head coach today.

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