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Eagles Stay On the Road for West Division Tilt at CMU
1/18/2010 4:41:28 PM | Men's Basketball
Game time set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Rose Center
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STRONG START: EMU's 9-7 record this season is the best start since the 2004-05 squad went 9-7 in its first 16 games.
CHECKING THE SERIES WITH CMU: The Eagles and Chippewas will be meeting for the 180th time when they square off Wednesday, Jan. 18. CMU holds a 93-86 edge in the series. EMU won both regular-season games last year, recording an 84-77 double-overtime decision in Ypsilanti, Jan. 13, and adding a 57-56 nail-biter, Feb. 28, in Mount Pleasant. Central came back to notch a 62-49 win over Eastern, March 10, at the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Cleveland, Ohio. The Eagles enter the mid-week matchup with a 9-7 overall record and a 1-2 MAC mark after a 77-69 loss at Northern Illinois, Jan. 16. EMU Head Coach Charles E. Ramsey (EMU, '92) is in his fifth year.
The Chippewas are currently 7-8 overall and 2-1 in league play after suffering their first MAC loss of the season, 70-61, at Western Michigan, Jan. 16. The Chippewas are led by Head Coach Ernie Ziegler (Cleary College, '94) who has a 46-62 record in his fourth season in Mount Pleasant.
A GRAND PLAYER: EMU redshirt junior Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) scored 18 points in Wednesday's, Jan. 13, 74-59 win over Toledo to boost him past the 1,000-point career mark at 1,016 for his career. He added 13 points against Northern Illinois, Jan. 16, to give him 1,029 for his 80-game career. That point total ranks him 25th on the career list and he is the 27th EMU player to reach 1,000 points in a career.
MEDLOCK PERFECT AT THE STRIPE: EMU senior point guard Carlos Medlock (Detroit, Mich.-Murray Wright) connected on 14-of-14 free throws in a 77-69 loss at Northern Illinois, Jan. 16. Medlock has now made 367 career charity tosses to rank eighth in the EMU record book.
center Justin Dobbins (Cleveland, Ohio-Glenville) returned to action Wednesday, Jan. 13, after missing six straight games with a stress fracture in his lower right leg, and scored 18 points with five rebounds in just 25 minutes of action.
MEDLOCK, DOBBINS, BOWDRY CLIMB EMU CAREER LADDERS: The EMU trio of Carlos Medlock (Detroit, Mich.-Murray Wright), Justin Dobbins (Cleveland, Ohio-Glenville), and Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) are all making major moves up the EMU career rankings in scoring, rebounding and three-point shooting. Medlock is now 15th in career scor- more points. Dobbins is now 37th at 870. Bowdry has 573 career rebounds for 16th while Dobbins is 35th in rebounding with 434 and Medlock is 68th at 264. Medlock is the sixth ranked three-point shooter with 170 career triples and is ninth in career assists at 336. Medlock is the 12th player in school history to reach 300 career assists while Bowdry is the 22nd player to grab 500+ career rebounds.
EMU MEN'S BASKETBALL ALUMNI DAY SET FOR SATURDAY, JAN. 23: One of the greatest eras in Eastern Michigan University men's basketball history will be celebrated Saturday, Jan. 23, when the current EMU men's team will host Ball State University in a 2 p.m. men's basketball Alumni Game in the Convocation Center.
This year's Men's Basketball Alumni Day will be dedicated to the Jim Dutcher Coaching Years from 1966-72. All EMU men's basketball alumni will be guests of the University, with the players from the 1966-72 squads invited as the main honorees for the event.
Dutcher, who will be in attendance at the event to greet the alumni, led the then-Hurons to a 127-49 record in the six years from 1966-67 through the 1971-72 season. Eastern qualified for four consecutive National Association of Intercollagiate Athletics (NAIA) national tournament appearances (from 1967-68 through 1970-71) and saw that 1970-71 squad make it to the NAIA final game before finishing runner-up to national champion Kentucky State. Dutcher's 1971-72 team made it to the Final Four of the NCAA-College Division national tournament.
Prior to the EMU-Ball State game, a reception will be held in the Eagles' Nest room in the Convocation Center beginning at 12:30 p.m. All EMU men's basketball alumni will receive two complimentary tickets for the pre-game reception as well as the EMU-BSU game at 2 p.m.
Reservations for the Alumni Day can be made by calling EMU Director of Basketball Operations Chris Highfield at 734.487.0214 or by e-mail at chighfie@emich.edu.
