{"id":212983,"date":"2025-10-14T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212983\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:16:29","slug":"eku-mens-basketball-to-face-morehead-state-in-exhibition-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212983\/","title":{"rendered":"EKU Men&#8217;s Basketball To Face Morehead State In Exhibition Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     RICHMOND, Ky. \u2013 Eastern Kentucky University&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team will play long-time in-state rival Morehead State University in an exhibition game on Oct. 27.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe game will be played at Johnson Arena in Morehead and will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe two teams have played 196 times during the regular season, dating back to the 1930-31 season.\u00a0 However, the Colonels and Eagles have not met since EKU moved to the Atlantic Sun Conference following the 2020-21 season.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe most recent match-up was in the semifinals of the 2021 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Evansville, Indiana.\u00a0 MSU won that contest 67-64.\u00a0 The two programs last played in Morehead on Dec. 14, 2020.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEKU holds a 112-84 advantage in the all-time series.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter renovation of the seating bowl, the Colonels will play their first game of the season in Baptist Health Arena against in-state rival Western Kentucky on Nov. 10.\u00a0 EKU will begin the 2025-26 regular season against Midway University on Nov. 6.\u00a0 That game will be played at the Seabury Center on the campus of Berea College at 8 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFans wishing to purchase season tickets should contact the EKU Ticket Office at 859-622-2122 or via email at tickets@eku.edu.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; RICHMOND, Ky. \u2013 Eastern Kentucky University&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team will play long-time in-state rival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-212983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}