{"id":227763,"date":"2025-10-20T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227763\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:39:07","slug":"belmont-announces-jan-31-basketball-doubleheader-vs-murray-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227763\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont Announces Jan. 31 Basketball Doubleheader vs. Murray State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8211; &#8211; Belmont University Athletics announced Monday it will host a men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball doubleheader Saturday, Jan. 31 vs. Murray State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Belmont-Murray State women&#8217;s basketball game will tip at 4 p.m. (ESPN+) followed by the Belmont-Murray State men&#8217;s basketball game at 7 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe men&#8217;s game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe women&#8217;s matchup will be a rematch of the 2025 Missouri Valley Conference championship game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLast year&#8217;s meeting in Nashville was one of the highest-scoring games in Curb Event Center history; <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/tuti-jones\/4612\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4612\" target=\"_blank\">Tuti Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kendal-cheesman\/4157\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4157\" target=\"_blank\">Kendal Cheesman<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kendall-holmes\/4168\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4168\" target=\"_blank\">Kendall Holmes<\/a> combined to score 74 points as the Bruins won, 96-89.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe two programs \u2013 led by <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/bart-brooks\/1141\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1141\" target=\"_blank\">Bart Brooks<\/a> and Rechelle Tuner, respectively \u2013 won a combined 51 games last season with each making postseason runs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBelmont women&#8217;s basketball has won 24 of the previous 30 meetings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Belmont-Murray State men&#8217;s basketball series has established itself as one of the top rivalries in college basketball.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBetween championship stakes and NBA players, the Bruins and Racers deliver high drama and entertaining theatre.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBelmont won both meetings last season, including 70-60 on Senior Day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSingle-game tickets go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. via the Curb Event Center Box Office\u00a0615-460-2255, email <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/news\/2025\/10\/20\/mailto:tickets@belmont.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tickets@belmont.edu<\/a>, or log onto belmontbruins.com.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBelmont season tickets \u2013 which include the entire men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball home schedule \u2013 are on sale now at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/belmont.evenue.net\/list\/ATH\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">belmontbruins.com\/tickets<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo become a Bruin Club member, contact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/staff-directory\/russell-grimm\/129\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Grimm<\/a>\u00a0at (615) 460-5668 or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/news\/2025\/10\/20\/mailto:russell.grimm@belmont.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">russell.grimm@belmont.edu<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow to Follow<br \/>\nFollow Belmont women&#8217;s basketball on social media &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BelmontWBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BelmontWBB<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/belmontwbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@belmontwbb<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/belmontwmnbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belmont Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook &#8211; for complete coverage of the Bruins. Stay up to date with all of Belmont&#8217;s athletic programs via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/belmont-bruins\/id933521621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official app of the Belmont Bruins<\/a>, available both in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow Belmont men&#8217;s basketball on social media &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BelmontMBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BelmontMBB<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly Twitter and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/belmont_mbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@belmont_mbb\u00a0<\/a>on Instagram &#8211; for complete coverage of the Bruins. Stay up to date with all of Belmont&#8217;s athletic programs via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/belmont-bruins\/id933521621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official app of the Belmont Bruins<\/a>, available both in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#ItsBruinTime<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8211; &#8211; Belmont University Athletics announced Monday it will host a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-227763","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\/227763","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=227763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}