Big Red’s Reads: C-USA Volleyball Record, Basketball Prediction & UTEP Fallout
Happy Homecoming week Hilltopper fans! WKU might have struggled during their road win in El Paso but that wasn’t the only news you might…
Happy Homecoming week Hilltopper fans! WKU might have struggled during their road win in El Paso but that wasn’t the only news you might have missed this weekend. Let’s catch-up on everything on the Hill before the festivities begin.
On Friday night, WKU’s volleyball team set the Conference USA record for most consecutive league victories with a 3–0 sweep of Southern Miss. The Tops are now 18–2 on the season.
Outside hitter Alyssa Cavanaugh was named the C-USA Offensive Player of the Week for her efforts.
Travis Hudson’s squad is just one spot away from re-joining the AVCA Top 25.
The volleyball Tops finish their non-conference portion of their schedule tonight against Austin Peay at Diddle Arena.
There was a legendary opposing fan in attendance during Friday’s game
NBC Sports picked WKU to finish sixth in their Conference USA basketball preview.
Chad Bishop draws conclusions about Mike Sanford’s squad after the first five games in his weekly column.
Chad also reviews Sanford’s press conference from Monday.
Las Vegas continues to overvalue WKU with their point spreads
Here’s your new depth chart for the Charlotte game with Sanford opening up several position once again
Brad Stephens from the Bowling Green Daily News reviews what turned out to be the game-deciding two point conversion, Mike White’s new goal-line running prowess and Charlotte in his football notebook.
Brad also looks where WKU football ranks nationally across various statistical categories.
WKU should have some important pieces back on Saturday
WKU continues to tumble in Bill Connelly’s S&P+ rankings falling 16 spots to number 83.
Underdog Dynasty dropped WKU down to Number 9 in their Conference USA Power Rankings.
UDD also gave three things their learned from Conference USA’s week six action.
Here’s Forgotten 5’s post week six C-USA power rankings
UK announced their baseball schedule yesterday and we found the baseball Tops will travel to Lexington on February 27.
The soccer team once again was shutout 1–0 on Friday against MTSU. Their Sunday match at UAB was cancelled due to rains from Hurricane Nate. The soccer Tops are just 3–8–1 on the season.
WKU’s women’s golf team finished 11th during the UK’s Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. Georgina Blackman was the Lady Tops top performer, finishing tied for 32nd during the weekend at 13 over.
Two recent #ProTops were on the sidelines during Sunday’s Colts/Niners game
WKU’s women’s tennis squad had a successful weekend, sweeping the WKU Invitational against OVC champ SIU-Edwardsville.
Michelle Clark Heard got a commitment over this weekend
The post-WKU career of Frederick Edmond continues to go in the wrong direction as he been involved in a money counterfeiting scheme.
In positive basketball news, this billboard is now up in Bowling Green
We started our preseason basketball preview with Justin Johnson’s outlook.
Michael McCammon from WKU Insider discusses 2019 Canadian guard, Cobi Neath’s reaction to a recent WKU offer ($).
WKU Redzone Radio reviewed the weekend that was on their sunday show.
Football commit Gunner Britton will play in a local (NC/SC) All-Star game
We graded Saturday’s disappointing effort against UTEP.
We gave our initial thoughts about the Charlotte game.
Reminder that Friday is Hilltopper Hysteria, we’ll have coverage of both the men’s and women’s action
Here’s how we voted in Miner Rush’s Conference USA power rankings.
Four C-USA teams now (including WKU) hold territory in CFB Reddit’s Week 6 College Football imperialism map
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