Big Red’s Reads: Volleyball Rolling, Basketball Recruiting News & UAB Week
After a much-needed bye week, we’re back and rolling for UAB week. A lot of WKU related news happened over the weekend, here is a rundown…
After a much-needed bye week, we’re back and rolling for UAB week. A lot of WKU related news happened over the weekend, here is a rundown of everything you may have missed over the past few days
WKU Volleyball rolled to another perfect weekend at the WKU Invitational beating NKU (3–2), Tulsa (3–0) & Samford (3–0) to improve to 13–1 on the season. The Tulsa win was the 900th in program history.
WKU Soccer won a double-overtime thriller over Southern Miss 1–0 on Ambere Barnett’s goal in the 103rd minute. WKU improves to 5–2–1 on the season and 1–0 in Conference USA play.
4-Star WKU target Eddie Lampkin made his decision on Friday choosing TCU over WKU and others
4-Star forward Selton Miguel announced his final 5 on Saturday and WKU made the cut. He’ll make his final announcement on October 1st.
Junior Defensive back Latheron Rogers-Anderson announced that he is entering the transfer portal. He hasn’t appeared in any games this season after playing 3 in 2018.
Underdog Dynasty recaps Week 4 in G5 Football.
Here are your Conference USA standings heading into week 5
CUSA Report kept WKU at 7th in their weekly conference power rankings. WKU hosts #1 UAB on Saturday night.
ESPN gives WKU a 61% chance of winning on Saturday
After opening as a 3 point favorite, WKU is now a 2-point underdog in Saturday’s matchup
Through 4 weeks WKU is now ranked at #106 in ESPN analyst’s Bill Connelly’s SP+ Rankings. UAB sits at #86.
The Athletic’s Chris Vannini ranks WKU at #112 in his weekly ranking of all 130 FBS teams ($).
It hasn’t been a good year out of conference for CUSA
Future Opponent Arkansas had a tough weekend losing to San Jose State. That should give WKU some hope for their meeting on November 9th.
WKU Women’s golf team sits in second place after two days at Michigan State’s Mary Fossum Invitational. WKU trails host Michigan State by 20 strokes heading into the final day of play. Junior Mary Joiner is tied for fourth with a score of 146 thru two rounds.
After one of their best seasons in school history, WKU’s Men’s Golf season starts today at UAB in the Graeme McDowell Invitational in Birmingham.
WKU Women’s Tennis had a successful weekend at the North Alabama Fall Classic
ProTopper Jack Doyle showed some upside in week 3.
WKU Basketball took time to support a good cause on Saturday
Defensive Tackle went back to his alma mater Father Ryan in Nashville and spoke to the team
WKU Softball got a commitment from Daviess County’s Abby Newman. She is a top 100 player in the 2021 class.
Stay tuned for more quality WKU coverage this week and be sure to share any interesting WKU related content that you find across the internet.