Big Red’s Reads: Volleyball Wins, Football Recruiting & Basketball News
Welcome back WKU fans. We survived the bye week and now get to look forward to WKU’s first road trip to El Paso on Saturday. Here’s…
Welcome back WKU fans. We survived the bye week and now get to look forward to WKU’s first road trip to El Paso on Saturday. Here’s everything that you missed on the Hill over the past few days.
WKU Volleyball extended their Conference USA winning streak to 29 games with weekend wins over Louisiana Tech and Middle Tennessee. WKU is now 17–2 on the season.
Travis Hudson’s squad is up to #45 in the RPI.
Jessica Lucas and Sydney Engle continued to gather C-USA player of the week accolades for the third and fifth straight times respectively.
Here’s your opening betting line for Saturday’s game
Chad Bishop analyzes how the October schedule sets up nicely for Mike Sanford’s squad in his weekly column.
Chad also reviewed Monday’s press conference with comments from Sanford, Miles Pate and Ben Holt.
UTEP finally named former coach Mike Price as Sean Kugler’s replacement for the rest of the season. The 71 year old went 48–61 during his last stint with the Miners.
UTEP will be without their starting quarterback on Saturday
Underdog Dynasty reviewed what they learned during week four in Conference USA.
UDD kept WKU at #7 in their weekly C-USA power rankings.
WKU came in at number 81 in The All American’s rankings of all 130 FBS teams ($).
The Tops stayed at #67 in Bill Connelly’s S&P+ analytical rankings, two spots ahead of Kentucky.
Brad Stephens from the Bowling Green Daily News discusses how Sanford’s staff used the bye week to recruit.
WKU Insider lists some possible targets for Sanford’s staff.
WKU Insider also examines WKU’s recent offer to Trinity (Louisville) DE Arak McDuffie. McDuffie is a specimen at 6–5 and 240 lbs.
Here is your depth chart for Saturday’s game
Pro Football Focus examined Mike White’s season thus far, including his recent performance against Ball State.
Chad Bishop gives us an update on the men’s basketball team before they start practice today.
Chad also examined how Justin Johnson dropped 25 pounds since the Costa Rica trip.
Here’s a pretty cool interview with freshman Marek Nelson
The Sellout Diddle telethon resulted in an additional 225 season tickets being sold, here’s how many tickets are left before they reach their goal.
WKU’s soccer struggles continued on Sunday with a 1–0 defeat against North Texas at home on Sunday.
Rick Stansbury offered a 2018 peach state big man over the weekend
Corey Diaz from The News Star (LA)says that head to head match-ups matter the most in the battle for top Group of Five conference.
If you’re jonesing for a WKU related podcast, check out the latest episode of the WKU Redzone
We gave our initial thoughts on the UTEP game.
Here’s your updated imperial college football map after week 5. WKU continues to hold down Birmingham.
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