EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Men’s Tennis starts the new season with a battle against Lipscomb University at the Evansville Tennis Center Friday at 2 p.m. The Screaming Eagles are in their second season of NCAA Division I and Horizon League play.
USI will face 19 different opponents in 2024 with nine home, seven road, and three neutral matches. Home matches will be split between the Evansville Tennis Center and USI Tennis Courts throughout the season.
The Eagles’ non-conference slate features power-five foes such as Indiana University (February 24) and Butler University (March 2). Other non-conference road opponents include Thomas More University (February 3), University of Dayton (February 4), Eastern Kentucky University (March 8), University of Missouri-St. Louis (March 10). The Eagles will welcome Saint Louis University (February 11), Austin Peay State University (February 17), Kentucky Wesleyan College (March 25), and Brescia University (April 16) for non-conference home matches. The IU, USI match will be played in Louisville, Kentucky while matches against Hanover College and Indiana University Southeast (April 14) will be played at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Indiana).
In Horizon League play, USI will have its hands full with Northern Kentucky University (March 3), Belmont University (March 23), Tennessee Tech University (April 6), and Tennessee State University (April 13) at USI Tennis Courts. The Eagles will be visiting Eastern Illinois (March 30) and Lindenwood University (April 20) for the lone road conference matches.
The Horizon League, Ohio Valley Conference, and Missouri Valley Conference have teamed up to support men’s tennis in 2024. The league will consist of 11 teams with two divisions and the top three teams from each division will make the postseason tournament in West Lafayette, Indiana April 26-28. The Eagles were predicted to finish fifth in the South Division.
