The Otters will play 48 regular season games at Bosse Field, starting with Opening Weekend May 15-17 against the Gateway Grizzlies.

Game times for the regular season are as follows:

Tuesday through Saturday are at 6:35 p.m.

Sunday games in May and August (5/17, 5/24, 8/9, 8/16, 8/23) are at 12:35 p.m.

Sunday games in June and July (6/14, 6/28, 7/12) are at 5:05 p.m.

The Otters will host four exhibitions leading up to Opening Weekend. Exhibition games on May 6 and May 13 will be Education Day games against the Black Sox professional traveling team each day. Both games will start at 10 a.m. The Otters will also have home exhibitions May 2 against Florence and May 8 against Southern Illinois at 6:35 p.m.

Evansville will have a midweek day game June 24 against the Windy City Thunderbolts with first pitch at 11 a.m.

Less than 48 hours after defeating #1 Kentucky, the University of Evansville men’s basketball team is back on the floor, welcoming IU Kokomo to the Ford Center on Thursday evening at 6 p.m.  ESPN3 will have the broadcast.

Setting the Scene                                                                                                              

– The Purple Aces look to improve to 3-0 as they take on the IU Kokomo Cougars for the first time

– Evansville is coming off of the biggest win in the program’s Division I history, defeating top-ranked Kentucky on Tuesday evening at Rupp Arena

– Despite being a 25-point underdog, the Aces led the Wildcats for 29:34 of the 40 minutes while trailing for just under six minutes

– K.J. Riley led everyone with 18 points as he was 2-2 from outside and 8-8 from the free throw line

– For the second game in a row, Sam Cunliffe recorded 17 points; he drained six  buckets but his most important points came in the final seconds as his two free throws put the finishing touches on the 67-64 win

Last Time Out                                                                                                             

– One of the biggest days in program history saw the Purple Aces take down #1 Kentucky by a 67-64 final on Tuesday night

– Evansville held the lead for nearly 75% of the game; the Aces held a 34-30 lead at the half and went up by as many as eight points in the game; UK never led by more than three

– Senior K.J. Riley led by example, pouring in a game-high 18 points; he was 2-2 from outside and 8-8 from the line

– Sam Cunliffe posted another 17-point outing and hit the two biggest free throws of the game with six seconds left

Leftovers from Kentucky                                                                                                              

– In his first trip to the arena he called home as a player, Aces head coach Walter McCarty led his UE squad to the 3-point win over the Wildcats

– In the second half of the contest, the Aces were a perfect 6-for-6 from the charity stripe; for the game, UE was 12/13 from the line

– Evansville’s defense held the Wildcats to just 37% shooting; last season – just one team fared better – that came on March 2, 2019 when #7 Tennessee held Kentucky to 31.8%

– K.J. Riley and Sam Cunliffe have both posted double figures in both contests; they are a combined 17-for-19 from the line on the season

– UE attacked the offensive glass, hauling in 11 offensive rebounds while holding UK to just eight; this season – 24.6% of the Aces rebounds have come on the offensive side, last year that number stood at 20%

University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball opened Screaming Eagles Arena with a 52-45 upset victory over No. 11 University of Central Missouri Wednesday night. The Screaming Eagles rallied from a 13-point first-quarter deficit to pull off the victory.

With her team trailing 14-1 late in the opening period, junior guard Emma DeHart sank a three-pointer to give the Eagles their first field goal in their new home. The shot sparked a 5-2 run that got the Eagles to within 10 at the end of the first quarter.

USI (1-0) used a 6-0 run to get to within 18-14 with just under six minutes to play in the first half; and later scored seven straight points to take their first lead of the game at 21-20. The Eagles ended the first 20 minutes of play on a 15-6 run as they took a 23-22 advantage into the intermission.

Out of the break, USI and Central Missouri traded leads four times before a 9-2 USI run put the Eagles in front 39-33 heading into the final period. The Eagles extended that advantage to as much as 11 points four minutes into the final quarter thanks to an 8-3 stretch to begin the fourth frame.

DeHart scored five of her team-high tying 11 points in the 9-2 run, while freshman forward Tara Robbe added all four of her points in the third-quarter spurt. Senior guard Ashley Johnson poured in five points during the 8-3 fourth-quarter run that put USI in the driver’s seat, while senior guard Kiara Moses contributed three of her team-high tying 11 points in the fourth-period run. Johnson finished with 10 points and three steals.

The Jennies (1-2) made one final charge, using a 9-2 run to get to within four points (49-45) with a minute to play, but a pair of free throws by Johnson and another by DeHart in the final minute helped seal the victory for the Eagles.

USI returns to action November 23 when it travels to Big Rapids, Michigan, to take on Midwest Region foe Ferris State University. Tip-off is slated for noon.