JACKSONVILLE — Good news for Jacksonville State: the women's basketball team scored more points that it had in the previous two games.

JACKSONVILLE — With his team down by 14 at the half and only five points in his own scoring column, Jason Burnell knew he needed to step up his game.

JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State needed something extra to keep its winning streak going against Ohio Valley Conference heavy Belmont on Thursday, and the Gamecocks found it.

JACKSONVILLE — The way Jacksonville State's women's basketball team plays defense, it has a chance against anybody.

JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State’s 2019 football schedule lines up as a major opportunity for the Gamecocks.

JACKSONVILLE — Belmont has won four Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championships since joining the league six years ago, and the Bruins are favored to make it five this year.

JACKSONVILLE — With the one this one went, it could end only one way.

JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State's women's basketball team leads the Ohio Valley Conference in defense for the fifth straight year, and that was on full display Saturday afternoon.

JACKSONVILLE — With a near-capacity crowd in attendance at Pete Mathews Coliseum, the Jacksonville State men’s basketball team defeated Eastern Illinois 69-62 in its conference home-opener Thursday night.

JACKSONVILLE — Rick Pietri says he can't take credit. He says that he delivered no stirring, inspiring words at halftime that motivated his Jacksonville State women's basketball team to blitz through Eastern Illinois in the second half.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Jacksonville State men’s basketball team improved to 2-0 in Ohio Valley Conference play for the third season in a row under head coach Ray Harper with a 69-62 win over Tennessee State on Saturday.

NASHVILLE — The Jacksonville State women’s basketball team snapped a three-game losing skid and secured its first Ohio Valley Conference win of the year with a 62-52 road victory at Tennessee State on Saturday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jason Burnell flirted with a triple-double and the Jacksonville State men’s basketball team opened Ohio Valley Conference play with an 83-73 road win over Belmont, its fourth straight win over the Bruins.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Jacksonville State women’s basketball team lost its Ohio Valley Conference opener Thursday night, falling 66-52 to Belmont on the road at the Curb Event Center.

JACKSONVILLE — The Jacksonville State men’s basketball team won its final non-conference tune-up Saturday evening with a 109-77 romp over Division II Reinhardt.

JACKSONVILLE — The Jacksonville State women’s basketball team picked the wrong game in which to have a shorthanded frontline.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Jacksonville State men's basketball team nearly received an early Christmas present Saturday, but a career-game from Marlon Hunter wasn't enough to top West Virginia on the road. JSU fell 74-72 at WVU Coliseum, coming up shy of a win over the Power-Five Mountaineers.

JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State signed six players Wednesday to open the early signing period.

JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State men’s basketball team broke in the newly-repaired Pete Mathews Coliseum with a 64-50 win over in-state opponent North Alabama on Tuesday night.

JACKSONVILLE — Nothing went right in the first quarter for Jacksonville State’s women’s basketball team in a 58-41 loss to Miami of Ohio on Tuesday night.

JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State University re-opened its basketball arena Saturday, but the game was so good that the rebuilt Pete Mathews Coliseum was something of an afterthought.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The Jacksonville State men's basketball team handed Evansville its first home loss Saturday, downing the Purple Aces 55-50 at the Ford Center.