EIU stuns basketball recruiting observers Nov 4, 2008
As Eastern Illinois basketball fans await Saturday s 7 p.m. exhibition game against Illinois College at Lantz Arena as the first chance to see four junior college transfers and four freshmen, football fans are waiting to see whether coach Bob Spoo s Panthers can again dodge Tennessee State quarterback Antonio Heffner. After missing games against EIU the past two seasons with injuries, Heffner also was out last week when the Tigers beat Tennessee Tech 41-14. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Same old Oh Henry is league MVP in Russia Jun 14, 2008
And if you think he had just gotten up, you don t know the leading scorer in Eastern Illinois basketball history too well. I still like working out in the morning, Domercant said. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Point guard from Elgin, Granger, picks Eastern Apr 16, 2008
ELGIN -- Jeremy Granger, who led Elgin to the IHSA Class 4A Elite Eight, plans to bring his point guard skills to Eastern Illinois basketball team. Elgin coach Mike Sitter on Tuesday confirmed Granger s plans to give his letter-of-intent to the Panthers with the NCAA basketball spring signing period starting today. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Eastern looking for better schedule, more basketball recruits Mar 27, 2008
Eastern Illinois basketball coach Mike Miller this week talked about how Ohio Valley Conference teams were looking to come up with schedules not set up for so much failure as well as the recovery of injured scoring leader Romain Martin. Plus, he has more scholarships to add to the four recruits he signed last fall. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Panthers cool off quickly at Murray State Feb 18, 2008
No, the senior forward was just talking about his own Eastern Illinois basketball team that managed just 22 first-half points on its way to Saturday s 67-56 loss at Murray State, putting a damper on a week that featured its best offensive game in years when the Panthers beat Southeast Missouri 90-70 on Thursday. Those were two different teams that played Thursday and Saturday, Byrne said. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Eastern Illinois basketball Feb 3, 2008
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Anthony, Willhite becoming focal points for EIU Jan 25, 2008
CHARLESTON Maybe now some what if questions can be answered for Eastern Illinois basketball team. The Panthers will always have to wonder if they might have had better than a 10-20 season a year ago and maybe not been left out of the 11-team Ohio Valley Conference s eight-team postseason tournament had junior college transfer Julio Anthony not been declared academically ineligible for the second semester. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Injured Martin sits out Eastern loss Jan 7, 2008
CHARLESTON -- In this what-else-can-go-wrong Eastern Illinois basketball season, Saturday s turning point of the game probably came during pregame warm-ups. That was when the Panthers scoring leader Romain Martin, bothered by a chronic foot problem, determined that he could not play in this game. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Catchings likely to miss EIU's game tonight Dec 31, 2007
Eastern Illinois basketball coach counts a total of 22 missed games by Panthers 11 games into this season. After tonight, only four Panthers will have played in all 12 games. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
EIU dismisses Robinson; two others leave Panthers Dec 19, 2007
Three players are no longer with Eastern Illinois basketball team. Starting guard Mike Robinson, a junior, has been dismissed from the team for violation of team rules while sophomore center Bobby Jolliff and redshirt freshman walk-on guard Brandon D Amico have decided to leave the school. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Writing, cooking and the IBCA: Nielsen does it all Dec 13, 2007
Nielsen could always find us when we were on the road, said former Eastern Illinois basketball coach Rick Samuels. He knew the eating establishments we would go to. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Bloomington next step for Wave Dec 4, 2007
We re not near as experience with Bocot, Lawrence and Hainlen now playing at the college level, said Codron, Bloomington s second-year head coach who was a manager for Eastern Illinois basketball team and then student taught at Mattoon. We re trying to get some experience. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Rice's rally denies Panthers Dec 1, 2007
IOWA CITY, Iowa An inability to capitalize on opportunities down the stretch forced the Eastern Illinois basketball team to stomach its fifth straight loss. Rice scored the final eight points of the game to hand the Panthers a 55-49 loss Friday in an opening-round game of the Hawkeye Challenge at Iowa. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay might be Eastern's toughest foe yet Nov 27, 2007
The task gets taller for Eastern Illinois basketball team with a three-game losing streak. And we aren t just talking literally, as the Panthers go from facing a guard-oriented Arkansas State team in which 6-foot-3 Adrian Banks 22 points and 5-11 Ryan Wedel s 18 led a 74-60 win over Eastern to today s 7 p.m. game at Wisconsin-Green Bay, where the focal point is 6-foot-9 Mike Schachtner with a 20. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
JACKEL: Staying focused Nov 20, 2007
Romo adjusts to the rigors of stardom. BY Peter JackelJournal Times. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
EIU seeks redemption against Loyola Nov 13, 2007
CHARLESTON -- Even during that late-season stretch when Eastern Illinois basketball program made strides, it fell on its face one Saturday afternoon. How was Loyola to be impressed that the Panthers were winning five of their last eight Ohio Valley Conference games when once they stepped out of the league for an ESPN BracketBusters game they shot. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
EIU women, men get started today Nov 1, 2007
Eastern Illinois basketball coach grew up watching Monmouth College and playing pick-up games with its players when he was in high school. Monmouth should have had plenty of continuity considering Terry Glasgow coached there for 35 years compiling a 469-313 record at the NCAA Division III.. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Hood's one-hitter caps Post 88 sweep Jul 2, 2007
Eastern Illinois basketball team camp took from Post 764 four Charleston High School products who joined the program with the understanding they could have some time off for other sports during the summer. Post 88 has now hit the part of its schedule where its attendance rules become more stringent. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Miller follows in father's EIU footsteps May 24, 2007
CHARLESTON Sure, Matt Miller knew he had pressures from day one when his father Mike Miller came here two years ago as Eastern Illinois basketball coach. But those were not from his father. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Many happy returns Mar 6, 2007
No news this March might be the good news for Eastern Illinois basketball program. A year ago at this time after his first season as Eastern s coach, Mike Miller was announcing that three players were leaving his program for reasons ranging from playing time to going closer to home to injury. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Tigers among teams EIU wants to catch Jan 20, 2007
CHARLESTON - Of course, Mike Robinson knows the Ohio Valley Conference standings, at least the last-place location of his Eastern Illinois basketball team. It s frustrating but you still have to keep your head up, the sophomore point guard said after EIU lost its seventh straight game 76-64 Thursday night to Tennessee Tech. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
EIU seeks turnaround at Eastern Kentucky Jan 13, 2007
So far in his first two transitional seasons as Eastern Illinois basketball coach Mike Miller has challenged most of the Ohio Valley Conference. All four meetings against the league s marquee program Murray State have gone down to the wire, and even in a 5-10 ninth place season EIU was one of just three OVC teams to beat the league champion Racers who went 17-3 in the regular season and 3-0 in the postseason tourney. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Miller miffed by EIU turnovers Jan 3, 2007
No, coach Mike Miller figured this was some new problem that his Eastern Illinois basketball team had not shown as Murray State broke a tie in the last 3:19 to beat his Panthers 73-62 in Tuesday's Ohio Valley Conference basketball game at Lantz Arena. "I wish I could say that's what it was," Miller said. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Panthers have own bowl’ game tonight Jan 2, 2007
CHARLESTON -- Big-game crowd or mostly empty Lantz Arena, Eastern Illinois basketball team is facing crunch time. Students are still gone on holiday break and community members may consider tonight a time to watch the Orange Bowl or just recover from holidays, but unlike a Jan. 2 of the past, Eastern is now playing its sixth Ohio Valley Conference game of the basketball season. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
