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SOURCE: Charles Bassey To Miss Remainder Of 2019-2020 Season | WKU Connection

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Late Sunday night a source close to the men’s basketball program confirmed to WKU Connection that Sophomore center Charles Bassey has sustained a season ending injury in Saturday nights match-up with Arkansas.

The actual specifics of the injury itself have not yet been publicized, but are likely to come out sometime within the week. (Likely Coach Stansbury’s press conference Monday afternoon).

Bassey was averaging 15.9 ppg and 9.6 rebounds per game entering Saturday night.

Several NBA Draft evaluation sites had Charles listed as a top 10 pick in the upcoming NBA draft.

Western Kentucky is off this week for finals and will not play in again until an exhibition match with Kentucky Wesleyan on Tuesday December 14th.

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Western Kentucky Defeats Arkansas 86-77 Charles Bassey Leaves With Injury To Left Knee | WKU Connection

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Let me start with this, Diddle Arena made a difference in tonight’s game and this team is going to need their home crowd now more than ever moving forward.

Western Kentucky Center Charles Bassey went down with an injury sustained to his left knee late in the second half. Rick Stansbury said he will undergo an MRI on his knee Sunday morning.

This is graphic video and my heart is hearing for him right now.

As for the game, Junior Taveion Hollingsworth filled it up tonight adding 23 points along with Junior Forward Josh Anderson adding 16 points off the bench.

The story from the game comes at the end of the second half Senior Jarad Savage pulls this 3 from the corner to tie the game.

The team never looked back in overtime.

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Colts Extend Former WKU Tight End Jack Doyle To 3 Year Extension | WKU Connection

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This afternoon the indiapolis colts announced they have extended former WKU TE Jack Doyle to a 3 year extension. This deal comes after the Los Angeles Rams decided to extend Tyler Higbee earlier this season. A good year to be former Hilltopper now in the NFL.

To this point Doyle has totaled 36 catches for 377 yards and 4 touchdowns in the 2019 season.

The extension is reportly a 3 year deal worth 21 million guaranteed with a possible for incentives bumping it up to 24 million. Currently 3 former Hilltopper Tight Ends are on active NFL rosters, Deon Yelder (Chiefs), Tyler Higbee (Rams), and Jack Doyle (Colts).

LISTEN: Rick Stansbury Breaks Down Tuesday Nights Loss To Wright State | WKU Connection

Many of you have been asking for Rick Stansbury’s thoughts on last nights loss.

Last night the official WKU Sports YouTube account posted Coach Stansbury’s postgame comments following a 74-76 loss to Wright State.

To say the least, right now would be that WKU Basketball fans are upset with this teams performance so far this season.

Western Kentucky Falls To Wright State 74-76 | WKU Connection

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What the hell did I just watch?

Western Kentucky falls to a Wright State squad who was missing one of their main pieces.

Some serious questions need to be answered about this team and where this program is headed.

Why the hell does Rick Stansbury not call a timeout with 5 seconds left down 2?

This is unacceptable coaching.

Why do we play a 2-3 zone?

Why do we not run the offense through Charles Bassey?

Why does Jordan Rawls not get more playing time?

All of these need to be answered if this team wants to even think about sniffing the NCAA tournament.

See you all in Diddle Saturday.

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4 Star Kyree Walker Update | WKU Connection

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Wouldn’t it be neat if Western Kentucky and Arkansas battle it out inside Diddle Arena Saturday night for 4 star SF Kyree Walker? Essentially that is what is happening Saturday night in Bowling Green.

Walker posted this to his social media account hinting a decision is coming soon.

As of now, If Walker was to enroll he would not be eligible until the start of the spring semester at Western Kentucky on January 27th. It is not set in stone that Walker will be attending any university as several rumors have him going overseas. If he were to take the college route I’d say it’s down to WKU and Arkansas.

Right now I’d lean toward Arkansas at 70% to land Kyree and Western Kentucky 30%

Western Kentucky Moves Up In Rankings | WKU Connection

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After a week 1 loss to Central Arkansas Western Kentucky would be ranked dead last in the USA Today rankings the following week.

Now, the Hilltoppers are playing their best football since 2016 and are rolling hot into bowl season riding a 8-4 season in Head Coach Tyson Helton’s first season. Western Kentucky comes in this week at #52 in the country, jumping 2 spots from 54 the week prior. You can view the full rankings here.

Just 2 Conference USA schools are ranked ahead of Western Kentucky in FAU, (see ya Lane Kiffin) and UAB whom Western Kentucky defeated earlier in the season 20-13.

Who would’ve thought Western Kentucky would go from losing to a FCS opponent and being ranked dead last to being ranked in the top half of all college football programs in the same season? I surely didn’t see 8-4 record after a week 1. Lets go bowling.

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