College Basketball -
Sun Belt Conference
Middle Tennessee State Blue Riders
Location: Murfreesboro, TN Regular Season: 1975, 78, 86, 87, 89 T. Champion: 75, 77, 82, 85, 89, |
The Middle Tennesse State University basketball team are nickname Blue Riders and have as mascot a blue winged horse called Lightning.
The Blue Riders were part of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) before joining Sun Belt in 2001; while in OVC they won 5 regular season tournaments and 5 conference championships.
Middle Tennessee also assisted twice to National Invitational Tournaments, the last time was in 1988, when they conquered it.
Their strongest rivals are the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers
For the season 2007-2008 the team end up with an 17-15 overall record and 11-7 as the conference record.
Middle Tennessee State 2009/10Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Time/Result |
| 13-Nov | King College TN | W 93-73 |
| 15-Nov | at Ohio | L 81-68 |
| 17-Nov | at Marshall | L 63-60 |
| 19-Nov | Lamar | W 74-66 |
| 23-Nov | at North Carolina A&T | L 65-56 |
| 27-Nov | Cumberland TENN | W 87-54 |
| 2-Dec | at UAB | L 65-64 |
| 8-Dec | Belmont | L 83-71 |
| 11-Dec | vs. No. 9 Tennessee* | L 75-54 |
| 13-Dec | SIU-Edwardsville | W 83-58 |
| 22-Dec | Howard | W 69-51 |
| 31-Dec | at New Orleans | W 63-58 |
| 2-Jan | Louisiana-Lafayette | W 68-58 |
| 4-Jan | at Vanderbilt | L 73-53 |
| 7-Jan | at Arkansas State | L 69-67 |
| 9-Jan | at Arkansas-Little Rock | W 66-52 |
| 14-Jan | FIU | L 65-58 |
| 16-Jan | Florida Atlantic | L 61-60 |
| 18-Jan | Western Kentucky | W 47-46 |
| 21-Jan | at Louisiana-Monroe | W 69-60 |
| 23-Jan | at Western Kentucky | W 84-74 |
| 28-Jan | New Orleans | 8:00 PM ET |
| 30-Jan | North Texas | 8:00 PM ET |
| 4-Feb | Troy | 8:00 PM ET |
| 6-Feb | at South Alabama | 2:00 PM ET |
| 11-Feb | Denver | 8:00 PM ET |
| 13-Feb | Houston Baptist | 8:00 PM ET |
| 18-Feb | at Troy | 8:00 PM ET |
| 20-Feb | South Alabama | 8:00 PM ET |
| 25-Feb | at FIU | 8:00 PM ET |
| 27-Feb | at Florida Atlantic | 7:00 PM ET |