Chippewa Men Welcome Olivet On Sunday

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – The Central Michigan men's basketball team returns to McGuirk Arena on Sunday (1 p.m.) to take on Olivet in a nonconference game.

The Chippewas (3-4) dropped their Mid-American Conference opener on Friday at Western Michigan, 76-61.

Meikkel Murray, a junior in his first year at CMU, scored a career-high 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Chippewas, who shot a season-low 34.9 percent from the floor against the Broncos.

Leaders
Senior Travon Broadway Jr. leads the Chippewas in scoring at 15.0 points per game. Three others – Devontae Lane (11.6), Murray (11.1) and Caleb Huffman (10.6) – also average in double figures.

Murray is CMU's leading rebounder at 6.3 per game, while Broadway averages 5.4. Murray, a native of the Bronx who came to CMU via Coffeyville (Kan.) CC, has made eight rebounds in each of CMU's last four games.

Trending
The Chippewas rank 13^th (tied) nationally with 10.3 steals per game.

Scouting
Sunday's game is the first of the season for the Division III Comets, who finished 6-19 last season under first-year coach Sam Hargraves, who formerly coached at Alma.

The Comets return two of their top three scorers in Eddie Thigpen and Chris Martin, both are 6-foot-5 juniors. Thigpen averaged 15.2 points and 4.3 rebounds in 2019-20, while Martin averaged 10.8 points.

Next
The Chippewas will take an eight-day break and then are slated to return to MAC play on Tuesday, Dec. 29 at Eastern Michigan.

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Players Mentioned

Travon Broadway Jr.

Caleb Huffman

Devontae Lane

Meikkel Murray