Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – The Central Michigan men’s basketball team is 8-2, has won four consecutive games, and has made a national splash behind the prodigious scoring of junior guard Marcus Keene.
That record and Keene’s numbers – he’s averaging a best-in-the-nation 31.4 per game – has come against a schedule comprising good mid-major competition and a few sub-Division I teams.
Saturday, the Chippewas venture out a bit when they go to Illinois (7-3) for a nonconference game. It will be CMU’s first game against a Big Ten opponent since it won at Northwestern in December, 2014.