COLUMN: Celebrating a 7-0 Saturday

General 2/25/2024 7:41:00 PM Sam Doughton, MTSU Athletic Communications MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — As the inbound pass sailed comfortably into Jestin Porter's hands, floating almost like the sitting duck interceptions that give you a pit your stomach the instant they're thrown during football season, the pit I had in my stomach finally went away.

The Blue Raiders had outplayed, out hustled, and flat out out-cared Western Kentucky nearly all night in the Murphy Center, and had been rewarded with a nail-biting, white knuckled 74-72 win. An evenly matched win, in efficiency, in rebounds, in turnovers. A win not without controversy, courtesy of a debatable call of a jump ball when WKU lost control of…