XENIA, Ohio – Indiana State men's basketball tips off its season on Monday in at the Wooden Family Fieldhouse against Florida Atlanta. The game is slated for 7:30 p.m. ET. The game will stream on
www.totalathletetipoff.com.
A new era of Sycamore Basketball begins on Monday with head coach
Matthew Graves now at the helm. He enters his first season as head coach of the Sycamores but his sixth head coaching season overall. His first season begins with a near-new basketball team that features 11 new players and four new coaches.
Indiana State returns only 2.8% of its scoring, 4.8% of its rebounding, and 3.2% of its minutes played. Three of the four returners saw playing time last season:
Jaden Daughtry (37 points, 19 rebounds, 63 minutes),
Aaron Gray (19 points, 19 rebounds, 76 minutes), and
Derek Vorst (36 points, 29 rebounds, 111 minutes).
Indiana State was selected to finish eighth of 12 in the Missouri Valley Preseason poll. The Sycamores roster only four seniors/graduate players in
K'mani Doughty, Gray,
Markus Harding, and
Samage Teel; the squad has one junior, and the rest are freshmen and sophomores.
Florida Atlantic was picked to finish fifth of 13 in the American Athletic Conference (AAC), with KyKy Tandy selected to the Preseason All-Conference Second Team. Tandy is a transfer from Jacksonville State, where he scored 571 points in the 2023-24 season earning a first-team selection in Conference USA.
Indiana State and Florida Atlantic have never met in their programs' histories.
Sycamore Tickets for Eureka
Tickets can still be purchased for the home opener on Thursday, November 7. Single game tickets in the upper bowl can be purchased for $12 in advance with a $3 processing fee, and on game day tickets can be purchased for $15. Single game tickets can be found
HERE.
America's Got Talent winner Richard Goodall will be singing the national anthem and performing at halftime of Thursday's game.
Follow the Sycamores
For the latest information on the Sycamore Men's Basketball team, make sure to check out
GoSycamores.com. You can also find the team on social media including
Facebook,
Twitter, and
Instagram. Fans can also receive updates on Sycamore Athletics by downloading the March On App from both the
App Store and the
Google Play Store.