APSU Sports: Austin Peay Men and Women’s Basketball
Brentwood, TN – The Ohio Valley Conference has announced its schedules for the 2012-13 season, one week after announcing plans for divisional play for men and women’s basketball.
The schedules feature 16 games with each team playing divisional foes twice during the season (home and away) and playing teams in the opposite division once a season. When creating the schedule it also was a league priority to play as many games as possible after January 1st, avoiding December contests.
Austin Peay men and women’s basketball, in fact, had only one December game scheduled in 2012 and that was East Division member Morehead State. The Governors already have rescheduled that conference game to Wednesday, January 9th. The Lady Govs also are planning on moving their contest slated that day.
Men’s games will continue to be contested on Thursday and Saturday while for the second straight season women’s games will be played on Saturday and Monday.
Schedule dates are subject to change if teams go through the change-of-schedule approval process with the conference office.
In 2012-13, Austin Peay men and women will play host to Murray State, Saturday, January 12th. In addition, the Governors will play both Nashville-based schools, Belmont and Tennessee State, in Clarksville next season. Both the Govs and Lady Govs will play TSU, Saturday, February 9th, 2013. The men will play Belmont, Thursday, February 7th, while the women will play the Bruins, Monday, February 11th.
The Governors will play the other East Division members—Jacksonville State, Tennessee Tech and Eastern Kentucky—on the road in 2013.
The 2013-14 schedules will mirror these schedules, meaning if a team played an opponent during 2012-13 on the road, that team will host that same opponent during 2013-14 season in a corresponding date.
The West Division will include Austin Peay, Eastern Illinois, Murray State, Southeast Missouri State, SIU Edwardsville and UT Martin.
The East Division will include Belmont, Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville State, Morehead State, Tennessee State and Tennessee Tech.
The final piece of divisional play will be determining tournament seeding and bracketing. The OVC Championships sub-committee is studying those issues now and the Directors of Athletics will make a decision soon.
APSU Men’s Basketball 2012-2013 Tentative OVC Schedule
Game | Date |
at UT Martin | Thursday, January 3rd |
at Southeast Missouri* | Saturday, January 5th |
Morehead State | Wednesday, January 9th |
Murray State* | Saturday, January 12th |
SIU Edwardsville | Thursday, January 17th |
Eastern Illinois* | Saturday, January 19th |
at Jacksonville State | Thursday, January 24th |
at Tennessee Tech* | Saturday, January 26th |
at Murray State* | Saturday, February 2nd |
Belmont | Thursday, February 7th |
Tennessee State* | Saturday, February 9th |
at Eastern Illinois | Thursday, February 14th |
at SIU Edwardsville* | Saturday, February 16th |
at Eastern Kentucky | Thursday, February 21st |
at Sears BracketBuster | Saturday, February 23rd |
Southeast Missouri | Thursday, February 28th |
UT Martin* | Saturday, March 2nd |
Note: Schedule is tentative and subject to change |
APSU Women’s Basketball 2012-2013 Tentative OVC Schedule
Game | Date |
at Morehead State | Saturday, December 29th |
at Southeast Missouri* | Saturday, January 5th |
at UT Martin | Monday, January 7th |
Murray State* | Saturday, January 12th |
Eastern Illinois* | Saturday, January 19th |
SIU Edwardsville | Monday, January 21st |
at Tennessee Tech* | Saturday, January 26th |
at Jacksonville State | Monday, January 28th |
at Murray State* | Saturday, February 2nd |
Southeast Missouri | Monday, February 4th |
Tennessee State* | Saturday, February 9th |
Belmont | Monday, February 11th |
at SIU Edwardsville* | Saturday, February 16th |
at Eastern Illinois | Monday, February 18th |
at Eastern Kentucky | Saturday, February 23rd |
UT Martin* | Saturday, March 2nd |
Note: Schedule is tentative and subject to change. |
*Indicates Men and Women’s Basketball playing same team on same date.