Slow Start Sends Racers To Loss At Belmont

Saturday, January 31

Nashville, TN

7 p.m.

Murray State

103

Belmont

Photo by: David Eaton-Murray State Athletics

1/31/2026 10:29:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score (PDF)

The Murray State dropped a 103-86 loss Saturday night to the Belmont Bruins at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Racers (16-7) fell to 8-4 in the Missouri Valley Conference as MSU comes home Tuesday (Feb. 3) to host the UIC Flames at 7 p.m. at the CFSB Center.

Fred King scored 22 points and Romon Doman added 17 points, while Brayden Shorter and Javon Jackson each added 12.

Despite trailing 22-4 nearly eight minutes into the game, the Racers made a run late in the period. Trailing 51-30 with just over two minutes remaining, Murray State closed on a 10-3 run, which featured interior scores from King and Jackson and 3-pointer from Doman to cut Belmont's lead to 54-40 at halftime.

One minute into the second half, the Racers got it down to a 13-point margin, but never got any closer.

Game Notes

Belmont returns the game to Murray State on Feb. 15 at the CFSB Center.
The 21^st meeting between the Racers and Bruins produced the series third highest combined score of 189 points.
The Racers and Bruins scored 195 when Belmont won at home 99-96 in 2014.
Today is the fifth 100-point game (all vs NCAA D-I teams) the Racers have been involved in 2025-26 for either MSU scoring 100 or their opponents.
MSU is 2-3 in such games.
MSU defeated MVSU at home (Nov, 7) 108-60 and won in Las Vegas over Akron 115-100 (Dec. 13), but lost games at SMU (Nov. 11) 108-60, at Drake (Jan. 21) 101-90 and tonight at Belmont (Jan. 31) 103-86.
The MSU single-season record for 100-point games is six in the 1989-90, 1994-95, 2018-19 seasons, although all of them had at least one 100-point game against a Non D-I opponent.
The Racers have a busy week ahead with three games in seven days starting with UIC visiting Murray on Tuesday.
MSU plays at Southern Illinois Friday night and home against UNI on Monday, Feb. 9.

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