MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee men's basketball is spending Thanksgiving weekend in the Bahamas at the Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship. The tournament starts Friday with the Blue Raiders taking on UIC at 3:30 p.m. Saturday's game will pit MTSU against either George Washington or Ohio, and Sunday will see the Blue Raiders take on either Delaware, Brown, UNC Greensboro or UMKC.
After entering the season as preseason favorites in the Conference USA coaches poll, the Blue Raiders are 3-2 after a narrow defeat at the hands of UAB on Tuesday. Josh Ogundele led the Blue Raiders in scoring and set new career highs with 12 points and seven rebounds.