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Game 1 showcases depth, pace for MTSU Men's Basketball

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — In front of 7,501 fans, most of them enthusiastic children from Rutherford County Schools, it wasn't hard to see the vision of what head coach Nick McDevitt wants his 2024-25 team to be.

Midway through the second half against Division III Oglethorpe, who MTSU routed 97-51 in the Murphy Center to open the season, two of MTSU's 24 fast break points came in a sequence that McDevitt hopes to recreate. Center Essam Mostafa got a block in the paint, which was scooped up by Jlynn Counter, who quickly sprinted down the court.