MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — After a 69-41 drubbing of Liberty, Middle Tennessee women's basketball coach Rick Insell didn't want there to be any trash talking of the Blue Raiders closest competitor for the Conference USA crown.
"They're a good team; they're a good basketball team," Insell said of the Flames, who played MTSU in the CUSA title game as the No. 2 seed in the CUSA Tournament a season ago. "They're going to beat a lot of people and we're going to have to play them probably two or three more times."
Insell said he was instead focused on how proud he was of his team, how they survived a tough non-conference schedule and came out with energy in the first week of CUSA play against the two teams predicted to finish second and third behind them in the preseason poll back in October, teams that both won on the court of a much improved Western Kentucky team in the other half of their road trip this weekend.