From the tip it looked like this was going to be a runaway, but a funny thing happened which certainly made a lot of people take a second look. Cuonzo Martin went into this game hoping for the opportunity to play some of his role guys with more prime time minutes as the SEC conference schedule inched closer. Mark Smith pumped in 14 points and the Tigers jumped all over the cold shooting Eagles in route to a 35-7 lead. Morehead State eventually steadied itself to going into halftime down 23.
Then Martin started his tinkering.