Western Kentucky will clash with No. 24 Middle Tennessee at 7 p.m. Thursday in Murfreesboro, Tenn. A Blue Raider win gives them (23-5 overall, 15-1 C-USA) the outright conference championship, while the Hilltoppers (22-7, 14-2) will pull into a first-place tie with a victory.
Middle Tennessee and WKU have met 135 times, with the Hilltoppers holding a commanding 93-42 lead in the series. Coach Kermit Davis and his Blue Raiders have flipped that trend in recent years, winning 12 of the last 14 meetings.
The most recent meeting was a 66-62 MTSU win Jan. 20 in front of an over-capacity crowd of 7,759 at E.