Bucky Dent

At their best, the SIU men’s basketball team earned five wins over top 100 teams. But their best was often undermined by poor shooting. That made Thursday’s season-ending 67-63 loss to Drake at the Missouri Valley Conference tournament a fitting end to a ... See more

ST. LOUIS — SIU’s NCAA Tournament drought is now at 19 seasons and counting. Cold shooting, a problem throughout a .500 season, reared its ugly head at the worst time Thursday as the Salukis coughed up a second-half lead in a 67-63 loss to Drake in the 8-... See more

CARBONDALE — Indya Green worked her way open underneath, spun to her left to shoot a layup and then saw the ball fall off the iron. Throwing her hands up in the air in disgust, Green echoed the feelings of the few SIU fans that walked into the Banterra Ce... See more

CARBONDALE — Not only did SIU win for the fifth time in six games Wednesday night, it now has a path to get out of the eighth seed for next week’s Missouri Valley Conference tournament. A 66-55 Senior Night win over Indiana State in Banterra Center, combi... See more

CARBONDALE — Either Northern Iowa is the worst matchup in the Missouri Valley Conference for the SIU’s women’s basketball team or the Salukis’ surprising stretch of success through most of January and the first two weeks of February has run its course. Re... See more