Tiger fans are encouraged to ‘Blackout the Coliseum’ on Thursday night as Fort Hays State hosts Central Missouri in the MIAA openers for both women’s and men’s basketball. Both Central Missouri teams are nationally ranked, the women at No. 21 and the men at No. 6, while your Tiger women and men are receiving votes in both top 25 polls. Central Missouri is the defending national champion in men’s basketball.
Prior to the games starting at 5 pm, 250 black FHSU Game Day shirts will be handed out to fans, who are encouraged to wear black as part of the night’s ‘Blackout the Coliseum’ promotion. Even if you do not get here early enough to get a shirt, please wear black as you help cheer on your Tigers.
Both the FHSU women and men own three-game win streaks over Central Missouri in Hays, with the 2009-10 season the last time both lost at home to UCM. The FHSU women won the last meeting in Hays in convincing fashion, 95-50 in 2012-13, when FHSU was ranked No. 17 and UCM was ranked No. 23. The FHSU men won the last meeting in Hays 77-72 in 2012-13. UCM was ranked in 2011-12 when the teams met in Hays, as FHSU won by one point on a tip-in with just a second remaining in the game.
Be at the coliseum on Thursday night as the FHSU and UCM renew a strong basketball rivalry.