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EMU Hires Troy Verdi for the Women’s Basketball Team
Posted on 26 Apr 2012 by Mel Suiter.
YPSILANTI —- After former Eastern Michigan University women’s basketball coach AnnMarie Gilbert resign her position, Eastern Michigan Athletic Director Derrick Gragg said he wanted to get a coach for the women program as quickly as possible and that the list of names for the position was short. Gragg hired Tory Verdi today April 26, 2011 and announced the decision at the home of Eastern...
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EMU Women’s Basketball Coach Resigns
Posted on 7 Apr 2012 by Mel Suiter.
YPSILANTI, Mich. — Well after putting Eastern Michigan University into the hot spotlight and placing the uncomfortable bull-eye square on Eastern Michigan University women’s Basketball program former coach for the Eagles AnnMarie Gilbert resign her duties Friday April 6, 2012. Gilbert brought the NCAA investigatorsto the campus of Eastern Michigan University two years ago when she vio...
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Uncle Mel wants to Know Is It Over Yet?
Posted on 1 Apr 2012 by Mel Suiter.
ROMULUS, Mich. — Oh man Uncle Mel can not believe his eyes as he stares at the comical calendar and sees that it is Sunday April 1, 2012 and what in the world is Uncle Mel doing in the office on a Sunday? Your old Uncle Mel is working the weekend and wondering if the 2012 college basketball season will ever be finished. Oh yes, yes Uncle Mel recalls that the 2012 Eastern Michigan Universi...
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Uncle Mel Wants to Know What Happen?
Posted on 9 Mar 2012 by Mel Suiter.
YPSILANTI --- Uncle Mel sat in his seat surrounded by 843 friends Monday night March 5, 2012 and together we watched the Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball stumble and fumble there way through the opening game of the Mid-American Conference Basketball Tournament. We watch a team that only won three conference game this entire MAC season do what it took to win and walked off the cou...
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EMU is One and Done!
Posted on 6 Mar 2012 by Mel Suiter.
YPSILANTI —- One and done! The end of the basketball season ended with a loud thump of a missed shot missing everything except the floor under the basket next to the EMU cheerleaders as the Eastern Michigan University, the fifth seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament hosting the 12th seed Northern Illinois University ,the winner of only three conference games defeated the Eagles 5...
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Uncle Mel says Watch Out EMU!
Posted on 4 Mar 2012 by Mel Suiter.
TOLEDO, Ohio — Uncle Mel back on the road again with a few friends from Eastern Michigan University and the destination is the city that gives the mighty Maumee River a place to flow by and where the gray sky of Northwest Ohio gather and deposit some type of precipitation in the area. Yes, that is right nieces and nephews live from inside the grand Bob Nichols Court and inside the most hi...
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EMU Dusted Away by Toledo
Posted on 3 Mar 2012 by Mel Suiter.
TOLEDO, Ohio — Mother Nature reminded us that she can still holler loud and clear and we better be paying attention when she speaks. The wind created inside on the floor of the Bob Nichols Court was the heat created by the hot shooting of the University of Toledo offense. The adjustment made by the University of Toledo basketball coach Tod Kowalczyk after the last meeting with the Eagles ...
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EMU’s Coach Murphy Did It!
Posted on 2 Mar 2012 by Mel Suiter.
ROMULUS —In the dark, Uncle Mel sat alone at his desk, Wednesday night Feb 29, 2012 inside his office in the building that lines the highway that is the lifeline of the city that produces to the world the best vehicles. The desk clock slowed to a crawl, the roar of the jets rolling down the runway taking off and disappearing into the overcast cloud and night and then the glow of Uncle Me...
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EMU’s Final Regular Season Road Trips
Posted on 29 Feb 2012 by Mel Suiter.
YPSILANTI, Mich. — Rain, rain please go away! Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team will be traveling to the city that Glen Miller made famous with his tune, a place that is given the New York Yankees a baseball player and is the site of Western Michigan University, Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012. The Broncos play there home games in the Mid-American Conference’s loudest basketba...
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EMU Senior Day Success
Posted on 25 Feb 2012 by Mel Suiter.
YPSILANTI, Mich. — Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team walked onto their basketball court inside the Convocation Center with two missions. First on the agenda for the Eagles is to hold on to the Mid-American Conference West Division lead by taking care of business Saturday Feb 25, 2012 against Ball State University. The next order of business is to take the emotion of cele...
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Kent State Just One Shot Better Than EMU
Posted on 9 Feb 2012 by Mel Suiter.
YPSILANTI — For Eastern Michigan University first year basketball coach Rob Murphy, he kept a keen eye watching his team after a couple of practices to see if his team has let the past failure against the University of Akron, last Saturday night disappear. He is hoping that his entire team put the experience of losing by 30 points as a lesson that it is just as painful to lose by 30 and i...
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Coach Murphy’s Advice is Solid Work for EMU
Posted on 8 Feb 2012 by Mel Suiter.
AKRON, Ohio --- Just another Saturday night in the city were the rubber meets the road is made and is the home of the best basketball team that calls this city on the banks of the Cuyahoga River home and is the best squad in the Mid-American Conference. Uncle Mel entered the world-famous John A. Rhoads Arena on the campus of the University of Akron, along with the largest home crowd of the sea...









