Cougars Embark on First of Seven Consecutive Road Games at UT-Martin
The Chicago State men's basketball team is scheduled to travel to Martin, Tennessee to face the University of Tennessee at Martin on Sunday, December 11 at 1 p.m. at the Kathleen and Tom Elam Center. The Cougars enter the game with a 3-7 record following a 78-61 win over Southern Indiana Sunday while UT Martin is 4-5 including a 4-0 record at home.
Sunday's game will be the first-ever meeting between the Cougars and the Skyhawks. The game at UT-Martin is the first of seven consecutive December road games and the Cougars won't be back at the JCC until 2023 (Jan. 9 vs. East-West University). CSU just completed a five-game road trip interrupted by their lone home game of the stretch and only December home game when they hosted Southern Indiana, meaning they will close 2022 having played 12 of their last 13 games away from home, where they have yet to lose a game (3-0).
Cougars Win Back-to-Back Home Games to Open the Season for the Second Consecutive Season
With CSU's win over Southern Indiana, the Cougars opened the home schedule with three consecutive victories for the second season in a row, an accomplishment CSU previously hadn't accomplished since the 2018-19 season.
Independent Status
Chicago State and Hartford are the only two Division I programs playing an independent schedule during the  2022–23 season. CSU left the Western Athletic Conference following the 2021–22 season while Hartford began a transition to Division III in the 2021–22 school year, and left the America East Conference in July 2022. Hartford has announced it will join the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference in July 2023.
Before 2022, the last D-I independent school had been NJIT, which was forced to go independent when its then-current home of the Great West Conference collapsed in 2013 due to conference realignment. NJIT would eventually find a home in the ASUN Conference in 2015, and is now in the America East.
Here's where to watch and follow:
| Chicago State Cougars at Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks |
| Date | Time |
Sunday, December 11 | 1 p.m. |
| Location |
Kathleen and Tom Elam Center | Martin, Tennessee |
| Watch |
ESPN+ |
| Live Stats |
Live Stats |
| Game Notes |
Chicago State Game Notes |
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About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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