Don't expect a February letdown from Eagles

After a horrible start to the season, the Eastern Eagles now find themselves back at .500 with a 10-10 record. This is thanks to a six-game win streak and a 7-1 record in January. As Tony Castleberry writes in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the Eagles' play in January was superb, but their record in February the past five years has been just as impressive.

Castleberry also writes about the defense of walk-on P.J. Owsley and Josh Barsh holding NAU's leading scorer, Aaron Bond, to only four second-half points and 6-of-19 shooting from the field. Owsley only averages about nine minutes per game, but with his long frame at 6-foot-7 he might continue to see an increase in his playing time.

This should worry Eastern fans as Bond and forward Marc Axton have identical games that revolve around three-point shooting. Look for the Bobcats to keep the same sort of matchup they did on Saturday versus Bond to shut down this week's Big Sky Player of the Week. Axton is coming off a career-high 25 points on 10-16 shooting from the floor.