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Ball State basketball routs Brescia for first win of Chris Capko era
Chris Capko has his first win as Ball State basketball head coach. Ball State (1-2) picked up its first victory of the 2026-27 season with an 89-64 home victory over Brescia — an NAIA program from Owensboro, Kentucky — on Monday, Nov. 9. After the game, Capko's players surprised him with a celebratory cold water bottle shower, and Ball State athletic director Jeff Mitchell presented Capko with a game ball to commemorate his first career win as a head coach. "I wasn't expecting of it," Capko said. "Obviously, I knew it was my first win, but I wasn't thinking much about it. I just wanted to win this game, I wanted it to look a certain way, and I wanted us to stick to our process of doing things the way we need to do them. When I went in there, I had a smoothie in my hand, just saying what I was saying, I was going to get them out of there pretty quick, and they got me. It was pretty cold." The Capko era got off to a bit of a rough start with losses to Georgia Southern and Indiana State, mostly because the Cardinals simply couldn't find
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