Boston University at St. Peter’s, 7:00 PM Eastern, saintpeterspeacocks.com (PPV)
The Under the Radar Game of the Day heads to Jersey City, NJ tonight for a non-conference battle between the Patriot League’s Boston University Terriers and the Metro Atlantic’s St. Peter’s Peacocks. The visiting Terriers have the rare distinction of being able to claim they have beaten every team on their schedule so far this season, despite not being undefeated. They opened the season with a loss at cross-town rival Northeastern, then returned the favor a week later by beating the Huskies in the opening game of the Steve Wright Classic, a four team round-robin event hosted by BU. In fact, the Terriers swept their host event by following that win up with victories over Maine and LIU-Brooklyn. The Terriers have had four or more players hit double-digits in three of their five games so far, and that balanced scoring attack and deep use of the bench should make them a tough team to beat all season long.
The host Peacocks of St. Peter’s enter tonight’s game with a record of 2-2. They are coming off a solid home win over one of the Northeast Conference’s top teams and in-state rival Fairleigh Dickinson. Six different players hit double-digits in scoring in that game for the Peacocks, including Quadir Welton who picked up 12 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. The Peacocks need to make certain they don’t overlook BU tonight, as Friday will actually mark the start of conference play for this team. With a 20 game regular season, the Metro Atlantic teams each play a pair of conference games in early December before returning to non-conference play until the New Year.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTED GAMES
-KENTUCKY VS ARIZONA STATE (Atlantis Showcase). I don’t know how much of a “showcase” this will be. Most people love the Bahamas. Chances are Arizona State will not enjoy themselves tonight.
-MINNESOTA AT FLORIDA STATE (Big Ten/ACC Challenge). Minney is unbeaten, but this is by far their biggest test of the year up to this point. If they win this one then we’ll have to look at them as being nationally relevant. At least for now.
-WAKE FOREST AT NORTHWESTERN (Big Ten/ACC Challenge). Despite it being early, and despite both these teams having multiple chances at big wins in front of them, I can’t help but feel this is a pivotal game. Northwestern has two losses, and both were close games against quality teams. If they ever want to get over the hump, they need to start winning a few of those. Wake has just one loss and has looked good, but this is still one of their tougher tests of the season up to this point.
-BUTLER AT UTAH. Both teams are unbeaten, and both have looked pretty good up to this point, especially Butler who is coming off a huge win against Arizona.
BOISE STATE AT OREGON. It’s not what we would normally call a buy game since Boise is from a multi-bid league (not to mention this is a return game from last year’s meeting in Boise), but the final score may end up looking as if it were.
-MANHATTAN AT WEST VIRGINIA. Buy game.
-MOUNT SAINT MARY’S AT ARKANSAS. Buy game.
-SAVANNAH STATE AT SAN DIEGO STATE. Buy game.
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