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Prairie View (1-1) at Texas-Rio Grande Valley (2-1, 1-1 D1) – 8:00 PM EST (WAC Digital Network)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to Edinburg, Texas – home of the UTRGV Vaqueros. They will play host to the Prairie View Panthers. UTRGV is led by junior forward Lesley Varner II – he currently averages 17.7 points per game and 5.7 rebounds per game. The Vaqueros rebounded from a home loss to Oklahoma with a win at intersectional rival Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in their last outing.
Prairie View has also gotten off to a decent start themselves – first they got a decisive 81-64 road win at Santa Clara where they jumped out to an 18-point lead at halftime and never looked back thanks to a 30-point effort from Gary Blackston. They were hanging tough with Baylor for a good chunk of that game, but a 13-0 run late in the 2nd half was too much to overcome and Baylor ultimately pulled away with a 91-80 victory.