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Charleston Southern at Radford, 7:00 PM Eastern, free streaming at bigsouthsports.com
The UTR Game of the Day heads to Radford, Virginia tonight as two of the seven teams that are within one game of each other at the top of the Big South standings go head to had. Radford, currently tied with High Point for first place after winning at HPU earlier this week, enters the game at 8-3 in conference and 17-7 overall. The Highlanders have now won eight straight games are appear to be on the verge of making a move to try to pull away in the conference, especially with a season sweep of conference co-leader High Point already in hand.
Tonight, Radford welcomes in the Charleston Southern Buccaneers. CSU is 7-4 in conference and 13-9 overall. Most notably, they have a road win at Ole Miss to start the season back in November. With Coastal Carolina, Gardner-Webb, UNC-Asheville and Winthrop all part of the logjam at the top of the conference standings as well, the Buccaneers, especially with a win tonight, may have just a good a chance as anyone else in the league to win the regular season title. And while the conference tournament will be hosted by Coastal Carolina, with seven teams at the top, finishing in first will give the regular season winner a chance to play the 8 or 9 seed in the conference tournament quarterfinals, in what may be the only Big South quarterfinal that is not a “pick ’em”. For Charleston Southern to get the win they need tonight to stay near the top of the standings, they will need a big game from Saah Nimley, who has scored in double digits every Big South game this season. If, on the other hand, Radford is able to contain him, the Buccaneers may find themselves stuck in the chase pack the rest of the year.