Georgia State vs Eastern Kentucky, 3:00 PM Eastern, Triple Crown Sports TV YouTube Stream
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This evening, the ball room in the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya in Cancun, Mexico will host the championship game of the Cancun Classic between Auburn and Purdue. The winner of that game will be able to claim the title of Cancun Challenge champions — in the Riviera Division. However, what is less well known is that the Cancun Challenge in fact crowns two champions. It is the championship game of the four team event between the mid-major/Under the Radar schools, the Mayan Division, that is today’s Under the Radar Game of the Day. Georgia State (a 74-53 winner over NJIT in yesterday’s semifinal) will be taking on Eastern Kentucky (91-82 overtime win over Idaho State).
Georgia State enters today’s game with an overall record of 2-2. The Panthers’ two losses were in their two non-bracketed campus site games in this event, at Purdue and at Auburn. In addition to yesterday’s win over former Team of the People NJIT, they also opened the season with a win over non-D1 Thomas. We are still investigating whether that was an entire team or just a guy named Thomas. 😉 D’Marcus Simonds led the way for head coach Ron Hunter’s squad in yesterday’s win, with 26 points off the bench. If he comes up with another performance like that today, Eastern Kentucky could be in a ton of trouble.
Eastern Kentucky is currently 2-3 on the season, having lost both of their non-bracketed games in this event as well (at Auburn and at Texas Tech). They also lost a hard-fought game at home in overtime to a very good UNC-Wilmington team. Their lone win outside of Mexico came over IUPUI at home on the first day of the season. Nick Mayo led the way for the Colonels yesterday with a double-double of 21 points and 10 boards against Idaho State. In fact, he has been the team’s top scorer in all but one game so far this season. Another strong performance by Mayo and his teammates could send them home from their trip to Mexican with a championship trophy.
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