Texas-Arlington at Texas-Rio Grande Valley, 8:00 PM Eastern, wacsports.com
It is a tough road test tonight for one of the nation’s top Under the Radar programs in non-conference play over the past few seasons, the Sun Belt Conference’s Texas-Arlington Mavericks. The Mavs, who have lost two straight games, will be visiting UTRGV tonight. Arlington fell last Thursday at Northern Iowa by four points before losing a home game last weekend to Florida Gulf Coast, this time by seven. UTA’s only other loss of the season came at Alabama, and that one was only by a single point. Keep an eye on senior Kevin Hervey who has three double-doubles on the season and has topped the 20 point mark seven times already.
UTRGV enters tonight’s game at 6-6 on the season, winners of three straight including a road win at Rice. The Vaqueros are led by senior guard Nick Dixon who has scored in double figures every game so far this year. Also keep an eye on freshman point guard Javon Levi. Levi has averaged over 5 assists per game in his team’s last six contests, including dishing out seven dimes in their win over UC-Irvine. Dixon, Levi and company will need another strong effort tonight if they want to pull off the upset of Arlington.
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