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Wofford (19-4, 11-0 SoCon) at East Tennessee State (19-5, 9-2 SoCon) – 7:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Tonight’ UTR Game of the Day takes us to Johnson City, Tennessee where the Buccaneers of ETSU will play host to the white-hot Wofford Terriers in a pivotal showdown in the Southern Conference. Wofford is currently our #1 team among UTR teams, and an argument can certainly be made that they are playing better basketball right now than the Buffalo Bulls – a team still nestled in the Top 25 despite two losses in their last four games. The Terriers have won ten straight games themselves; their last loss was a 98-87 game played at Mississippi State. They did beat ETSU in their first meeting back in December by a 79-62 score. Fletcher Magee leads Wofford with a 19 point per game average; he scored 20 points in the Terriers’ win at Citadel last weekend.
ETSU comes into tonight’s game having won 11 out of their last 12 games; their only loss in that stretch was a 75-68 game at home to a UNC-Greensboro team that is also the defending SoCon champion and a candidate for an at-large bid should they themselves not win the conference tournament this season. Other notable wins for the Bucs include games at Georgia Southern, at Winthrop and at home against Norfolk State; they also had a double-digit lead at Creighton back in December before ultimately letting that one get away. Jeromy Rodriguez averages a double-double with 11.5 points a game and 11.3 rebounds a game.