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Winthrop (17-9, 9-4 Big South) at Radford (18-8, 10-2 Big South) – 7:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to Radford, Virginia where the hometown Highlanders host the Winthrop Eagles in a 1-2 matchup in the Big South standings. Winthrop is tied with Campbell in the loss column, but a half-game ahead and absolutely needing this game to have any chance at a regular season title themselves. Winthrop lost the first meeting against Radford at home 80-61 earlier in the season. Nych Smith leads the Eagles with 17.5 PPG and 3.7 APG.
Radford can get closer to a share of the regular season title with a win tonight; they would need to avoid any potential tiebreaker with Campbell given that the Camels already beat Radford in their first meeting thus far this season. Radford did have a surprising loss on the road at Charleston Southern over the weekend in the closing seconds – prior to that, the Highlanders did have a stretch of games where they won 11 out of 12 games (with the only loss being against the aforementioned Campbell team). Ed Polite Jr. averages a double-double for Radford (12.7 PPG, 10.1 RPG) so far this season.