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Old Dominion (22-6, 12-3 C-USA) at Texas-San Antonio (15-12, 9-5 C-USA) – 8:00 PM (CBS Sports Network)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day takes us deep in the heart of Texas where the Roadrunners of UT-San Antonio will play host to the Old Dominion Monarchs. The Roadrunners are coming off of a two-game slide at Southern Miss and Louisiana Tech, but nonetheless qualified for the top pod in C-USA’s first season of flex scheduling to end the season. Their first meeting with ODU was a very memorable one earlier this season – the Roadrunners were down 18 points with three minutes remaining in the game but came back to win thanks to Keaton Wallace’s 29 points and go-ahead three-pointer with 15 seconds remaining in the game.
Old Dominion has a commanding lead in the conference standings and can clinch an outright regular season title and #1 seed with a victory tonight. The Monarchs beat Western Kentucky 67-63 on Saturday in their first of four season-ending “pod” games. B.J. Stith leads the Monarchs with 18.1 PPG and 7.5 RPG; Ahmad Caver also averages 17.1 PPG for Old Dominion as well. Should they advance to the NCAA Tournament, head coach Jeff Jones would join an elite fraternity of coaches to advance to the NCAA Tournament with three different schools; he has made multiple NCAA appearances with both Virginia and American in the past.
*Footnote – Since today is National Chili Day, keep an eye on the website to see if you win #FreeChili tonight!