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Spring Hill College (1-3 D2) at South Alabama (2-2, 2-2 D1) – 8:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Today is the first time this season that we will feature an UTR Game of the Day involving a non-D1 team. This is a crosstown matchup of teams from Mobile, Alabama including the South Alabama Jaguars and the Spring Hill Badgers. The Jags come in as the preseason pick to win the Sun Belt Conference. The Jags lead the series 20-3. Josh Ajayi averages 15.0 points a game and 7.8 rebounds a game for South Alabama.
Spring Hill College is a Jesuit university (like Georgetown, Gonzaga, Xavier, Creighton) that plays in Division II of the NCAA in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC). The Badgers are 1-3 against D-2 competition; tonight is an exhibition game for them and will not count towards their overall record (they have already played similar exhibitions against Tulane and New Orleans). They split a pair of games in Daytona Beach in the Daytona Mitsubishi/Kia Shootout – losing a game to Embry-Riddle and beating Puerto Rico-Mayaguez in the consolation game. Chase Shellman averages 15.8 PPG and 6.8 RPG for Spring Hill.