Southern Utah (3-2, 2-2 D1) at East Tennessee State (4-1, 3-1 D1) – 2:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Today’s UTR Game of the Day takes place in Johnson City, Tennessee – home of this year’s Maui on the Mainland Invitational. East Tennessee State’s only loss thus far this year was a nonbracketed Maui game at Kansas, but they quickly rebounded with a win against Delaware State yesterday in the opening round of the Mainland bracket. Bo Hodges is averaging 16.8 points a game and 6.0 rebounds a game through the Bucs’ first five games this season.
Southern Utah opened play against D-1 competition with a bang – they won at Nebraska in a double overtime thriller two weeks ago. While they since have lost nonbracketed Maui games at BYU and at UCLA, they have gotten back on track with an opening round Mainland win against Charleston Southern in blowout fashion. John Knight III leads the Thunderbirds thus far with 14.0 points a game and 3.0 assists a game.