Oakland (4-2, 3-2 D1) at Northern Illinois (5-2, 4-2 D1) – 8:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to DeKalb, Illinois – home of the Northern Illinois Huskies. They will host the Oakland Golden Grizzlies in a non-Feast Week matchup. Oakland already played in the Sunshine Slam earlier in the season – they beat UT-San Antonio and Southern Illinois in Kissimmee, Florida after a tournament-opening loss to Delaware. Xavier Hill-Mais leads Oakland through the first six games with 14.0 points a game and 7.7 rebounds a game.
Northern Illinois opened their season with back-to-back losses against Northern Iowa and at Iowa State, but they have since rebounded with five straight wins (most notably at Western Illinois and at SIU-Edwardsville). Eugene German currently leads the Huskies with 21.4 points a game and 2.7 assists a game through their first seven games.