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UNC-Greensboro (17-5, 7-2) at East Tennessee State (18-4, 7-2) – 4:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
There are quite a few UTR games with major implications today (see: Charleston/Towson, New Mexico State/Grand Canyon and SFA/Sam Houston State to name a few), but this game also has NCAA Tournament at-large implications. The Bucs of East Tennessee State host the UNC-Greensboro Spartans today in a game of two of the heavyweights in the SoCon. ETSU is coming off of a real damaging loss at home to Mercer by a 71-55 score back on Wednesday. Also keep in mind that this is the second matchup between both teams – the Bucs won at UNC-Greensboro 64-57 a month ago.
UNC-G, on the other hand, is riding the momentum of a five-game winning streak in conference play. The Spartans did trail Western Carolina by 11 points in the second half on Wednesday night, but a 31-6 run by UNC-G propelled the Spartans to a 72-58 victory. Their winning streak started with a win at Furman – as it is right now, Furman has a half-game lead on both UNC-G and East Tennessee State in the conference standings. Isaiah Miller averages 18.7 points a game for the Spartans.