Western Carolina (15-8, 7-5) at UNC-Greensboro (19-6, 9-3) – 7:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to Greensboro, North Carolina where the hometown Spartans host the Western Carolina Catamounts. There is a heightened sense of urgency for UNC-G tonight; they’ve already been swept by East Tennessee State this season and also lost at Wofford in double overtime back in early January. Neither loss is terribly damaging by SoCon standards, but other than a win at Georgetown and a win at Furman, the only other notable wins so far include games at Vermont and at home against Northern Kentucky. Isaiah Miller leads UNC-G with 18.2 points a game.
Western Carolina got off to a fantastic start by recent standards, but they have only gone 3-5 in their last eight games to drop out of the top of the SoCon standings back into the middle of the pack. The Catamounts already lost their first meeting at home against UNC-G, but they do have notable wins at home against Wofford and on the road against Chattanooga and Samford in conference play. While Mason Faulkner (18.1 PPG) continues to lead WCU in scoring, Carlos Dotson has also averaged a double-double (16.2 PPG/11.o RPG) in conference play for the Catamounts.