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Purdue-Fort Wayne (12-15, 5-7) at South Dakota State (19-8, 10-2) – 3:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Today’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to Brookings, South Dakota where the hometown Jackrabbits will host the Mastodons of Purdue-Fort Wayne in a Summit League game. After a four-game losing streak that knocked Fort Wayne down near the bottom of the league, they did go through winning a stretch where they won three of four before hitting the road to face the two toughest teams in the league. They lost at North Dakota State 80-70 last Friday. Jarred Godfrey averages 16 points a game for the Mastodons.
South Dakota State currently holds the nation’s second-longest winning streak at home with 22 wins in a row; they are a perfect 14-0 at home so far this season. Following a 99-84 loss at in-state rival South Dakota, the Jackrabbits have won five straight games to climb into a first-place tie in the Summit League standings with North Dakota State. SDSU holds that tiebreaker for now thanks to a win that started their current winning streak, but the rematch will be in Fargo for the regular-season finale. Douglas Wilson (18.1 PPG/6.4 RPG) leads the Jackrabbits in both points and rebounding.