Northern Kentucky (10-7, 5-1) at Milwaukee (11-5, 5-1) – 8:00 PM ET (ESPN+)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day offers a matchup of the top two teams in the Horizon League as the NKU Norse travel northwest to take on the hometown Milwaukee Panthers. NKU got off to a 4-game winning streak before losing a tough 64-63 contest to Oakland. In fact, 4 out of 6 games in Horizon play have been decided by 4 points or less for the Norse; they have won 3 of them and did rebound with a 2-point win against Detroit Mercy. Marques Warrick averages 19.2 points a game for NKU; no one else averages double figures as of today’s game.
Milwaukee gets some well-deserved home cooking after completing a season-long 4 game road trip in conference play. It started a bit rough with a loss at the Blacktop against Oakland, but they won their last 3 games in a row against Detroit Mercy, Cleveland State and Purdue-Fort Wayne. Kentrell Pullian had 19 points for the Panthers against PFW.