Under the Radar Game of the Day – Saturday, November 25th

Maine (4-3, 3-3 D1) at Columbia (4-2, 2-2 D1) – 1:00 PM ET (ESPN+)

Normally, a matchup between Vermont and Bradley should be a no-brainer for the UTR Game of the Day, but it’s hard to pass up a matchup of teams that are actually near and dear to our Hoops HD staffers. So therefore we go to Manhattan for a matchup of the Maine Black Bears and the Columbia Lions. Maine lost their first two games against D1 competition but have now won 3 out of their last 4 games overall. Peter Filipovity had 23 points in the Black Bears’ 70-59 win at South Florida back on Wednesday night.

The only real disappointing result for Columbia was a 78-75 home loss to Albany in the 2nd game of the season, and frankly by Columbia standards it would be very hard to call that a disappointment. The real highlight for the Lions this year was a 78-73 win at Temple; Avery Brown led the way with 13 points and 5 assists in that game.