Utah Valley (9-10, 4-4) at Seattle (11-8, 4-4) – 9:00 PM ET (ESPN+)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day heads to the intimate Redhawk Center on the campus of Seattle University where the Redhawks will host the Wolverines of Utah Valley. Seattle had been on a 3-game losing streak that dropped them to 3-4 in conference play, but they snapped that losing streak in grand fashion with an 86-79 win at home against Grand Canyon last Saturday night. Cameron Tyson had 25 points in the victory against the Lopes.
The Wolverines also have had to overcome a 3-game losing streak in conference play that briefly sent them to a 3-4 conference record. A win against Utah Tech was not only a win in the Beehive standings, but lifted the Wolverines back to .500 in the WAC. Tanner Toolson led UVU with 26 points in the victory against Utah Tech.
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OTHER NEWS AND NOTES (From the Puppet):
-I should have learned a long time ago that in college hoops nights that start off looking to be slow and uneventful usually end up NOT being slow. Arizona, the same team that won at Duke back in November, did not win in Corvallis last night. They fell 83-80 in what should have been a routine road win for the Wildcats. This is their second head-scratching loss of the seasopn, and it will knock them down the seed-line.
-Grand Canyon bounced back from their loss at Seattle (that Stalica mentioned above) with an exciting, but somewhat sloppy 53-51 at Stephen F Austin. The last minute of this game took about 15 minutes to play with all of the timeouts and replays. Even by normal “end of the game standards” it took forever!
-Gonzaga got a challenge from San Francisco, which is something that we were expecting, but got control of the game late and won 77-72.
-MICHIGAN STATE AT WISCONSIN (Big Ten). We have Michigan State inside our bubble, but not solidly in the top half of the bracket. We have Wisconsin as a #2 seed who has kept pace with Purdue in the Big Ten standings so far. They should be able to get this win in Madison tonight.