Akron (20-7, 12-2) at Ohio (15-12, 9-5) – 7:00 PM ET (ESPN+)
Today’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to Athens, Ohio (aka the Harvard-On-The-Hocking) for a matchup between the hometown Ohio Bobcats and the Akron Zips. Akron completed the season sweep of the Wagon Wheel last week against Kent State with an 83-70 victory. They were led by 24 points from Enrique Freeman. With a one-game lead against Toledo in the MAC standings, tonight is the hardest regular season game Akron has remaining.
Ohio is one game ahead of Bowling Green for fourth place in the conference standings – however this merely guarantees they’ll wear white in the opening round of the MAC Tournament this season since only the top 8 teams in the conference will advance to Cleveland for the conference tournament. After a four-game winning streak was halted by a two-game losing streak, OU is coming off of back-to-back victories against Kent State and Northern Illinois. Miles Brown had 17 points in the Bobcats’ 21-point victory against Northern Illinois.