NEWS AND NOTES:
-For John Stalica’s UTR Game of the Day – CLICK HERE
-Marquette pretty much maintained a safe lead against Purdue for most of the game, and then really blew it open in the final frew minutes for a 76-58 statement win. Seeing as how Marquette also has a big road win at Maryland, they’re probably now one of the more proven teams in the country. Granted, I know it’s early, but so far they’ve done a lot more than what most teams have done.
-DePaul is now 5-0! Granted, they’ve done nothing other than beat weak UTR teams in home buy games, but last year they weren’t even capable of doing that!
-Northwestern got a huge scare from Montana State, but held on to win 72-69 and avoid a damaging upset.
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HIGHLIGHTED GAMES:
-ILLINOIS VS ALABAMA (Birmingham, AL). Alabama has already had a major test and is coming off a hard fought loss against Purdue. Tonight they face another very tough opponent in Illinois, but under much friendlier circumstances seeing as how the game is in Birmingham and not a true road game. It’s also the first real test of the season for the Illini, and oftentimes the first test is one of the harder ones.
-Siena @ Xavier – X can stay unbeaten
-Columbia @ Long Island – Columbia can get to 6-0 on the season and pick up their 3rd true road win
-Lafayette @ Rhode Island – Rhody is 3-0
-New Mexico State @ Dayton – both teams are unbeaten, but New Mexico State struggled to win some of their buy games and Dayton already has a win against Northwestern
-Purdue Fort Wayne @ Penn State – Penn State can get to 5-0
-Jacksonville @ Virginia Tech
-Southern @ Texas A&M
-Merrimack @ Rutgers
-Mount Saint Mary’s @ Georgetown
-Long Beach State @ Gonzaga – I mean SHEESH! When is Gonzaga finally going to play a decent opponent!!??
-UC Davis @ Grand Canyon
-Cal Poly @ Arizona State
-Stanislaus State (nonD1) @ Saint Mary’s
-UTEP @ UC Santa Barbara – UCSB can get to 5-0 with a win
-Pepperdine @ UNLV
-San Jose State @ USC
-Norfolk State @ Stanford – Stanford is still unbeaten
-Idaho State @ UCLA