Tennessee Tech (4-6, 0-0) at Western Illinois (6-5, 0-0) – 8:30 PM ET (ESPN+)
It’s a little odd to feature a random OVC matchup as the Game of tbe Day, but this figures to be one of the more wide open races we’ve seen in recent years. Murray State and Belmont are long gone as the two titans of the conference, and Morehead State’s brief reign at the top appears to have left when Preston Spradlin became the head coach at James Madison.
That said, Tennessee Tech is finishing a 4-game roadtrip tonight. They have 3 straight losses at Vanderbilt, North Alabama and first-year transitional team West Georgia. Western Illinois hasn’t had a win against a D1 opponent for 3 weeks now; their last win was a 64-63 game against South Alabama on the road. It’s the resistible force against the movable object!