Jackson State (4-13, 4-0) at Texas Southern (6-11, 3-1) – 4:00 PM ET (YouTube TV)
Today’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to Houston, Texas in advance of a rare snowfall event expected to take place tomorrow. The Jackson State Tigers visit town with wins in their first four games in league play; today is the second leg of their Texas trip coming off of a 79-70 win at Prairie View on Saturday. Daeshun Ruffin had 26 points in the victory over the Panthers.
Texas Southern opened up league play with a 9-point loss at home to Southern, but have since won three straight games to remain within a game of first-place Jackson State. On Saturday, Zaire Hayes led TSU with 16 points in a 66-57 victory against Alcorn State.
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-Michigan State edged out Illinois in an 80-78 thriller to keep their winning streak alive. The Spartans have not lost since the Maui Invitational, which was before Thanksgiving.
-Baylor, who had some head scratching losses coming into yesterday, now has another one. They lost at home to a decent TCU team 74-71. All the credit to TCU for winning a tough road game, but this is the kind of game that Baylor really needs to routinely win if they want to land in the top half of the bracket.
-Nebraska lost a tight one at Maryland 69-66, and now the Huskers are starting to sweat a little bit as they fall to just 2-5 in Big Ten play.
-GEORGETOWN AT VILLANOVA (Big East). Nova is within reach of the bubble, but they need to keep stringing together wins in order to get there, and that certainly means holding serve at home against teams like Georgetown.
-RUTRGERS AT PENN STATE (Big Ten). Both teams are outside the bubble, but both may be good enough to reach it. They need to start winning games to make that happen.
-COLUMBIA AT PRINCETON (Ivy League). Columbia had a nice OOC run, but is still looking for their first Ivy League win. Princeton may be the best team in the conference, but they had to sweat out their last game and don’t want to overlook the Lions today
