BURN THE HORSE
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| IUPUI (1-0) vs. UALR (1-1) 7 p.m. tonight Jack Stephens Center, Little Rock Vegas says: No line |
UALR is coming off a home victory over Northwestern State on Sunday afternoon. IUPUI has only played once, winning its season opener in a blowout against NCAA Division III Anderson on Friday.
IUPUI went 19-14 last year and won seven road games.
IUPUI returns its leading scorer in Alex Young. He averaged 19.7 points last season and had 20 in the season opener. Christian Siakam averaged 9.3 last season but had 21 in the season opener. Both are also solid rebounders, an area UALR has had some early season trouble.
Read about the Jaguars' season-opening victory against Anderson:
http://www.indystar.com/article/20111112/SPORTS0607/111120348/Howard-wins-debut-IUPUI-beats-Anderson?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Sports|s
Here's a story about new IUPUI Coach Todd Howard:
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/36617/iupuis-todd-howard-in-familiar-territory
This game is part of the Auto-Owners Spartan Invitational. UALR will finish the tournament with games at Eastern Michigan on Friday and Michigan State on Sunday and a home game against Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Nov. 26.
Tonight's predictions:
- RealTime RPI (2-0): UALR 75, IUPUI 66
- Jeff Sagarin (2-0): IUPUI 74, UALR 72
- CBS Sportsline (2-0): IUPUI 74, UALR 68
- The Sports Network (2-0): Not in yet
