It should be a lively atmosphere at SIU Arena on Saturday as Southern Illinois plays host to Evansville in a Missouri Valley bout. It all starts at 3:05 EST.
Evansville is currently in 3rd place in the conference and Southern Illinois is in 9th. The Aces are at 11-11 overall including 6-6 in the Missouri Valley. The Salukis maintain a record of 7-16 and are 4-8 in the conference. While Evansville is 4-5 playing on the road, Southern Illinois has a home record of 5-5. According to the RPI rankings, the Aces are ranked #150 and the Salukis are #230.
There is a single statistical area where Evansville can exploit Southern Illinois, scoring, where the Aces outperform the Salukis, 75 pts/game to 63 pts/game.
Evansville has seen Southern Illinois already this season, and beat them 78-60 on December 29th. Last season, the Aces went 1-1 against the Salukis. In four seasons, Evansville has a record of 3-6 against Southern Illinois, and 0-4 at SIU Arena.
StatSmack! Evansville is better than Southern Illinois
- The Evansville three-point leader (Colt Ryan) has more three-pointers than the Southern Illinois three-point leader (T.J. Lindsay).
- Evansville is a better three-point shooting team (38.5% vs 28.7%) than Southern Illinois this season.
- Denver Holmes is ranked 6th in the Missouri Valley in assists
- Even computers respect Evansville more. We have a better RPI this season than Southern Illinois (RPI: #150 vs #230).
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