BASKETBALL Middle Tennessee (9-19, 6-9) @ Rice (11-17, 6-9), 2PM, Sunday, March 3, 2019

[SpaceRaider]

MAR 3 (SUN) 2:00 PM
C-USA
AT RICE
HOUSTON, TX

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goblueraiders.com:

Men's Hoops travel to Houston for rematch with Owls

 

[SpaceRaider]

Rice -2

http://www.vegasinsider.com/college...-state-@-william-marsh-rice.cfm/date/03-03-19

 

[SpaceRaider]

excerpt:

The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders and Rice Owls meet Sunday in college basketball action at the Tudor Fieldhouse.

The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders could use a win after splitting their last 12 games. The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders are averaging 65.7 points on 41.2 percent shooting and allowing 74.5 points on 44.9 percent shooting. Antonio Green is averaging 18.4 points and 4.2 rebounds while Reggie Scurry is averaging 11.6 points and six rebounds. Donovan Sims is the third double-digit scorer and Karl Gamble is grabbing six rebounds. The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders are shooting 33.1 percent from beyond the arc and 67.4 percent from the free throw line. The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders are allowing 35.6 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 33.8 rebounds per game. The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders have lost 10 of their last 11 road games.

The Rice Owls also need a win after losing eight of their last 12 games. The Rice Owls are averaging 74.2 points on 42.9 percent shooting and allowing 79 points on 44.9 percent shooting. Chris Mullins is averaging 12.5 points and 2.6 assists while Robert Martin is averaging 12 points and 6.5 rebounds. Ako Adams is the third double-digit scorer and Jack Williams is grabbing 7.7 rebounds. The Rice Owls are shooting 35.4 percent from beyond the arc and 67.2 percent from the free throw line. The Rice Owls are allowing 34.7 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 35.3 rebounds per game. The Rice Owls have won four of their last six home games.

The Blue Raiders are 39-19 ATS in their last 58 vs. Conference USA, 5-12 ATS in their last 17 Sunday games and 7-0 ATS in their last 7 games overall. The Owls are 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 home games, 7-3-1 ATS in their last 11 vs. Conference USA and 7-3-1 ATS in their last 11 games overall. The over is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings. The under is 9-4 in Blue Raiders last 13 road games. The over is 4-1 in Owls last 5 Sunday games.

The Rice Owls obviously aren't playing good basketball right now and head into this contest shooting just 38 percent from the field in their last five games. It's bad. With that said, the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders have lost 10 of their last 11 road games and are being outscored by an average of 13.2 points on the road this season overall. MTSU is also just 5-10 ATS on the road and 8-13 ATS as an underdog. If there's any game for Rice to get back on track and get a feel good victory, it's here.....

 

[Blueraider_Mike]

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[SpaceRaider]

Donovan Sims listed as doubtful today due to an injury, dressed out and going through warmups. Injury suffered earlier this week in practice. Farquhar to start in place of Sims.

 

[RandallThomason]

Charlotte just beat UTEP. The Blue Raiders are headed to Frisco! When we were 0-4 I was thinking our odds were less than 50-50. Let’s get another W today!

 

[SpaceRaider]

Charlotte just beat UTEP. The Blue Raiders are headed to Frisco! When we were 0-4 I was thinking our odds were less than 50-50. Let’s get another W today!

Have to do it without Donovan it appears

 

[SpaceRaider]

down 0-7 early, timeout by CNM

 

[sWiley]

havnt bet on our games for 2 weeks....i finally decide to put a little on our boys and Sims is out and we are back to our old ways of turnovers and bricks

 

[RandallThomason]

Have to do it without Donovan it appears

Unlikely to say the least. Hopefully we will see some positive signs from Junior. Good growth opportunity for him.

 

[sWiley]

they just need to get on the plane and come home. this game is over. can't believe this team is going to let Rice embarrass them like this

 

[SpaceRaider]

15:09

0-12

 

[SpaceRaider]

Finally, Jayce Johnson scores and fouled 14:20 mark, 12-3

 

[SpaceRaider]

11:54

7-16

 

[sWiley]

Almost feels like we are purposefully trying to lose this game by 20+

 

[SpaceRaider]

9:42

7-24

3 of 13 not going to do it...

 

[TrueBlue147]

This teams goes as Sims goes. No Sims = No win

 

[Blueraider_Mike]

Sims is the most important player on our team. Junior is not really a distributor of the ball, he is not a threat from the outside. Rice is simple too much for us at this point without our best player in the game and playing well.

 

[SpaceRaider]

7:05

8-28

Looks like the refs are swallowing their whistles

 

[SpaceRaider]

3:59

14-34

 

[sWiley]

About to drop a monster bet on the under for the second half. This MT team couldn't throw a rock in the ocean

 

[SpaceRaider]

Rice time out 3:16

18-34

 

[SpaceRaider]

22-35

halftime

 

[sWiley]

0-8 from 3. Antonio Green 0-5. I refuse to believe this is all because Sims is out

 

[SpaceRaider]

MT cuts it to nine

15:49

30-39

 

[SpaceRaider]

got it down to 5 before Rice hit a three

11:55

38-46

Scurry with 4 fouls

 

[SpaceRaider]

Green now has four fouls with 10:02 to go

42-49

 

[RandallThomason]

They’ve gotten the ball down low isolating Green as a post defender a couple of times to get a couple of fouls against him. Don’t think we can play man defense anymore this game when scurry and green are back on the floor.

 

[SpaceRaider]

9 fouls by Rice, 18 called on MT

 

[SpaceRaider]

6:55 timeout

46-54

 

[SpaceRaider]

49-54

6:23

 

[SpaceRaider]

last media timeout

3:53

56-61

 

[SpaceRaider]

3:05

MT down 57-61

 

[RandallThomason]

What a strange game. Probably going to come up short but pretty gritty effort.

 

[sWiley]

can't sleep walk through the first half and still expect to win. this team seems to have a real problem playing 2 decent halfs of basketball in 1 game

and here comes the fouling to screw my under.

 

[SpaceRaider]

MT cuts it to three

59-62

 

[SpaceRaider]

Rice FTs push it out to five

MT timeout 18.4

59-64

 

[SpaceRaider]

Game 67-61

 

[sWiley]

valiant effort in the 2nd half....cant come out sleep walking in the 1st