The Rollins College Tars, fresh off a 76-50 thrashing of Barry on Wednesday welcome the 24th ranked Eckerd Tritons to Warden Arena on Saturday afternoon in a sunshine state conference showdown.
The Tars come in with a record of 10-4 and 2-1 in the SSC. Rollins won 2 of the three meetings between the schools a year ago. The Tars won the first meeting in St.Pete before the Tritons took the season finale. The Tars won the third meeting in the semifinals of the Sunshine State Conference Tournament at Nova Southeastern. Rollins is led by Nick Wolf (19.7 points and 9.9 rebounds a contest). Matt Robertson averages 15.7 ppg while Myk Brown tallied 14.8 points a night. Ian Scott has come on strong of late. The Junior from Mount Dora has tallied double figures in two consecutive games. Scott leads the Sunshine State Conference with 2.1 steals per game. This could be key today as the Tritons average 18 turnovers a contest.
Eckerd comes in with a record of 11-2 and 2-1 in the SSC. The Tritons are coming off a 77-70 loss to Tampa Wednesday that snapped their ten game win streak. The Tritons are led by four players in double figures. John Harper leads EC at 13.5 points per game, Wayne Sears 12 points per contest, Dale Carn nets 11.2 a night and Lance Kearns rounds out the leading Triton scorers at 10.8 points per game. The Tritons come into Saturday averaging 81.1 ppg as a team. They have been very good shooting the ball. EC shoots at a 51% clip from the field and 37% from long distance. The Tritons are also a solid 72.3% at the charity stripe.
The line: Rollins by 2
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