Rollins Welcomes FSC To Winter Park For SSC Opener Monday.

The Rollins Tars welcome the Florida Southern College Moccasins to Warden Arena in Winter Park on Monday night for a 7:30 PM tip. As always you can listen live on 91.5 FM WPRK Winter Park and worldwide on RollinsSports.com. You can also watch the live video from Warden Arena.
  Rollins (3-1) comes in fresh off a 104-79 thrashing of Puerto Rico Mayaguez on Friday afternoon. This after a win over Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach earlier in the week.  The Tars opened the season by splitting a pair of games in the SSC/SIAC crossover in Atlanta. They knocked off Clark-Atlanta in the opener, before falling to Morehouse.
  The Tars will look to defend the SSC title that they shared a season ago beginning with the conference opener Monday night.  They are led by Jeff Merton who is seventh in conference and leads the team in scoring at 16.5 points a game- He is shooting 50 percent (15-30) from the 3-point line in the early season- Sam Philpott is not far behind averaging 13.5 points a contest- while Deion Clark is scoring 10.3 points, grabbing five rebounds and dishing out four assists per night.
  The Mocs (1-4 1-0 SSC) defeated Saint Leo for the only win they have picked up thus far this season. Over the weekend they lost to Southern Indiana (108-94) and were thrashed 97-61 by #3 Bellarmine.  In the two other losses they suffered they were defeated by Delta State and West Alabama in the SSC/GSC Challenge. The Mocs are led by LaBrian Shiflet who scores 15.8 a game.  Jeremiah Davis has been solid thus far this season averaging 15.6 points, five rebounds and 3.2 assists per contest.  Brett Hanson nets 12.4 a night and Michael Volovic is scoring 11 a game.
  Rollins has played Southern more than any other opponent in the SSC.  All time the Mocs hold a 118-56 advantage in the series. A season ago the Tars swept the season series.  The last game in Winter Park between the two was a 88-75 Tars victory.  The Tars are second in the SSC on defense allowing 75 points a game. At the offensive end they are fourth in the conference putting up 84.3 points a night.  FSC has a high powered offense scoring 87.8 points a game, but struggles on the defensive end where they give up 78.2 a contest.
The line presented by JuanBernalSportsBooks.com: Rollins by 12