Rollins-Eckerd Battle In SSC Clash Saturday.

The Rollins Tars and Eckerd College Tritons will do battle Saturday at Warden Arena inside the Alfond Sports Center. As always you can catch the game on the Geico Tars Sports Network at RollinsSports.com and locally on 91.5 FM WPRK.  Jim "Shooter" Ferro and Robert Siegel will have the call.
  Rollins (5-2 1-1 SSC) comes into the contest off of a uninspired performance in a 90-75 loss at Florida Tech on Wednesday night. The Tars were led by 20 points from Jeff Merton- Connor McKim and Joey Galvis each had 11 in the loss.  The two areas the Tars will have to clean up to get back in the win column. They have given up 90+ points now in three straight games. The last time out they were crushed 47-29 on the glass. Rebounding has been an achilies  heel in the first seven contests.  The loss last time out snapped a four game Rollins win streak. In three of those four games they eclipsed the century mark in points scored.
  Jeff Merton leads the Tars at 16.1 points a night- he also leads the team in rebounding at 5.6 a contest.  Sam Philpott is off to another strong start. Philpott has provided a spark off the Rollins bench scoring 14.1 points a game. He is fourth in the SSC in field goal percentage, shooting at a 57 percent clip.  Jack Fleming has been solid since missing the first three games due to injury. Fleming comes into Saturday averaging 11.3 points a night.  The Tars come into the game averaging 88.3 points a game on the season.
  Eckerd (6-2 1-2 SSC) comes in riding a five game win streak.  The Tritons are second in the SSC in scoring margin, winning by an average of 11.9 points a game.  The Tritons have the top defense in the SSC, giving up 70.8 points per game.  Drushaun McLaurn is Eckerd's leading scorer at 13.9 points a game- he also grabs 6.6 rebounds a night.  Kevin Walsh has been a lethal 3-point shooter and averages 11.9 points a game. He is second in the SSC averaging nearly two 3-pointer's per contest.  Trevon Young (10.8 ppg) and Blake Morrow (10.1 ppg) also average in double figures.  The Tritons have dominated the glass, where they have out rebounded opponents by 11 boards a game.
  The two teams split a pair of meetings a year ago and the contests between the two seem to always go down to the wire.  
The lines presented by JuanBernalSportsBooks.com:
Pick
Other SSC lines:
Embry Riddle -3 @Tampa
Barry -8 vs Saint Leo
Nova Southeastern -3 vs Florida Tech
Palm Beach Atlantic -7 vs Florida Southern
SSC Standings:
Barry 3-0 (6-0)
Florida Tech 2-1 (6-3)
Eckerd 1-1 (6-2)
Rollins 1-1 (5-2)
Tampa 1-1 (5-3)
Florida Southern 1-1 (2-6)
Nova Southeastern 1-2 (2-3)
Saint Leo 0-1 (3-4)
Lynn 0-3 (2-4)