Rollins Looks To Gain Split With FIT Saturday.

The Rollins College Tars have been a much better team at home than on the road this season.  Saturday they will got a shot to get a split with Florida Tech after losing 90-76 at the Clemente Center on November 30th. As always you can catch all the action from the Alfond Sports Center inside Warden Arena on the Geico Sports Network at RollinsSports.com and locally on 91.5 FM WPRK Winter Park.
  Rollins (10-8 4-5 SSC) has won two straight, the most recent being a hard-fought 73-71 win over Lynn on Wednesday. Sam Philpott scored 21 points to lead the Tars in the victory- while Jeff Merton also scored 10- Jakobi Bonner, Connor McKim and Jack Fleming scored eight points each.  Lynn was led by 27 points from Terrell Rogers- while Marquan Botley added 14 (just two in the last 33 minutes of the game.)
  The Tars have only lost at home twice this season, while Florida Tech is just 2-3 on the road for the campaign.  Rollins averages 79.2 points a game as a team- while they give up 79.3 a night.  They have shot the ball well from the 3-point line (41 percent) on the year.  Rebounds have been an issue all season as the Tars have been out rebounded by more than six boards a contest.  The Tars do lead the SSC in steals though at 9.2 per game.
 Individually Rollins is paced by Sam Philpott at 14.8 points a game- Jeff Merton scores 14.2- and Joey Galvis averages 10 per night.  Merton is just nine points behind Jeremey Sharpe for 35th all time in points scored for the Tars- while Galvis is leading the SSC and is 12th nationally in steals at more than two a game.
  Florida Tech is coming off a 90-79 overtime loss to Saint Leo last time out. The Panthers were outscored 14-3 in the extra session.  They are led by Jordan Majors who puts up 21.9 points a game, which is good for second in the SSC.  Sam Daniel is third in the SSC at 21.2 points a game and leads the Panthers averaging eight rebounds a contest.  Patrick Anderson puts up 14.7 a game and is 14th nationally averaging 6.2 assists a night. FIT scores 88.8 points a game- while they allow 86.1 a night. Daniels torched the Tars for 30 points and 16 rebounds in the first meeting in Melbourne.
The line presented by JuanBernalSportsbooks.com:
Rollins by 3
Other SSC Lines:
Tampa-6@Palm Beach Atlantic
Barry-8@Nova Southeastern
Eckerd @Lynn (Pick)
Saint Leo+3@Embry Riddle
SSC Standings:
Barry 7-2 (14-2)
Eckerd 6-3 (13-4)
Tampa 6-3 (13-5)
Lynn 5-4 (10-6)
Florida Southern 5-4 (7-11)
Florida Tech 4-5 (11-7)
Rollins 4-5 (10-8)
Saint Leo 3-6 (8-10)
*Palm Beach Atlantic 3-6 (7-9)
Nova Southeastern 2-7 (5-11)
*Embry-Riddle 0-0 (10-6)
* indicates SSC provisional member