Little Rock (2-5 SU, 3-3 ATS) from the Ohio Valley, travels to Northern California to take on San Francisco (6-1 SU, 2-4 ATS) on Wednesday night at 10pmET.
The Trojans are coming off an 80-67 loss at Miami-Ohio on Nov. 26. The Dons lost their first game of the season last Friday, 89-80 at Davidson.
Little Rock returned four starters from a 9-19 team that finished 3-11 in the Ohio Valley Conference. Darrell Walker's team was 2-4 going into Miami from Oxford on Saturday in a place where they've never won. That's right, the Trojans were 0-5 playing in the state of Ohio. However, they shot the ball well against the RedHawks, but they couldn't shoot the three (6 of 22) nor defend it (14-33, 42%%). D.J. Smith led the Trojans with 18 points on 8-of-16 shooting. Nigel John added 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting for Little Rock, who shot 46% from the field.
Myron with the steal, then goes coast-to-coast to try and get us back in this one.
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Little Rock is allowing a whopping 82.6 points per game on 49.5% shooting (353rd) and 38.7 three-point shooting (336th). That's a major issue for Walker, who was one of the better defensive guards in the NBA in eighties and early nineties.
Smith, a 6-0 sophomore, leads the team with 13. 1points per game on 44.6% shooting (31% 3pt). Senior Myron Gardner (6-6, 220) adds 12.9 points and 9.3 rebounds on 42.3% shooting (39.1% 3pt).