Cleveland State at Detroit

Cleveland State has won six of their last eight games and they have started out 3-0 in conference - the first time they have done that since the 1999 season. It's their best overall start at 11-4 since 1993. Detroit comes into this one with one problem after another. The most recent setback was the loss of their coach who is on a leave of absence for medical reasons. They have lost eight straight games, not having been able to recover from the loss of their leading scorer from last year. They are averaging just 59.8 ppg this year (52.6 over their last five games and 54.7 in conference games). Over the past three seasons, Detroit is just 7-20 vs. winning opponents and 2-14 vs. great teams (those outscoring opponents by 4+ ppg). We'll ride Cleveland State's momentum here and back them for a straight-up win.