Texas Arlington at Samford

Texas Arlington steps up in class after dominating the Southland Conference a year ago with a 15-1 record. While they have lost key players from that team, they have been a solid program and the drop-off should not be that great. This is a big-time rebounding team that collected over 40 boards per game a year ago. Samford has a new coach that will try and improve upon a 19-loss season a year ago, but at 1-5 it certainly doesn't look very likely as the talent level is simply not there. Arlington is a little known program with a pedigree, and they certainly have the talent edge here. The Bulldogs have no home-court advantage where they are 7-23-1 ATS in their last 31, and Arlington has covered four of their last five after a loss. Play on Texas Arlington.