I liked this anyways for the Tommies and not just because I went to St. Thomas in grade school but now seeing red-hot SL capper Bob Konarski on them as well obviously only heightens my confidence. Coming off by far our best col hoops day/night. Maybe things are normalizing a bit. This is a neutral-site game in Milwaukee. Second of a B2B for both. KenPom ranks the Tommies about 40 spots better.

Neutral court game in Wisconsin. Neither of these teams have the best defenses and they both shoot a lot of threes. Portland State live and dies by the three more so than the Tommies. However, St. Thomas is more efficient, overall, from the floor than the Vikings. St. Thomas has won each of its last five games against the Big Sky Conference and their coach, John Tauer, is 7-1 ATS with no rest.