First and most importantly, the official site announced that Lukic and Maric will be available tonight. One inside, one outside. That will help depth tremendously. We shall see how it affects chemistry.

The T-Trojans are 6-10 and 2-3 in conference. Last time out they beat Texas State by 8 in San Marcos, so this is no team to go to sleep on. Their best non-conference effort was probably a 4-point loss to TAMU at College Station.

Of course, Scott Cross (late of Arlington) is now their head coach, and in my opinion one of the very best coaches in the league.

They likely will start 6-7, 6-6, 6-4 on the front line, so with Maric back, we should have a big size advantage. They also have 6-9, 6-8, 6-8 on the roster.

As you might expect from a Cross team, they are fairly solid on defense, allowing 42% overall and 33% from the arc. They are minus-1 on the boards and have a positive team A/TO ratio. (Ours is considerably negative.)

They are average at best shooting. They have three players averaging double figures, led by 6-4 junior Darian Adams at 13.1 ppg. He and Ty Gordon will shoot the lion's share of the 3-pointers. Over 40% of their attempts are from the arc (shades of the Troy teams of the past). They rebound by committee.

Sagarin picks us by 4.
RealtimeRPI has us by a point.

This is a road game we ought to win, and those are always hard to come by. I don't think they will be able to handle us inside - IF we play our game and limit our turnovers.