What to watch for tonight; January 17

Time to get back on track. We have our mid-week show coming out tomorrow, signaling the first time we’ll have a two-show week since we ended 2023 with Bowlmas.

Admittedly that event took a lot out of us but now we’re ready to lock back in.

For those of you who found us during Bowlmas, you’ll be happy to know we’ll be pumping out daily content again starting today. Before we release the podcast, I think it’s time to get back into the swing of daily columns.

Every single day, the guys from Section 400 go through the upcoming night’s slate of games, no matter how great or how disgusting it looks.

Let’s get right into it.

The best.

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(NCAAB) Creighton vs. UCONN

The Creighton Blue Jays travel to the Constitution State tonight to take on the No. 1 ranked UCONN Huskies.

Dan Hurley’s squad took over the top ranking in the AP Poll this week and is immidiately in danger of losing it with a loss against an extremely talented Creighton team.

If Baylor Scheinman can make some jump shots the Blue Jays have a chance in this game.

Creighton center Ryan Kalkbrenner bodying up against UCONN forward Alex Karaban is another matchup to watch in this one.

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(Tennis) Australian Open

Yep, its come to this.

Weekday sports during January can be rough, and that’s exactly what the slate looks like today. With the NBA and NHL in the dog days of the season and college basketball having just one good game, you get tennis.

Tennis.

American Taylor Fritz won again today and gives us the best chance at capturing a major on the mens’ side of the bracket. Go ahead and root for some upsets to help his journey to the final.

*Side note- If he or any other American wins Outback Steakhouse should be giving them free Bloomin Onions for life.

The rest.

(NCAAB/NBA/NHL) Rest of Slate

Like I said above, it’s ugly tonight. The best game in the NBA features the Luka-less Mavericks against the reeling Lakers.

We have three NHL games, although none of them are particularly good and the TNT game features the Blackhawks with no Connor Bedard. The station might as well let Ryan Whitney and Gretsky shoot the shit for 3 hours instead.

Anyway, there is one game tonight in college basketball that should be fun. The Presbyterian Blue Hose (+8.5) host the High Point Panthers in a Big South showdown.

High Point should coast to the automatic bid in the conference but if there is one thing we know about cats, it’s that they hate hoses.

That was a horrendous joke but the premise still stands. If there is one team in the Big South that can steal a bid from High Point it’s probably the Blue Hose. They’ve been pretty terrible to start conference play but played a solid non-conference schedule that has me confident (possibly irrationally confident) they can cover a large spread tonight.

They are also shooting nearly 50% from the field which helps.

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