The set-up: Texas San Antonio closes out its three-game road trip to start the 2016-17 season at Illinois-Chicago Wednesday night, still looking for its first win. The 0-2 Roadrunners followed up Friday's three-point setback at defending Mountain West Conference Champion Fresno State with a 72-64 defeat at Oregon State two days later. The Flames opened with an 82-80 setback at San Francisco and now makes its home season debut. The schools have met twice before with the Flames winning both previous meetings, including a 73-47 triumph in the last contest between the two back in 2003.

Texas San Antonio: Junior forward Jeff Beverly leads the team with 13.0 PPG (6.0 RPG), while freshman guard Giovanni De Nicolao ranks second (10.0). 6-8 sophomore Nick Allen has paced the Roadrunners' effort on the glass at 9.5 rebounds per contest, along with scoring 9.5 PPG. UTSA pulled down 55 boards in the season opener for its highest total since 2008 and its 93 rebounds (46.5 rpg) ranks 12th in the nation.

Illinois-Chicago: The Flames have been picked to finish fourth in the Horizon League, returning four starters from last season's team. However, that team went 5-25! UIC is led by 6-7 forward Dikembe Dixson, who was the Horizon Freshman of the Year a season ago when he ranked second in the league in scoring at 19.8 points per game to go along with 7.3 rebounds per outing. In addition, 6-9 forward Tai Odiase averaged 9.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and an NCAA-leading 3.23 blocks per game in 2015-16. The Flames suffered a slim 82-80 loss at San Francisco to open their season, as Dixson had 15 points, Odiase added 12 & 5 plus freshman guard Boahen had an excellent debut with 12 points, six rebounds and seven assists.

The pick: The Roadrunners will play eight of their first 11 games away from home and after to close losses, are due for a win. The Flames shouldn't be laying this many points against any team. UTSA is a 10* play.