women's basketball

Georgia Lady Bulldogs (18-5, 4-5 SEC) at Missouri Tigers (16-9, 4-6 SEC) Columbia, Missouri; Sunday, 4 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Missouri hosts Georgia after Shannon Dowell scored 25 points in Missouri's 87-82 victory against the Arkansas Razorbacks. The Tigers are 9-5 in home games. Missouri scores 75.6 points and has outscored opponents by 2.5 points per game. The Lady Bulldogs are 4-5 in conference matchups. Georgia ranks sixth in the SEC giving up 58.5 points while holding opponents to 36.2% shooting. Missouri scores 75.6 points, 17.1 more per game than the 58.5 Georgia allows.

Even wilder? Only one of the 40 is a women's basketball game, so the boom is more because of more television channels carrying games, not networks giving Saturday shine to the women's game. Even extra wilder on that? The one women's game is a Mountain West game where one team is 5-12 on the season. It's not even a high profile women's game! Weird! 18 of the 40 games on TV today have at least one ranked team involved. Three of those 18 are ranked on ranked games.