Southern Miss plays pretty well on the road and they won at N. Dakota St and just beat a solid Mizzu team on Sunday. The quick turnaround (only one day off) and long flight to MN is going to be as much of a factor for the Golden Eagles as the crowd will be, Still, the Gophers have been the perfect model of inconsistency this season. Which team will show up? Southern Miss has snagged 14 wins on the roadthis year in some pretty hospitable places. That's good no matter who you are. Granted, the Big Ten is a few levels above C-USA on the ladder, but I don't think either team cares about that. USM is small yet plays such a physical game they out-rebound opponents by such an absurd degree. They score in the paint without any real bigs and rarely play long-ball. They're tough and scrappy. I have to give the Eagles the nod in this one. USM has such a deep bench and they've been healthy all year so it doesn't matter who Tyndall starts (and he's used 9 different starting rotations to prove that point).