College Basketball: It's not going to be pretty in pink tonight

Texas State hosts Nicholls State tonight in Southland Conference women's basketball action and it promises to be a thriller. Both teams are neck-and-neck in the race for the SLC regular season title and the victor will vault to a sure No. 1 seed come tournament time.

Well, that was fun.

Now for the honest truth.

The Bobcats (5-17) and Colonels (4-19) are awful. They have a combined 2-20 conference record and rank in the bottom third of most statistical categories in the SLC, including assist/turnover ratio.

Texas State and Nicholls turn the ball over more than 21 times per game and attempt a healthy amount of 3-pointers (15).

Add all of those together and you have a recipe for disaster tonight. Expect a low-scoring, turnover-filled and selfishly-played basketball game at Strahan Coliseum.

Yet, this is the SLC we're talking about, so anything can happen.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. and it's the annual Pink Zone game*.

*According to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, "The WBCA Pink Zone initiative is a global, unified effort to ... assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond."