Watch Rhode Island Rams vs. VCU Rams: How to live stream, TV channel, start time for Tuesday’s NCAA Basketball game

Who’s Playing

VCU Rams @ Rhode Island Rams

Current Records: VCU 14-4, Rhode Island 14-4

How To Watch

• When: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET
• Where: Thomas M. Ryan Center — Kingston, Rhode Island
• TV: CBS Sports Network
• Follow: CBS Sports App
• Watch on Connected TV: CBS Sports App on Roku and Fire TV
• Live Stream: CBSSports.com or fuboTV (Try for free. Regional restrictions may apply.)
• Ticket Cost: $16.67

What to Know

Rhode Island will be in front of their home fans on Tuesday, but a look at the spread shows they might need that home-court advantage. They and the VCU Rams will face off in an Atlantic 10 battle at 7:00 p.m. ET at Thomas M. Ryan Center. Rhode Island is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they’ve averaged 80.4 points per game this season.

Rhode Island’s offense and defense might be a bit winded after their high-scoring matchup with Davidson on Saturday. Rhode Island skirted by Davidson 92-90 thanks to a clutch shot from Sebastian Thomas with but a second left in the second quarter. Kudos to the oddsmakers for accurately forecasting both the winner and the close margin.

Rhode Island can attribute much of their success to Thomas, who dropped a double-double on 22 points and ten assists. The contest was Thomas’ eighth in a row with at least 22.4 points. Another player making a difference was Jaden House, who went 8 for 11 en route to 19 points.

Rhode Island was working as a unit and finished the game with 21 assists. That’s the most assists they’ve posted since back in November of 2023.

Meanwhile, VCU waltzed into their matchup on Friday with three straight wins… but they left with four. They came out on top against the Hawks by a score of 78-69. 78 seems to be a good number for the Rams as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of points in their previous game.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead VCU to victory, but perhaps none more so than Jack Clark, who went 5 for 8 en route to 18 points plus seven rebounds. The team also got some help courtesy of Zeb Jackson, who scored 14 points in addition to seven rebounds and two steals.

Rhode Island’s victory bumped their record up to 14-4. As for VCU, they have been performing well recently as they’ve won ten of their last 12 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 14-4 record this season.

Rebounding is likely to be a big factor in this contest: Rhode Island has been smashing the glass this season, having averaged 39.7 rebounds per game. However, it’s not like VCU struggles in that department as they’ve been averaging 38.6. With both teams battling to corral missed shots, we’ll see if one team can grab an edge.

Rhode Island suffered a grim 88-67 defeat to VCU in their previous meeting back in February of 2024. That game was pretty much over by halftime, at which point Rhode Island was down 42-21.

Odds

VCU is a big 7.5-point favorite against Rhode Island, according to the latest college basketball odds.

The oddsmakers had a good feel for the line for this one, as the game opened with the Rams as a 6.5-point favorite.

The over/under is 147.5 points.

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Series History

Rhode Island and VCU both have 5 wins in their last 10 games.

• Feb 28, 2024 – VCU 88 vs. Rhode Island 67
• Feb 15, 2023 – VCU 55 vs. Rhode Island 54
• Feb 08, 2022 – VCU 73 vs. Rhode Island 64
• Feb 03, 2021 – VCU 63 vs. Rhode Island 62
• Jan 09, 2021 – Rhode Island 83 vs. VCU 68
• Jan 31, 2020 – Rhode Island 87 vs. VCU 75
• Jan 11, 2020 – Rhode Island 65 vs. VCU 56
• Mar 15, 2019 – Rhode Island 75 vs. VCU 70
• Feb 19, 2019 – VCU 76 vs. Rhode Island 42
• Jan 23, 2019 – Rhode Island 71 vs. VCU 65