5 Expert Picks
Wisconsin hosts Iowa on Sunday off a loss...
The Badgers are coming off a terrible loss. ...
North Texas has stayed under 16 times this season...
Lots of back-and-forth in the Big Ten...
Wisconsin is 5-1 coming off a loss this season...
Towson has a significant edge on the boards, especially offensively. The Tigers have also won seven of the last eight meetings between these two. However, they’re 2-9 SU on the road and 1-3 ATS as away favorites this season. Drexel is 10-4 SU at home and has the much better defense with limiting their opponents offensive efficiency. Both teams are near the bottom in the country from the stripe but the Dragons have been shooting over 71% from the line over their last three games and Towson has really struggled offensively on the road.
So I may just have to come to grips that this will be a losing CBB season. Still six weeks or so to rally but clearly this isn't a favorites year. I have never played a game where all the models didn't agree but now I'm starting to think in the transfer era that models are generally worthless. And I'll have to consider this in football too going forward. I mean Indiana, and I'm talking football. Just a different world now. Glad the players have some power. Wright State leads the Horizon and absolutely should win. This is low imo. Also the home finale in Wrightville/Whoville (Dayton if don't know, which is Whoville), and we love those.
OSU has only really lost contact once this season (at Michigan), while long-serving G Bruce Thornton is a Big Ten veteran who remains one of the league’s top catalysts at 19.9 ppg, and has really hit the accelerator lately, off of 28 and 27-point efforts, respectively, vs. Virginia and Wisconsin. The latter was maybe one of the best Buckeyes efforts of the season when shooting 54% from the floor vs. the Badgers. Sparty hasn’t exactly been lighting the world lately, entering Sunday having lost three of five, and top scorer soph G Jeremy Fears Jr has been rather embattled across the past month, with his performances fluctuating almost like the results pattern for OSU. Totals alert–note six straight overs for Michigan State. Play OSU-MSU Over
Lehigh won the first meeting, 93-91 in overtime at Boston University. The Mountain Hawks were getting 4.5 points in that matchup. While the Terriors come in hot on a five-game win streak, three of those came at home and the road wins came against the Patriot's two worst teams. Look for Lehigh to take this to the wire, if not win outright.
Boston is rolling right now. The Terriers have won five straight games by an average of 15 points. One of those wins was a 85-58 route of Colgate. BU is doing it with offense. The Terriers ranks first in the Patriot League in offensive efficiency, two-point field goal percentage, and three-point field goal percentage. Lehigh will need to shoot well from the field because second-chance opportunities could be limited. The Mountain Hawks are the worst offensive rebounding team in the Patriot League, while Boston ranks first in defensive rebounding percentage. Lehigh won a 93-91 OT thriller on Jan. 14 but BU is a different team now. I like the Terriers to extend the win streak to six. I grabbed the ML for a half unit.
Utah is off a surprising win over the Mountaineers on the road. This line is fishy and it’s tempting to back Utah in this spot since they’re 3-1 ATS as an home underdog. If the Utes were getting more points then maybe, but UCF is fighting for an at-large bid. The Knights have the athleticism to control the boards and are the much better free throw shooting team in this pick ‘em game.
The Sooners are just 3-10 in the SEC, but they've won two of three and sit 9-4 SU at home. Nijel Pack has scored 20-plus in four of his past seven games, going 27 of 51 from deep in that span. The Aggies snapped their four-game skid with a comeback win over Ole Miss, but I don't like their chances against the fully healthy, desperate hosts.
I'm going to take a shot with the Sooners here at home. Texas A&M feels like a team that peaked in January. The Aggies are 1-4 in their last five games with the lone victory a three-point win over a bad Ole Miss team. Oklahoma is having a tough season but the Sooners are still fighting with recent wins over Vanderbilt and Georgia. They got blasted by Tennessee but that is an awful matchup for OU. The Sooners lost by seven in the first meeting back in January where they had 17 turnovers. If OU takes better care of the ball tonight, I think they win the rematch at home.
Was not particularly on my radar, but Providence is no good and apparently didn't get to Chicago until this morning due to flight issues. Like hours and hours delayed. I don't miss that wintry stuff even if do miss snow briefly sometimes and aim to have my dog see snow once in her life. Somehow PC won at St. John's (college basketball for you) but otherwise winless away.
New Haven won the first meeting by 10, but the Chargers are 4-10 on the road. This is an FDU team that's hitting its stride, having won four of five. The Knights won Thursday at Chicago State despite key forward Taeshaud Jackson getting in foul trouble and finishing with two points and three rebounds. Jackson came into that game on a tear, with four double-doubles in his previous six.