James Madison vs Drexel College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 1/31/21

The James Madison Dukes and the Drexel Dragons meet in college basketball action from the JMU Convocation Center on Sunday afternoon.

The Drexel Dragons will look to build on a 79-64 win over William & Mary last time out. Camren Butler leads the Dragons in scoring and assists with 17 PPG and 5.7 APG while James Butler has 14.4 PPG with a team-high 9.7 RPG to lead the Dragons on the glass. Zach Walton has 10.9 PPG with 4.4 RPG and TJ Bickerstaff has 10.4 PPG with 4.8 RPG to make up the group of double-digit scorers for Drexel at this point in the year. As a team, Drexel is averaging 70.5 PPG on 46.1% shooting from the field, 31.5% from 3-point range and 77.5% from the foul line while allowing 64.3 PPG on 44.3% shooting from the field and 29.1% from 3-point range this season.

The James Madison Dukes will look to build on their 78-63 win over Towson last time out. Matt Lewis leads the Dukes in scoring and assists with 21.4 PPG with 3.7 APG with 4.8 RPG while Vado Morse has 13.9 PPG to make up the other half of the duo of double-digit scorers for JMU this season. Justin Amadi has 8.9 PPG with a team-high 5.1 RPG and Julien Wooden has 8.8 PPG as well on the year for JMU. As a team, James Madison is averaging 78.8 PPG on 46.1% shooting from the field, 35.6% from 3-point range and 64.9% from the foul line while giving up 70.2 PPG on 41.5% shooting from the field and 29.4% from 3-point range this season.

Drexel is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 road games and 0-4-1 ATS in their last 5 road games against a team with a winning home record while the under is 6-2 in their last 8 games against a team with a winning record. James Madison is 4-10 ATS in their last 14 home games and 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games overall while the over is 13-6 in their last 19 Sunday games. The home team is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between these two teams.

I get that this is a hard one to call as you have two teams that were preparing toplay someone else on Sunday that had to change course and prepare for another opponent on short nitce, so there’s really no huge advantage here. With that said, James Madison has played the far better basketball up to this point, and it has the Dukes sitting in 2nd at the time that this article was posted. Drexel is just too inconsistent for my liking and I just doin’t think they have what it takes here to get the job done. Give me the Dukes here to get the job done in this pick ‘em scenario.