The Citadel vs Wofford College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 1/27/21

The Wofford Terriers and the Citadel Bulldogs meet in college basketball action from McAlister Field House on Wednesday night.

The Wofford Terriers will look to build off of a 91-78 win over Western Carolina last time out. Storm Murphy leads the Bulldogs in scoring and assists with 20.1 PPG and 4.7 APG while Tray Hollowell has 12.4 PPG with 2.6 APG. Morgan Safford has 10 PPG with 4.4 RPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Wofford coming into this game while Messiah Jones has 9.4 PPG and a team-high 6.6 RPG this season. As a team, Wofford is averaging 77.7 PPG on 48.4% shooting from the field, 37.5% from behind the arc and 66.7% from the foul line while allowing opposing teams to average 66.2 PPG on 42.6% shooting from the field and 30.8% from 3-point range this season.

The Citadel Bulldogs come into this one trying to rebound from an 83-63 loss to Mercer last time out. Hayden Brown leads the Bulldogs in scoring and rebounding by averaging a double-double per game with 21.5 PPG and 10 RPG while Kaiden Rice has 19 PPT with 4.2 RPG and Fletcher Abee has 12.1 PPG with 2.8 APG to make up the group of double-digit scorers for the Citadel up to this point in the season. Tyler Moffe also has 9.6 PPG with a team-high 5.3 APG this season. As a team, the Citadel is averaging 89.1 PPG on 46.5% shooting from the field, 40.8% from 3-point range and 70.9% from the foul line while allowing opposing teams to average 77.7 PPG on 43.8% from the field and 31.5% from 3-point range this season.

Wofford is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 road games and 1-5 ATS in their last 6 Wednesday games while the under is 5-1 in their last 6 road games against a team with a winning home record. The Citadel is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 home games and 4-10-1 ATS in their last 15 games against a team with a winning record while the over is 5-2 in their last 7 games overall. The favorite is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between these two teams.

I get why the points with the Citadel at home are tempting, as this Bulldogs team can score in bunches and have really good numbers at home this season. However, the Citadel also didn’t play a very tough schedule in fairness and while they’re scoring lots of points, the Bulldogs are also giving up points in bunches too. I just don’t think that the Citadel will be able to figure out a way through this strong Wofford defense and I think even going away, Wofford wins this one by double figures. Lay the points with the Terriers in this spot.