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Texas vs Houston Baptist College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 11/9/21

Houston Baptist Huskies (0-0) vs. Texas Longhorns (0-0)
November 9, 2021 9:00 pm EDT
The Line: Texas Longhorns / Houston Baptist Huskies ; Over/Under: -
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The Houston Baptist Huskies and Texas Longhorns meet Tuesday in college basketball action at the Frank Erwin Center. The Houston Baptist Huskies won 6 games last season and enter the 12th year under coach Ron Cottrell. The Texas Longhorns are coming off 19 wins and begin the coaching era under Chris Beard. 

The Houston Baptist Huskies say goodbye to their top player in Pedro Castro, but they do return four of their top-five scorers from last season. There’s a lot to work with this season for Houston Baptist, and an opener like this should prepare them for the remainder of the season. There’s reason to be excited about the Houston Baptist Huskies this year. Za-Ontay Boothman returns after averaging 10.2 points and 2.1 rebounds, while Darius Lee averaged 7.9 points and 3 rebounds. Hunter Janacek dished 2 assists per game last season, and Zach Iyeyemi averaged 3.8 rebounds.

The Texas Longhorns have a new head coach and lost a lot of production from a year ago, but there’s reason to think they can make a national title run anyway. Texas hit the home run in the transfer market by snagging Timmy Allen, Marcus Carr, Devin Askew, Dylan Disu and Tre Mitchell. For the first time maybe ever, Texas has to be considered a legit threat to cut down the nets in March. Andrew Jones returns after averaging 14.6 points and 4.5 rebounds, while Courtney Ramey averaged 12.2 points and 3.9 assists. Brock Cunningham averaged 15.2 minutes per game last season and Jase Febres averaged 1.5 rebounds.

The Huskies are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 road games and 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games overall. The Longhorns are 3-9-1 ATS in their last 13 home games and 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games overall. The under is 5-2 in Huskies last 7 overall. The over is 14-6 in Longhorns last 20 overall.

The Houston Baptist Huskies have enough returning production to where they should improve on last year’s efforts, but that doesn’t include this game. The Texas Longhorns are legit national title contenders with their returning production and all the players coming in. Houston Baptist is likely going to be a punching bag in this spot. Give me the Longhorns in a beat down.

Randy Chambers's Free Pick: Texas Longhorns ATS

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