Drake vs North Texas 11/28/2021 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds
North Texas Mean Green (2-3) vs. Drake Bulldogs (3-2)
November 28, 2021 10:30 am EDT
The Line: Drake Bulldogs -2 / North Texas Mean Green +2; Over/Under: +127
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The North Texas Mean Green and the Drake Bulldogs meet in college basketball action from the HP Field House on Sunday Morning.
The North Texas Mean Green come into this game on the heels of a 69-63 loss at the hands of Miami last time out. Tylor Perry leads the Mean Green in scoring with 17.8 PPG along with 2.2 APG while Thomas Bell has 14.4 PPG and a team-high 7.2 RPG to make up the pair of double-digit scorers for North Texas so far this season. As a team, North Texas is averaging 67.2 PPG on 42% shooting from the field, 31.9% from three and 67.5% from the foul line while allowing 59.6 PPG on 45.7% shooting from the field and 35.7% from three this season.
The Drake Bulldogs come into this game looking to bounce back from an 80-71 loss to Alabama in their last game. Tremell Murphy leads the Bulldogs in scoring with 13.8 PPG along with 7 RPG while Tucker Devries has 11.8 PPG and Roman Penn’s got 10.4 PPg with a team-high 4.4 APG as well this season to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for Drake. D.J. Wilkins and Tank Hemphill each have 9+ PPG and Garrett Sturtz has 7.8 PPG and a team-high 7.4 RPG as well this season. As a team, Drake is averaging 79.8 PPG on 46.3% shooting from the field, 41.2% from three and 68.8% from the foul line while allowing 67 PPG on 47.9% shooting from the field and 30% from three this season.
North Texas is 7-2 ATS in their last 9 neutral site games and 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games against a team with a winning record while the over is 3-1-1 in their last 5 Sunday games. Drake is 1-7-1 ATS in their last 9 games overall and 0-5-1 ATS in their last 6 neutral site games while the under is 6-2 in their last 8 games following an ATS loss.
I get the allure of the under with North Texas as the Mean Green just are not a high-scoring team by any stretch of the imagination. However, I think this line’s a bit of an overreaction to that as the Bulldogs can light it up offensively and are more than capable of scoring into the 70s to give North Texas little work to do to help us get this over. Give me the over in this one.
