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Coastal Carolina vs Louisiana-Monroe 12/30/21 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks (8-4) vs. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (7-4)
December 30, 2021 7:00 pm EDT
The Line: Coastal Carolina Chanticleers -4.5 / Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks +4.5; Over/Under: -141.5
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The UL-Monroe Warhawks and the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers meet in Sun Belt conference college hoops action from the HTC Center on Thursday night.

The UL-Monroe Warhawks will look to build on their 80-77 road win over Lamar last time out. Andre Jones leads ULM in scoring and assists with 13.6 PPG and 4 APG while Russell Harrison has 12.2 PPG and a team-high 5.4 RPG to lead the Warhawks on the glass. Koreem Ozier has 12.1 PPG and Thomas Howell and Trey Boston each have 10+ PPG to make up the group of double-digit scorers for ULM so far this season. As a team, UL-Monroe is averaging 80.7 PPG on 49.5% shooting from the field, 34% from three and 70.8% from the foul line while allowing 76.5 PPG on 44.7% shooting from the field and 37.8% from three this season.

The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will look to bounce back from an 84-80 loss to Middle Tennessee last time out. Essam Mostafa leads the Chanticleers in scoring and rebounding with 17.1 PPG and 9.8 RPG while Rudi Williams has 14.5 PPG with 4.6 RPG and 4.1 APG. Vince Cole has 12.1 PPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Coastal up to this point in the season. Ebrima Dibba has 8.6 PPG with 4.8 RPG and a team-high 6.2 APG as well so far this season. As a team, Coastal Carolina is averaging 78.5 PPG on 47% shooting from the field, 35.9% from three and 68.4% from the foul line while allowing 64.5 PPG on 38.1% shooting from the field and 30.7% from three this season.

UL-Monroe is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 3-1-1 ATS in their last 5 games following an ATS loss while the over is 6-0 in their last 6 games following a win. Coastal Carolina is 3-1-1 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games following a loss while the under is 6-1 in their last 7 games following a loss.

I get why the points with ULM are worth a look here, but a lot of Warhawks’ success has either come at home, against below average teams, or both. Coastal Carolina has the ability to hang points in bunches but can also play solid defense like they have at home for much of the season and I think that defense ends up being the difference here. I’ll lay the points with Coastal Carolina at home.

Chris Ruffolo's Free Pick: Coastal Carolina -4.5

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