Lehigh vs Colgate 1/4/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Colgate Raiders and the Lehigh Mountain Hawks meet in college basketball action from the Stabler Arena on Tuesday night.

The Colgate Raiders will try to snap a four-game losing skid after a 78-68 loss to Vermont in their last game. Nelly Cummings leads the Raiders in scoring with 17.6 PPG while Tucker Richardson has 12.2 PPG, 5.2 RPG and a team-high 4.2 APG and Jack Ferguson has 10.9 PPG to round out the trio of double-digit scorers for Colgate so far this season. Ryan Moffatt and Alex Capitano each have 9+ PPG with Moffatt having 5.3 RPG. Keegan Records also has 8.7 PPG and a team-high 6.1 RPG as well this season. As a team, Colgate is averaging 74.7 PPG on 44.3% shooting from the field, 39.3% from three and 71.7% from the foul line while allowing 73.1 PPG on 44.6% shooting from the field and 33.7% from three this season.

The Lehigh Mountain Hawks will look to build on back-to-back wins after a 63-61 triumph over American last time out. Evan Taylor leads the Mountain Hawks in scoring with 13.3 PPG along with 6 RPG while Jeameril Watson has 11.7 PPG with 4.7 RPG and Marques Wilson has 10.8 PPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Lehigh so far this season. Dominic Parolin has 5.7 PPG with a team-high 6.1 RPG to lead the Mountain Hawks on the glass while Ben Knostman has a team-high 2.5 APG as well this season. As a team, Lehigh is averaging 63.3 PPG on 42.1% shooting from the field, 30.9% from three and 73% from the foul line while allowing 71.5 PPG on 42.8% shooting from the field and 36.8% from three this season.

Colgate is 0-6 ATS in their last 6 road games and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games overall while the under is 4-1 in their last 5 Tuesday games. Lehigh is 7-21 ATS in their last 28 games against a team with a losing record and 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games against a team with a winning percentage below .400 while the over is 9-4 in their last 13 home games against a team with a road winning percentage below .400.

I get that Colgate is probably the better team here and likely wins this game but I’m not sure how I can lay almost double digits with a Raiders team that’s lost six straight games on the road, including three of those games where the Raiders were actually laying points. Lehigh’s not a good basketball team, but they’ve been winning here and there and while I’m not saying they win this one outright, I can’t lay this many points with Colgate. Give me the Mountain Hawks and the points.