Wright State vs IUPUI 1/8/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The IUPUI Jaguars and the Wright State Raiders meet in college basketball action from the Nutter Center on Saturday afternoon.

The IUPUI Jaguars come into this one looking to shake off an 80-52 loss to Morehead State in their last game. B.J. Maxwell leads the Jaguars in scoring and rebounding with 12.3 PPG and 4.8 RPG as the lone double-digit scorer for IUPUI this season while Bakari LaStrap and Mike DePersia each have a team-high 2.1 APG to lead IUPUI in assists. As a team, IUPUI is averaging 50.2 PPG on 37% shooting from the field, 26% from three and 64.2% from the foul line while allowing 63.9 PPG on 41.1% shooting from the field and 32.9% from three this season.

The Wright State Raiders will try to build on a 90-72 win over UIC in their last game. Tanner Holden leads Wright State in scoring and assists with 19.9 PPG and 2.9 APG while Grant Basile has 17.8 PPG and a team-high 8.8 RPG to lead the Raiders on the glass. Trey Calvin has 13.7 PPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Wright State so far this season. As a team, Wright State is averaging 74.9 PPG on 45.8% shooting from the field, 29.4% from three and 78.3% from the foul line while allowing 75.4 PPG on 45.3% shooting from the field and 33% from three this season.

IUPUI is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 11-29-3 ATS in their last 43 Saturday games while the under is 5-0 in their last 5 road games. Wright State is 4-14 ATS in their last 18 games overall and 2-7 ATS in their last 9 home games while the over is 13-3 in their last 16 games following a win.

This is a lot of points to be giving up with Wright State, but we haven’t seen any sign from IUPUI that they’re capable of hanging offensively with anyone, including Wright State. I think this is just a spot where you blindly back the Raiders as more of a fade from IUPUI than anything else.