Florida State vs Boston College Pick – Basketball Predictions & Odds 2/18/23

The Boston College Eagles and the Florida State Seminoles meet in college basketball action from the Donald L. Tucker Center on Saturday afternoon. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.

Odds

Florida State is listed as a 3.5-point home favorite with a ML price of -165. The total for this game is set at 142.5 points.

Injuries

For Boston College, Demarr Langford Jr. is out indefinitely with a knee injury while Florida State has Matthew Cleveland listed as questionable with a back injury.

Matchup History

Boston College’s 71-55 win over Florida State back on February 21^st, 2022, made it eight straight wins for the home team in this head-to-head matchup.

Trends

Boston College is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 Saturday games and 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games following a loss while the over is 15-5 in their last 20 games overall. Florida State is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games following a loss while the over is 6-0 in their last 6 games following a loss.

Pick

I’m backing over here. Boston College has found themselves playing a lot of higher-scoring games for the majority of the season, and FSU is a much better team than a lot of their records would necessarily indicate. This historically has been a high-scoring matchup as well, with the over hitting in 7 of the last 8 meetings. Give me the over here.