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Long Beach State vs UC Irvine Pick – Basketball Predictions & Odds 2/4/23

UC Irvine Anteaters (15-7) vs. Long Beach State Beach (12-10)
February 4, 2023 7:00 pm EDT
The Line: Long Beach State Beach -1.5 / UC Irvine Anteaters +1.5; Over/Under: +149.5
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The UC-Irvine Anteaters and the Long Beach State Beach meet in college basketball action from the Walter Pyramid on Saturday. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.

Odds

Long Beach State is a 1.5-point home favorite with a ML price of -125. The total for this game is set at 149.5 points.

Injuries

Bent Leuchten is out indefinitely for UC-Irvine with a knee injury while Joel Murray is out for the season for Long Beach State with a wrist injury.

Matchup History

UC-Irvine’s 87-70 win back on January 7th, 2023, made it back-to-back wins for UC-Irvine in this matchup and three straight wins for the home team.

Trends

UC-Irvine is 7-3 ATS in their last 10 road games and 6-15-1 ATS in their last 22 games following a win while the over is 11-5 in their last 16 games overall. Long Beach State is 3-8-1 ATS in their last 12 games against a team with a winning record and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games against a team with a winning percentage above .600 while the under is 4-1 in their last 5 games overall.

Pick

I’m leaning towards Long Beach State here. Not a game I’d rush to bet, but the Beach will be out for revenge after their loss to UC-Irvine in the earlier meeting this year and Long Beach State also comes in as the team in better form. The home team’s also won 6 of the last 8 meetings between these two teams so give me Long Beach State at home here.

Chris Ruffolo's Free Pick: Long Beach State -1.5

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Chris joined the Sports Chat Place team in August 2016 and has a proven system that combines multiple analytical and situational statistics and trends to give out thousands of winning picks over the last three years with winning records across all of the top leagues, Follow Chris Ruffolo on Twitter @ruffthepickdawg

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