Northern Kentucky vs IUPUI Pick – Basketball Predictions & Odds 2/12/23

The IUPUI Jaguars and the Northern Kentucky Norse meet in college basketball action from the Truist Arena on Sunday afternoon. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.

Odds

Northern Kentucky is listed as a 17.5-point favorite with a total for this game set at 127.5 points.

Injuries

For IUPUI, Daylan Hamilton is out indefinitely with an undisclosed injury while Northern Kentucky comes in with a clean injury report.

Matchup History

Northern Kentucky’s 55-42 win over IUPUI on December 31^st, 2022, made it back-to-back wins for the Norse in this matchup.

Trends

IUPUI is 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games following an ATS loss and 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games following a loss by 20+ points while the over is 6-0 in their last 6 road games. Northern Kentucky is 1-7 ATS in their last 8 home games against a team with a losing road record and 6-15 ATS in their last 21 games overall while the under is 5-1 in their last 6 games against a team with a winning percentage below .400.

Pick

I’m taking IUPUI here. The Jaguars are not a good basketball team by any stretch of the imagination, but the Jaguars have done a good job at covering these big numbers in conference play. Northern Kentucky owns the best scoring defense in the Horizon, but they’re only outscoring teams by 4.4 PPG and in conference play and didn’t cover against these Jaguars in the first meeting between the two this season. IUPUI’s scoring defense has been atrocious, but I think this is a case of once again having a defense-first NKU team that’s giving up too many points. I’ll take the points with IUPUI here.