Arkansas State vs UT-Arlington College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 1/30/21
Arkansas State vs UT-Arlington College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 1/30/21
2021-01-30 17:00:00 EDT
The UT-Arlington Mavericks and the Arkansas State Red Wolves meet in college basketball action from First National Bank Arena on Saturday afternoon.
The UT-Arlington Mavericks will look to rebound from an 83-75 overtime loss to Arkansas State last time out. Shahada Wells leads the Mavericks in scoring and assists with 16.3 PPG and 3.1 APG with 2.2 steals per game while Sam Griffin has 13.4 PPG with 2.5 APG and David Azore has 11.4 PPG with 4.6 RPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for UT-Arlington coming into this game. Fredelin De La Cruz also has 8 PPG and a team-high 6.1 RPG as UTA’s leading rebounder this season. As a team, UT-Arlington is averaging 77 PPG on 41.5% shooting from the field, 35.2% from 3-point range and 73.8% from the foul line while allowing 71.7 PPG on 42.3% shooting from the field and 35.7% from 3-point range this season.
The Arkansas State Red Wolves will look to complete the back-to-back sweep after taking the first meeting last time out. Norchand Omier leads the Red Wolves in scoring and rebounding by averaging a double-double per game with 13.2 PPG and 12.4 RPG while Caleb Field has 12.6 PPG and 3.4 APG and Marquis Eaton has 11.6 PPG and a team-high 4.1 APG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for A-State up to this point in ths season. As a team, Arkansas State is averaging 75 PPG on 44.6% shooting from the field, 37.5% from 3-point range and 70.7% from the foul line while allowing 70.6 PPG on 41.7% shooting from the field and 32.3% from 3-point land this season.
UT-Arlington is 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games overall and 1-5 ATS in their last 5 road games while the under is 6-1 in their last 7 Saturday games. Arkansas State is 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games overall and 2-6 ATS in their last 8 home games while the over is 4-0 in their last 4 games following a win. The home team is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between these two teams.
The Mavericks being favored on the road makes sense as the trend in these back-to-backs is that the team that loses the first game usually wins the second one or at least covers. Well the thing is that we’re getting points with an Arkansas State team at home that can hang with Arlington like we saw in the first meeting and the Red Wolves are also 6-1 straight up at home this season. I’ll take my shot with A-State and the points here.
