Brown vs Sacred Heart 12/5/21 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Sacred Heart Pioneers and the Brown Bears meet in college basketball from the Pizziola Sports Complex on Sunday afternoon.

The Sacred Heart Pioneers come into this game looking to build on a 74-67 road win over Lafayette last time out. Tyler Thomas leads the Pioneers in scoring and assists with 19.5 PPG and 2.6 APG while Aaron Clarke has 15.6 PPG with 3.6 APG through five games as the only other Pioneer averaging double figures in scoring so far this season. Alex Watson has 9.3 PPG and Nico Galette has 8.8 PPG with a team-high 9.4 RPG as ewll on the year for Sacred Heart. As a team, Sacred Heart is averaging 74.5 PPG on 44.8% shooting from the field, 33.5% from three and 67.2% from the foul line while allowing 72.8 PPG on 42.6% shooting from the field and 35.1% from three this season.

The Brown Bears will attempt to add to their back-to-back wins following a 73-63 win over UMass last time out. Kino Lilly Jr. has a team-high 12.4 PPG while Dan Friday has 10.8 PPG and a team-high 2.8 APG as the only other double-digit scorer for Brown up to this point in the season. Tamenang Choh also has 9.6 PPG with 7.9 RPG while Paxson Wojcik has 9.4 PPG as well on the year. As a team, Brown is averaging 72.7 PPG on 41.7% shooting from the field, 30.3% from three and 74.6% from the foul line while allowing 64 PPG on 43.1% shooting from the field and 32.8% from three this season.

Sacred Heart is 0-6 ATS in their last 8 games following a win and 2-9 ATS in their last 11 games against a team with a winning record while the under is 22-6 in their last 28 games following an ATS win. Brown is 7-0-1 ATS in their last 8 Sunday games and 8-2 ATS in their last 10 games overall while the under is 35-17-2 in their last 54 games following a win.

I get the case that could be made for Sacred Heart and the points here, but realistically, I’m siding with Brown here. The Bears have just battled at lot harder against better opposition in my opinion and I think that steel sharpens steel and those close games erve the Bears well here as they get a double-digit home win over Sacred Heart in this one.