The Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and the Cal Baptist Lancers meet in college basketball action from the CBU Events Center on Saturday night.
The Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils will be looking to shake off a 119-61 loss at the hands of St. John’s in their last game. Caleb Hunter led the way with 16 points on 5 of 12 shooting with 4 threes while Gary Grant had 11 points with 3 steals and John Aguer added 10 points on 5 of 8 shooting to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for MVSU un the loss. Elijah Davis added a team-high 7 assists and a pair of steals as well in the defeat. As a team, Mississippi Valley State shot 29% from the field, 26.1% from three and 71.4% from the foul line in the losing effort.
The Cal Baptist Lancers will look to build on an 87-65 win over subdivision San Francisco State last time out. Chance Hunter led the Lancers with 18 points on 7 of 14 shooting with a pair of threes and 11 rebounds for the double-double while Reed Nottage added 16 points with 3 threes and 4 assists and Daniel Akin added 15 points with 7 rebounds as well. Ty Rowell had 14 points with 4 threes and 3 assists and Taren Armstrong had 12 points with a team-high 8 assists and 7 rebounds to cap off the group of double-digit scorers for Cal Baptist in the win. As a team, the Lancers shot 42% from the field, 35.5% from three and 69.2% from the foul line in the winning effort.
Mississippi Valley State is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 Saturday games and 4-9 ATS in their last 13 road games while the over is 7-2 in their last 9 road games. Cal Baptist is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games overall and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 home games while the over is 9-3 in their last 12 Saturday games.
I get that these lines against Mississippi Valley State are huge, but they’re huge for a reason. This team is god awful. Cal Baptist isn’t a world beater by any means, but they’ll look like it here. Look for the Lancers to beat up on the Delta Devils and win this one by 30+.