The Northern Colorado Bears and the Colorado State Rams meet in college basketball action from the Moby Arena on Saturday afternoon.
The Northern Colorado Bears come into this game on the heels of a 75-74 loss to San Jose State last time out. Daylen Kountz leads the Bears in scoring with 18 PPG along with 4.4 RPG while Matt Johnson has 11.4 PPG with a team-high 3.3 APG this season. Kur Jongkuch has 10.6 PPG and a team-high 10 RPG to average a double-double as Northern Colorado’s top rebounder while Dalton Knecht has 10.1 PPG and 5.3 RPG to make up the scoring in double figures for Northern Colorado this season. As a team, Northern Colorado is averaging 73.3 PPG on 44.6% shooting from the field, 34.6% from three and 72.9% from the foul line while allowing 70.6 PPG on 43.2% shooting from the field and 30.8% from three this season.
The Colorado State Rams will look to add to their 71-61 win over Northeastern last time out. David Roddy lead the Rams in scoring and rebounding with 24.2 PPG and 8.2 RPG while Isaiah Stevens has 14.5 PPG and a team-high 6.8 APG as well this season. John Tonje has 12 PPG and Sichon Thomas has 10.2 PPG to cap off the group of double-digit scorers for Colorado State so far this season. As a team, Colorado State is averaging 86.7 PPG on 52.5% shooting from the field, 42.1% from three and 79.6% from the foul line while allowing 69.2 PPG on 42.4% shooting from the field and 30.1% from three this season.
Northern Colorado is 20-6 ATS in their last 26 games following an ATS loss and 15-6 ATS in their last 21 road games against a team with a winning home record while the under is 8-3 in their last 11 road games. Colorado State is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games following an ATS win while the over is 5-2 in their last 7 games overall.
I get why you’d make the case for the Bears and the points as Colorado State isn’t the first team you associate laying big numbers with. However, the Rams are simply the better team here and while the Bears have played teams tough early on, going against San Jose State and Cal Baptist is a lot different than Colorado State who have owned teams like Creighton early on this season. Give me the Rams by 20+ here.