The Northern Illinois Huskies and the Dayton Flyers meet in college hoops action from the UD Arena on Saturday afternoon.
The Northern Illinois Huskies come into this game on the heels of a 65-45 win over Eastern Illinois last time out. Keshawn Williams leads NIU in scoring with 12.5 PPG while Trendon Hankerson has 11.7 PPG with 3.9 RPG as the only other double-digit scorer for the Huskies so far this season. Kaleb Thornton has 6.7 PPG and 3.4 APG while Anthony Crump’s got 4.4 RPG as well this season. As a team, Northern Illinois is averaging 56.6% shooting from the field, 38.6% from the field, 33.3% from three and 64.8% from the foul line while allowing 67.3 PPG on 41% shooting from the floor and 29% from three this season.
The Dayton Flyers will be out to add to their 93-54 win over Alabama State last time out. Toumani Camara has a team-high 11.2 PPG and 6.8 RPG while Elijah Weaver has 10.2 PPG as the only other Dayton player to be scoring in double digits so far this season. Malachi Smith’s also dished out a team-high 4.2 APG as well this season. As a team, Daytong is averaging 71 PPG on 47.9% shooting from the field, 33.1% from three and 70.7% from the foul line while allowing 65.8 PPG on 43.2% shooting from the floor and 33.3% from three this season.
Northern Illinois is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games following a win and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games as an underdog while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 Saturday games. Dayton is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games overall and 5-1 ATS in their last 6 home games against a team with a losing road record while the over is 5-1 in their last 6 games following an ATS win.
Common logic would say you look at the record and you go back to our recent history with Dayton and laying the points makes a ton of sense. Howeve,r despite four straight wins, this is still a fairly inconsistent Dayton team. I’m not rushing to the window to back Northern Illinois for much of anything, but they’re a decent team that’s played a tough schedule and hung around in some of those games as well. I’ll take my chances with NIU and the points here.