Drake vs Indiana State 2/21/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Indiana State Sycamores and the Drake Bulldogs meet in college basketball action from the Knapp Center on Monday night.

The Indiana State Sycamores will look to rebound from back-to-back losses after a 76-72 loss to Southern Illinois last time out. Cooper Neese leads the Sycamores in scoring with 16.5 PPG along with 4.4 RPG while Cameron Henry has 14.5 PPG with a team-high 6 RPG and 2.8 APG. Micah Thomas has 10.7 PPG to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for Indiana State while Xavier Bledson has 9.9 PPG with a team-high 4 APG and Kailex Stephens has 9.2 PPG with 5.6 RPG as well on the year. As a team, Indiana State is averaging 71.3 PPG on 44.4% shooting from the field, 33.3% from three and 77.5% from the foul line while allowing 71.3 PPG on 43% shooting from the field and 35.3% from three this season.

The Drake Bulldogs will look to build on back-to-back wins after an 83-76 win over Loyola-Chicago last time out. Tucker Devries leads the Bulldogs in scoring with 14.1 PPG along with 4.7 RPG while Garrett Sturtz has 11.1 PPG with a team-high 7.5 RPG and Roman Penn has 10.3 PPG with 3.6 APG this season. D.J. Wilkins has 10.1 PPG as well to finish off the group of double-digit scorers for Drake so far this season while ShanQuan Hemphill has 9.8 PPG with 5.2 RPG. As a team, Drake is averaging 74.6 PPG on 45.6% shooting from the field, 35.2% from three and 74.8% from the foul line while allowing 66.9 PPG on 43% shooting from the field and 33.4% from three this season.

Indiana State is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games following a loss and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games following an ATS loss while the under is 14-3 in their last 17 Monday games. Drake is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 Monday games and 8-21-1 ATS in their last 30 games overall while the overis 12-3 in their last 15 games following an ATS win.

I get the case to be made both ways here, but I’m still leading towards the over in this one. Defense has been a bit of an issue for the Sycamores against the better MVC teams this season, but Drake’s allowed teams to hang around at times in conference play and I just think that this is a game that’s going to end up being a lot higher-scoring than one would think between these two, like the first meeting that had 152 combined points. Give me the over in this one.