East Carolina vs North Carolina A&T 12/7/21 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The North Carolina A&T Aggies and the East Carolina Pirates meet in college basketball action from Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on Tuesday night.

The North Carolina A&T Aggies will be looking to build on a 97-55 win over subdivision Carver Bible College last time out. Marcus Watson leads the Aggies in scoring with 12.6 PPG as well as in rebounding with 5.2 RPG while Demetric Horton has 10.1 PPG with 4.6 RPG as the only other double-digit scorer for North Carolina A&T as well this season. David Beatty has 9.3 PPG with 3.2 RPG while Kameron Langley has a team-high 5.7 APG as well this season. As a team, North Carolina A&T is averaging 67.9 PPG on 42.1% shooting from the field, 30.7% from three and 59.7% from the foul line while allowing 67.8 PPG on 41.1% shooting from the field and 31.7% from three this season.

The East Carolina Pirates will try to build on a 62-52 win over Gardner-Webb in their last matchup. Tristen Newton leads the Pirates in scoring with 18.2 PPG as well as in assists with 4.8 APG while Brandon Suggs has 12.4 PPG as the only other double-digit scorer for ECU so far this season. Brandon Johnson is also the Pirates’ top rebounder, grabbing 8.4 RPG for the Pirates up to this point in the year. As a team, East Carolina is averaging 73 PPT on 43.8% shooting from the field, 38% from three-point range and 72% from the foul line while allowing 67.7 PPG on 39.8% shooting from the field and 32.9% from three point range so far this season.

North Carolina A&T is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games following a win and 1-6-2 ATS in their last 9 games against a team with a winning percentage above .600 while the under is 4-0 in their last 4 road games following three or more straight home games. East Carolina is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games following a win and 1-7 ATS in their last 8 games against a team with a losing record while the under is 5-0 in their last 5 Tuesday games.

I get the case to be made for either side here, but I’m going to side with the over at the end of the day because these are two teams that have had no issues scoring for much of the season and I could easily see a game that gets into the low-140s here at the very least as we’ve seen from ECU against the likes of Oklahoma, Old Dominion and Canisius. Give me the over in this matchup.