Eastern Illinois vs Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 1/13/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The SIU-Edwardsville Cougars and the Eastern Illinois Panthers meet in college basketball action from the Lantz Arena on Thursday night.

The SIU-Edwardsville Cougars come into this game on the heels of their 74-69 loss to Murray State last time out. Ray’Sean Taylor leads the Cougars in scoring with 18 PPG along with 5.3 RPG while Shaun Doss Jr. has 11.5 PPG with 5.4 RPG as the only other double-digit scorer for SIUE so far this season. DeeJuan Pruitt has 9.1 PPG with a team-high 5.8 RPG to lead the Cougars on the glass while Shamar Wright has 9 PPG with 5 RPG and Courtney Carter has 6.9 PPG with 4.6 RPG and a team-high 3 APG as well to lead the Cougars in the assist department. As a team, SIU-Edwardsville is averaging 69.1 PPG on 43.4% shooting from the field, 28.1% from three and 66% from the foul line while allowing 66.5 PPG on 40.1% shooting from the field and 30.6% from three this season.

The Eastern Illinois Panthers will try to rebound from a 63-50 loss to Morehead State last time out. Kashawn Charles and Kejuan Clements share the team lead in scoring with 9.2 PPG with Clements logging 4.8 RPG and a team-high 4.2 APG to lead the Panthers in the assist department. Rodolfo Rufino Bolis also has a team-high 4.9 RPG to lead the Panthers in rebounding so far this season. As a team, Eastern Illinois is averaging 56.7 PPG on 39.8% shooting from the field, 33.1% from three and 61.7% from the foul line while allowing 70.1 PPG on 43.3% shooting from the field and 33.5% from three this season.

SIU-Edwardsville is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games against a team with a losing record and 5-0 ATS in their last 5 road games against a team with a losing home record while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 road games. Eastern Illinois is 10-26 ATS in their last 36 games overall and 4-11 ATS in their last 15 home games while the over is 13-4-1 in their last 18 games as a home underdog.

I get the case to be made for a home dog in most spots, but the Panthers are having serious scoring issues and even against SIUE I don’t see those issues being remedied here. SIU-Edwardsville just took a really good Murray State team down to the wire and I think they can beat up on the lowly Panthers even on the road here. I’ll lay the points with SIU-Edwardsville here.