Florida State vs Lipscomb 12/15/21 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Lipscomb Bison and the Florida State Seminoles meet in college basketball action from the Donald L. Tucker Gymnasium on Wednesday night.

The Lipscomb Bison will be out to snap a four-game losing streak after a 73-65 loss to Tennessee State last time out. Ahsan Asadullah has 17 PPG and 9.8 RPG in 6 games for Lipscomb so far this season while Jacob Ognacevic has 16.5 PPG with 5.5 RPG in 11 games. Greg Jones has 10.1 PPG to make up the scoring in double figures for Lipscomb so far this season while Parker Hazen has 8.5 PPG with 5.6 RPG and KJ Johnson has 8 PPG with a team-high 3.2 APG on the year. As a team, Lipscomb is averaging 76.3 PPG on 47.2% shooting from the field, 37.3% from three and 74.3% from the foul line while allowing 79.3 PPG on 43.9% shooting from the field and 34.9% from three this season.

The Florida State Seminoles will try to bounce back from a 66-65 loss to South Carolina that pushed their losing skid to three games. Caleb Mills leads the ‘Noles in scoring with 12.7 PPG while Malik Osborne has 11.8 PPG with a team-high 7.4 RPG to lead the Seminoles on the glass while also making up the other half of the double-digit scoring duo for Florida State so far this season. Matthew Cleveland has 9.2 PPG while Anthony Polite has 8.4 PPG and 5.6 RPG with a team-high 3.2 APG as well to lead FSU in assists. As a team, Florida State is averaging 71.6 PPG on 44.7% shooting from the field, 32.3% from three and 68.8% from the foul line while allowing 66.7 PPG on 41.1% shooting from the field and 32.6% from three this season.

Lipscomb is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games following a loss and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games overall while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games as an underdog. Florida State is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games overall and 0-4-1 ATS in their last 5 games following a loss while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 Wednesday games.

I’ll give Lipscomb credit for scheduling up and taking on some tough teams like Miami and Belmont on the road, but those road games didn’t end well for Lipscomb and I’m worried this one won’t either. FSU’s lost three straight, but they’re too good of a team to continue to have issues and we saw the Seminoles whoop up on Penn at home earlier this season in convincing fashion. I think the ‘Noles get back to that version of themselves here and win by 20+. Lay the points with FSU here.