Furman vs Western Carolina College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 2/13/21

The Western Carolina Catamounts and the Furman Paladins meet in college basketball action from the Timmons Arena on Saturday afternoon.

The Western Carolina Catamounts will look to build on a 74-72 win over VMI last time out. Mason Faulkner leads the Catamounts in scoring and assists with 16.2 PPG and 4.7 APG while also chipping in 5.7 RPG while Cory Hightower has 13.6 PPG with a team-high 6.3 RPG to lead the Catamounts on the glass. Xavier Cork has 13.5 PPG with 5.4 RPG and Matt Halvorsen has 12.8 PPG to make up the group of double-digit scorers for Western Carolina up to this point in the year. As a team, Western Carolina is averaging 76.2 PPG on 45.1% shooting from the field, 32.5% from 3-point range and 73% from the foul line while allowing 77.7 PPG on 46.2% from the field and 35.6% from the 3-point line.

The Furman Paladins will look to rebound from a 64-58 loss to UNC-Greensboro last time out. Mike Bothwell leads Furman in scoring with 16.4 PPG in addition to 5.2 RPG and 3.1 APG while Clay Mounce has 15.3 PPG with a team-high 6.7 RPG to lead Furman on the glass this season. Noah Gurley has 13.2 PPG with 2.5 APG and Alex Hunter has 10.6 PPG with a team-high 3.8 APG to make up the group of double-digit scorers for Furman up to this point in the season. As a team, Furman is averaging 79.9 PPG on 48.1% shooting from the field, 33.6% from 3-point range and 72.4% from the foul line while allowing 68.5 PPG on 43.1% shooting from the field and 32% from 3-point range this season.

Western Carolina is 3-13-1 ATS in their last 17 games overall and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 road games while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games following a win. Furman is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games overall and 40-16 ATS in their last 56 games against a team with a losing record while the under is 5-0 in their last 5 games as a favorite. The road team is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between these two teams.

I’ve been low on Furman lately as the Paladins haven’t been covering and sometimes they’ve also been losing outright but the issue here is that Western Carolina’s offense just has not shown up lately and it’s caused them to go 1-7-1 ATS in their last 9 games. With all of that said, neither team’s offense has shown up lately and that’s alarming for a pair of offense first teams that have scored well into the 70s this year. Western Carolina’s played to the under in 8 of their last 9 and Furman’s gone to the under in their last 6 games. Give me the under here.