The Winthrop Eagles and the Gardner-Webb Bulldogs meet in college basketball action from the Paul Porter Arena on Wednesday night. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.
Odds
Gardner-Webb is listed as a 7.5-point home favorite with a ML price of -385. The total for this game is set at 134.5 points.
Injuries
For Winthrop, Kelton Talford is questionable for this game with an undisclosed injury while Gardner-Webb comes into this game with a clean injury report.
Matchup History
Gardner-Webb’s 63-61 win back on January 21st, 2023, snapped Winthrop’s six-game head-to-head win streak in this matchup.
Trends
Winthrop is 9-23 ATS in their last 43 road games and 5-16 ATS in their last 21 road games against a team with a home winning percentage above .600 while the over is 5-0 in their last 5 games overall. Gardner-Webb is 1-4-1 ATS in their last 6 games following an ATS loss and 8-20 ATS in their last 28 home games while the under is 9-3 in their last 12 Wednesday games.
Pick
I’m sticking with Gardner-Webb here. The Bulldogs are the much hotter team, especially at home, and Winthrop’s really struggled to put it all together in a lot of their recent road performances. I don’t expect Gardner-Webb to run away and hide here, but I think that they do enough to get themselves a win and cover in this one.