Long Beach State vs UC San Diego 2/24/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The UC-San Diego Tritons and the Long Beach State Beach meet in college hoops action from the Walter Pyramid on Thursday night.

The UC-San Diego Tritons will look to rebound from back-to-back losses after a 65-53 defeat at the hands of the Hawaii Warriors last time out. Toni Rocak leads the Tritons in scoring and rebounding with 15 PPG and 6.8 RPG while Francis Nwaokone has 11 PPG with 5.7 RPG and Bryce Pope has 12.5 PPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for UCSD so far this season. Jace Roquemore leads the Tritons in assists with 3.2 APG this season. As a team, UC-San Diego is averaging 68.8 PPG on 43.7% shooting from the field, 35.3% from three and 73.9% from the foul line while allowing 68.7 PPG on 45.1% shooting from the field and 30.1% from three this season.

The Long Beach State Beach will try to bounce back from an 84-71 loss to UC-Santa Barbara last time out. Joel Murray leads the Beach in scoring and assists with 15.6 PPG and 2.9 APG while Colin Slater has 14.3 PPG and Jadon Jones has 10 PPG to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for Long Beach State so far this season. Joe Hampton has 9.1 PPG and Aboubacar Traore has a team-high 8.2 RPG to lead the Beach on the glass this season. As a team, Long Beach State is averaging 73.6 PPG on 43.1% shooting from the field, 34.5% from three and 72.3% from the foul line while allowing 72.7 PPG on 43% shooting from the field and 33.2% from three this season.

UC-San Diego is 2-9 ATS in their last 11 road games and 1-7 ATS in their last 8 games as a road underdog while the over is 4-0 in their last 4 games following an ATS loss. Long Beach State is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games against a team with a losing record and 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games with a favorite while the over is 9-4 in their last 13 Thursday games.

This may feel lie a lot of points to give up with the Beach, but the Tritons haven’t been scoring enough consistently to suggest they could hang with even this kind of number. The Tritons have also been brutal ATS on the road and I think the Beach take advantage with a double-digit win at home here.