Mercer vs Wofford 1/4/23 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Wofford Terriers and the Mercer Bears meet in college basketball action from the Hawkins Arena on Wednesday night.

The Wofford Terriers will be out to bounce back from a 73-64 loss to UNC-Greensboro last time out. B.J. Mack leads the Terriers in scoring with 16.1 PPG along with 5.4 RPG while Jackson Paveletzke has 15.5 PPG with a team-high 3.8 APG to lead Wofford in the assist department as the only other double-digit scorer for Wofford up to this point in the season. Corey Tripp has 9.1 PPG while Messiah Jones has 9.5 PPG up to this point in the year. As a team, Wofford is averaging 75.3 PPG on 46.6% shooting from the field, 32.1% from three and 75.9% from the foul line this season.

The Mercer Bears will be looking to rebound from an 80-51 loss to Chattanooga last time out. Jalyn McCreary leads the Bears in scoring and rebounding with 15.9 PPG and 5.9 RPG while Kamar Robertson has 12.9 PPG as well to cap off the scoring in double figures for Mercer this season. Luis Hurtado Jr. also has a team-high 5.1 APG to lead the Bears in the assist department so far this season. As a team, Mercer is averaging 74.9 PPG on 49.1% shooting from the field, 37.5% from three and 71.4% from the foul line this season.

Wofford is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 road games and 42-20 ATS in their last 62 games following a loss while the over is 12-5 in their last 17 games overall. Mercer is 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games overall and 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games following an ATS loss while the under is 12-1 in their last 13 home games.

I get why you’d want to look at Wofford here, but this isn’t the same Wofford team from years past that was helping us make money hand over first. This Wofford team isn’t very good and they’ve struggled more often than not this season and the game against UNC-Greensboro proved to be no difference. I think this is one where the Bears just end up being too much for Wofford so give me the Mercer Bears laying the points here.