The Lipscomb Bison and the Miami Hurricanes meet in college basketball action from the Watsco Center on Wednesday night.
The Lipscomb Bison will be out to bounce back from an 85-64 loss to Chattanooga in their last matchup. Jacob Ognacevic leads the Bison in scoring with 18.6 PPG while Ahsan Asadullah has 18 PPG and 9.8 RPG in six games and Greg Johnes has 10.6 PPG. Will Pruitt and K.J. Johnson each have 3.2 APG as well this season while Parker Hazen has 5.4 RPG for Lipscomb. As a team, Lipscomb is averaging 79.4 PPG on 49.3% shooting from the field, 40.8% from three and 75.1% from the foul line while allowing 80.3 PPG on 42.6% shooting from the field and 35.1% from three this season.
The Miami Hurricanes will try to build on their 80-75 win over Clemson in their last game. Kameron McGusty leads the Hurricanes in scoring and rebounding with 16.7 PPG and 6.2 RPG while Isaiah Wong has 14.9 PPG with 3.7 RPG and Charlie Moore has 10.6 PPG with a team-high 3 APG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Miami up to this point in the season. As a team, Micmi is averaging 72.9 PPG on 45.6% shooting from the field, 30.7% from three and 76.3% from the foul line while allowing 72.8 PPG on 46.7% shooting from the field and 40.1% from three this season.
Lipscomb is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games following a loss and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games against a team with a winning record while the over is 4-0 in their last 4 games overall. Miami is 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games against a team with a winning record and 2-5-1 ATS in their last 8 home games while the over is 4-0 in their last 4 home games.
I get the case to be made either way here, but I’m siding with the under as my strongest play here. The Hurricanes aren’t a high-scoring team to begin with so I think this ends up revolving around the style that Lipscomb will play. Do they get stifled by Miami’s defense or run past Miami and not give the Canes a chance to keep pace. Either Way, I’m not seeing anything close to 150 here. Give me the under.