The Winthrop Eagles and the Mississippi Sate Bulldogs meet in college basketball action from the Mississippi Coliseum on Tuesday night.
The Winthrop Eagles come into this game on the heels of a 63-61 loss at the hands of Elon last time out. D.J. Burns leads the Eagles in scoring with 16.6 PPG along with 5.1 RPG while Patrick Good has 12.7 PPG and Cory Hightower has 11.3 PPG with a team-high 5.6 RPG to lead the Eagles on the glass so far this season and to round out the trio of double-digit scorers for Winthrop so far this season. Drew Buggs is also contributing a team-high 4 APG as well this season. As a team, Winthrop is averaging 79 PPG on 47.8% shooting from the field, 38.9% from three and 68.5% from the foul line while allowing 75.1 PPG on 45.1% shooting from the field and 35.2% from three this season.
The Mississippi State Bulldogs will look to build on a 69-66 win over Furman last time out. Iverson Molinar has a team-high 16.5 PPG and 4.5 APG while Garrison Brooks has chipped in 11.4 PPG with a team-high 6.7 RPG to lead the Bulldogs on the glass this season. Shakeel Moore and D.J. Jeffries each have 10+ PPG to round out the group of double-digit scorers for Mississippi State so far this season. As a team, Mississippi State is averaging 73.3 PPG on 47.2% shooting from the field, 35.3% from three and 73.8% from the foul line while allowing 61.3 PPG on 40.5% shooting from the field and 34.3% from three this season.
Winthrop is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games following a loss and 15-4 ATS in their last 19 games against a team with a winning percentage above .600 while the under is 30-9 in their last 39 neutral site games.
I get the case that could be made for Winthrop and the points in this one as the Eagles are a team that I was high on coming into the year. However, it hasn’t necessarily shaken out that way as the Eagles have put up some clunkers that you wouldn’t necessarily come to expect from a team of their stature. Mississippi State’s been playing some solid defense and have a talented roster from top to bottom and should win this one by double-digits. Give me Mississippi State and lay the points.