The Bowling Green Falcons and the Ohio State Buckeyes meet in college basketball action from Value City Arena on Monday night.
The Bowling Green Falcons come into this game looking to build on their first win of the season in a 101-60 win over Ohio Wesleyan. Daeqwon Plowden leads the Falcons in scoring and rebounding with 16 PPG and 9.5 RPG while Myron Gordon has 11.5 PPG and a team-high 3 APG. Trey Diggs also has 11.5 PPG with 4 RPG and Joe Reece has 10.5 PPG with 8.5 RPG to give the Falcons four players averaging double figures in scoring this season. As a team, Bowling Green is averaging 86 PPG on 43.2% shooting from the field, 25.9% from three and 72.5% from the foul line while allowing 69.5 PPG on 35.7% shooting from the field and 31.4% from three this season.
The Ohio State Buckeyes will look to build on their 2-0 start after an 84-74 win over Niagara last time out. E.J. Liddell is averaging 27 PPG along with a team-high 8 RPG while Zed Key has 12.5 PPG and 6 RPG as the only other Buckeye outside of Liddell averaging double-figures in scoring this season. Jamari Wheeler also has 5.5 PPG and a team-high 3.5 APG this season. As a team, Ohio State is averaging 75.5 PPG on 48.2% shooting from the field, 35% from three and 67.4% from the foul line while allowing 70 PPG on 43% shooting from the field and 41.9% from three this season.
Bowling Green is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games overall and 7-3 ATS in their last 10 games following a win while the under is 4-0 in their last 4 Monday games. Ohio State is 3-8 ATS in their last 11 games overall and 1-7 ATS in their last 8 games as a favorite while the over is 7-1-1 in their last 9 games following a win.
I get the case to be made both ways here, but I’m looking at the over. 144.5 just seems very low for two teams that are more than capable of scoring into the 70s with the amount of depth on both rosters. I think we see 150 in this game if not more, so give me the over in this spot.