The Tennessee State Tigers and the Saint Louis Billikens meet in college basketball action from the Chaifetz Arena on Wednesday night.
The Tennessee State Tigers will look to rebound from a 77-72 loss to High Point last time out. Jr. Clay leads the Tigers in scoring with 16 PPG along with a team-high 4.2 APG to lead the Tigers in assists while Christian Brown has 13.8PPG and Marcus Fitzgerald Jr. has 12.7 PPG & 3.7 APG. capping off the trio of double-digit scorers for Tennessee State so far this season. Zion Griffin also has 8.3 PPG and a team-high 5.7 RPG to lead Tennessee State on the glass so far this season. As a team, Tennessee State is averaging 73.7 points per game on 43.9% shooting from the field, 34.2% from three point range and 64.7% from the foul line this season
The Saint Louis Billikens will try to bounce back from a 65-60 loss to Auburn in their last game. Gibson Jimerson leads the Billikens in scoring with 14.3 PPG while Yuri Collins has 12.4 PPG with a team-high 10.4 APG to lead the Billikens in assists, averaging a double-double per game this season. Javonte Perkins has 12.3 PPG and Javon Pickett has 10.9 PPG with 7.4 RPG to cap off the group of double-digit scorers for Saint Louis up to this point in the year. Francis Okoro has 8.1 PPG and a team-high 9.1 RPG to lead the Billikens on the glass this season. As a team, Saint Louis is averaging 80.4 PPG on 46.5% shooting from the field, 34.6% from three and 75.9% from the foul line this season.
Tennessee Tech is 7-18-1 ATS in their last 26 road games against a team with a winning home record and 10-2 ATS in their last 12 games following a loss while the over is 6-1 in their last 7 Wednesday games. Saint Louis is 5-1-1 ATS in their last 7 home games against a team with a losing road record and 7-2-1 ATS in their last 10 games following a loss while the over is 6-0 in their last 6 Wednesday games.
I get why the points are worth a look with Tennessee Tech as there are a lot of them. However, Saint Louis is simply the better team here by a mile and there’s just so much depth for Saint Louis that can hurt you across the board. I just see this as one of those games where the Golden Eagles fall behind early and can’t recover as Saint Louis rolls to a win and cover.