The Georgia Southern Eagles and the Santa Clara Broncos meet in college basketball action from the Leavey Center on Thursday night.
The Georgia Southern Eagles come into this game looking to shake off their season-opening 63-48 loss to San Jose State last time out. Andrei Savrasov led the Eagles with 14 points along with 6 rebounds and 3 steals while Tai Strickland has 11 points and Jalen Finch had 10 points to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for Georgia Southern in the loss. Carlos Curry also added a team-high 8 rebounds as well in the losing effort.
The Santa Clara Broncos will be hoping to keep the ball rolling after an 84-72 win over Eastern Washington in their season opener. Brandin Podziemski led the Broncos with 30 points on 9 of 20 shooting with a 10 of 13 mark from the foul line along with 9 rebounds while Carlos Stewart has 20 points along with 5 rebounds. Carlos Marshall Jr. has 12 points on 5 of 7 shooting with a pair of threes to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for Santa Clara in the win. Parker Braun added 9 rebounds of his own while Camaron Tongue has 8 points and 6 rebounds.
Georgia Southern is 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games overall and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games overall. Santa Clara is 7-1 ATS in their last 8 home games and 6-1 ATS in their last 7 games overall while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games following an ATS win.
I get the case to be made either way in this game, but I’m leaning towards Santa Clara. I just don’t feel like Georgia Southern did enough in the offseason to improve a roster than wasn’t all that great last season. Santa Clara lost some pieces, but they’ve seemingly picked up right where they left off and I think as the better team, they go out and get a win here Give me the Broncos laying the points.