Southern Illinois vs Cal Baptist 11/24/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Cal Baptist Lancers and the Southern Illinois Salukis meet in college basketball action from the JSerra Pavilion on Wednesday night.

The Cal Baptist Lancers will try to bounce back after a 62-61 OT loss to Minnesota in their last game. Taran Armstrong leads the Lancers in scoring and assists with 16 PPG and 4.4 APG while Joe Quintana has 13.3 PPG as the only other Cal Baptist player to average double figures in scoring so far this season. Riley Battin has 9 PPG and 6.2 RPG while Hunter Goodrick has 7.5 PPG and a team-high 6.8 RPG to lead the Lancers on the glass up to this point in the year. As a team, Cal Baptist is averaging 63.8 points per game on 40.4% shooting form the field, 32.2% from three point range and 64,9% from the foul line this season.

The Southern Illinois Salukis will look to rebound from a 56-49 loss to UNLV last time out. Marcus Domask leads the Salukis across the board in scoring, rebounding and assists with 16.4 PPG, 7.2 RPG and 3.2 APG this season while Lance Jones also has 12.4 PPG with 3 RPG as the only other double-digit scorer for Southern Illinois up to this point in the season. AS a team, Southern Illinois is averaging 62.8 points per game on 41.9% shooting from the field, 27.7% from three point range and 77.3% from the foul line this season.

I get the case to be made for either side in this game, but I’m going to back Southern Illinois here. The fact between these two side-by-side is that Southern Illinois shoots the ball really well from 2-point range and they’re proficient at the foul line which in these kinds of games, are the little edges that you look for and I think we’ve found it here. Give me Southern Illinois in this one.