Southern vs Prairie View A&M 1/5/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds
Prairie View A&M Panthers (0-10) vs. Southern Jaguars (7-7)
January 5, 2022 8:30 pm EDT
The Line: Southern Jaguars -4 / Prairie View A&M Panthers +4; Over/Under: -147.5
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The Prairie View A&M Panthers and the Southern Jaguars meet in college basketball action from the F.G. Clark Activity Center on Wednesday night.
The Prairie View A&M Panthers come into this one rested after a forfeiture against Grambling State in their last game. Jawaun Daniels leads the Panthers in scoring and rebounding with 13.4 PPG and 4 RPG while D’Rell Roberts has 12.2 PPG as the only other double-digit scorer for Prairie View A&M so far this season. William Douglas also has 9.8 PPG for the Panthers on the year. As a team, Prairie View A&M is averaging 60.1 PPG on 40.2% shooting from the field, 29.1% from three and 74.5% from the foul line while allowing 80.4 PPG on 49.6% shooting from the field and 41.7% from three this season.
The Southern Jaguars will look to build on a 63-50 win over Texas Southern last time out. Tyrone Lyons leads the Jaguars in scoring with 14.4 PPG along with 4.6 RPG while Brion Whitley has 12.5 PPG and Jayden Saddler has 10.9 PPG with a team-high 4.1 APG to lead the Jaguars in assists and to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for Southern up to this point in the season. Terrell Williams has 8.9 PPG and Damien Sears leads the Jaguars on the glass with 5.6 RPG as well this season. As a team, Southern is averaging 71.4 PPG on 44% shooting from the field, 37.3% from three and 68.8% from the foul line while allowing 70.9 PPG on 47.2% shooting from the field and 30.4% from three this season.
The over is 5-0 in Prairie View A&M’s last 5 games overall. Southern is 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 21-7 ATS in their last 28 home games while the under is 5-2 in their last 7 Wednesday games.
At a certain point, you’d think that playing all these tough teams would serve Prairie View A&M well once we hit conference play. However, I’m still not sold on the Panthers and need to see them win a game before taking even a reasonable low number of points like we’re getting with Southern here. The Jaguars have hung around with Kentucky and beat Kent State so they’re no sluches and I think at home they’re worth laying the points. Give me Southern here.
