Texas A&M-Corpus Christi vs McNeese State 1/8/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The McNeese State Cowboys and the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders meet in college hoops action from the Merrell Center on Saturday evening.

The McNeese State Cowboys will look to rebound from an 83-78 loss to Southeastern Louisiana last time out. Myles Lewis leads the Cowboys in scoring with 11.6 PPG along with 5.5 RPG while Christian Shumate has 10.1 PPG with a team-high 6.6 RPG to lead McNeese State on the glass as the other half of the pair of double-digit scorers for the Cowboys this season. Brendan Medley-Bacon has 9.8 PPG with 6.4 RPG and Kellon Taylor has 9.4 PPG and 5.4 RPG this season. As a team, McNeese State is averaging 75.5 PPG on 44.1% shooting from the field, 30.4% from three and 58% from the foul line while allowing 75.8 PPG on 42.7% shooting from the field and 34.6% from three this season.

The Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders will try to bounce back after an 84-75 loss to Nicholls State last time out. Isaac Mushila leads the Islanders in scoring and rebounding with 15 PPG and 8.8 RPG while Trevian Tennyson has 11.4 PPG as the only other double-digit scorer for Texas A&M-CC so far this season. Simeon Fryer has 8.4 PPG with 3.3 RPG and Terrion Murdix has a team-high 4.3 APG as well this season. As a team, Texas A&M-CC is averaging 80.5 PPG on 47% shooting from the field, 34.8% from three and 72.7% from the foul line while allowing 68.8 PPG on 42.7% shooting from the field and 32.5% from three this season.

Both of these teams had narrow losses on Friday, but in my opinion, it’s still Texas A&M CC that’s the far better team here. I think this is a spot where you simply back the better team and the line is more than reasonable so I’ll lay it and play it with Texas A&M CC here.