The Grambling State Tigers and the Texas Southern Tigers meet in college basketball action from the Bartow Arena on Friday afternoon.
The Grambling State Tigers come into this game fresh off of their 60-58 win over Southern last time out. Cam Christon leads the Tigers in scoring with 13.3 PPG along with 3.9 RPG while Tra’Michael Moton has 10.5 PPG with 4 RPG and a team-high 3.6 APG as the only other double-digit scorer for Grambling State up to this point in the season. Danya Kingsby has 8.5 PPG while A.J. Taylor has a team-high 5.5 RPG this season. As a team, Grambling State is averaging 63.8 PPG on 40.8% shooting from the field, 32.5% from three and 71% from the foul line while allowing 69.1 PPG on 42.2% shooting from the floor and 35.5% from behind the arc this season.
The Texas Southern Tigers will look to build on their 54-50 win over Jackson State in their last game. Joirdon Karl Nicholas has 9.4 PPG along with 5.9 RPG while John Walker III has 9.6 PPG with 4.2 RPG. Brison Gresham leads the Tigers on the glass with 7 RPG as well this season. As a team, Texas Southern is averaging 69 PPG on 43.6% shooting from the field, 31.2% from three and 66.4% from the foul line while allowing 66.6 PPG on 40.2% shooting from the field and 30.1% from three this season.
Grambling State is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 7-3 ATS in their last 10 Friday games while the over is 5-1 in their last 6 games following a win. Texas Southern is 2-6-1 ATS in their last 9 games overall and 9-1-2 ATS in their last 12 neutral site games while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games overall.
I get the case that could be made either way in this game, and while I lean towards Grambling State with the points (as the first two games were fairly close) I think that the better play here is the under. Both meetings finished under the posted total and I envision this being a first to 65 or 66 wins game if we even get that high. Give me the under here.