The Vanderbilt Commodores and Texas Tech Red Raiders face off on Saturday in a college basketball showdown at Dickies Arena. Let’s look at the betting matchup and give a free Vanderbilt vs Texas Tech prediction.

Vanderbilt in a Downward Spiral

Vanderbilt is really struggling and they are coming off another loss in the last game. Vanderbilt faced off against San Francisco and the offense managed only 60 points on the way to the 13 point defeat. Ven-Allen Lubin was the top player putting up 15 points and two rebounds. Vanderbilt on the season is averaging 70 points while their defense is giving up 72.7 points per game. The defense hasn’t been good enough and if they want to win this game the defense is going to need to step up. 

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Texas Tech Offense has Confidence

The Texas Tech offense has a ton of confidence heading into this game and they have scored at least 82 points in each of the last three games. In the last game against Oral Roberts they were able to secure the 82-76 victory. Two games ago against Omaha, Texas Tech was able to secure the 87-58 victory. Texas Tech on the season is averaging 75.6 points while their defense is giving up 66.8 points per game. Joe Toussaint is averaging 14.7 points while shooting 48.3 percent from the field.

Vanderbilt vs Tech Betting Prediction

This is going to be a comfortable victory by Texas Tech. Texas Tech’s offense has a ton of confidence heading into this game and they are going to have no issue running up the score here. Vanderbilt is giving up 72.7 points per game and they are going to really struggle to defend here. Texas Tech might get close to 100 points here, and this is going to be a blowout. Back Texas Tech against the spread.