The Little Rock Trojans and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane meet in college basketball action from the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Friday night.
The Little Rock Trojans will look to add ot their 67-60 win over Northern Illinois last time out. Isaiah Palermo leads the Trojans in scoring with 13.2 PPG while Nikola Maric has 12.8 PPG and a team-high 6.5 RPG with 3 APg and Jovan Stulic also has 10.7 PPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Little Rock so far this season. DeAntoni Gordon has 9.7 PPG while CJ White also has 3 APG this season. As a team, Little Rock is averaging 77.3 PPG on 45.3% shooting from the field, 32.4% from three and 70.9% from the foul line while allowing 66 PPG on 41.1% shooting from the field and 34.9% from three this season.
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane will try to bounce back from a 72-58 loss to Utah last time out. Sam Griffin leads the Golden Hurricane in scoring with 18 PPG while Jeriah Horne has 17.4 PPg and a team-high 6.3 RPG as the only other double-digit scorer for Tulsa so far this season. Keyshawn Embery-Simpson also has a team-high 2 APG for the Golden Hurricane this season. As a team, Tulsa is averaging 67.8 PPG on 42.4% shooting from the field, 33% from three and 83.1% from the foul line while allowing 67 PPG on 46.9% from the field and 35% from three this season.
Little Rock is 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games as a road underdog and 0-5 ATS in their last 5 Friday games while the under is 5-0 in their last 5 games following an ATS win. Tulsa is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 home games and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games as a home favorite while the over is 5-0 in their last 5 games following a double-digit loss at home.
I get the case that could be made either way, but backing either team in this spot makes me uncomfortable, so I’ll look at the under here. These are two teams struggling on both ends and I think that this could end up being a first to 60 or maybe 65 wins if we even get that high. Give me the under here.