Utah State vs Penn College Basketball Picks, Best Bets and Odds 11/18/2021
Penn Quakers (2-2) vs. Utah State Aggies (1-1)
November 18, 2021 2:30 pm EDT
The Line: Utah State Aggies -9.5 / Pennsylvania Quakers +9.5; Over/Under: +143
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The Penn Quakers and the Utah State Aggies meet in college basketball action from the HTC Center on Thursday afternoon.
The Penn Quakers will be looking to build on an 85-57 win over Lafayette in their last game. Jordan Dingle leads Penn in scoring and assists with 19 PPG and 3.2 APG while Jonah Charles has 12.8 PPG and Clark Stajchert has 10 PPG with 2.8 RPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Penn so far this season. Jelani Williams also has 8.5 PPG and a team-high 5 RPG as well on the year. As a team, Penn is averaging 73.5 PPG on 43.8% shooting from the field, 41.45 from three and 82% from the foul line while allowing 78.3 PPG on 44.2% shooting from the field and 35.1% from three this season.
The Utah State Aggies will be looking to build on an 85-74 win over Richmond last time out. Justin Bean leads the Aggies in scoring and rebounding, averaging a double-double per game with 23 PPG and 13.5 RPG while Brandon Horvath has 18.5 PPG with 5.5 RPG as the only other double-digit scorer for the Aggies through their first two games of the season. Rylan Jones has 9 PPG and a team-high 5.5 APG as well for the Aggies this season. As a team, Utah State is averaging 77 PPG on 45.3% shooting from the field, 33.3% from three and 68.1% from the foul line while allowing 73 PPG on 40% shooting from the field and 37% from three this season.
Penn is 7-2 ATS in their last 9 games overall and 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games following an ATS win while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games following an ATS win. Utah State is 6-2 ATS in their last 8 neutral site games and 13-5 ATS in their last 18 games following a win while the under is 7-1 in their last 8 games overall.
This is tough because you have a Penn team that hasn’t covered as an underdog this season against a Utah State team that lost the one game that they were favored by double-digits, outright. With that said, the Quakers come into this game in better form but there’s also a bigger sample size of their struggles in the underdog role. I’ll lay the points with Utah State in this one.
