UTSA vs North Texas 12/22/22 College Basketball Picks, Predictions, Odds

The North Texas Mean Green and the UTSA Roadrunners meet in college basketball action from the Don Haskins Center on Thursday night.

The North Texas Mean Green will be out to build on a 62-44 win over UMass in their last game. Tylor Perry leads the Mean Green in scoring with 17.7 PPG while Kai Huntsberry has 12.6 PPG with a team-high 2.5 APG to lead the Mean Green in assists and Abou Ousmane has 11.2 PPG with a team-high 6.3 RPG to lead the Mean Green on the glass this season. As a team, North Texas is averaging 60.7 PPG on 38.3% shooting from the field, 31.5% from three and 69.3% from the foul line this season.

The UTSA Roadrunners will try to build on a 90-69 win over Bethune-Cookman last time out. Japhet Medor has 12.4 PPG with 4.4 RPG and a team-high 3.9 APG to lead the Roadrunners in scoring and assists while Jacob Germany has 11.7 PPG with a team-high 7.4 RPG to lead the Roadrunners in rebounding and to round out the pair of double-digit scorers for UTSA so far this season. As a team, UTSA is averaging 70.4 PPG on 41.2% shooting from the field, 34.1% from three and 71.7% from the foul line this season.

North Texas is 16-5-3 ATS in their last 24 road games against a team with a winning home record and 10-3-2 ATS in their last 15 Thursday games while the under is 5-1 in their last 6 games following an ATS win. UTSA is 7-1 ATS in their last 8 games against a team with a winning record and 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games against a team with a winning percentage above .600 while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games overall.

I get the case to be made for either side here, but I like the under. The two meetings last year were played to the under in a slow-paced battle, and that’s the style that North Texas likes and they’re not afraid to take control and force teams to play that way. UTSA is decent but I think this is shaping up to be a snail’s paced basketball game. Give me the under in a first to 60 wins situation.