Western Carolina vs UMBC College Basketball Picks, Best Bets and Odds 11/19/2021
UMBC Retrievers (1-1) vs. Western Carolina Catamounts (1-2)
November 19, 2021 7:30 pm EDT
The Line: Western Carolina Catamounts +4 / UMBC Retrievers -4; Over/Under: +143
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The Western Carolina Catamounts and the UMBC Retrievers meet in college basketball action from Willett Hall on Friday night.
The Western Carolina Catamounts will be looking to rebound from a 95-79 loss at the hands of East Carolina in their last game. Nicholas Robinson leads the Catamounts in scoring and rebounding with 17.3 PPG and 10.7 RPG while also logging 3.7 APG. Travion McCray has 16 PPG with 4.5 RPG and Tyler Harris has 10.7 PPG with 3.3 RPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Western Carolina so far this season. Joe Petrakis also has 9 PPG with 4.7 RPG and Vonterius Woolbright has a team-high 5 APG as well this season. As a team, Western Carolina is averaging 77.7 PPG on 41.1% shooting from the field, 36.3% from three and 66.%% from the foul line while allowing 84.3 PPG on 45% shooting from the field and 28.6% from three this season.
The UMBC Retrievers will look to build on a 65-47 win over Penn State-York last time out. Keondre Kennedy leads the Retrievers with 15 PPG along with 6.5 RPG while Darnell Rogers has 12.5 PPG as the only other double-digit scorer for UMBC up to this point in the season. Dimitrije Spasojevic has 9 PPG with 8 RPG while Jacob Boonyasith has a team-high 9.5 RPG and Ray Salnave has a team-high 3 APG as well this season. As a team, UMBC is averaging 72.5 PPG on 38.6% shooting from the field, 21.1% from three and 89.3% from the foul line while allowing 62 PPG on 37.7% shooting from the field and 21.4% from three this season.
Western Carolina is 1-6-1 ATS in their last 8 games following a loss and 3-9 ATS in their last 12 Friday games while the under is 7-2 in their last 9 games following an ATS loss. UMBC is 2-7 ATS in their last 9 games following a win and 1-4-1 ATS in their last 6 games against a team with a losing record while the over is 9-4 in their last 13 neutral site games.
I get the case that could be made both ways here, but I’m leaning towards Western Carolina here. I’ve yet to really see anything from UMBC so far this season outside of a win over a subdivision team. Western Carolina has a win over Bowling Green to start the year and hasn’t really played a slouch in the bunch so far this season. I’ll take the Catamounts and the points here.
