New Mexico State vs. Santa Clara: College Basketball Betting Picks & Predictions (Wednesday)
At DraftKings, Purdue’s Zach Edey has stormed atop the odds leaderboard for the Wooden Award with +350 odds. Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky is the only other player with odds shorter than +1400. Edey has averaged 23.3 points and 12.8 rebounds per game thus far and gets another chance to add to his POY resume with a home game against Hofstra tonight.
Here are our best bets for Wednesday’s college basketball action. And here’s a closer look at GAME.
(Odds courtesy of DraftKings)
New Mexico State vs. Santa Clara: College Basketball Betting Picks & Predictions (Wednesday)
New Mexico State vs. Santa Clara Spread
New Mexico State is bound to pull some upsets this year with their success in shooting the basketball. The Aggies rank second in the country with a 43.8% 3-point shooting percentage. Considering they get 36.9% of their points from 3-point shots (57th-most in the country), that bodes well for their chances of success going forward. Santa Clara ranks outside the top 130 in defending the arc and will have its hands full with the Aggies, who have six of their top seven leading scores all shooting better than 40% from deep. Conversely, Santa Clara is overly reliant on Brandin Podziemski’s scoring (20.6 ppg), and in the Broncos’ two losses this year, Podziemski has averaged just eight points per game on a combined 5-of-19 shooting.
New Mexico State is 7-2 ATS in its last nine games, while Santa Clara is just 1-4 ATS in its last five following a SU win. We like for the Aggies to cover this big number on the road.
Bet: New Mexico State +7.5 (-110 at DraftKings)
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