Over the weekend, the Georgetown Hoyas snapped a 22-game road losing streak with a win at Hinkle Fieldhouse against the Butler Bulldogs. Elsewhere, the North Carolina Tar Heels matched a record-high 11 losses by a team ranked as the No. 1 team in the AP poll to start the year. Unfortunately, the Tar Heels’ NCAA tournament hopes are dwindling by the day, as they still do not have a Quad 1 victory.
Here are our best bets for Tuesday’s college basketball action. Below is a closer look at Utah State vs. Wyoming.
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Best College Basketball Bets for Tuesday: Utah State vs. Wyoming
(Odds courtesy of DraftKings)
Utah State vs. Wyoming
Things have gone from bad to worse for Jeff Linder’s Wyoming Cowboys, who reside in last place in the Mountain West (3-11) just one year after making a First Four appearance. Linder dismissed former USC transfers Ethan Anderson and Max Agbonkpolo and UCLA transfer Jake Kyman from the team. While none of those players averaged more than 25 minutes per game, the moves hurt the Cowboys’ depth and weakened a bench that was a strength (the Cowboys had been 13th in bench minutes).
The Cowboys’ leading scorer, point guard Hunter Maldonado (14.7 points), has played 38+ minutes in four of the previous five games (four losses in that span) and is receiving little help. The rest of the team is 14-for-69 (20.3%) from 3-point range in three of the losses and shot a combined 10-for-27 from 2-point range in the one loss they did shoot well from the perimeter.
The Aggies look for revenge after two narrow two-point losses last year. We expect their fifth-ranked 3-point shooting (39.6%) to expose a Wyoming defense that ranks 323rd at defending the perimeter (36.9% allowed).
Wyoming is the second-least profitable Mountain West team with a 9-15-1 ATS record, and we are backing a Utah State team that has covered four of six games as road favorites.
Bet: Utah State -4.5 (-110 at DraftKings)
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