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Prairie View Panthers @ UAB Blazers
Present Data: Prairie View 1-6, UAB 4-5
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Panthers followers higher hope the squad performs one heck of a recreation on Friday as the chances are decidedly towards them. Their street journey will proceed as they head out to face the UAB Blazers at 7:30 p.m. ET at Bartow Enviornment. The Panthers are strutting in with some offensive muscle as they’ve averaged 82.1 factors per recreation this season.
Prairie View is headed into Friday’s matchup after beating the spectacular 166-point over/beneath the oddsmakers set for his or her final contest towards TX A&M-CC. It will take a while for Prairie View to get well from the 109-74 bruising that TX A&M-CC dished out on Saturday. The Panthers have been in a tricky place after the primary half, with the rating already sitting at 50-30.
In the meantime, the purpose unfold could have favored UAB final Sunday, however the ultimate outcome didn’t. They fell 76-69 to Center Tennessee.
The dropping facet was boosted by Yaxel Lendeborg, who dropped a double-double on 16 factors and ten rebounds. He’s changing into a predictor of UAB’s success: when he posts at least eight rebounds the workforce is 3-1 (and 1-4 when he does not). Efrem Johnson, alternatively, was significantly much less useful: he went 0-5 from lengthy vary.
Though they misplaced, UAB smashed the offensive glass and completed the sport with 20 offensive rebounds. They simply outclassed their opponents in that division as Center Tennessee solely pulled down 11.
Prairie View’s defeat was their ninth straight on the street courting again to final season, which dropped their document all the way down to 1-6. As for UAB, their loss ended a three-game streak of wins at dwelling and dropped them to 4-5.
Some high-performance offense is probably going on the agenda as the 2 groups are among the highest scoring groups within the league. Prairie View hasn’t had any drawback working up the rating this season, having averaged 82.1 factors per recreation. Nevertheless, it is not like UAB struggles in that division as they have been averaging 83. With each groups so simply capable of put up factors, the one query left is who can run the rating up greater.
Odds
UAB is a giant 24.5-point favourite towards Prairie View, in line with the most recent faculty basketball odds.
The oddsmakers have been proper consistent with the betting neighborhood on this one, as the sport opened as a 24.5-point unfold, and stayed proper there.
The oddsmakers expect fireworks from the offense and set the over/beneath at a excessive 170.5 factors.
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