MSU comes into this game in sole possession of third place in the conference at 5-3. Drake comes in a surprisingly, at least to me, tied for fourth place with SIU and Loyola at 4-4. Stat wise both teams are pretty equal on the offensive end. The big difference is on the defensive end where Drake is last in the Valley in defensive eff. (in conference games) at 111.5 while MSU is fourth at 100.9. One other stat that sticks out about Drake is they have won all their conference home games and lost all their conference road games with each loss being by 14 or more points. I am leery of laying this many points with the Bears as they seem to have a tendency of just coasting to a win when they should win by double digits. But I'm going to take a chance on them hoping they will close it out like they are supposed to.
2* #746 MISSOURI ST. -9 1/2 -107