Tuesday night college basketball and we will see the Texas A&M Aggies travel to the O'Connell Center to take on the Florida Gators. The game has a start time of 9:00 pm (Eastern) and will be televised on ESPN U. Current Vegas betting odds have the Gators listed as 5 point favorites, while the total is set at 122.5.
Analysis: The Texas A&M Aggies have been a surprise this year as they currently in third place in the SEC with an 11-5 record. Overall the Aggies have gone 20-8 and are off a big 25 point home win over Auburn on Saturday. The Aggies have gone 6-1 ATS in their last 7 road games, but just 2-13-1 ATS in their last 16 games following a SU win of more than 20 points. The Aggies have been a very average offensive team this year, ranking 167th in scoring (67.9 ppg), 82nd in shooting (45.6%), 126th in 3 point shooting (35.3%) and 311th in FT shooting (64.9%). The defense for this team has been solid, ranking 66th in points allowed (62.0 ppg), 44th in defensive FG% (39.6%) and 18th in 3 point defense (30.0%).
The Florida Gators have not been playing very good ball right now as they have won just 2 of their last 8 games, but one of those wins were at home by 17 points vs Tennessee on Saturday. The Gators are now just 14-15 on the year, including just 7-9 in the SEC. The Gators have gone 4-0 ATS the last 4 in the series, but just 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games after allowing less than 50 points in their previous game. Florida has not been a good offensive team this year, ranking 253rd in scoring (64.4 ppg),181st in shooting (43.5%), 259th in 3 point shooting (32.2%) and 322nd in FT shooting (64.4%). Defensively the Gators have been very good, ranking 24th in points allowed (59.6 ppg), 83rd in defensive FG% (40.8%) and 117 in 3 point defense (33.0%).
Pick: Gonna shock everyone here and go with the Over in this one. The Gators have had some scoring issues of late but they will have Dorian Finney-Smith back for this one and that will help the offense for sure, especially vs a Texas A&M team that has allowed 65.7 ppg on the road this year. Yes the Gators have been very good on defense this year, but the Aggies have been a decent offensive squad this year and they have averaged 69.7 ppg in their last 7 SEC road games. This game also has the feel of one that will either have a foul fest at the end or it could very well end up in OT. Both teams need this game badly and the team that is down will really try an extend the game in the end. This one should flirt with 130 points.
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