This game is actually quite simple here. You have 2 lower echelon teams in 2 huge basketball conferences who lost a ton of production from the year before, looking quite average this year and now playing each other (yes that was a run-on sentence). Both the Wildcats and the Yellow Jackets have had their easy tomato can teams that they kicked around and they both had their one loss. Tech lost to Tennessee and Northwestern to Fresno State. Both teams play pretty slow hence the low total at 130. The Wildcat’s have the advantage in points per game at 76 led by Vic Law at 18.5 PPG to the Yellowjacket’s 71 led by Brandon Alston at 13 points per game. Georgia Tech has the slight advantage on defense holding teams to 57 points per game to Northwestern’s 61.
Looking at the rest of the stats it all looks pretty equal and very middle of the road. What does Vegas say? Well 54% of the tickets are on Georgia tech and so is 84% of the money so that pretty much tells you the sharp side. Due to these teams both looking pretty equal and thus having a low total I have to look towards the dog here. This should be more of a 4-5 point spread rather than 7.5
Georgia Tech +7.5
