No. 24 St. Mary’s Gaels vs Gonzaga Bulldogs NCAAB Lines
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St. Mary’s vs. Gonzaga NCAAB Matchup
Date/Time: Thursday, January 27, 11 PM ET
Venue: McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, WA
Broadcast: ESPN2
St Mary’s Gaels vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs Betting Lines from JustBet.com
Money Line: St. Mary’s (+130) Gonzaga (-150)
Spread: Gonzaga -2.5
Over/Under: 149
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St Mary’s Gaels vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs Preview
The tables have turned this season in the West Coast Conference with St. Mary’s (17-3) in first place and a Gonzaga (13-7) team that is in 3rd place in the conference and has dropped 2 straight games. NCAAB lines have Gonzaga as 2.5-point favorites in this game with a total of 149.
In their last games on Saturday both teams lost with St. Mary’s losing to a non-conference Vanderbilt team 89-70 and Gonzaga losing to San Francisco 96-91 in OT.
Both teams have been pretty even betting ones on the season with the Gaels at 9-6 ATS and the Bulldogs at 9-7-1 ATS. In the last 10 games between these WCC rivals the home team has covered the spread 7 times.
Gonzaga has won 10 straight WCC titles, but if they lose tonight they will likely not make it 11 and it will also jeopardize their chance at an at-large bid in the Big Dance.
Zags’ 7-foot C Robert Sacre (13.9 ppg 6.8 rpg) has had a disappointing season not getting a double-double all season and he can break out of his season long slump with a big game against St. Mary’s. Bulldogs’ leading scorer Steven Gray (15.2 ppg) has to step up tonight and even though he had 20 points in the loss to San Francisco he was only 7/20 from the floor.
St. Mary’s has a well-balanced squad with an 8-man rotation with all 8 guys averaging at least 6.3 ppg. They are led by G Mickey McConnell (14.6 ppg) and F Rob Jones (14 ppg). Both of these guys can knock down the 3, especially McConnell, who has drained 46.7% of his deep shots on the season.
Gonzaga has the nation’s 25th highest scoring team in the nation and St. Mary’s ranks 8th, but it is important that the Gaels play better defense than they did in the loss to Vanderbilt in their last game. In that loss the Gaels allowed Vandy to shoot 52% from the field and 50% from beyond the 3-point arc.
Gonzaga’s domination of the WCC seems to be ending and it will show tonight, as the Gaels will come out and play a good game and beat the Zags in their house.
Betting Trends
St. Mary’s is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 road and Gonzaga is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 home games and 5-2 ATS in their last 7 home games against teams with a winning road record.
The games between these 2 teams tend to be low scoring defensive affairs, as in the last 4 meetings between the 2 the total has gone Under. Also, in 7 of the last 8 home games for Gonzaga the total has gone Under.
Pick: St. Mary’s +2.5
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