College Hoops Southern Style – Tennessee at Arkansas
BetUS NCAA Basketball Sports Betting Odds: TENNESSEE -4, Total 156
Here are some of the NCAA basketball sports betting trends as they relate to this matchup:
* TENN has covered three of its last nine games
* TENN has played seven of its last ten games OVER the total * TENN has played four of its last five road games OVER the total
* ARK has lost five of its last six games SU
* ARK has covered two of its last six games
* ARK has won 18 of its last 20 home games SU
* ARK has covered five of its last seven home games
Also….
* TENN has won seven of the last ten meetings SU
* TENN has covered four of the last six meetings
* Five of the last seven meetings have gone OVER the total
* TENN has covered the last four meetings as the road team
* ARK has had the shooting edge in four of the last six meetings
* ARK has had the rebounding edge in four of the last six meetings
* TENN has made more three-pointers in each of the last five meetings
Tennessee is coming off one of its better wins of the season, in which it got 20 points from Scotty Hopson and rolled to a 16-point victory. Florida, usually a sure-handed team, committed 17 turnovers in the contest, and Tennessee, which is generally not all that efficient from beyond the three-point arc, hit 12 from downtown. Getting Nick Calathes in early foul trouble was a key factor in the game as well. That was certainly a win the Vols needed, as they had dropped consecutive home decisions to Memphis and LSU.
Arkansas is a team that started strong, got itself into the national rankings, and has done very little since the Razorbacks beat both Oklahoma and Texas, but once they got to the SEC schedule, things started to go wrong. Noe they have a 1-5 record in the conference, and although those wins over the Sooners and Longhorns are bound to count for something when the time comes to pick at-large teams for the NCAA’s, the committee isn’t going to look kindly upon teams that have such an awful record in league play.
The 20 points was Hopson’s season high, the effort from beyond the arc likely was an anomaly. Tennessee gives up 78 points per game on the road. Courtney Fortson was been making things happen lately; the cat-quick freshman point guard has 18 assists over his last two contests. Michael Washington, the guy the Hogs are going to look to underneath, has shot 58% over the last two games, and had 24 against LSU even in defeat on Saturday.
The point is that there are some signs that Arkansas could be turning the corner, or turning back to where they were before. Hopefully there is some desperation in this Arkansas team, which has won 18 of its last 20 at home. We’re taking the points with the Hogs, the four-point underdog in the BetUS NCAA college basketball sports betting odds.
