Free NCAA Hoops Pick: Troy vs. Appalachian State CBB Odds
Looking for Troy Trojans vs. Appalachian State Mountaineers NCAA basketball free picks & CBB odds? CBB betting sees the Trojans taking on the Mountaineers on Thursday, February 17, 2022, at Holmes Convocation Center in Boone, NC. Cappers Picks provides complimentary expert handicapping picks on all college basketball matchups all season long so stay tuned for more FREE daily NCAA basketball predictions like this Trojans Mountaineers matchup.
2022 NCAA Basketball Handicapping
(17-8) Troy Trojans vs. Appalachian State Mountaineers (16-11)
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time: 7:00 PM ET
Venue: Holmes Convocation Center
CBB Moneyline Odds: Troy +150 / App St. -180
CBB Betting ATS Odds: Trojans +4 / Mountaineers -4 (Bet Now!)
CBB Betting Total: O/U 129
A battle between 2 of the top-3 teams in the Sun Belt standings will ensue on Thursday night in North Carolina as the Trojans and Mountaineers play their second of two meetings this season.
The Mountaineers and Texas State Bobcats appear as 1 and 2 in the Sun Belt Conference standings coming into this affair but the Bobcats have played two fewer games with an 8 -3 record. Appalachian State has accumulated a 10 – 4 conference record while Troy is 8 – 4 right behind the both of them so buckle up for a wild finish to the regular season.
The Trojans still have their eyes set on their regular-season finale at home against Texas State following this affair having winnable games against Coastal and UT-Arlington sandwiched in-between. Troy can just as easily pass both App State and Texas State should they run the table and go 4 – 0 down the stretch.
Both Troy and App State lost games they should have won last time out but the oddsmakers are showing favoritism towards a home win for the Mountaineers tonight in Boone, NC.
Troy Trojans
The Trojans should be riding a 5-game win streak into this game but they got caught overlooking the bottom feeders of the Sun Belt and lost to Little Rock, 66 – 62. It is easy to say a team looked past what seems like an easy win but losses like that can have two effects on the rest of the season.
The Trojans are 4-point dogs tonight on the road and that tells us the line setters expect Troy to struggle again and App State to get back on track after their loss last time out Georgia State. I think both programs saw those last outings as disappointments but the winner of this game can let it slide a little easier.
The Trojans need this win so they can sweep the Mountaineers after Troy ended up taking a 68 – 53 victory back on January 8 on their home court. Efe Odigie was the leading scorer that night with only 11 points and Khalyl Waters came off the bench to add 10 points in the win.
Last time out against Little Rock the reserves outscored the starting 5, 39 – 23, in what ended up being a 66 – 62 loss to the worst team in the Sun Belt in the cellar of the standings. Had Troy won that game in hindsight, we would now be talking bout 1st place Troy and not the 3rd place program they are right now. Yeah, it’s like that right now as every win is huge and every loss is a massive setback.
Appalachian State Mountaineers
The Mountaineers may be ahead of Troy in the Sun Belt Conference standings, but as I just explained they got their ass handed to them by Troy already and a second loss to blow the season series at home would crush the spirit of this team for the stretch run.
Going into the last game with Georgia State, the Mountaineers were on a 10 – 2 run with losses to Texas State and Troy as their sole setbacks. This team had no right going out and scoring a whopping 49 points in a disgusting loss to a team that is just above that Little Rock program in the Sun Belt basement.
The Mountaineers were down by 15 points at one point of the game and they only scored 16 points before halftime down 28 – 16. Usually, the better team will still find a way to rebound from a 20-minute debacle to make a game of it but that simply never happened. As you look over the game stats you would be surprised by the box score and how it lines up with the final score. App State shot 7 of 20 from distance, converted 12 of their 17 free throws into points, and then we look at the bench points.
Wait, hold on now? Does that say that only 6 people really took the floor for the Mountaineers? I don’t even recognize the 8 minutes for Eadz because this is just another team with zero-depth that we see all around college hoops.
CBB Betting Trends:
- Trojans are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 Thursday games.
- Trojans are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 games following a straight-up loss.
- Mountaineers are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games after scoring less than 50 points in their previous game.
- Under is 5-1 in Trojans’ last 6 road games.
- Under is 8-3 in Trojans last 11 overall.
- Under is 4-1 in Mountaineers’ last 5 Thursday games.
Free Troy Trojans vs. Appalachian State Mountaineers NCAAB Betting Prediction:
I am sorry but if you want to give me almost a handful of points against the 6-man Mountaineer squad, you go ahead call me the guy thinking dog again!
4* Free CBB Betting Pick: Troy +4
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