Free NCAA Hoops Pick: West Virginia Mountaineers vs. TCU Horned Frogs CBB Odds
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2022 NCAA Basketball Handicapping
(14-12) West Virginia Mountaineers vs. TCU Horned Frogs (16-8)
Date: Monday, February 21, 2022
Time: 8:00 PM ET
Venue: Schollmaier Arena
CBB Moneyline Odds: W. VA +155 / TCU -175
CBB Betting ATS Odds: Mountaineers +4 / Horned Frogs -4 (Bet Now!)
CBB Betting Total: O/U 133
The TCU Horned Frogs are opening the line at -4 being expected to find their 10th home win at Schollmaier Arena this season when the visiting Mountaineers come to town for a Monday night Big 12 showdown.
The road has been a miserable place for West Virginia this year as they have managed to find one single win in their travels from the 8 games they’ve played away from Morgantown. While the Mountaineers have been terrible on the road, they have just been terrible overall of late having lost 10 of their last 11 games.
This will be the first of the two meetings for these programs as they will meed again on the final day of the regular season before the Big 12 Conference Tournament gets underway. While the Mountaineers are looking to erase a 3-game losing streak, the Horned Frogs are in the same position needing to shake off their own skid of 3 losses in their last 3 outings.
The Frogs will have 5 games in the regular season after this contest, and the only game of those they might win will be the rematch with this Mountaineer team on March 5. TCU will have to play Texas, Texas Tech, and a pair of games against Kansas sandwiched between the two West Virginia games.
West Virginia Mountaineers
Coach Huggins can get upset with referees and do his best to get calls for his players but the time is running out on the season. Now having lost 10 of their last 11 Big 12 games, the Mountaineers are in the basement of the conference standings with a 3 – 10 record at 14 – 12 overall.
Huggins has not done very well keeping his program together on the road and with only 1 win all season I am surprised this line is only +4. We all know that the bench issues for the mountaineers are just about the same as hundreds of other schools during the 2021-22 campaign. The Mountaineers bench combined to hit 3 shots in the loss to Kansas last time out as McNeil and Sherman carried the load as usual.
We are used to seeing Sean McNeil and Taz Sherman keeping West Virginia in any game the Mountaineers have been in lately, and that really hasn’t amounted to much of late. Isaiah Cottrell got the start for Huggins and he produced as many points as all of us did from home. (Crickets) When any of the starting 5 goes scoreless for this Mountaineers squad and you see McNeil and Sherman as the only dudes scoring double-digits? Yeah, you just summarized the entire West Virginia season.
The West Virginia offense ranks 319th in the nation shooting from the floor with a 40.8% to their credit, and the 67.9 PPG lands this team at 265th in the nation. Let’s not even talk about how Huggins has put no emphasis on rebounding because the Mountaineers want none of that action this season.
TCU Horned Frogs
TCU -4 at home? What’s the catch? You know when you see a line and wonder what the hell could happen that would stop us from having a winning ticket in our hands? West Virginia is so bad on the road and 4 points worth of chalk really doesn’t sound like much of a bother here.
Sure, TCU is not exactly playing their best hoops of the season either trying to erase their own 3-game slide but who better to have across the court than these Mountaineers? Let’s start with those rebounding numbers that West Virginia can’t seem to handle and how the Frogs do it as we as anyone in the nation.
The Horned Frogs are ranked 12th in the nation on the offensive glass and they’re a top-40 program on their own side of the floor. West Virginia is a one-and-done king and TCU had better be all over the glass tonight limiting second chances.
The Horned frogs may only be 5 – 7 in Big 12 play but this is still a 16 – 8 program that could still be thinking about post-season basketball. A strong finish to the season is a must for what seems like another Big 12 program that will be a part of the NCAA Tournament. From all indications, TCU is being predicted as a 10-seed in the big dance and that could obviously change with a strong or poor finish to the regular season.
I do believe that TCU will be a dog in their next 4 games against Texas, Tech, and the two Kansas games we know they’ll be big dogs. These two games against West Virginia down the stretch could be huge to avoid a 0 – 9 finish to the regular season. A loss here could be devastating to their post-season chances because of what is on deck for this program.
CBB Betting Trends:
- Mountaineers are 2-9 ATS in their last 11 games overall.
- Mountaineers are 1-6 ATS in their last 7 road games.
- The home team is 7-2 ATS in the last 9 meetings.
- Over is 16-5 in Mountaineers’ last 21 road games.
- Over is 6-2 in Horned Frogs last 8 overall.
Free West Virginia Mountaineers vs. TCU Horned Frogs NCAAB Betting Prediction:
I have TCU and the -4 but my goodness the pressure is ultimately on them and not the Mountaineers. West Virginia could easily lay down and watch the rest of the year go by and no one would care, but TCU needs this win at home. I hope they get it.
4* Free CBB Betting Pick: TCU -4
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