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It will be the first meeting in over 60 years when the Wisconsin Badgers and No.12 Houston Cougars face off in the semi-finals of the 2021 Maui Invitational in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The teams have only met twice before, in non-conference games at the start of the 1964 and 65 seasons, with the road team winning each time. The Cougars (4-0) passed Butler in Monday’s game, scoring the first 17 points in a 70-52 win at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The Badgers (3-1) had to recover from a 16-4 deficit to start, but came away with a relatively easy 69-58 victory over Texas A&M in the tournament opener on Monday.
The departure is fixed at 5 p.m. AND at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Caesars Sportsbook lists the Cougars as 7.5 point favorites in the latest Houston vs Wisconsin odds. The over-under for total points is 122.5, one point above the opening line. Before you lock in the Wisconsin picks against Houston, be sure to check out college basketball predictions and betting tips from SportsLine’s proven model.
The SportsLine projection model simulates every Division I college basketball game 10,000 times. Over the past five plus years, the proprietary computer model has generated an impressive profit of almost $ 2,100 for every $ 100 players on its top-rated college basketball picks versus the gap. Anyone who has followed him has seen huge returns.
Now the model has locked down on Houston vs Wisconsin and released their picks and CBB predictions. You can visit SportsLine now to see the choices. Here are the college basketball odds and betting lines for Wisconsin vs Houston:
Houston has allowed just 48 points per game in its last three games. He is forcing an average of 17 turnovers per game after nagging the Bulldogs to spit the ball 20 times on Monday. Fabian White led the Cougars with 21 points and eight rebounds on Monday, and Houston is hoping that’s a sign of things to come after missing most of last season with a ripped ACL. Marcus Sasser had led the scoring in the previous three games and leads the team to 17.9 per game. The Cougars are 19-8 ATS in the regular season over the past two seasons.
White had eight rebounds against Butler, a team record, while teammate J’Wan Roberts had six to lead the Cougars with 10.3 per game. Seven Houston players averaged at least six points and over 13 minutes. Sasser and Kyler Edwards can both hit their 3-pointers, with Sasser hitting 46% and Edwards achieving 41.6%. Edwards also hits the defensive boards hard, totaling 19 defensive rebounds, second on the team behind Roberts’ 24. The Cougars had 11 interceptions and made just 10 turnovers in Monday’s opener.
Wisconsin is 8-5 ATS in non-conference games for the past two seasons. He lost seven of the team last year, but Brad Davison and Johnny Davis are good scorers, and the Badgers have length inside. Davison and Davis showed on Monday how dangerous they can be, as Davis scored 21 points and Davison had 19. Davison was the only senior to take advantage of the extra year, and he leads an inexperienced squad that includes the all-round junior. 6 foot 9 inch Tyler. Wahl, sophomores Davis and 7-footer Steven Crowl, and first-year point guard Chucky Hepburn.
UW is almost always disciplined and plays solid defense. He kept Wisconsin-Green Bay at 34 points two weeks ago and allowed exactly 58 points in their other three games for an average of 52. Wisconsin has caught more than 42 rebounds per game and four of the five starters have in. average at least four. Crowl and Davison both have 23 (5.7 per game), with 39 of their 46 boards coming from the defensive end. Crowl and Wahl share the team lead in the offensive boards with eight apiece. The Badgers are 2-2-1 ATS in neutral venue games over the past two seasons.
SportsLine’s model looks at the total, projecting 134 combined points. It also indicates that one side of the gap reaches more than 50% of the time. You can only see the model choice on SportsLine.
So who wins Wisconsin over Houston? And which side of the gap reaches well over 50% of the time? Visit SportsLine now to see which side of the spread to jump on, all from the advanced model which has increased nearly $ 2,100 on its varsity basketball picks over the past five years, and find out.
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