On 11/17/2024 at 00:00 Moscow time, a match will take place as part of the NCAA championship, in which the local club South Alabama Jaguars will host their national championship opponent, the Mercer Bears.
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Despite the fact that the basketball match between the South Alabama Jaguars and the Mercer Bears is only scheduled for November 17, 2024, bookmakers have already begun accepting bets. Pre-match bets can be placed until 00:00 Moscow time. In recent years, the teams have not played each other, since their last personal meeting was eight years ago. According to the statistics of this confrontation, the hosts of the current match have more victories.
South Alabama Jaguars – Mercer Bears. WHO IS THE FAVORITE OF THE MATCH?
For the fourth game in a row, the South Alabama Jaguars basketball club is playing on its court, and on November 17, 2024, the hosts will have a match against the players of the Mercer Bears club. Sports channels will broadcast this match live at 00:00 Moscow time. This season alone, this is the fourth meeting of these teams, and in the previous three, two victories were won by the basketball players of the South Alabama Jaguars club, and once the players of the BC Mercer Bears were stronger.
South Alabama Jaguars
The basketball players of the South Alabama Jaguars club will enter this match in an excellent mood, because they are now on a streak of four victories, with nine winning matches in the last ten matches. The hosts are distinguished by a very reliable defense, since in these ten rounds they only once allowed the opponent to score more than a hundred points. The South Alabama Jaguars basketball club leads the championship, having already won 34 victories this season, with only ten defeats. Moreover, the team lost only three times at home. The hosts’ attack is also good, because there are rarely fights in which the South Alabama Jaguars basketball club cannot score more than a hundred points. The team does not have any serious personnel losses now, because although there are basketball players in the hospital, they do not play an important role this season.
Before the start of this season, a new coach came to the Mercer Bears basketball club, who was given the task by management to build a new team, actively using young players. But, despite the fact that the restructuring of the visiting team has not yet been completed, they are showing good results, because they are now in eighth place and have a good chance of making it to the playoffs. The most important thing is that with the new coach, the basketball players began to show character, because in the last match at one point the gap reached even nineteen points, but still the players of BC Merzer Bears managed to turn the tide of the meeting and win by a minimal margin. On the road, the team plays with a greater focus on defense, so it scores fewer points, but away wins still happen quite often. In this match, the coach will not be able to count on three basic basketball players.
Prediction for the match
After a long away series, the basketball players of the South Alabama Jaguars club are finally returning home, and on November 17, 2024 they already need to play a match against BC Mercer Bears. Players from both teams will appear on the court at 00:00 Moscow time. If we take the last ten personal meetings of these rivals, then the hosts of this match are in the lead, having won seven victories and three defeats. But, in the overall statistics of the confrontation, the guests have the best results.
With the arrival of a new coach, the South Alabama Jaguars basketball club began to show truly team play. The individual performance of the players suffered from this, but the overall results of the team have improved significantly, so this season the hosts are one of the strongest in this tournament. If we take the last game, then only one basketball player managed to score seventeen points, and the rest did not score more than fifteen, but all twelve declared players managed to score. The key center is playing very effectively, and he has started throwing fewer goals, but now completely excludes the leader of the opposing team from the game. The current coach has also focused on defense, so now the hosts play very reliably on defense, not often letting the enemy get close to their goal. In this match, everything is fine with the defensive players, and only the heavy forward, who injured his ankle in the last match, can miss the game.
Last season, the Mercer Bears basketball club won this tournament, so this year the guests would really like to defend their title. In the regular season, the team started weakly, but then gained shape, so that a ticket to the playoffs was secured in advance. The Mercer Bears basketball club has already secured fourth place in the standings, so in the remaining rounds of the regular season many reserve players entered the court, and the results were far from the best. It is clear that in the playoff matches the Mercer Bears will play with their strongest lineup, especially since most of the key players have had time to rest, so they will approach the important matches in optimal shape. During this time, the team’s infirmary was also almost empty, because now there is only one defender there, but he has not often been in the starting lineup before.
On November 17, 2024, you can bet on the basketball confrontation between the South Alabama Jaguars and the Mercer Bears, in which some of the main contenders for victory in this tournament meet. Pre-match betting on this match will be possible until 00:00 Moscow time, until the siren sounds and the game begins. Based on the statistics of previous meetings, it is not so easy to determine the obvious favorite, since in the last ten matches each team had five wins.
Despite the fact that the basketball club South Alabama Jaguars did not start the season in the best way, so that it was even in the middle of the standings for some time, the team gradually began to improve. Now the hosts are already fifth, so they are in the playoff zone, and in the last ten matches there has been only one defeat, and even then from the team that is currently leading the standings. Three basketball players from the South Alabama Jaguars club show phenomenal accuracy on three-point shots, so if the hosts cannot get to the opponent’s hoop, they compensate for this with long shots. On their court, the team also shows a very attacking game, so many basketball players score more than twenty points per match, and in the last match two of them scored a double-double. Not only does the South Alabama Jaguars basketball club already have a deep roster, but there are also no injured players among the base players.
Having flown out of the international tournament, the Mercer Bears basketball club is fully focused on this championship, where the team needs to gain a foothold in the playoff zone. The guests are currently fifth, but below there is such a dense cluster of teams that in the event of even two defeats, the Mercer Bears basketball club may be outside the top eight. This season the team is too homely, because at home there were only three defeats, and the basketball club Mercer Bears won all other fights. But you won’t be able to boast of such results on the road, since there have already been eight lost matches. However, now the guests are in excellent shape, because after a minimal defeat of one point from the tournament leader there were three confident victories at once. Four team basketball players are currently under the supervision of doctors, but none of them are playing a key role.
TODAY’S MATCH: South Alabama Jaguars – Mercer Bears. FORECAST FROM EXPERTS
Fans of the South Alabama Jaguars basketball club are already accustomed to constant victories, because if the team does not win the regular season, it certainly shows itself well in the playoffs. At the moment, the hosts are second in the championship, not far behind the leader, so the team still has time to get to first place. Moreover, the South Alabama Jaguars basketball club is still invincible at home, having won absolutely all home matches this season. The hosts manage to show good results thanks to a powerful offensive game, because on average the team scores more than 115 points per match. And the head coach does not rely only on the top five, but often releases other basketball players onto the court, giving the team leaders time to rest. Now the winning streak of the South Alabama Jaguars basketball club is seven matches, and it may increase since the hosts do not have personnel losses.
After a disastrous last season, the leadership of the Mercer Bears basketball club not only dismissed the head coach, but also terminated contracts with several players. A new coach was invited, who immediately brought fresh players into the team, and it was on them that he began to build the entire game. The changes have benefited the guests, because now the Mercer Bears basketball club no longer looks like a clear outsider, and even has a chance of qualifying for the playoffs, as it is in ninth place and the gap from eighth is not very large. Recently, the team had a slight decline, which led to a series of five defeats, but the guests still managed to overcome the crisis, which allowed them to improve their game, and in the last four matches there were three wins and only one defeat. The new mentor makes a big bet on defense, so if the team is satisfied with the result, then the basketball players of the Merzer Bears club defend themselves very reliably and practically do not allow opponents to their ring. Apart from the disqualification of the small forward, the guests have no personnel losses.
