Baylor Bears at Iowa State Cyclones 2/19/19 – College Basketball Pick
The Bears are heading into Hilton Coliseum in Ames to face Iowa State. However, the Bears are a team that has had to battle to get the victories they have picked up on the year, but the Cyclones are a ranked team and definitely one that has been able to pick up a lot of quality wins on the year. The Bears for their part have had trouble playing on the road and have definitely been a team that has lost a ton of games just on the road.
Baylor Bears Preview
Baylor is coming into this game after dropping the last game they played against Texas Tech. However, as mentioned the Bears are not a good road team and the game against the Red Raiders was on the road. The Bears defense in the loss was missing and so was the offense as the final score was 86-61. The Bears managed to get led in the scoring by Jared Butler who was able to put 16 points in the game. Mario Kegler was the only other Bear in double figures with 15 points in the game. The rebounding game was its typical pace for the Bears, but the leaders for the team only managed to pull down 6 boards a piece.
When playing overall the Bears have been decent at scoring with 71.8 points per game. However, the defense is the real strength for the Bears, but tends to go missing on the road is typically giving up only 65.2 points per game on the year. For the Bears the passing attack has been able to get a total of14 assist a game, but the rebounding for the Bears has been very decent with 37.3 boards a game.
Iowa State Cyclones Preview
Iowa State is coming into this game after picking up a win over another ranked team in Kansas State. However, the Cyclones did not just really struggle in the game as they put in a total of 14 more points on the day than the Wildcats. The Cyclones in the game were led by Lindell Wigginton who put in a total of 19 points in the game from the bench. The other Cyclones had 2 other players in double digits in the game with 20 points coming from Talen Horton-Tucker. Marial Shayok was able to get a total of 13 boards in the game for the Cyclones.
With the Cyclones the team has been able to score at a clip of 78.9 points a game. With the Cyclones the defense has given up a total of 66.7 points a game on the season. However, the Cyclones have been able to get 16.2 assist a game on the year so far. With the Cyclones the team has ended up getting a total of 35.5 boards a game.
Bears at Cyclones Line: Iowa State Cyclones -8 O/U 143
My Free College Basketball Pick: Iowa State Cyclones -8
With the Cyclones the team has been playing at a very high level and they were able to blow out the Wildcats in the last game. The Cyclones will continue to play great basketball in this game here and that will be bad for the Bears as the Ames campus will be rocking as the Cyclones are able to dominate this game here and easily cover the spread and crush Baylor with a score of 78-58.
