Temple Owls vs Southern Methodist Mustangs 3/12/2020 Picks, Predictions and Preview

Temple Owls vs Southern Methodist Mustangs 3/12/2020 – The Temple Owls face the Southern Methodist Mustangs Thursday with the latter picked to win by NCAA college basketball. Both teams will look to book their seat in the American Athletic Conference tournament. The Owls and the Mustangs split their regular-season series, both winning at home.  Temple and Southern Methodist are also in need of a win to check their respective losing skids.

Temple Owls vs Southern Methodist Mustangs 3/12/2020

Team	SP/RL	TOTAL	ML
Temple Owls	+3.5 (-110)	132 o (-110)	+135
Southern Methodist Mustangs	-3.5 (-110)	132 u (-110)	-155

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Temple Owls

The Temple Owls are looking for answers and a win could resolve that. They lost their last five games, including a close one to Cincinnati. Tasked to end the bleeding is Quinton Rose with some help from Nate Pierre-Louis. Defense needs work, seeing how the Owls are giving up 67.9 points per contest.

Players to watch: Q. Rose G (31 GP 33.4 MIN 16.4 PTS 5 REB 3.5 AST 2 STL 0.7 BLK 2.4 TO 36.8 FG% 79.2 FT% 27 3PT%), N. Pierre-Louis G (31 GP 32.8 MIN 10.9 PTS 8.5 REB 3.1 AST 1.8 STL 0.5 BLK 2.2 TO 39.6 FG% 68.5 FT% 25.4 3PT%), A. Moore II G (31 GP 32 MIN 8.4 PTS 2.8 REB 2.6 AST 1.3 STL 0.1 BLK 1.4 TO 37 FG% 86.1 FT% 39.8 3PT%).

Southern Methodist Mustangs

Like the Owls, the Mustangs are hoping to end their losing ways. They lost a close one to USF, a game they could have won. Tyson Jolly will try to lead the attack together with Ethan Chargois. Defense is not that great as well with the Mustangs giving up 68.5 points a game.

Players to watch: T. Jolly G (30 GP 34.9 MIN 14.5 PTS 6.2 REB 2.3 AST 0.7 STL 0.5 BLK 2.2 TO 45.8 FG% 78 FT% 38.2 3PT%), K. Davis G (26 GP 34.8 MIN 14.2 PTS 4.1 REB 6.7 AST 1.2 STL 0.1 BLK 2.5 TO 44.9 FG% 85.4 FT% 31.1 3PT%), I. Mike F (30 GP 30.7 MIN 14 PTS 6.3 REB 1.8 AST 1.4 STL 0.6 BLK 2 TO 48.1 FG% 80.5 FT% 37.7 3PT%).

Trends

Temple Owls

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Temple’s last 5 games.
Temple is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games.
Owls are 1-6 SU in their last 7 games this season.
Temple is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games against an opponent in the American Athletic Conference conference.
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Temple’s last 6 games played in March.

Southern Methodist Mustangs

Southern Methodist is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games.
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Southern Methodist’s last 5 games.
Mustangs are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games.
Southern Methodist is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games this season.
Mustangs are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games against an opponent in the American Athletic Conference conference.