UTEP Miners vs UTSA Roadrunners: Don Best Odds & Insights for 1/30/2021

The UTSA Roadrunners (8-8) visit the UTEP Miners (7-8) as 4-point underdogs after Jhivvan Jackson went off for 32 points in the Roadrunners 86-79 victory over UTEP. The game is at 9:00 PM ET on Saturday, January 30, 2021. The matchup's over/under is 149.5.

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ATS Records for UTEP and UTSA

UTEP Leaders

• Souley Boum leads the Miners in scoring, racking up 17.6 points per game.
• Jamal Bieniemy leads UTEP with 4.6 assists per game and Bryson Williams paces the team with 6.7 rebounds per matchup.
• Boum hits 2.5 threes per game to lead the Miners.
• Boum leads the team with 1.5 steals per game. Tydus Verhoeven collects 0.9 blocks a game to pace the Miners.

UTSA Leaders

• Jackson outpaced his teammates on the Roadrunners scoring front by putting up 20.5 points per game. He adds 4.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game this season.
• The Roadrunners leaders in rebounds and assists are Jacob Germany (6.2 rebounds per game) and Keaton Wallace (3.5 assists per game).
• The Roadrunners are paced by Jackson from beyond the arc -- he knocks down 2.5 shots from deep per game.
• UTSA's Eric Parrish has the top spot on the team's steals leaderboard with 1.2 per game and Germany is first in blocks with 1.2 per game.

UTEP vs UTSA: Last 5 Meetings

UTSA earned victory in four of its last five games with UTEP. The Roadrunners have covered the spread more often than not against the Miners, holding a 2-0 record ATS in those head-to-head matchups.

Points Insights

• The 72.5 points the Miners score per game are just 4.2 fewer points than the Roadrunners give up (76.7).
• UTEP is 6-1 overall and 3-0 against the spread when scoring more than 76.7 points.
• In games UTSA allows more than 72.5 points, it is 1-8 against the spread and 1-8 overall.
• The Roadrunners score an average of 77.3 points per game, 5.6 more points than the 71.7 the Miners allow to opponents.
• UTSA has gone 7-1 overall and 4-0 against the spread in games it scores more than 71.7 points.
• UTEP's record is 1-1 against the spread and 2-1 overall when it allows more than 77.3 points.
• The Miners have scored only 11 more points than their opponents this year (an average of 0.8 per game), and the Roadrunners have out-scored opponents by just 10 points on the season (0.6 more per game).

Rebounding Insights

• The Miners and the Roadrunners rebound at around the same clip, with the teams averaging and 33.1 and 34.7 boards per game, respectively.
• When UTSA earns the rebounding advantage they are 1-2 against the spread. When recording fewer boards, UTEP is 2-6.
• The Miners average 8.9 offensive boards per game, -1.7 rebounds fewer than the Roadrunners.
• The Roadrunners are 2-6 against the spread when they win the battle on the boards. The Miners are 2-2-1 when they lose the rebounding edge.
• Rebounding margin is a sore spot for the Miners with a mark of -2.2 rebounds per game. The Roadrunners routinely have an advantage on the boards, averaging a margin of +0.9.