West Virginia Mountaineers vs Texas Tech Red Raiders: Don Best Odds & Insights for 1/25/2021

The No. 10 Texas Tech Red Raiders (11-4) are only 1.5-point underdogs as they try to build on a three-game road winning streak when they square off against the No. 11 West Virginia Mountaineers (10-4) on Monday, January 25, 2021 at WVU Coliseum. The game airs at 9:00 PM ET on ESPN. The over/under is 136.5 for the matchup.

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West Virginia Leaders

• Miles McBride leads the Mountaineers in scoring (15.3 points per game) and assisting (4.1 assists per game).
• The team is led in rebounds by Derek Culver's 10.3 per game.
• The Mountaineers are led by Taz Sherman from beyond the arc. He knocks down 1.7 shots from deep per game.
• West Virginia's steals leader is McBride, who grabs 1.9 per game. Culver leads the team averaging 1.1 blocks an outing.

Texas Tech Leaders

• Mac McClung owns the Red Raiders top spot in scoring with 16.3 points per game and also tacks on 2.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest.
• Marcus Santos-Silva's 6.2 rebounds per game and Kyler Edwards' 2.7 assists per game put them in the top spots on the Red Raiders rebounds and assists leaderboards.
• Edwards makes more threes per game than any other member of the Red Raiders, averaging 1.8 treys per game.
• Nimari Burnett is at the top of Texas Tech's steals hierarchy with 1.4 steals per game and Santos-Silva leads the squad in blocks with 1.3 per game.

West Virginia vs Texas Tech: Last 4 Meetings

Texas Tech earned victory in three of its last four matchups with West Virginia. In those games against the Mountaineers, the Red Raiders have a 1-0 record against the spread.

Points Insights

• The Mountaineers record 14.6 more points per game (74.5) than the Red Raiders give up (59.9).
• West Virginia is 10-4 overall and 8-0 against the spread when scoring more than 59.9 points.
• Texas Tech is 1-1 overall and 0-1-1 against the spread when giving up more than 74.5 points.
• The Red Raiders' 74.7 points per game are 6.6 more points than the 68.1 the Mountaineers give up to opponents.
• Texas Tech is 9-0-1 against the spread and 10-1 overall when it scores more than 68.1 points.
• West Virginia is 1-3 against the spread and 1-3 overall when it allows its opponents to score more than 74.7 points.
• The Mountaineers have out-scored their opponents by a total of 90 points this season (6.4 points per game on average), and the Red Raiders have put up 222 more points than their opponents on the year (14.8 per game).

Rebounding Insights

• The Mountaineers and the Red Raiders are evenly matched on the glass this season, with the teams averaging similar numbers (38.3 and 35.9 boards per game, respectively).
• West Virginia is 6-3 against the spread when grabbing more boards than their opponents. Texas Tech is 2-3 when they lose the rebounding battle.
• The Mountaineers grab 13.6 offensive rebounds per game, more than the Red Raiders by 1.4 rebounds per game.
• The Mountaineers are 6-4 against the spread when they win the battle on the boards. The Red Raiders are 3-2-1 when they lose the rebounding edge.
• Both teams thrive on the boards. West Virginia records an average rebounding margin of +2.9 rebounds per game. Texas Tech averages a margin of +4.3 rebounds.