4. (2) Iowa vs (15) Grand Canyon
LINE: Iowa -14.5
ATS PICK: Grand Canyon
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I can’t bring myself to pick the Antelopes outright.
I love this Bryce Drew-led team. It plays a nasty brand of defense, it rebounds everything with the 7-0 Asbjorn Midtgaard from Denmark and 6-10 Alessandro Lever from Italy gobbling everything up, and it’s not going to get pushed around by that statistically-amazing but lumbering Luke Garza.
Iowa has the scoring pop to do what it wants inside and out, and it’s just good enough to get by and overcome the defensive pressure with a few big scoring bursts, but this Grand Canyon team beat Nevada, pushed Arizona State, and it’s biggest loss this year was by ten against Colorado.
No. 2 in the nation in field goal defense and No. 5 in rebounding margin, the Antelopes keep this thing to under two touchdowns.