The No. 1 seed Houston Cougars (28-6, 15-3 AAC) are favored by four points against the No. 3 Memphis Tigers (21-9, 13-5 AAC) in the championship game of the AAC tournament on Sunday at 3:15 PM. The winner earns an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament bracket.
Rankings courtesy of the Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll powered by USA TODAY Sports.
Houston has a 23-12-0 record against the spread this season compared to Memphis, who is 15-15-0 ATS. The Cougars are 16-20-0 and the Tigers are 17-15-0 in terms of going over the point total. The two teams average 149.9 points per game, 16.4 more points than this matchup’s total. Over the past 10 contests, Houston is 8-2-0 against the spread and 9-1 overall while Memphis has gone 6-2-0 against the spread and 9-1 overall.
Here is everything you need to get ready for Sunday’s college hoops action in AAC play.
Memphis at Houston odds, spread and lines
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- Spread: Houston -4
- Total: 133.5
- Moneyline: Houston -180, Memphis +151
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Memphis at Houston odds, spread, & more
Moneyline
- The Cougars have put together a 30-4 record in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 88.2% of those games).
- When it has played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -180 or shorter, Houston has a 30-3 record (winning 90.9% of its games).
- The implied moneyline probability for this matchup gives the Cougars a 64.3% chance to win.
- The Tigers have been listed as the underdog three times this season, yet they have won all of those games.
- Memphis has been at least a +151 moneyline underdog three times this season and won each of those games.
- The Tigers have a 39.8% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
Against the spread
- The 73.7 points per game the Cougars average are 5.4 more points than the Tigers allow (68.3).
- When Houston scores more than 68.3 points, it is 17-7 against the spread and 22-2 overall.
- Memphis has a 9-8 record against the spread and a 14-4 record overall when giving up fewer than 73.7 points.
- The Tigers put up an average of 76.2 points per game, 18.8 more points than the 57.4 the Cougars allow to opponents.
- When it scores more than 57.4 points, Memphis is 12-14 against the spread and 19-8 overall.
- Houston has an ATS record of 18-11 and a 26-4 record overall when its opponents score fewer than 76.2 points.
- The Cougars have totaled 556 more points than their opponents this season (16.3 per game on average), and the Tigers have scored 236 more points than their opponents (7.9 per game).
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Over/Under
- The Cougars’ average implied point total this season is 4.5 more points than their implied total in Sunday’s game (73.5 implied points on average compared to 69 implied points in this game).
- This season, Houston has totaled more than 69 points in a game 29 times.
- The Tigers’ implied point total in this matchup (65 points) equals the team’s season average.
- On the season, Memphis has outscored its implied point total for this matchup (65) 27 times.
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