The Richmond Spiders (13-5 overall, 6-3 A10) visit the St. Louis Billikens (11-5, 4-4) in a Friday evening (7 p.m. ET) contest at Chaifetz Arena. Below, we analyze the Richmond-St. Louis odds and lines, with NCAA college basketball picks and predictions.
Richmond at St. Louis: Odds, spread and lines
Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated at 6:55 a.m. ET.
- Money line: Richmond +165 (bet $100 to win $165) | St. Louis -200 (bet $200 to win $100)
- Against the spread/ATS: Richmond +4.5 (-110) | St. Louis -4.5 (-110)
- Over/Under: 143.5 (O: -110 | U: -110)
Richmond at St. Louis: Three things to know
- Richmond has won four of its last five games. The Spiders have shot lights-out in the wins; they shot just 32.8% from the floor in a Feb. 17 loss at VCU. Richmond shot over 50% in three of those four recent victories. For the season, UR’s 48.2% mark leads the Atlantic-10.
- St. Louis started the season with six straight wins, but the Billikens are just 5-5 in 10 games since. Distance shooting and turnovers have been issues for SLU of late. In their last two games — losses at Dayton and VCU — St. Louis has shot just 25.5% from 3-point range while posting a combined minus-13 in turnover margin.
- SLU is the A10’s best rebounding team. The Billikens have out-boarded foes in five of their last six games. In percentage analytics, St. Louis ranks in the top-20 nationally at both ends of the floor. Six-foot-3 G Jordan Goodwin is averaging league-best 10.5 rebounds per game.
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Richmond at St. Louis: Odds, lines, predictions and picks
Prediction
St. Louis 76, Richmond 72
Money line (ML)
The Spiders’ last road game was a clunker in which they shot just 35.2% from the field. That mark is an outlier for a good shooting team, a better shooting team than the SLU foe they’ll face Friday night. And UR figures to win the turnover battle at both ends, avoiding their own while creating Billiken miscues.
Richmond is the lean, but PASS on the listed price.
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Against the spread (ATS)
Richmond is 5-1 ATS in its last half-dozen games on the road. The road team is 4-0 ATS in the last four meetings between the Spiders and Billikens.
RICHMOND +4.5 (-110) is the play, but consider holding out for a larger cushion. Spiders +5 or 5 1/2 would be a desired entry point into this play.
Over/Under (O/U)
Both sides bring Over trends when playing in quality-on-quality contests. And that’s the value play here in what figures as a one-possession game that spirals close to a total in the high-140s.
BACK THE OVER 143.5 (-110).
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