The SEC conference title and an automatic spot in the NCAA Tournament bracket are on the line when the No. 2 seed Tennessee Volunteers (25-7, 14-4 SEC) and the No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies (23-11, 9-9 SEC) meet on Sunday at 1:00 PM. Tennessee is favored by 6.5 points for this pivotal matchup.
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Get ready for this SEC matchup with everything you need to know about Sunday’s college basketball action.
Texas A&M at Tennessee odds, spread and lines
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- Spread: Tennessee -6.5
- Total: 130.5
- Moneyline: Tennessee -278, Texas A&M +224
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Texas A&M at Tennessee odds, spread, & more
Moneyline
- The Volunteers have been the moneyline favorite 25 total times this season. They’ve gone 24-1 in those games.
- Tennessee has played in 16 games as a moneyline favorite with odds of -278 or shorter and won each of them.
- Based on this game’s moneyline, the Volunteers’ implied win probability is 73.5%.
- The Aggies have won nine, or 50%, of the 18 games they’ve played as underdogs this season.
- Texas A&M has not been a bigger underdog this season than the +224 moneyline set for this game.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Aggies have a 30.9% chance to win.
Against the spread
- The Volunteers record 73.4 points per game, 6.5 more points than the 66.9 the Aggies allow.
- Tennessee has a 14-9 record against the spread and a 20-3 record overall when putting up more than 66.9 points.
- Texas A&M is 12-8-1 against the spread and 16-6 overall when allowing fewer than 73.4 points.
- The Aggies average 10.3 more points per game (73.5) than the Volunteers allow (63.2).
- Texas A&M has put together a 13-10-1 ATS record and an 18-7 overall record in games it scores more than 63.2 points.
- Tennessee’s record is 17-9 against the spread and 21-5 overall when it allows fewer than 73.5 points.
- The Volunteers have totaled 329 more points than their opponents this season (10.2 per game on average), and the Aggies have scored 223 more points than their opponents (6.6 per game).
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Over/Under
- The average implied total for the Volunteers last season was 73.5 points, 4.5 more points than their implied total of 69 points in Sunday’s game.
- Last season, Tennessee outscored its implied point total for this matchup (69) 14 times.
- The 70.6-point average implied total last season for the Aggies is equal to the team’s implied total in this matchup.
- Texas A&M did not score more than its implied point total for this matchup (62) in a game.
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