The UC-Riverside Highlanders and Hawaii Warriors meet in college basketball action Thursday night from the Dollar Loan Center.
The UC-Riverside Highlanders come in as the #6 seed in the conference tournament, finishing 16–11 on aggregate including 9–6 points in Big West conference play. Zion Pullin leads the Highlanders in scoring and assists with a 5.6rpg with 14ppg and 4.3apg, while JP Moorman II has 11.1ppg with a 5.6rpg and Callum McRae and Dominic Pickett each have 11 this season. + PPG, with McRae entering a team-high 8. RPG this season. Flynn Cameron also has 10.3 PPG by this point in the season. As a team, UC-Riverside averages 66.6 PPG on 44.4% shooting from the field, 31.5% from three and 71.3% from the foul line while allowing 63.6 PPG on 41.6% shooting from the field and three this season. Allows 29.4%.
The Hawaii Warriors enter the conference tournament as the #3 seed this season after leading 16–10 on aggregate, including 10–5 points in conference play. Noel Coleman leads the Warriors in scoring with 14.8 PPG while Bernardo da Silva has 10 PPG with 6.4 RPG and Jerome Desrosiers has 11 PPG with a team-high 6.5 RPG. Junior Madut has 10.7 PPG to finish the group of double-digit scorers for the Warriors this season. Jovon McClanahan also has a team-high 3.7 APG for the Warriors this season. As a team, 44.7% shooting from the airfield averaged 69.8 PPG, three to 36.1% and foul line 73.6% while 42% shooting from the field allows 64.3 PPG and three to 30.3% this season. allows for.
UC-Riverside has a win percentage above .600 against a team with a 6-0 ATS in their last 6 matches and a 5-0 ATS overall in their last 6 games with a 5-0 ATS as the favorite. In their last 5 games the overs are 5-0. Hawaii is a 0-2-2 ATS in their last 4 matches as an underdog and a 1-3-2 ATS in their last 6 matches against a team with a winning record, while in their last 9 as an underdog. Under 8-1 in the game. ,
I get why you can probably see Hawaii the way here, but the reality is UC-Riverside has been a far more consistent team during the season. Hawaii has had its fair share of success this season as well, but the Warriors can struggle aggressively and I think the same will happen here. Give me the Highlanders here.