Tarleton State vs. SMU Prediction College Basketball Tips 11/4/24

The Tarleton Texans and SMU Mustangs meet Monday in college basketball action at Moody Coliseum. We will look at this from a betting perspective and identify the best bets for this game. Here is a prediction between Tarleton and SMU.

Summary by Tarleton

The Tarleton Texans enter the 2024-25 season with the goal of building on a really strong 2023-24 season, finishing 25-10 overall, including 16-4 in WAC conference play. The Texans would be ousted by UT-Arlington in the semifinals of the WAC tournament and send Tarleton to CIT. The Texans defeated Texas Southern and Abilene Christian before falling to Purdue Fort Wayne by one point in the semifinals. The problem for Billy Gillispie is that almost everyone who played a role last season is gone. Freddy Hicks is back at Gillispie after a stint at Arkansas State, where he averaged 11.8 PPG and 5.4 RPG, while Marty Silvera transfers from D-II after posting 14.4 PPG and 6.5 last season APG had achieved. Aside from these two, they are either newbies or players with little to no significant experience at the DI level. A big part of this move may have had to do with controversy in the coaching ranks when Joseph Jones was exiled and moved to UTSA. Only time will tell if the Texans made the right decision by sticking with Gillispie or if it is a decision they will eventually regret.

Why the Tarleton State Texans will win

• Tarleton State has won each of its last seven road games.
• SMU has lost six of its last seven games.

SMU summary

The SMU Mustangs hope to maintain continued success in a new era of SMU basketball, finishing last year 20-13 with an 11-7 mark in AAC play. SMU lost to Temple in the second round of the AAC tournament and was sent to the NIT, where the Mustangs were knocked off in the first round by Indiana State. This led to the firing of Rob Lanier and the hiring of Andy Enfield as head coach before the Mustangs moved to the ACC. Now Enfield has had a bit of a fresh start for his first year at SMU and he has a lot of transfers to deal with, guys like Wake Forest's Kevin Miller (15.6 PPG, 3.5 APG), Matt Cross (15.3 PPG, 8 .3 RPG). , 3 APG) from UMass, Yohan Traore (14.5 PPG, 5.1 RPG) from UC-Santa Barbara, Tibet Goerner (11.4 PPG, 3.9 RPG) from San Jose State and AJ George (10.6 PPG, 4.1 RPG) from Long Beach State to name a few, but at least Chuck Harris returns to maintain some continuity in SMU's starting lineup, or at least one would hope . This is a somewhat underrated lineup, but Enfield has done wonders in his time at USC with five tournament appearances and is expected to be able to do the same at SMU. The pieces are there to bring that to life in the first year.

The selections in this article are the opinion of the author and not a consensus of the PickDawgz site.