Pick on the spread for Mississippi State-Vanderbilt on March 4

The Mississippi State Bulldogs want to play their approach off the NCAA Event bubble and a street win towards the Vanderbilt Commodores on Saturday would go a great distance in boosting their resume.

Mississippi State Bulldogs (-2, 133) vs. Vanderbilt Commodores

Although Vanderbilt is coming off a street win earlier within the week towards Kentucky, it got here at a value with 7-foot-0 central Liam Robbins struggling a season-ending harm within the course of.

Robbins leads the staff in three statistical classes with 15 factors, 6.6 rebounds, and three.2 blocks per recreation. His blocks ranked third amongst qualifying Division I gamers and had been the saving grace of a protection that ranks 254th within the nation in factors allowed on a per possession foundation.

The Commodores have performed 4 video games with out Robbins this season and went 1-3 in that stretch because the offense additionally took a step again, with the staff exceeding 70 factors in simply a type of video games, getting outscored by a mean rating of 75.25-67.5.

Even with Robbins, Vanderbilt was 249tj within the nation in 3-point taking pictures proportion at house and now has to face a Mississippi State protection that’s sixth within the nation in factors allowed on a per possession foundation with solely Tennessee permitting fewer factors per possession in street and impartial courtroom video games.

Whereas Mississippi State is simply 232nd within the nation in factors scored per possession on offense this season, the Robbins harm leaves Vanderbilt and not using a participant that averages greater than 5 rebounds per recreation and far of the Bulldogs offense is predicated round second probabilities with the staff grabbing a rebound on 34.1% of their missed pictures, which ranks thirteenth within the nation.

With Vanderbilt having an obstacle on the glass and on protection even with their 7-foot-0 central, the Robbins harm will show to be too large of a hurdle for Vanderbilt to beat on Saturday.

The Play: Mississippi State -2

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