The right way to Watch (and wager)

Date: Saturday, 2/18/22

Tip-Off Time: 5:00 pm PT

TV: Pac-12 Networks

Streaming: Pac-12.com/stay

Location: Seattle, Washington

DraftKings Betting Line: Washington Huskies -9

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Oregon State Beavers 2022-23 Statistics:

Document: 10-17

Factors For per Recreation: 60.6 (353rd)

Factors Towards per Recreation: 66.8 (82nd)

Adjusted Offensive Effectivity: 100.1 (273rd)

Adjusted Defensive Effectivity: 102.2 (114th)

Energy of Schedule: forty fourth

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Oregon State’s Key Gamers:

G- Jordan Pope, Fr. 6’2, 165: 12.7 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 2.5 apg, 43.7% FG, 38.8% 3pt, 84.2% FT

Pope has been an awesome discover for OSU as a 3-star true freshman who had the keys handed over to him and has been significantly better than his recruiting rankings. He leads the staff in each factors and assists per recreation and is fifth in 3-pt capturing throughout Pac-12 play at almost 40%. It appears like Pope is a particular constructing block for OSU even when he’s not fairly a real level guard but. Enjoying alongside higher expertise would assist him although and he’s already good.

1st UW Recreation Stats: 6 pts (1/7 FG), 2 reb, 5 ast

G- Dexter Akanno, Jr. 6’5, 210: 8.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 1.6 apg, 35.9% FG, 24.5% 3pt, 74.3% FT

His backcourt mate has been much less spectacular on offense this season as Akanno has struggled to get the ball within the basket though he’s drawing fouls at a profession excessive charge. And that’s lucky as a result of the one place he has been superb in convention play is on the free throw line (82%). Usually although if Akanno does actually something aside from take a shot within the paint, it’s a win for the protection.

1st UW Recreation Stats: 13 pts (0/5 3pt), 4 reb, 1 ast, 4 to

G-Glenn Taylor, So. 6’6, 200: 11.1 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 2.3 apg, 43.8% FG, 31.5% 3pt, 77.3% FT

Taylor had a strong freshman season final 12 months and has been requested to do extra this season however typically struggled with that process. His assists are up fairly a bit however his turnovers have risen accordingly and he has 5+ giveaways in 5 video games this season. Final 12 months Taylor made nearly 60% of his 2’s however that has dropped to 47% this season which has vastly damage his effectivity. Taylor could make the occasional 3-pointer however is at his finest driving to the ring and getting fouled.

1st UW Recreation Stats: 10 pts, 6 reb

F- Dzmitry Ryuny, Sr. 6’9, 220: 5.0 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 0.8 apg, 46.7% FG, 42.9% 3pt, 55.0% FT

The switch from San Francisco has been a pleasant pickup as a stretch 4 who’s a profession 37% 3-point shooter. He was the MVP in opposition to the Huskies making a trio of 3-pointers from the identical spot so UW ought to pay nearer consideration to him this time round. He leads Oregon State in rebounds, steals, and blocks per recreation.

1st UW Recreation Stats: 14 pts (5/10 FG), 9 reb, 5 ast, 5 stl

F- Tyler Bilodeau, Fr. 6’9, 220: 6.6 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 0.4 bpg, 43.9% FG, 28.6% 3pt, 78.7% FT

I’ll be sincere that I struggled to resolve who the fifth participant to focus on right here needs to be. There are 5 forwards/facilities who’ve each performed not less than 13 minutes per recreation and began not less than as soon as over OSU’s previous 5 contests. The rotation could be very a lot a hodgepodge. I settled on Bilodeau who’s a real freshman from the state of Washington that has seen his function enhance since these 2 groups performed final. He tied a profession excessive in OSU’s final recreation with 18 factors on 7/11 capturing and is one other succesful stretch 4 whose 3-point capturing is a bit of worse than you’d like.

1st UW Recreation Stats: 3 pts, 2 reb (in 5 minutes)

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The Outlook

How time flies. It has been 2 and a half months since these two groups squared off for the primary time in Corvallis in one of the vital weird video games of the season. Braxton Meah was unavailable and Oregon State went on a 21-0 run over 7 minutes within the first half to open up a 27-9 Beavers lead. The Huskies fought again regardless of Franck Kepnang tearing his ACL mid-game and Washington went on a 15-2 run within the last 4 minutes to go up 65-63 with 14 seconds left. Nevertheless, Keion Brooks Jr. missed a free throw and Oregon State secured the lengthy rebound and the refs known as phantom contact by Cole Bajema for an and-1 to present OSU a one-point win.

It seems that the loss was an omen of issues to come back on the highway for the Huskies who at the moment are 1-8 in different staff’s residence arenas. The excellent news for Washington is that this recreation is in Seattle and barring one thing going terribly fallacious within the subsequent few hours, Braxton Meah will likely be out there. Additionally hopefully out there after lacking the primary recreation is Noah Williams, though he’s clearly nonetheless banged up and finally left Wednesday night time’s recreation hobbling.

The main factors that have been related within the preview I wrote in early December are nonetheless true in mid-February. Oregon State performs at one of many slowest paces within the nation and have one of many least environment friendly P6 offenses on the market (solely forward of Minnesota and California). That mixture means they’re within the bottom-10 amongst all D-1 colleges in whole factors per recreation. They’ve been held to fewer than 48 factors 3 instances throughout Pac-12 play (at Stanford, Utah, and UCLA).

It’s a fairly easy formulation for sucking. Oregon State is 314th or worse in turnovers, offensive rebounding, and 2-point capturing. When you may’t maintain onto the ball, can’t give your self second probability alternatives, and may’t get simple photographs on the rim it most likely means you gained’t be superb at scoring. These issues have been largely true within the first recreation in opposition to UW. The Beavers shot barely higher from 2 than regular however took 6 fewer photographs than the Huskies as they misplaced the turnover battle however narrowly gained the rebounding benefit.

The protection for Oregon State is surprisingly respectable even while you account for the glacial tempo of play. They provide up quite a lot of second probability alternatives however in any other case are fairly near common throughout the board. Common for D-1 although means they nonetheless rank tenth within the convention in defensive effectivity throughout Pac-12 play giving up probably the most free throws and blocking the fewest photographs.

The struggles inside have left Wayne Tinkle throwing issues in opposition to the wall to see what sticks. Over the previous couple of weeks all of 6’8 Rodrigue Andela, 6’9 Tyler Bilodeau, 6’9 Michael Rataj, 6’9 Dzmitry Ryuny, and 6’10 KC Ibekwe have began a number of video games. Every of them get just a few video games to audition and when the outcomes don’t get significantly better it cycles by means of to another person.

If this was ever a matchup for Braxton Meah to completely dominant, it needs to be this one. With 7’2 heart Chol Mariol out the Beavers have most lately turned to JUCO add KC Ibekwe. He has a surprising 13.5% block charge in restricted minutes but in addition performed simply 2 minutes on Thursday night time in opposition to Washington State so it’s unclear how a lot he’ll play tonight.

There isn’t quite a lot of proof that Oregon State is ready to play above their station away from Corvallis. The Beavers are 1-12 when not enjoying of their residence enviornment with the one win coming over lowly Cal (though it was by 20 factors). At residence they’ve knocked off UW, Colorado, and USC however that magic hasn’t translated wherever else. The one highway loss they’ve even gotten to inside single digits in was in opposition to USC who they apparently simply have their quantity.

There’s actually no excuse for the Huskies not successful this recreation comfortably. Sure, Oregon State gained the primary time round however Washington didn’t have Braxton Meah and but it nonetheless took a missed free throw and beneficiant residence court docket name for OSU to squeak by regardless of a 21-0 run. Washington has a positive schedule to shut out the 12 months and it doesn’t get way more favorable than the Beavers away from Corvallis. Get it performed.

Prediction

Max’s Document this 12 months: 19-8 Straight Up, 14-12-1 Towards The Unfold

Washington Huskies– 72, Oregon State Beavers- 61