Incarnate Word vs. Southeastern Louisiana Betting Preview & Best Bet

Deep in the heart of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, the fightin’ Lions will play host to an Incarnate Word team that’s still looking for its first Southland win of the season. On the other side of the scorer’s table, Southeastern Louisiana will be trying to push its record back to the .500 mark again after dropping a game to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Thursday. The market seems to think they can do it as the Lions are a sizable home favorite in this one.

Plain and simple, Incarnate Word is a bottom-five team in the country, with only two wins over D-1 competition all year. They even had a loss to the Division III Concordia (Texas) Tornados at home back in November. With perhaps an exception when they host Northwestern State in a couple of weeks, they should close as an underdog in every game for the remainder of the season. That said, they don’t turn the ball over that much, they force turnovers and they make their free throws. Extra possessions and making your bunnies can be key to staging an Upset.

While I don’t think it’s in the cards today, Southeastern Louisiana shouldn’t take the Incarnate Word lightly, as they’ve had some close calls this year against inferior opponents. A five-point win over Northwestern State at home isn’t anything to put on the highlight reel, and they played a close one themselves with a non D-1 school two weeks ago, again winning by just five versus something called Tougaloo.

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Incarnate Word vs. Southeastern Louisiana Betting Odds

*Lines accurate at time of publication.

Incarnate Word vs. Southeastern Louisiana State Best Bet

Game Total Over 148 Points (-110, Caesars)

I’d love to say this could be a closer game than the line implies but, it’s the top-ranked offense in the league versus the bottom-ranked defense. I believe that when two teams with very different tempos meet, the pace ends up being closer to the speed that the better team wants to run it. Southeastern Louisiana, like most of the league, keeps it pretty uptempo. When they took on the “other” slow team from the Southland early in January the game ended up with 171 points. If Incarnate Word can contribute to this, the game should easily push over the 150 mark.