College Basketball Betting: No. 10 BYU at New Mexico

BYU and New Mexico are both lock NCAA Tournament teams.

Good luck finding a better matchup this week than Wednesday’s game between Brigham Young and New Mexico, two Mountain West teams who are a combined 38-4, with BYU on a national-best 15-game winning streak. The visiting Cougars, however, are 1-point dogs tonight on Bodog’s college basketball odds.

BYU (20-1, 11-7 ATS) is in the Top 10 for the first time since 1988 and has won 15 of its 20 games by double digits – the lone loss at a good Utah State team. BYU took over the longest current active winning streak in the nation thanks to No. 1 Kentucky’s loss on Tuesday night. The Cougars are led by guard Jimmer Fredette, who leads the MWC in scoring at 20.2 points per game and who dropped a school-record 49 on Arizona earlier this year in a shocking 30-point win for BYU at the Wildcats’ place. The Cougars also lead the country in free-throw percentage.

New Mexico (18-3, 13-6-1 ATS), unranked in the coaches’ poll but No. 23 in the AP poll, has already beaten three ranked teams this season and is always one of the best home teams in the country. Its only home loss in the past 20 games came Jan. 9 against likely NCAA Tournament team UNLV. Last year at the Pit, the Lobos beat BYU by 19 for the Cougars’ worst loss of 2009. Swingman Darington Hobson leads UNM in scoring, rebounding and assists at 15.3 points, 8.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game. But Hobson has totaled just 14 points in the past two games.

When making your college basketball bet on this game, know that while New Mexico beat BYU last year at the Pit, the Cougars had won three previous meetings there and are 7-1 against the Lobos (and 7-1 ATS) under Coach Dave Rose.

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