Indiana Hoosiers (19-13) vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers (22-9)
March 15, 2024 9:00 pm EDT
The Line: Nebraska Cornhuskers -3.5; Over/Under: -146.5
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The Indiana Hoosiers and the Nebraska Cornhuskers meet Friday in the college basketball Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinals at the Target Center. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best bets for this game. Here’s an Indiana vs. Nebraska prediction.
Indiana Team Preview
The Indiana Hoosiers come into this one looking to build on their 61-59 win over Penn State in the second round. Kel’el Ware leads the Hoosiers in scoring and rebounding with 16.1 PPG and 9.8 RPG while Malik Reneau has 15.7 PPG and 5.9 RPG. Trey Galloway has 10.6 PPG with a team-high 4.6 APG to lead the Hoosiers in the assist department and Mackenzie Mgbako has 12.2 PPG to cap off the group of double-digit scorers for Indiana so far this season. As a team, Indiana is averaging 72.9 PPG on 48.3% shooting from the field, 32.8% from three and 65.4% shooting from the foul line this season.
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Nebraska Team Preview
The Nebraska Cornhuskers come into the conference tournament as the 3-seed, finishing the year at 22-9 overall including a 12-8 mark in Big Ten conference play. Keisei Tominaga leads the Cornhuskers in scoring with 14.6 PPG while Rienk Mast has 12.7 PPG with team-highs of 7.8 RPG and 3 APG to lead the Huskers in rebounding and assists up to this point in the year. Brice Williams has 12.4 PPG with 5.6 RPG and 2.5 APG and Juwan Gary has 11.9 PPG with 6.2 RPG to cap off the group of double-digit scorers for Nebraska up to this point in the year. C.J. Wilcher also has 8.1 PPG this season for Nebraska. As a team, Nebraska is averaging 76.8 PPG on 45% shooting from the field, 35.7% from three and 75.4% from the foul line this season.
Indiana vs. Nebraska Prediction
I’m on Nebraska in this one. The Cornhuskers are the rested and the better team here and I didn’t really love how Indiana struggled to get by Penn State. Nebraska also crushed Indiana in both meetings in the regular season and were on an absolute tear to finish the regular season. I’ll back Nebraska laying the reasonable number here.
