Lamar vs Texas Tech Prediction College Basketball Picks 12/21/24

The Lamar Cardinals and the Texas Tech Red Raiders meet Saturday in college basketball action from United Supermarkets Arena. Here’s a Lamar vs Texas Tech prediction. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best Lamar vs Texas Tech pick. We will examine:

The Lamar Cardinals recent form and player performance

The Texas Tech Red Raiders recent form and player performance

Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Lamar Cardinals

Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Texas Tech Red Raiders

Recent betting trends in games played between Lamar and Texas Tech

A summary that ties it all together and produces a favorable betting outcome for the Lamar vs Texas Tech game

Lamar Cardinals Betting Preview

Lamar’s season kicked off on a 1-5 stretch that featured losses to Texas A&M, Sam Houston, Akron, Alabama State and Omaha. It’s been wins over Our Lady of the Lake, Texas A&M-CC, UTRGV, Louisiana and Southern Miss since then.

In the Southern Miss game on Tuesday, the Cardinals were up by five at halftime. Lamar posted another 33 points from there in a 69-65 win. Leading team scorer Alexis Marmolejos finished with 20 points on 6-of-19 shooting.

Texas Tech Red Raiders Betting Preview

Over on the Texas Tech side, they beat Bethune-Cookman, Northwestern State, Wyoming and AR-Pine Bluff before their first loss to St. Joseph’s. The Raiders are 4-1 since then with wins over Syracuse, Northern Colorado, DePaul and Oral Roberts.

In the Oral Roberts game, the Raiders came out of the break with a commanding lead 41-19. Texas Tech cruised the rest of the way with a 45-31 run for an 86-50 blowout win. Federico Federiko doubled up on 23 points and 12 boards as the team’s leading scorer.

Why the Texas Tech Red Raiders will win

• Texas Tech has won each of its last 26 games against the Southland Conference.
• Lamar has lost 21 of its last 25 day games against non-Conference opponents.

Why the Lamar Cardinals will win

• Lamar has won each of its last five games against non-AP-ranked opponents.

Lamar vs Texas Tech Prediction

I’ll stay with Texas Tech. Probably not touching this one, though. The line’s a bit thick to mess with. In any case, the Raiders are coming off a dismantling of Oral Roberts, posting 53.1 percent shooting, 41 rebounds and 26 team assists. Texas Tech is scoring great this year; they’ve hit 76 or more points in al but one game (67 in the loss to Texas A&M).

As for Lamar, they shot a tepid 39.4 percent from the field with 13 turnovers and a 42-38 rebounding deficit against Southern Miss in their last game, but still won. That makes 69 or more points in all but one outing during this current five-game win streak. Lamar has held opponents to 65 or fewer points in all five of those games, but it’s highly unlikely they’ll be able to hold Texas Tech back on Saturday.