Western Carolina vs UNC Greensboro Prediction 2/8/25 College Basketball Picks

The Western Carolina Catamounts and the UNC-Greensboro Spartans meet Saturday in college basketball action from the First Horizon Coliseum. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best bets for this game. Here’s a Western Carolina vs. UNC-Greensboro prediction.

Western Carolina Recap

The Western Carolina Catamounts come into this game looking to bounce back from an 84-75 loss at the hands of Furman last time out to climb to 6-16 on the year. After this game, Western Carolina will head home for a game against East Tennessee State.

Catamounts Lose 3rd Straight & 8 Of Last 10

Bernard Pelote leads Western Carolina in scoring and rebounding with 14.1 PPG and 7.6 RPG while Cord Stansberry has 11.5 PPG and 4 RPG as the only other double-digit scorer for Western Carolina so far this season. Ice Emery has 8.5 PPG while Marcus Kell’s added 9.4 PPG with 4.2 RPG and Brandon Morgan’s added 6.7 PPG and dished out a team-high 2.2 APG to lead the Catamounts in assists so far this season. As a team, Western Carolina is averaging 68.5 PPG on 38.4% shooting from the field, 29.3% from three, and 74.8% from the foul line this season.

Why the Western Carolina Catamounts will win

• The road team has won five of North Carolina-Greensboro’s last six games.
• North Carolina-Greensboro has lost three of its last four day games at First Horizon Coliseum following a road win.

UNC-Greensboro Recap

The UNC-Greensboro Spartans come into this game looking to add on to a 76-61 win over The Citadel last time out to improve to 15-9 on the year. After this game, UNC-Greensboro will head home for a game against VMI.

Spartans Looking To Keep Momentum Going

Kenyon Giles leads the Spartans in scoring with 15.8 PPG while Donovan Atwell has 14.2 PPG. Ronald Polite III has added 13.6 PPG with a team-high 3.4 APG to lead UNC-Greensboro in assists and to cap off the trio of double-digit scorers for UNC-Greensboro up to this point in the year. Jalen Breath has 6.3 PPG and 6.4 RPG to lead UNC-Greensboro on the glass so far this season. As a team, UNC-Greensboro is averaging 73.5 PPG on 44.6% shooting from the field, 38.2% from three, and 73.1% from the foul line this season.

Why the North Carolina-Greensboro Spartans will win

• North Carolina-Greensboro has won 17 of its last 18 games against Western Carolina.
• Western Carolina has lost 10 of its last 11 road games.

Total Points Facts

• Each of Western Carolina’s last five games against Conference opponents has produced a total of 143+ points.
• Each of North Carolina-Greensboro’s last four day games against non-AP-ranked opponents at First Horizon Coliseum have produced a total of 141+ points.

Western Carolina vs. UNC-Greensboro prediction

I’m with UNC-Greensboro in this one. I’ll give Western Carolina some credit as the Catamounts have found ways at times to be competitive this season and they do have some close losses on their resume in conference play. However, I’d be willing to make a case that UNC-Greensboro is one of the top three teams in the SoCon and that Western Carolina from a talent and metric perspective is still one of the worst. We’ve seen Western Carolina get crushed just as often as they’ve hung around this season and we just saw UNC-Greensboro smack around the Citadel. A similar result wouldn’t shock me in the slightest here. I think that UNC-Greensboro gets the job done at home and bags themselves a win and cover in this one.