T.M. Selection: North Carolina A&T/Longwood UNDER.

I am on the under in the North Carolina A&T vs Longwood game on Friday. NC A&T won in the 1st round of this tournament against Radford but they had finished their year off with 4 losses in a row and they looked really bad in most of those games. Their final 3 games to end the regular season were all losses where they didn't even put up 65+ in any of the games, and they failed to even reach 60 points in the 2 most recent games to end off the regular season. They did put up 78 points against Radford but I think they are going to have a much tougher time trying to score in this game. Longwood won the conference this year and they have been dominating in their conference play too, winning 15/16 games in conference play this year. Longwood hasn't played in almost a week now so they should be well rested for this game. They ended their year off winning 5 games in a row but they never put up 80+ points in any of those games. Longwood has been putting up around the low 70's in points lately but it has really been their defense that has been winning their games since they have looked great on the defensive end lately. They haven't given up 70+ points in 6/9 of their previous 9 games but even in the games they did, the most the opposing team ever got to in 1 of those games was 72 points. Longwood was the best team in their conference all year and I don't see why they are going to let off the gas now, especially when their defensive play has been so good. I expect them to give another great defensive effort in this game and keep the opposing team from scoring a lot of points. I don't think they are going to need to put up a lot of points to win this game either so I like the under in this game.

T.M. Prediction: 70-57 Longwood.