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7:00PM EST: St. Joe's/Charleston Over 151.5 (3 Units)
Couple teams playing well that love to shoot the 3-Ball. St. Joe's has won 6 straight while Charleston has won 6 of their last 7. Their lone loss came to the 14th ranked FAU Owls on the road. While St. Joe's hasn't played with a ton of tempo, Charleston has, ranking 47th in AdjT. St. Joe's currently ranks 233rd in AdjT but they were ranked 74th a season ago. Same Head Coach and largely the same cast of players.
The reason for the dip in tempo (so far) has been in part because of who they've played. Going back their opponents AdjT have ranked; 170th, 338th, 336th, 114th, 332nd, 96th, 23rd, 259th, 120th, 305th, and 202nd. The 23rd was against Kentucky and that game ended in regulation 77-77. They don't have any issue playing fast and in transition. They're the 48th ranked 3-Pt shooting team at 37% and have the 4th highest 3-PT Rate in the Nation. Charleston ranks 234th in opponent 3-PT %. They're going to get a ton of quick easy looks on the perimeter tonight and they'll shoot them willingly. They could easily push close to 40 attempted 3's tonight.
Charleston is no slouch of a program either. They went 31-4 and 17-1 at Home in route to winning the Colonial Athletic Conference last year. Their season opener was a Home victory over Iona 71-69 that went under the total. Then they played 7 straight games away from Home. Their last 3 have come at home in the TD Arena and they've scored 84, 86, and 85. They also let up 81, 71, and 70. All 3 games went Over. St. Joseph's is a much better offense than any of those 3 teams that they've faced too.
Charleston hasn't been a great 3-PT shooting team this season, but they do rank 14th in 3-PT Rate. They're also shooting a respectable 35.2% over their last 3 games so those shots are starting to fall. Both teams are playing extremely well and Charleston's incredibly tough at Home. The Hawks have shown their offense will travel regardless, putting up points both @ Kentucky and @ Villanova. With how these teams are playing there's going to be some incredibly quick scoring barrages throughout this game to help drive this over.
