what's going on everyone Chris from picks.com here with your free pick in the Ruckers versus Howard College Basketball match up going down Saturday November 18th 2023 just a reminder if you haven't already make sure you subscribe to our Channel and smash that thumbs up and if you're looking for my Best Bets the games I love the most including my daily $19 best bet make sure that you head on over to pick dogs.com and click the premium picks tab at the top of the page but let's get to this one between Ruckers and Howard and Howard coming into this one two and two on the year after a 64 to 53 win over Boston University in their last matchup meanwhile Rucker is coming in 3 And1 on the year a third straight win after a 71- 60 victory over Georgetown in their last matchup and now you know it's becomes an interesting matchup here as you know uh Howard you know the better offensive team ironically in this matchup I mean you know they're 115th and three-point percentage um excuse me 118th in two-point percentage they're they're just outside the top 80 in free throw percentage this season so Howard definitely going to want to be able to should try to enforce their will offensively here they're also 13th in the country in terms of free throws attempted per game and getting to the foul line which is Big considering that's where 27.2% of their points are coming from this season for the bison and put some 22 nationally um in that statistic of Point distribution at the foul line um but the problem here for Howard is that they're going up against a Ruckers team that is just Rock Solid defensively they're 22nd in adjusted defensive efficency and Steve pqu since taking over at Ruckers has just thrived on enforcing the importance of playing good defense I mean going back to last year sixth in defensive efficiency prior to that in any of his Seasons at Ruckers he finished no worse than 70th in terms of adjusted defensive efficiency really like I said really puts an emphasis on just playing you know solid D and um I think that's what we're going to see him try to implement here against a Howard team that you know they they play a couple of low scoring games but the games they got run out of the gym in you could really tell you could really see it from their results I mean they lost 10786 to James Madison 88 to 85 to Georgia Tech um but Rucker's not a solid offensive team if we're just calling it what it is this Rucker's offense 175th in adjusted offensive efficiency uh 265th in three-o percentage shooting just 22 28.2% from three shooting 46.9% from two-point range just 64% from the foul line so to me Ruckers wins this game but I think they they do it by by way of using their defense to get the job done I don't think Howard's going to be involved in a high-scoring game in this one I'm going to go with the under between Ruckers and Howard all of Ruckers games this season I've seen 131 points or less could see that Trend continue here you're going to go with the under between Ruckers and Howard that's going to be my free pick but just a reminder if you haven't already make sure you're subscribe to our Channel and smash that thumbs up and if you're looking for my Best Bets you can find those a pck dogs premium while your pick dogs check out our betting tools they're 100% free and the best betting tools in the business and tools that you want to make sure that you have in your back pocket when you're making your Best Bets for the day's action and while you're at our YouTube channel make sure you have notifications turned on so you can be the first to be in the know when the newest content drops here at pic dogs thanks for watching see you guys soon