ASA's CBB Top Tier Tipoff! 1st Play This Ssn!
- Handicapper
- ASA, Inc.
- League
- NCAAB
- Competition
- Syracuse vs Indiana
- Release Date
- 11/08/2026 09:42 PM
- Event Date
- 11/09/2026 06:30 PM
- Bet Type
- Point Spread
- Pick
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Indiana -4.5 (-110)
(BetOnline)
- Outcome
- Loss
- Analysis
- #844 ASA PLAY ON Indiana -4.5 over Syracuse, Monday at 6:30 PM ET @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse Indianapolis, IN
Not a true home game for the Hoosiers but close enough as they make the 50 mile trek to Indianapolis. This will be a full blown IU crowd so as close to a home game as they’ll get without actually playing in Assembly Hall. Syracuse plays asway from their home court for the first time this season. Both teams are 2-0 winning in blowouts vs low level teams. Both teams will be relying heavily on transfers with the Hoosiers bringing back 17% of their minutes from last season while Syracuse brings back 19% of their minutes. We like IU’s transfer class much better. They brought in transfers who were successful at high level programs. Big man Sherrell was one of the better players in the SEC for Alabama last year starting a team high 34 games for the Crimson Tide while averaging 11 PPG and led the SEC in blocked shots. They also picked up SMU’s top big man, Notre Dame’s leading scorer (guard Burton average 18.5 PPG last year), Duke transfer Harris who was a top 35 national recruit a few years ago and has put up 30 points in his 2 games with Indiana. The Hoosiers also brought back a few guys that were solid rotational players last season. Their 6th man averaged 12.5 PPG for Villanova last year. They also have a wingman from Georgia Tech who averaged double digits for the Yellow Jackets. Syracuse has a new head coach this season, former Orange guard McNamara who was at Siena last season. It’s just his 3rd season as a head coach while Indiana head man DeVries starts his 10th season and 2nd at Indiana. McNamara’s has a bunch of transfers as well but from the likes of McNeese, App State, Quinnipiac, and Siena with none coming from high major schools. He also has 3 freshman in his rotation playing their first game away from home while Indiana’s top 7 in their rotation are all upperclassmen. We can’t take much from the 2 games these teams have played thus far vs poor competition, but we feel IU is a bit undervalued here. They are the more experienced team, with the more experienced coach, and playing a “semi” home game. This line should be higher in our opinion. Let’s lay it with Indiana.
