Evansville Aces vs Purdue Boilermakers Point Spread Picks

Evansville has Keishon Porter and Joshua Hughes, who each scored 22 points as the team topped Henderson State, 90-74, in a warm-up for the season. But they went 11-21 last year, and the defense will be overmatched against No. 1 Purdue. Last season, Evansville gave up 80 points to Ohio State and 92 to Radford in the first month of the season. Evansville is on a 10-4 run OVER the total. Purdue returns 80 percent of its scoring, led by first-team All-American Braden Smith, on a team that averaged 77.3 points in conference action and was second in the Big Ten in shooting (48.6%). They averaged 84.6 points in their first three last November, rolling over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northern Kentucky, and Yale. Take Evansville/Purdue OVER the total.