UAB Blazers vs West Virginia Mountaineers Point Spread Picks

Coach Bob Huggins is doing a masterful job so far with West Virginia, which lost nine of its top 10 scorers from last year but the Mountaineers are 7-2 straight-up and 6-3 ATS and the only losses were to Purdue and Xavier away from home. Erik Stevenson leads the Mountaineers in scoring with 14.2 points per game and Tre Mitchell scores 12.9 and two others are in double figures and the team is shooting nearly 50 percent from the field and 38.5 percent on 3-pointers. This will be the first true road game for UAB, which has played a relatively easy schedule. The Blazers lost to the Mountaineers 65-59 last season at home and UAB is 1-10-1 ATS its past 12 road contests and 5-11-1 ATS overall following a win. Lay the points with West Virginia as a Max Play.