High Point Panthers

The Panthers were favored in all 31 games that had a spread in 2025-26 and won 30 of their 34 games. Backing them still lost money: 14 covers in 31, and 0.88 units down on the moneyline.

Favored every time

High Point were never underdogs; only two other Division I teams went through the season without being one. They scored 89.97 points a game, and just two teams scored more. They won 30 of their 34 games, and some home margins were enormous: 127-52 over Averett and 104-49 over Gardner-Webb among them.

What the prices left

The 26 priced wins returned 3.12 units between them. The four defeats cost 4: at UAB 91-74 at -125 in November, at home to Southern Illinois 86-84 at -455, against App State 86-78 at -850 on a neutral floor, and at Winthrop 92-75 at -162. Over the 30 priced games that came to 0.88 units lost.

14 covers in 31

Against the spread they covered 14 times and missed 17, 45.2%. The run that closed the season, 14 straight wins from 17 January through the Big South final, was 7-7 against the spread and made 1.64 units. Home and away barely differed: 8-7 at home, 4-5 on the road, and 2-5 at neutral sites.

The Big South

Gardner-Webb and UNC Asheville lost three times each, but High Point covered only one of the Gardner-Webb games and two against Asheville. Winthrop was the one conference team to beat them, 92-75 in January, and then lost the rematch and the Big South final to High Point.

The total

Twenty overs and 11 unders in 31 games, 64.5%, which put High Point level 17th among 365 teams for overs. Nine of the 14 games in the closing win streak went over.

In the NCAA tournament they beat Wisconsin 83-82 and lost 94-88 to Arkansas.

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