UT Martin Skyhawks

Two November road wins, at UNLV at +1100 and at Bradley at +1200, made the Skyhawks’ 2025-26 moneyline: 18.18 units over 29 priced games, a return only five Division I teams beat. Only nine of their 30 games went over the total.

Two nights in November

UT Martin opened at UNLV as 16.5-point underdogs and won 86-81; two games later they won 78-67 at Bradley as 15.5-point underdogs. Those two games returned 23 units. Every other priced game together lost 4.82. Those were the only two underdog wins in eight underdog games, and as favorites they made 1.18 units on a 17-5 record.

Better on the road

Away from home UT Martin covered 10 of 14, a rate only 14 Division I teams beat, and the road moneyline made 20.39 with the two upsets in it. At home they covered 5 of 12 and lost 0.62 units, with home defeats to Morehead State at -410, Southeast Missouri State at -155 and Tennessee State 67-42 at -142, all in February.

Low scores both ways

The Skyhawks allowed 63.18 points a game; only three Division I teams allowed fewer. They scored 69.79. Twenty-one of their 30 totals went under and nine over, an under rate only seven teams bettered, with two more level. The lowest total of their season, 126.5 for the OVC quarterfinal against Eastern Illinois, was one of the nine overs, a 66-63 win.

Opponents

Tennessee State beat UT Martin three times out of three, covering each time, the last 68-55 in the OVC tournament semifinal. Eastern Illinois lost three times, but UT Martin covered only once. Tennessee Tech and Southern Indiana lost twice each, and UT Martin covered all four.

The spread

Fifteen covers and 15 misses overall; January, 8-1 straight up, was 5-4 against the number, and February, 4-5, cost 3.46 units. The two OVC tournament games both missed the spread.

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