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Vermont heads to Newark on Saturday night for an America East matchup with NJIT, and the Catamounts are priced as a modest road favorite. Vermont is laying 4.5 with a moneyline near -190, which reflects a power-rating edge but also respects that NJIT has been competitive at home. This is the kind of conference game where the number often comes down to one or two runs. If Vermont’s shot-making shows up early and it controls tempo, it can create the separation needed to cover. If NJIT’s home defense forces longer possessions and the game stays tight into the final media timeout, +4.5 becomes live even if Vermont wins. The total at 142 suggests a fairly normal scoring environment, but your

North Carolina A&T heads to Elon on Saturday night for a Coastal Athletic Association game at the Schar Center, and the market is pricing the Phoenix as a comfortable home favorite. Elon is laying 7.5, which matches the teams’ overall profiles and home and road splits. The Aggies have been inconsistent away from home at 3-9, while Elon has been steadier in its building at 8-6 and has the scoring baseline to create separation when it gets into a rhythm. This matchup also has a total sitting at 151.5, which tells you oddsmakers are expecting a fairly normal scoring environment for these teams. The handicap is really about whether North Carolina A&T can keep the margin from expanding. In spreads

New Haven heads to Hackensack on Saturday night for a Northeast Conference matchup with Fairleigh Dickinson, and the market has the Knights priced as a short home favorite. FDU is laying 2.5 at the Bogota Savings Bank Center, which puts this game firmly in “one possession either way” territory. When spreads are this small, the handicap is less about who is better on paper and more about which team can play cleaner basketball, especially in the final eight minutes when halfcourt execution and free throws decide outcomes. The total is also telling. At 124.5, this is a low-scoring market, and that naturally raises the value of points with the underdog because fewer possessions increase variance and keep margins tight. In

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi heads to Lake Charles on Saturday night for a Southland matchup with McNeese State, and this is one of the more aggressive home numbers on the board. McNeese is laying 14.5 at Townsley Law Arena with a heavy moneyline, and the pricing is built on what the Cowboys have done all season in this building. They are 13-0 at home, they’ve consistently created separation, and they have the defensive activity to turn small edges into runs that break games open. The decision for bettors is whether the number is too big for a conference game, or whether McNeese’s home dominance is strong enough to justify laying it anyway. Texas A&M-CC has been competitive enough to win games,