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Detroit heads to Highland Heights on Thursday night for a Horizon League matchup against Northern Kentucky at Truist Arena, and the market is clearly backing the home side. Northern Kentucky is laying 10.5 points with a high total attached, which tells you the expectation is that the Norse offense will play clean at home and force Detroit into an uncomfortable scoring pace. The home splits support that view. Northern Kentucky is 9-2 in its building, while Detroit has struggled away from home at 3-6, which is a meaningful gap when you’re laying double digits. The handicap question is whether Detroit’s offense can travel well enough to keep this inside the number, because Detroit’s best games come when it is attacking

Green Bay heads to Cleveland on Thursday night for a Horizon League matchup against Cleveland State at the Wolstein Center, and the market is leaning slightly to the road team. The Phoenix are laying 3.5 points despite a mediocre road profile (4-7), which tells you oddsmakers are weighting Green Bay’s current form and efficiency more than raw home/away splits. Cleveland State’s overall record is ugly at 5-13, but the Vikings have been far more competitive in their building at 5-3, and that’s exactly why this line sits in the one-to-two possession range instead of pushing toward a larger Green Bay number. The total at 147.5 sets up a pace and style question. Cleveland State can score and it shoots a

Jacksonville heads to Conway on Thursday night for an Atlantic Sun matchup against Central Arkansas at the Farris Center, and the market is pricing this as a clear home favorite spot. Central Arkansas is laying 8.5 points, and that number is being supported by a strong home split (7-1) paired with Jacksonville’s road struggles (2-9). That combination is usually enough to justify a mid-range spread in conference play, especially when the favorite has a scoring profile that can create margin quickly through three-point volume and turnover pressure. The total is set at 136.5, which is relatively modest compared to both teams’ season scoring averages, and that creates an interesting handicap. You’re getting a spread that implies Central Arkansas is expected

Oakland heads to Milwaukee on Thursday night for a Horizon League matchup at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, and the market is pricing it close to a toss-up with Oakland laying 2.5 on the road. That tells you oddsmakers are respecting Oakland’s offensive ceiling more than the venue split, even though both teams have been far more comfortable at home than away. Oakland is only 4-8 on the road, while Milwaukee is 7-2 at home, and that is usually a red flag for backing a road favorite. But the other side of that coin is that Milwaukee is 1-8 away, and in a conference like this, bettors tend to price overall quality and scoring profile heavily. The total is the other