Evansville at Illinois State

Evansville is 6-3 UNDER and Illinois State is 7-4 UNDER this season as both teams are playing solid defense with the Purple Aces holding opponents to 40.9 percent shooting and Illinois State 38.3 percent. Both meetings easily went UNDER last season and the Redbirds have stayed UNDER six of their last seven this year. Illinois State beat Tulsa 68-56 on Sunday and held the Golden Hurricane to a microscopic 26.9 percent from the floor with only one player scoring more than nine points for Tulsa. The Redbirds had only a .410 field goal percentage themselves with Paris Lee the leading scorer with 18 points. Evansville's last lined game was a 77-69 win at Austin Peay in a game that went UNDER by a point and the Governors were held to 39.6 percent shooting. Evansville has gone UNDER 11 of its last 14 games dating to last season and the UNDER is 60-29-1 in Illinois State's last 90 home games. Play the UNDER.