Two Teams on Losing Runs Meet at a Near Pick'em Price

This game is close to a coin flip on the board, and both teams arrive in poor form. Delaware is a one-point home favourite over a Colgate side that has lost six straight on the road and four straight overall. Delaware has its own slide, three straight losses, so each team is looking to stop the bleeding when they tip off Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

The price reflects that balance. Delaware opened at -1.5 and is now -1, a half-point move toward Colgate that is small. Spread prices are Delaware -104 and Colgate -114, so Colgate costs more to back at the current number. The moneyline is unchanged, Delaware -113 and Colgate -112, about as even as a two-way price gets. Nothing in the movement carries much weight.

The total is 148.5, up from 147, a small move toward the Over, with Over -116 and Under -107. That sits against Delaware's three straight games going under the total. A streak describes what has happened and says nothing about what comes next, and a 1.5-point rise is modest, so the two pieces point in different directions without either being strong.

Recent rotation numbers give the clearest view of how each team scores. Colgate's Andrew Alekseyenko leads its rotation with 30 minutes and 20 points per game over the last 3 games. Sam Wright adds 12.7 points per game, with Parker Jones at 11 and Josh Ahayere at 11 over the same stretch. Blake Forrest plays 24.3 minutes but scores 3.3 points per game. Delaware's Chuck Bailey III is at 20.3 points per game over the last 3 games in 30.7 minutes, with Nick Petronio at 12 and Kachi Nzeh at 10.7. DeShawn Harris-Smith plays the most minutes for Delaware, 31 per game, but is scoring 8.3 points per game. Each side has one clear 20-point scorer and several others in double figures behind him.

Those figures cover only three games, a small sample this early in the season, so they describe recent form more than established quality. Neither team reports an injury, so the rotations above should be what takes the floor, and the game is indoors, which removes weather from the picture. The teams have not met in the last 400 days, so there is no recent head-to-head to weigh.

Taken together, the evidence is thin and balanced. Both teams are on losing runs, the spread and moneyline sit near even, and the only mild tension is between a rising total and Delaware's recent unders. Colgate's road losing streak is the most extreme single fact, but it is a record of past results, not a forecast.