The midweek schedule in the SEC is lean this week. Ole Miss plays Tennessee in Knoxville while South Carolina travels to Austin to face Texas. That’s it for the Tuesday night slate. Wednesday features just 2 games as well.
Nevertheless, let’s take a look at some DFS angles to attack from Tuesday night’s action.
Tuesday, Feb. 3 SEC DFS predictions
Below are 3 DFS picks from the Tuesday night slate of games in the SEC. All of them can be found inside one of the best apps for daily fantasy sports on the market — Underdog. New users can hit the banner below each player pick and our SDS sign-up bonus will be applied to your account.
Tennessee F Nate Ament higher than 23.5 points+rebounds vs. Ole Miss
After scoring 20 points against Kansas on Nov. 26, Nate Ament hit the most brutal of walls. He scored more than 13 points in a game just once over the next month and a half. When Tennessee beat Texas on Jan. 6, Ament scored only 8 points (a season low) on 4 shots (a season low) in 22 minutes.
In the 6 games since, Ament has been a madman. He is averaging 21.2 points while taking 9.2 foul shots and grabbing 6.2 rebounds per game since Jan. 6. The foul shooting is key. Ament went 4-for-16 from the field against Auburn last weekend, but he knocked down 12 free throws in 15 attempts.
Ament is in a complete groove, getting to his spots on the floor and finding ways to put points on the board. He hit a dribble pull-up in the lane against Auburn that was illustrative of the type of confidence he’s currently playing with.
Ole Miss doesn’t keep teams off the foul line. In fact, the Rebels send their opponents to the free throw line at one of the highest rates in the country. They’ve gotten away with it thanks to great shooting luck at the line, but Ament is a 76% shooter from the charity stripe. Ole Miss similarly struggles to keep teams off the glass. I like this number for Ament, who has cleared 23.5 points+rebounds in 4 of his last 5.
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Tennessee G Ja’Kobi Gillespie higher than 2.5 made 3s vs. Ole Miss
Two types of shots make up a quarter of the shot diet Ole Miss opponents have had this season — drive-and-kick looks and second-chance shots off of rebounds. Ole Miss gives up 0.86 points per possession on drive-and-kick shot attempts, which is just slightly below the national average, according to Hoop-Explorer. Ole Miss gives up 1.22 points per possession on shot attempts immediately following a rebound, which is way above the national average.
Auburn had no answer for Tennessee’s inside presence. Ament got inside at will. Jaylen Carey came off the bench and dominated his matchups down low. If Tennessee keeps that same focus, kick-out 3s are going to be available for its shooters on the perimeter. Ja’Kobi Gillespie, with 4 made triples in 2 of his last 4 games, is the man to watch from distance. He takes 8 a game and shoots it at a 35% clip.
Ole Miss is content to give up 3s and while Tennessee hasn’t shot it well for much of the season, the Vols do capitalize on the opportunities that Ole Miss gives up. UT averages 1.07 points per possession on drive-and-kick shots.
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Texas G Jordan Pope lower than 12.5 points vs. South Carolina
Against the Gamecocks, the Texas offense should be going inside often. Dailyn Swain and Matas Vokietaitis should both have big games against a South Carolina defense that has given up 92-plus points in 3 straight. The Gamecocks have lost 6 of their last 7; the defense has let them down. They don’t block shots or force steals, and they give up 62% shooting at the rim. The Gamecocks have made a point to run teams off the 3-point line and keep as much as they can inside the arc, but they’re still getting burned.
Jordan Pope takes 65% of his shots from beyond the arc this season. There may be kick-out opportunities for the 12.9 points-per-game scorer, but the offense should be running through Swain inside. That’s been the case lately, and Pope has been below 12.5 points in 6 of his last 9 games.
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