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The Saint Peter's Peacocks (18-11) and Monmouth Hawks (21-12) face off at 4 p.m. ET on Saturday with the 2022 MAAC Tournament championship and a spot in the NCAA Tournament on the line at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The Peacocks have already beaten the Hawks twice this season despite entering the game as underdogs both times. While the Hawks limped into the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Tournament with just one win in their last four games, they continued to thrive away from home with back-to-back covers as short favorites to reach the title game, pushing their season ATS mark in road or neutral-site games to 15-4.

The Peacocks are 2.5-point favorites and the total is set at over-under 124.5 points in the latest Saint Peter's vs. Monmouth odds. Before locking in any Monmouth vs. Saint Peter's picks, be sure to check out the college basketball predictions and betting advice from SportsLine's proven computer model.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every Division I college basketball game 10,000 times. Over the past five-plus years, the proprietary computer model has generated an impressive profit of almost $1,600 for $100 players on its top-rated college basketball picks against the spread. Anyone who has followed it has seen huge returns.

Now, the model has set its sights on Saint Peter's vs. Monmouth and revealed its coveted picks and predictions. You can head to SportsLine to see all of the model's college basketball picks. Here are several college basketball odds and trends for Monmouth vs. Saint Peter's:

  • Monmouth vs. Saint Peter's point spread: Saint Peter's -2.5
  • Monmouth vs. Saint Peter's over-under total: 124.5 points
  • Monmouth vs. Saint Peter's money line: Monmouth +127, Saint Peter's -153
  • MNMTH: The Hawks are 15-4 ATS away from their home court in road or neutral-site games.
  • SP: The Peacocks are 17-5 ATS in conference games, with two outright wins over Monmouth as underdogs.

Why Monmouth can cover

The Hawks might be underdogs in this matchup after a second straight close win in the MAAC Tournament, but they've had the respect of oddsmakers for most of the conference slate, earning favorite status in 16 of their last 17 games. Top scorer George Papas delivered just his second 20-point performance in his last nine games in Monmouth's Friday win over Rider. His other came against Saturday's opponent, as a 6-for-9 shooting effort from 3-point range paced his 23 points in the Hawks' 70-65 loss to Saint Peter's on Feb. 25.

Nearly as important as Papas hitting his shots from deep are the team's next two best scorers delivering as they did against Rider. Shavar Reynolds Jr. and Walker Miller both scored in double digits for the eighth straight game on Friday. All three scorers will need to be at the top of their game to match up with a Saint Peter's squad that ranks 41st in adjusted defensive efficiency, per KenPom.

Why Saint Peter's can cover

Saint Peter's entered its two games against Monmouth as underdogs of at least four points in each, but it walked away from the court with outright wins in both games, part of a remarkable 17-5 ATS run against the rest of the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference. In both wins, the Peacocks withstood double-digit scoring performances from the Hawks' top three scorers.

The Peacocks get it done by spreading the scoring load among several different players, and in the most recent win over Monmouth, four different players managed to score at least 10 points with the highest total among them coming in a double-double by KC Ndefo (14 points, 11 rebounds). Saint Peter's drained 41.2 percent of its 3-point tries in the semifinal win over Quinnipiac, and if the shots are falling at a similar pace from long range on Saturday, it's hard to see the Peacocks failing to cover for the first time this season against the Hawks.

How to make Saint Peter's vs. Monmouth picks

SportsLine's model is leaning over on the point total, projecting the teams to combine for 133 points. The model also says one side of the spread hits in well over 50 percent of simulations. You can only see the model's pick at SportsLine.

So who wins Monmouth vs. Saint Peter's? And which side of the spread hits in well over 50 percent of simulations? Visit SportsLine now to find out which side of the spread you need to jump on, all from the model that has crushed its college basketball picks, and find out.