#739/740 ASA FREE PLAY ON Under 150.5 Points – Richmond vs Iowa, Thursday at 3:10 PM ET - No way Richmond tries to run with Iowa in this game. They know their best chance to win is to slow this game down. The Spiders are a slower paced team (221st in possession per game) and will do everything they can to take the Hawkeyes out of their offensive game. Richmond’s defense has been playing great down the stretch holding all 4 of their opponents in the A10 tourney to 64 points or less. That includes limiting an outstanding Davidson offense (11th in the nation in efficiency and 8th in eFG%) to just 62 points in the A10 final on Sunday. Iowa’s defense is underrated as they allow just 0.98 PPP which is 77th nationally. They also force teams to work for their shots with their opponent’s average possession length coming in at 18.2 seconds which is 316th nationally (length of opponents possessions). The Spider defense does the same with their opponent average possession length at 18.1 seconds. Iowa loves to play fast, however vs the slowest paced teams in the Big 10, they did not have high scoring games for the most part. The 4 slowest paced teams in the conference were Penn St, Ohio St, Rutgers, and Minnesota. In their 6 games vs those opponents they averaged 139 total points per game. We don’t see this one getting out of the 140’s so we grab the UNDER.