Nebraska vs Northwestern College Basketball Prediction, Odds, Picks, Best Bets for Feb. 14

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The Northwestern Wildcats (10-15, 2-12 Big Ten) will visit the Nebraska Cornhuskers (21-3, 10-3 Big Ten) after losing three straight road games.

Before you place your bet on this game at FanDuel Sportsbook, here are the NCAA basketball odds and spreads you need to know.

Nebraska vs. Northwestern Game Info and Odds

All college basketball win probability predictions and picks are according to numberFire.
Prediction: Nebraska win (89.3%)

Read these betting insights and trends before you bet on Saturday's Nebraska-Northwestern spread (Nebraska -12.5) or over/under (146.5 points).

Nebraska has covered 13 times in 24 chances against the spread this season.
Northwestern has won 10 games against the spread this year, while failing to cover 15 times.
Nebraska covers the spread when it is a 12.5-point favorite or more 25% of the time. That's less often than Northwestern covers as an underdog of 12.5 or more (66.7%).
When playing at home, the Cornhuskers own a worse record against the spread (5-9-0) compared to their ATS record in road games (6-1-0).
The Wildcats have performed better against the spread away (4-4-0) than at home (5-8-0) this season.
Nebraska is 8-5-0 against the spread in conference games this season.
Northwestern has six wins against the spread in 14 Big Ten games this year.

Nebraska has been chosen as the moneyline favorite in 16 games this year and has walked away with the win 15 times (93.8%) in those games.
The Cornhuskers have been a -1099 moneyline favorite on five occasions this season and won every game.
Northwestern is 1-10 in games it was listed as the moneyline underdog (winning 9.1% of those games).
The Wildcats have played as a moneyline underdog of +680 or longer in only two games this season, which they lost both.
Nebraska has an implied victory probability of 91.7% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.

With 76 points scored per game and 72.6 points conceded last season, Nebraska was 116th in the nation offensively and 199th defensively.
Nebraska was 142nd in college basketball in rebounds per game (32.7) and 247th in rebounds allowed (32.2) last season.
At 14.2 assists per game last season, Nebraska was 124th in college basketball.
In terms of turnovers, Nebraska was 150th in the nation in committing them (10.9 per game) last season. It was 121st in forcing them (11.9 per game).
Northwestern scored 72.4 points per game (218th-ranked in college basketball) last season, while allowing 69.2 points per contest (85th-ranked).
Last season Northwestern pulled down 30.6 boards per game (266th-ranked in college basketball) and ceded 30.8 rebounds per contest (153rd-ranked).
Northwestern put up 14.5 dimes per game, which ranked them 105th in the country.
Northwestern was top-25 last season in turnovers, 25th-best in college basketball with 9.3 turnovers per game. Meanwhile, it ranked 67th with 12.6 forced turnovers per contest.

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