Texas A&M vs Tennessee Odds, Picks For SEC Tournament (March 5)

• Texas A&M and Tennessee will open the SEC Women’s Tournament Wednesday
• Tennessee could be without star guard Talaysia Cooper
• A&M lost 10 straight games to close out the regular season

The highly-competitive SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament tips off at 11:00 am ET Wednesday with No. 9 seed Tennessee (21-8 overall, 8-8 SEC) taking on No. 16 seed Texas A&M (10-18, 3-13) at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, SC. The game will air on SEC Network. 

Texas A&M vs Tennessee Odds for SEC Women’s Tournament

The Volunteers are favored by 22.5 points. I wasn’t expecting March Madness betting apps to even bother to putting a moneyline on it, as A&M is in the middle of a 10-game losing streak, but DraftKings has set the Lady Vols as -9000 favorites (98.9% implied win probability) and the Aggies as +2500 underdogs (3.85%).

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Wednesday’s winner will move onto the second round against No. 8 seed Vanderbilt at 11:00 am ET Thursday. 

Tennessee coming into the SEC Tournament seeded ninth is a show of the conference’s depth, as UT is ranked No. 18 in the latest AP Poll and is projected to be a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. 

Things are not trending in the right direction for the Vols as they enter the postseason, however. They dropped their final two games of the regular season, including a shocking home loss against Georgia in which star guard Talaysia Cooper was injured midway through the first half. 

Even without Cooper, they should’ve taken out a bad Georgia team, but with her status now unknown, Tennessee’s +5000 odds to win the SEC Tournament at DraftKings are not nearly as attractive as they would’ve been otherwise. 

Will her absence matter against A&M? It shouldn’t. Jewel Spear (13.2 ppg), Ruby Whitehorn (11.8), Zee Spearman (11.7) and Samara Spencer (10.4) are all averaging in double figures, so there’s plenty of options even if Cooper can’t go.  

And A&M doesn’t do much well enough to take advantage of a short-handed Tennessee. The Aggies are top-100 in just two major statistics tracked by Torvik – offensive rebounding (50th) and block percentage (46th). Their offense is 137th in efficiency, while their defense is 123rd. 

Tennessee, even with its recent slide, is 10th in offensive efficiency and 34th on defense. 

In the first meeting between the two teams, Tennessee won 91-79 at A&M. The Vols led by 22 at halftime, and the lead never dipped into single digits in the second half. 

Texas A&M vs Tennessee Prediction 

Cooper’s injury will make giving up 20ish points pretty tough. But have I mentioned that A&M isn’t that great? 

In the Aggies’ current losing streak, nine of the games were decided by double digits. The one that wasn’t was a nine-point home loss against Arkansas this past Sunday. Arkansas has three SEC wins on the season, two of which came against A&M. 

So, yes, even a short-handed Tennessee is capable of covering a large spread against this A&M squad. 

And while it’s not a sound strategy to base your bets on vibes, missing Cooper could very well eliminate the possibility of Tennessee’s player overlooking A&M. If all those players are locked in, a blowout could be in the cards. 

Texas A&M vs Tennessee Picks:

• Tennessee -22.5 (-110)