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THURSDAY BEST BETS | College Basketball Conference Tournaments & NHL & NBA | 3/12/26 · Toadstool Sports

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  Speaker 1: Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself. We are on
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  Speaker 1: OWN seven run over the last two days after tonight
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  Speaker 1: it was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: start off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know what to tell you above that. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't want to do this anymore. I have never
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  Speaker 1: seen anything like this. Man with the slump continuing. Two
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  Speaker 1: straight losses, not a good day at all. Own four,
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  Speaker 1: I have not had a good season. Man, with wookends
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  Speaker 1: slump that I'm on, and the slump continues, I've reached
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  Speaker 1: a new peak. Actually, I'm gonna burn my browins hat Man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what is going on with the Bruins.
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  Speaker 1: March eight? Is that what it is? I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know it's March ninth? I think who even knows? Man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what day is anymore. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what data is anymore. Man, back with you
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  Speaker 1: after the worst day that I could possibly have, Back
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  Speaker 1: with you as I always am until I die at
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  Speaker 1: least oh and two. Yesterday and yesterday it did not
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  Speaker 1: go well for me. Own five the worst month that
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  Speaker 1: I've ever had in my eighteen years. Doing this. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to even tell you about this anymore. Slump,
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  Speaker 1: the slump discontinuous, the slump continues. Somebody fucking kill me, please.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what I should do at this point,
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  Speaker 1: other than potentially end it all. What's up? Everybody is
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  Speaker 1: sewed back with you, toadstool Sports. It is Thursday, March twelfth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be really selective here, man. One of
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  Speaker 1: the worst beats that you'll ever see was the one
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  Speaker 1: play I gave out on the show yesterday and Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily I did not give it out as a money
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  Speaker 1: line play because it would have been more of a loss.
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  Speaker 1: Although you had you would have still had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to maybe win that bet. But it was disgusting. Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: was the better team in that game. They led almost
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  Speaker 1: the whole game. They were up double digits, like right
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  Speaker 1: out of the gate. Then they blew that pretty much
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  Speaker 1: entire lead. It was almost tied. I think at halftime
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  Speaker 1: they got another double digit lead. I think they were
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  Speaker 1: up twelve with ten minutes left. And in a Cincinnati game,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of points because they don't allow a
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  Speaker 1: lot of points. It was a low scoring game. Was
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  Speaker 1: exactly Cincinnati's style. They were up eight with two minutes left,
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  Speaker 1: so it's like, all right, we're gonna get this one, right. No,
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  Speaker 1: they never scored again whatsoever in regulation. The game went
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  Speaker 1: into overtime, they put themselves in like a four point
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  Speaker 1: overtime hole and they lost by one. It's disgusting. Fuck Cincinnati, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the worst beats that I've seen in
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  Speaker 1: quite a while. Like, the majority of the game was
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  Speaker 1: like Cincinnati was like a ninety something percent chance to
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  Speaker 1: at least win the game outright. I'm extremely pissed about it.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, to rub salt in the wound,
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  Speaker 1: my almost play, I almost added Xavier and they won
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  Speaker 1: the game out right, So I was right about Xavier.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just awesome. That's exactly what you want. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you want your day to go. Man. And now
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  Speaker 1: we're what are we? We're one and seven I think
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  Speaker 1: in conference tournament action. So what am I gonna do
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  Speaker 1: about it? Oh, I'm gonna add two more plays in
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  Speaker 1: conference tournament action, because why wouldn't I write, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have that, and I'm gonna have one NBA play that
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing in hockey even though it's a huge
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  Speaker 1: hockey board. Don't even want to talk about it because
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna take me for fucking ever to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna like my NBA play at all. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even like it. It's a horrible, horrible idea, and
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  Speaker 1: we're doing it anyway. Amanda, what's up? Thanks for hanging
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  Speaker 1: out you Mass Purdue. Well, I gotta talk about you
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  Speaker 1: the U Mass game first, So that's what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do right now, because this game is at eleven am.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about the MAC here and then I will
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to the Purdue game, but hang out because
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to do this in a order and
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  Speaker 1: hit all the afternoon games. Well actually I do it
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  Speaker 1: by conference, but yeah, I'm gonna try to get this
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  Speaker 1: all done. U Mass Miami Ohio starts at eleven am.
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  Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the MAC Tournament. They just
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  Speaker 1: do it. Uh, just an eight team bracket, like very
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  Speaker 1: straightforward thing. Cleveland is where this all is, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's not really that close to Miami, Ohio though. It's
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  Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the state from Miami, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, their crowd's gonna show up. Their crowd
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  Speaker 1: has shown up to these games in that corner of Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: but the opening game against you mass I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much fervor is really going to
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  Speaker 1: be there for that. Even though yeah, Miami Ohio is undefeated,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna expect anything out of U. Mass Here. They
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  Speaker 1: almost didn't make this tournament, even though I think they're
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  Speaker 1: better than all the teams have finished behind them, so
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  Speaker 1: I think they deserve to get in here. They finished
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  Speaker 1: the season ending a long lost streak, so I actually
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  Speaker 1: liked that because the conference tournament could be like a reset.
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  Speaker 1: They had a huge losing going on. They did bust
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  Speaker 1: it with a win over Ohio at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season. I think that's good because I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have like a long win streak or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that coming into this, although you know who did
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  Speaker 1: Miami Ohio. In fact, thirty one games in a row
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  Speaker 1: is what they is. What they is what they finished
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  Speaker 1: the season doing. So I don't like that because the
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  Speaker 1: conference tournament is almost like a new season. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: like a reset. It could disrupt your momentum. And they
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  Speaker 1: had that huge win that was you know, a really
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  Speaker 1: emotional win. They were flipping off the crowd like a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of assholes at Ohio. So I do not like
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  Speaker 1: that at all for Miami Ohio here. The last time
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  Speaker 1: they played U. Mass they did beat them on the
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  Speaker 1: road by nine, and I think Miami Ohio took them
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  Speaker 1: seriously that time because you Mass went into Miami Ohio
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season and almost beat them. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was an overtime game. No it wasn't, but they
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  Speaker 1: they took them right to the wire. They only lost
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  Speaker 1: by two at Miami Ohio as like nine and a
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  Speaker 1: half point dogs. So yeah, I'm gonna lean to U
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  Speaker 1: Mass here plus the points. I would take the points
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  Speaker 1: with you Mass here. This one is actually close to
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  Speaker 1: being on my card. Miami Ohio is a seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half way favorite, almost eight here. Seventy four percent
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  Speaker 1: of the tickets, only fifty five percent of the cash
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  Speaker 1: is what we're seeing right now on Miami Ohio. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would grab the points with you Mass. It's also
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  Speaker 1: a weird eleven am start time where sometimes these you know,
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  Speaker 1: weird shit can happen. It's like those early tournament games
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  Speaker 1: where a lot of people aren't watching you That's why
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  Speaker 1: I think the crowd might not be that crazy in
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  Speaker 1: this one because it's an early game. Like who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: show up that early for that game in Cleveland? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, man, I like U mass plus the points
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  Speaker 1: though in that one, mister Pinsey, what's up? Yeah? I
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: told you not to play Texas. Did you watch my show?
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  Speaker 1: I said, fade all of the favorites in the SEC yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it. Did any of them cover. I
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  Speaker 1: guess Auburn did, but they probably shouldn't have. That was
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  Speaker 1: one that I was more hesitant on as far as fading.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, Texas. No, those bubble teams. I was like,
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: do not play those teams because they're always over valued?
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  Speaker 1: All right? The afternoon action in the in the MAC
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  Speaker 1: the maction, Bowling Green and Toledo are playing in the
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the four or five game. Toledo is
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  Speaker 1: a one point favorite, seventy one percent of the tickets
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  Speaker 1: on Bowling Green, ninety percent of the cash on Toledo. Though,
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  Speaker 1: my instinct is, you know, the marger reed is all
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  Speaker 1: over Toledo. So yeah, the margat Reed is saying Toledo here,
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  Speaker 1: but my instinct is almost to not do that though
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  Speaker 1: my instinct, I like defense man and Bowling Green is
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  Speaker 1: the better defense here. These teams are not separated by
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  Speaker 1: that much, and I don't think anybody's really gonna want
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  Speaker 1: Bowling Green because you know, they've lost badly to Miami
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  Speaker 1: o High when everybody's gonna use that as a measuring
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  Speaker 1: stick and they're gonna remember, oh, well, Toledo, that's one
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  Speaker 1: of those teams that went into Miami Ohio and almost
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  Speaker 1: beat them. Yeah, so Toledo's gonna get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: credit for that. Bowling Green finished the season with two wins,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean that could disrupt their momentum a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, I guess, but their defensive teams, so the
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  Speaker 1: momentum angle doesn't matter as much. Toledo. We tried to
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  Speaker 1: fade them here on the show after that Miami Ohio
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  Speaker 1: game and they still covered against Buffalo. I'm still pissed
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  Speaker 1: about that. That's how Toledo finished the season. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: they did win four out of five though to finish
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  Speaker 1: the season, so maybe that momentum could get disrupted a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. They did beat Bowling Green on the road
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  Speaker 1: by ten the last time they played them. They and
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  Speaker 1: then they beat them. Yeah, they beat them, or excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: They lost at Bowling Green by ten my mistake last
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  Speaker 1: time they played, So I guess there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a revenge angle there, if you want to call
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  Speaker 1: it that. It's more like the team that lost could
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  Speaker 1: make the adjustments there. Toledo only beat Bowling Green by
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  Speaker 1: one at home, though, so you know, when I decided
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  Speaker 1: not to play the game, I don't really dig into
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  Speaker 1: the box scores with that much detail. But I actually
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  Speaker 1: kind of like Bowling Green in this game. But the
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  Speaker 1: money is completely disagreeing with me, although maybe it'll change
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  Speaker 1: a bit by them, but this is not a night game,
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  Speaker 1: so the market can only adjust so much by then.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't have a good read on that game.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you know, don't listen to me. Buffalo at Akron,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be the biggest line in the Mac
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  Speaker 1: tournament here. Buffalo is really not that good. They did
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  Speaker 1: get into this tournament. I think they're people think they're
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  Speaker 1: better than they are because the record doesn't look that bad,
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  Speaker 1: but they're really not that good. Power rating wise, Acron
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  Speaker 1: is the best team in this conference obviously. I think
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  Speaker 1: Akron's gonna win this game, but we got to figure
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  Speaker 1: out if we think they're gonna cover or not. Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: didn't finish the season well. They lost three of four
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  Speaker 1: to finish the season. They played Akron. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: played them twice this year, but maybe I'm wrong about that.
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  Speaker 1: They lost at home by almost twenty Yeah, they did
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  Speaker 1: play them twice. Akron won both games by double digits,
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  Speaker 1: so Acron swept the season series. You know, they won
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  Speaker 1: both at home and away. Akron definitely the better team.
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  Speaker 1: But again, having to sw you over to conference tournament
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  Speaker 1: mode ken disrupt you a little bit. Akron finished the
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  Speaker 1: season hot with seven wins in a row. They did
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  Speaker 1: lose the Sun Belt game to Troy in there, but again,
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  Speaker 1: that momentum can get disrupted a little bit. They beat
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo easily again not that long ago. They won their
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  Speaker 1: final game of the season ninety four to fifty five.
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  Speaker 1: You know, winning by almost forty points. That's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: you feeling pretty good. It's gonna have you feeling good,
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  Speaker 1: even though it was against a bad Northern Illinois team.
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  Speaker 1: I would probably take the points. If I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: play this, I definitely don't want it. But Akron's a
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  Speaker 1: fourteen and a halfway favorite. They look quick, they look
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  Speaker 1: like a quite public side. Ninety one percent of the tickets,
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the cash on them. I would
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  Speaker 1: lean towards Buffalo plus the points there, but yeah, no
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  Speaker 1: real opinion on that either. Ohio and Kent State. All right,
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  Speaker 1: best bets coming up right now. One best bet already
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  Speaker 1: in the MAC although it's night game, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go with it. We're gonna lay the three with Kent State.
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  Speaker 1: There are three and a half's out there too. I'd
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  Speaker 1: probably still lay that, though everybody saw what Ohio just did, man,
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  Speaker 1: so that's what we're fading here. Ohio just had their
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  Speaker 1: game of the year, final game of the season at home.
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  Speaker 1: They were on the verge of potentially well, actually, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're really on the verge of not making
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  Speaker 1: this tournament. But they wound up as the sixth seed
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  Speaker 1: and they're really not that good. They're probably the eighth
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  Speaker 1: or ninth best team in this conference. They're really bad
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  Speaker 1: on defense, like even worse than Kent State, even though
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  Speaker 1: Kent State the one bad thing about them really is
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  Speaker 1: their defense blows, but Ohio's is actually even worse. Believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not. Kent State, you might have to lay
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  Speaker 1: three and a half on this, but Ohio, Ohio, looks
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  Speaker 1: like they're getting all the public action here, seventy percent
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  Speaker 1: of the tickets, only sixty eight percent of the cash
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  Speaker 1: on them. This seems like it does profile as a
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  Speaker 1: high scoring game because the teams can't play defense and
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: they're both better on offense. But the total is dropping,
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  Speaker 1: So not gonna worry about the total here though. And again,
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  Speaker 1: when teams switch over to a new venue like this
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  Speaker 1: and they switched to tournament mode, a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to really play an over in that
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  Speaker 1: first game when teams are like trying to get their bearing. Still,
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  Speaker 1: although I have recommended a couple of them as like leans,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't want to be on an under
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  Speaker 1: in this game, but we're going with the side. I
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: think Ohio they're just not going to be in a
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  Speaker 1: good spot here. Man, Kent State is clearly the better team.
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  Speaker 1: These two teams did play this season. I think they
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: might have only played once. Kent State did win the
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  Speaker 1: game by fifteen at home. I think they're just clearly
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  Speaker 1: the better team though. So Ohio, Yeah, they're coming in
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  Speaker 1: off that monster game. Dude, it was an overtime game,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago? They almost ended Miami Ohio's undefeated
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  Speaker 1: season in the final game of the season. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how they get back back up off the mat
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  Speaker 1: after that, even though I know this is a tournament game.
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  Speaker 1: Kent State, Yeah, they're just they're the better team in
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  Speaker 1: this tournament quite often. They actually have some tournament experience
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  Speaker 1: on their roster as well, including their coach. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: to me, I think this tournament is headed to a
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  Speaker 1: Kent State versus Akron match up here in one of
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  Speaker 1: the later rounds. That's just the way that I think
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  Speaker 1: Kent State did finish hot, So I don't like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that momentum disrupting part of this, but we're still gonna
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  Speaker 1: go with it. They did win six of their last
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  Speaker 1: seven games, the only loss in there being an achron
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  Speaker 1: but their last game wasn't that impressive though. They failed
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  Speaker 1: to cover in their final home game against Western Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: I know Western Michigan also almost beat Miami Ohio, but
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: they're not a good team. Kent State were like fourteen
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  Speaker 1: and a half point favorites in that game and they
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  Speaker 1: almost lost. Well, I don't know if they almost lost,
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  Speaker 1: but they were winning by like five points with a
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes left, so and they only won by eight.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that might have them more focused than
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  Speaker 1: usual in this one. Yeah, that's all I got to
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  Speaker 1: say about it. Kent State is the play in that one.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: I would not play Wisconsin and do not do it. Don't.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about that game. We gotta get to
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: the Big ten. Let me see if I jump to
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: the Big ten next year. Oh well, thank you sir. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think BYU is gonna beat Houston. I agree
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  Speaker 1: with that, laying the points I don't know. And yeah,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: so I already saw that comment. All right, let me
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: see here, what's next? Up here? We're gonna hit Atlantic
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: ten A man to hopefully can bear with me, because
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I will get to the Purdue one. That's gonna be
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the fifth conference tournament. I'm gonna talk about here, trying
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: to go in orders to knock these early games out.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Eleven thirty on USA Network has George Washington and Fordham
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: in the A ten. George Washington, as I've been saying,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: might be one of the They're probably the most underrated
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: team in this whole conference. Their record doesn't look good,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: but they are a good team. Although they're not great defensively,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: they're really good on offense. But they finish the season
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  Speaker 1: in a very bad way by losing to Loyola Chicago.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: But dude, they're still alive in the tournament. Man Loyola
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  Speaker 1: Chicago they won yesterday. That's a bad loss for George
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  Speaker 1: Washington though, So I think they're gonna come out with
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: more intensity this time against Fordham. And they actually lost
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: to Fordham at home earlier this year, but that was
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: a win for us on the show. If you remember,
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  Speaker 1: you remember why I gave you that play on Fordham.
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  Speaker 1: There there were twelve and a half point dogs and
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: won the game outright. That's because George Washington went into
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Saint Louis the previous game and almost beat them on
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: their own floor, and I think it might have gone
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  Speaker 1: into overtime. Nope, I keep thinking these are overtime games
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  Speaker 1: and they're not. But yeah, George Washington was in a huge,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: huge flat spot after that monster performance against Saint Louis,
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  Speaker 1: so we faded them. That's why they lost to Fordham.
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  Speaker 1: I would not put much stock into that at all now, Fordham.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: They are a team that does play some deepfense and
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: they do play slow, which George Washington might not want
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  Speaker 1: to do. But George Washington's clearly the better team here,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: and people might not really think that, Oh, look at
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: these teams wrecked man and look at the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Fordham won at George Washington, Like, why would you lay
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  Speaker 1: points with George Washington. Well, that's I'm telling you, that's
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: what I would do in this game because of all
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the reasons I just said Fordham. Neither team has played
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  Speaker 1: yet in this tournament. By the way, Fordham did win
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  Speaker 1: with a nice defensive effort against Rhode Island to finish
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  Speaker 1: the season. They were actually hot to finish the season
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  Speaker 1: sort of and then won five of their last seven,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: but they did lose two of the last three, including
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: losing to Losal, which is pretty awful. LaSalle, who is
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: no longer in this tournament. I would lay this with
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: George Washington if I was gonna play it. Though, they're
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: up from five and a half to six. Here, sixty
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: nine percent of the tickets seventy seven percent of the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: cash on Fordham, So the cash percentage is saying Fordham
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: right now. But that's not what I would do. I
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: like GW in that one, even though yes, Fordham I
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: believe is the better defense getting points, but I don't
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: think that's enough. Fordham actually believe in not is the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: top one hundred deepense, so they are definitely the better
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: depfense getting points here. I still don't like it though
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: both teams are underrated, though I will give you that
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: they're both unlucky. According to Kem Bomba though George Washington
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: is literally the unluckiest team in the entire country, and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: they are almost a top fifty offense, so there is that.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Although I do prefer defense usually but not in that game.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: NC State is playing Virginia, by the way, the A ten.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: All those games are in Pittsburgh. As I mentioned yesterday,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Charlotte is hosting the ACC tournament here. NC State. I
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: kind of liked them coming into this game, man, because
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: they got a game under their belt. They won. They
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: did covery yesterday against pitt by like one and a
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: half points. I think now NC State ended their look
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: their losing streak with that win. They got a game
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: under the under their belt in the tournament, you know.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I like that. I don't like when teams come into
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a tournament not having played yet in the tournament. They're
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: up against a team that did play one game in
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the tournament already, because people will be like, oh, well,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: that team's rested through on the back to back. Yeah,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: but they had rest before that game. Like it takes
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: more than one game to really fatigue a college basketball team,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you know. So I think that was fine. N C
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: State got to win that everybody expected against Pitt, so
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they're used to the venue. Now they got the nerves
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: out of the way, they get to play Virginia. Now,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: one problem with NC State here is Virginia has absolutely
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: handled them both times they played this year. Virginia won
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: by fifteen at home, and they won by even more
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: than that on the road. I think where was that game, Yeah,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: by almost thirty, So excuse me. That was the home
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: game for Virginia where they won by almost thirty. But yeah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: at NC State they won by fifteen or whatever I said, So, yeah,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Virginia has handled them. Virginia also is the style of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: team that can handle, you know, like a disruption like
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: this more than some other teams because they play slow.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: So like having your win streak disrupted by having time
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: off is worse for teams that play more of like
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: a timing style of offense, like finesse teams. That's not
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: really what Virginia is because they play slow. But they
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: did finish the season really hot. They won a lot
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of games in a row. Probably good for them. They
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: had a loss to Duke in there, because if they
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: were coming into this tournament on this massive win streak,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I would really really consider NC State here. Virginia did
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: finish with a two game win streak though, and they
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: did beat their rival in the final game against Virginia Tech.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Even though they didn't cover that number, that was still
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: a big win. So I do like NC State in
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: this one. But NC State. The other problem with them
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: is they really have not stepped up well in class
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: this year. Like they beat all the teams that are
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: worse than them, and they don't do well against the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: teams that are better than them. We will see, man.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, they have some continuity there. They got Will Wade,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: they got a couple of the Macneese guys from last
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: year they brought over there. They lost Emir Khan though
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: back to MacNeice, so they don't have the aura anymore.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: And that's why Macneese is in the tournament now, by
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the way, Oh yes, I forgot. Congratulations to the Macneese
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Cowboys who overcame that three overtime game the prior night
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and one easily against Steven v. Austin and MacNeice hit
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: more threes than you would expect in that game last night.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Good win for them, so they'll be in the tournament,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: probably around a twelve seed again, oh boy. And then
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: congratulations to the Lehigh whatever the fuck they are. What's
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Lei's team, the Golden Eagles, Goldenhawks. I don't know what
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the fuck they are. Whatever they are, they won. They're
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: an ass team. They're gonna be going to Dayton probably
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be in a sixteen playing and their stupid
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: fans are all like, we want Duke, we want Duke
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: right now, because Lehigh beat Duke in a fifteen over
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: two upset way back in when was that like twenty
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: somewhere in the twenty tens, I want to say, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: that was an overrated Duke team that year. Man Duke
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: was probably about eleven and a half way favorite in
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that game. Usually fifteen seeds, they're close to twenty point underdogs,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: So that was a totally different scenario. Lehi was actually
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a solid team then too. This year, that's not the case.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: If Lehi were to play Duke in the tournament, yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: good luck with that. Duke would probably be like a
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: thirty point favorite. This time. Lei is very likely gonna
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: be the worst team in the entire field and Duke
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: is the best team in the country, So good luck
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: with that. But yes, the money is agreeing on NC State. Here,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: by the way, sixty three percent of tickets around Virginia
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: eighty percent of the cash on NC State. NC State
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: or excuse me, Virginia is also a slow paced team,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: so they're not as equipped to like cover numbers as
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a favorite. And you know, I know, Virginia has a
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: very good record and whatever, but they their resume doesn't
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: impress me that much either. Man, Like, they did a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: lot of beating down of bad teams too, although I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: know one of those teams I guess isn't that bad
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: as NC State. But you know, as far as the tournament,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: NC State's gonna make the tournament, I mean, the bubble.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: The bubble has not done anything to help themselves. NC
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: State's gonna get in even if they lose this game.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't think that really affects the handicap here.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you could argue. I guess that NC
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: State will still have more motivation to try to win
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: this game, because if they do, then obviously they're gonna
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: be in the tournament. But they're going to be anyway,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: so whatever. Oh and also congratulations to the Idaho Vandals,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: who have not been in the tournament for probably over
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a decade at least. They won the Big Sky. So
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I was correct about that game. That Idaho team is
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: not that bad. I know, they were the seventh seed
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: in that tournament. They were probably like the third or
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: fourth best team in that conference. Though. All right, Peacock
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: at noon or oh wait, excuse the ACC my mistake.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: The next game up in the ACC is Louisville and Miami.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Louisville down to a one point favorite. Looks like some
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: of the money coming in on Miami. But I kind
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of like Louisville in this one eighty percent of tickets,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the cash on Miami OHI or
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Miami Ohio. Oh shit, no, they they would lose to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Louisville and they might match up in the tournament in
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the six to eleven game. Oh god, no, the money
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: looks like it's somewhat coming into Miami, Florida. I don't
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: really like it, though, because people are not going to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: be impressed by what Louisville did yesterday. They did beat SMU.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a It was not a good game. It
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: was way lower scoring than you would think. SMU wants
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to get themselves in higher scoring games, though, I think,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and that was not what that was at all. Louisville.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be an impressive win, Like, that's not
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: going to impress the public when you beat SMU by
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: four points in the scores like in the sixties. You know. So,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I think Louisville they're gonna be in an advantage here
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: because they did play yesterday and they snuck by with
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the win. Those types of teams tend to do well
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: in the second game of a tournament because they're already
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: familiar with the setting. They didn't impress anybody. Miami hasn't
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: played yet in this tournament. Now. One thing I did
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: forget to mention yesterday, I know Louisville's best player is
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: actually out mckel brown. I think is that his name,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Mickel Brown Junior. He's Louisville's best player, and he's hurt
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: right now and they're trying to get him healthy for
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the actual tournament. So he's not playing in the ACC tournament.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I believe he will play in the NCAA tournament, but
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that's one thing to consider that he's not there for Louisville,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: but they're actually still favored against Miami here. Now, Miami
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: does come in not having played in the tournament yet,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and they did just lose to Louisville at home, So
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that would be one hesitation I would have where maybe
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Miami fixes what went wrong in that game and they
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: have some changes to make and they could beat Louisville
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: this time. So that is one thing to have in consideration.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: That was the one time he seems played and it
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: was literally the last game that Miami played. It did
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: end a win streak for them, though, so it could
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a disruptor for Miami as well.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I don't have a great read on that game though. Obviously,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: then we do have Florida State and Duke Duke is
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: entering the fray here. Florida State looked pretty good yesterday, man,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and I told you I thought they would beat cal
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Cal in kind of an unfamiliar setting. Florida State very
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: under the radar. Florida State almost beat Duke during the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: regular season, by the way. I think it was at
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Florida State though, but they only lost by like four
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: points at home against Duke. So Florida State looked very
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: competitive in that game. But that might mean Duke will
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: take them more seriously. Now. The problem with Duke is
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: they're trying to rest up for the NCAA tournament as well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: so they have some injuries going on here. They're without
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Caleb Foster, might not be back until like the Final four,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: assuming they make the Final four, which I think they will.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: But Caleb Foster is not going to be there. He's
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: not playing, So Cayden Boozer is going to be entering
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the starting lineup to take his place at that guard position.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So the Boozers will be in full effect here. Obviously,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Cameron Boozer, you know, he's gonna be one of the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: top NBA draft picks. He's dominating. You know, he's one
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of the best players in college basketball. He carries the team.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: But this is still also a deep Duke team, and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that's why they're so good. So I think they can
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: overcome these missing guys. They're missing Foster, and they're also
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: gonna be without Negungba, the second Patrick Nogungba big Man,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: so they're gonna have to deal with him not being
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: there either. He's missing the ACC tournament and I think
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he is supposed to be back at the start of
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. But with all that being said, Duke
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: is still a monster favorite here seventeen and a half
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: even without those two guys. Duke down from nineteen to
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: seventeen and a half here, and the public looks like
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: they want Florida State, which seems crazy to me, even
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: though they're kind of a trendy ish team in the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in the ACC tournament here. But I'm surprised the public
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: wants to fade Duke man. I don't even know if
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I buy it. This game is at night. Sixty six
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: percent of tickets, fifty eight percent of the cash on
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Florida State, so they do look Florida State does look
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: like a public side Duke, you know, laying a whole
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: bunch of points here. I know Duke has been crushing
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the spread recently, But I kind of like Florida State
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: plus the points here. I mean, they did just win
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and they played you know, they played in the tournament already,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: so that's another Again, I will say that is an
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: advantage when you get that win in the tournament. They
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: were way better than that final score. Look too. Then
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: won by six, but they absolutely blew out Cal in
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that game. It got closer at the end, but Florida
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: State man handled them in so they have the momentum
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: coming into this. They got a game out of the way.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I know this game is in North Carolina, so Duke
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: is gonna have a huge crowd there, so that is
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: definitely something to consider here. Duke, however, finished the season
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: on a massive win streak, finishing by getting revenge over
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: their rival UNC. So I don't love that that Duke's
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: last game. Man Like, they could come into this game,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you know a little bit more questionable once they get
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: their bearings. You know, maybe they will take off and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: win this game. But I would lean to Florida State here.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: A first half play might make sense in that game
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: towards Florida State as well. Probably you'd be getting I
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: would guess about nine in the first half if you
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: want to do it that way. So yeah, those are
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: my thoughts on that game. Final ACC game. Very interesting
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: line here with Clemson in North Carolina. The line is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: only a pick them North Carolina minus one right now,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: but it's basically like pick the winner in this game.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You pretty much know. I'm surprised that we see fifty
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: two percent of the tickets on Clemson right now. Fifty
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: eight percent of the cash doesn't really surprise me. But
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I think the public is going to come in on
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: North Carolina here, like you're asking a pick the winner here.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Who do you think they're gonna pick a Clemson team
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it's look really bad down the stretch. Or North Carolina
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: who beat Duke once and has that number next to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the name and everything you know, and they're the blue blood. Yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: they're still number nineteen in the country. This game's on ESPN,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: by the way, of course, it is at nine to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: thirty PM. I like Clemson in this game, though, Man again,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I told you I thought they could go on a
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: run in this tournament. They're a good defensive team. They
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: slow the game down, which is not what UNC wants
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to do. They gave you and see a lot of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: problems in that game at UNC. It was a very
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Clemson esque game where neither team got out of the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: sixties in that one. UNC was pretty lucky to escape
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that game, although I know that means UNC will probably
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: take Clemson more seriously though, So that is one thing.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: If UNC almost lost to them as a home favorite,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you know, that means that UNC will probably show up
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: with a little bit more effort here than maybe they
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: would otherwise. But Clemson got that game out of the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: way yesterday they beat Wake. Now they're used to the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: venue they're moving on here. I know it's in Charlotte,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: so UNC will have a big fan base there, that's true. UNC,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: though they lost a wins again their last game. It
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: was against Duke Like I said, that was a huge
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: game against Duke Man, even though they lost by double digits.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It's a game you get up for emotionally, you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: so you know there could be some potential hangover effect here.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: And again, it just looks way way too easy to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: play UNC here. I wouldn't do it. I actually think
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Clemson wins the game, So I would lean to Clemson
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in that one, but not one that makes my card Hindium.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: What's up. Oh well, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Man,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the words. Let's go to the Big East
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and then finally I'll get to the Big Ten. After that,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Big twelve gets the last Oh no, sec gets the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: last billing from me. Big ten network has or excuse me,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Peacock has. Providence in Saint John's in the first game
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: up here at noon or twelve thirty whenever this is noon.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Providence did play fairly well against Saint John's both times
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: this year. Man, Saint John's actually lost the first game.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Providence actually went into Saint John's and beat them, I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: think probably in Madison Square Garden, ridiculous upset. Then Saint
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: John's did play better in the second game, but that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: was the game where all those fights happened and seven
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: players got ejected and some of Providence's fans got ejected.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Saint John's did get the revenge and did cover That
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: game was you know it was. It was a tough game.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Providence gave them, gave them a fight for sure. Providence
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: played yesterday, they won, which again I think is good
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: because that will get a game out of the way
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: for them. But this is in Madison Square Garden, So
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: this is like basically Saint John's home Marina here, so
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: that is an advantage for Saint John's here, but Providence
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: got to play there yesterday they got the win. I
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: actually think this Providence team is kind of underrated. But
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: they're really bad on defense. They're really good on offense,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: really bad on defense. Uh. Saint John's is almost the opposite.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Saint John's has some problems on offense, just like last year,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: but their defense is really good. Saint John's did finish
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the season with three wins in a row. They actually
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: had basically a massive win streak towards the end of
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the season, but they did lose to Connecticut horribly in there.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But other than that, they finished the season on a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: huge win streak. So I don't like that, you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: because then your momentum could get disrupted a little bit,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: especially when you you know, you're more of a fast
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: paced team like Saint John's is. Even though they're not
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a good offensive team, they don't really rely on offensive
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: timing though, they rely on like turning you over and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: getting baskets and transition. Saint John's finished the season with
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: a win over Seaton Hall. I think Seton Hall did
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: give them a bit of a scare there, so you know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: maybe Saint John's will show up a little bit heavier
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: for that reason. But dude, Providence, they really don't like
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Saint John's. Saint John's has Bryce Hopkins, who was on
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Providence for a while earlier in his college career, so
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: there's definitely some animosity between these teams. I wouldn't be
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: surprised if another fight breaks out here. Saint John's is
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: an eleven point favorite, seventy nine percent of the tickets
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: around them, eighty nine percent of the cash on Providence though,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: so very very large like pros versus Joe's gap in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the market here, and this game is happening in like
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: two hours, so I don't think we're gonna see the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: market really change a ton up to that point, so
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to agree with it. I would lean to
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: taking the points with Providence there. You know, Saint John's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: just because of their scoring issues, it makes it a
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: little more difficult for them to cover a number like that,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: although I know the total is high and Providence allows
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of points. I do know that, but you know, well,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens in the game. But yeah, I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: kind of like Providence plus the points there, but not
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: that strong of an opinion for me. The next game
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon in the Big East, I hope it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Oh shit, I have to go back and do the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: A ten. Fuck fuck fuck fuck. I'll go back in
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a second and do it, because dude, I have shit,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: because I was doing a conference by conference, I have
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I have a play in the A tens. Hold on
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a minute, we'll finish Big East. Here. Creighton and Seton
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Hall are playing in the afternoon game. Seaton Hall is
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: a three point favorite, but seventy one percent of tickets
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: only sixty two percent of the cash on Seaton Hall.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Here's what I'll say about Seaton Hall Man. People pretty
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: much know they're on the bubble right and they haven't
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: had an opportunity yet to look like a horrible bubble team.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: But we know all the bubble teams have done horrible
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: in the conference tournament so far, and they're all over valued,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: as they keep saying, they're all gonna be favorites pretty much.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And you know, I know I did give out a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: play in Cincinnati, but they should have won the game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a little bit of a different scenario.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: But for the most part, when you know team is
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: on the bubble and they're laying points, the pressure is
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: on them, they're usually overvalued, so I would probably fade
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Seaton Hall here. I also don't love laying points with
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Seaton Hall because they can't score. They're a very good deepfense,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: but they don't score well. Usually I do like good defenses,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: but you know, in this case, I don't really like it.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I think they're over valued. Creighton is not a horrible team.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, they did beat Connecticut, so they can't really
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: be that bad, even though that was fluky. They did
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: finish the season by breaking their losing streak with a
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: win over Butler. Neither of these teams that played yet
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: in this tournament, so I think Creighton momentum wise, that's fine.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: For Seton Hall here, they had a huge game at
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the end of the season. They played really well against
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Saint John's Man, so I don't like that. I think
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: they might come in a little bit flat off of
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that huge performance against Saint John's. I know Seton Hall
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: did just lose at Creighton the last time they played,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: only by one point, though, so I think they might
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: have covered these games are both really really close. Seaton
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Hall won at home by two against Creighton, and Creighton
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: won by one in their home games, so both of
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: their games, their games were decided by a combined three points.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: So you know, maybe another reason to look towards taking
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the points there because those games are so close. But yeah,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I would lean to Creighton in that one. Plus the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: points Xavier in Connecticut, Connecticut up to a sixteen and
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: a half point favorite. Here money is coming in on Connecticut,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: seventy seven percent of the cash on them, fifty three
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: percent of the tickets on Xavier. Now, normally I do
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: like the team that played yesterday, which was Xavier. Trey Carroll,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: by the way, actually did play for Xavier yesterday, so
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: that line was very inexplicable. With Xavier getting four points
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: in that game against Marquette, I probably should have added
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: it to my card. Obviously I was right. Xavier won
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the game outright. Yeah, but Carol did play, so he's fine,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: he seems healthy. He'll play again tonight, I would imagine.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So yeah, Xavier got you know, their bearings. They got
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the win against the Marquette, but now they're playing Yukon.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Last time they played at Yukon. They lost by thirty
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: two points at Yukon and they lost at home by
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: twenty three, so Yukon absolutely destroyed them both times. You know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: it's possible that Xavier just doesn't match up well against Yukon.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: You know, Xavier does have an experienced coach at least
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: with Richard Patino, but this is his first year coaching
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: with Xavier here, his first year where he's in the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: same conference as his father. It would be crazy if
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: they wind up matching up in this tournament, but I
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: highly doubt that's gonna happen because I do think Yukon
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: is gonna win this game. Now, for Yukon, they finished
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the season on a bad note, and while I think
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Yukon is a little bit overrated, I think they're gonna
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: be angry coming off that bad game at Marquette where
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: they lost that game to end the season. So I
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: actually think you're gonna see effort out of Yukon here.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Plus they are actually gonna be motivated in this tournament,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I think because they still want the one seed. If
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: they can get it and steal it back from Florida,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I would actually probably need towards laying the points with
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Yukon here, and they're playing in Madison Square Garden where
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: they do usually have a huge crowd there, so I
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: think the venue does help Yukon as well there. So
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: those are my thoughts on that game, and then Georgetown
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: of Villanova in the night game. The later game, Villanova
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: seven point favored. It looks like the money is coming
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: in on them as well. Fifty two percent of the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: tickets on Georgetown, seventy one percent of the cash on Nova.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know Nova. When they're favored by something like that,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a Nova for me. I know. Well,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Georgetown won yesterday, they beat to Paul So Georgetown did
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: already play in the tournament, which I think is good.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I think it'll give them some momentum coming into this game.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: They did lose to Villanova, And now I should clarify
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: that just because Yukon blew out Xavier doesn't necessarily mean
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: that's gonna happen again, right because Xavier might be the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: team to make the adjustments whatever Yukon, you know, could
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: potentially not take them seriously, but it could just be
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: a horrible matchup for Xavier, you know, So you have
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: to kind of figure out which one is it? Georgetown,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: For instance, they lost both games to Villanova by fifteen
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: on the road and by seven at home, so Villanova
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: won by at least seven in both games, so that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: is something to keep in mind here. But I do
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: think Georgetown they do have a little bit of momentum here. Villanova,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I don't like laying points with them usually because they
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: play slow. They won the last two games of the
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: regular season, so possible their momentum gets a little bit
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit disrupted here. This one I don't really
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: actually agree with the market, and this one I kind
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: of lean towards Georgetown plus the points. It's also a
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: pretty low total in the one forties, So those are
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: my thoughts on that game. All right, let's finish the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: A ten real quick. The next game up is my
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: other play though, So here we go the other best bet.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: These are both of my You're gonna get both of
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: my college basketball bets here pretty quick, although one of
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: them kent stayed as a night or evening game. This
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: game is more of an afternoon game. We're gonna take
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the points with Saint Bonaventure plus three and a half
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: against this overrated George Mason team. Man Saint Bonaventure. I
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: think ken Bump does have both these seems pretty lucky,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: but I think Bonaventure has been an underrated commodity. Like
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: all season, Mason is laying three and a half here,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: but I like a lot about Saint Bonaventure in this one.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of the tickets are on Mason, ninety
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: seven percent of the cash on Bonaventure here. Now, first
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: of all, Saint Bonaventure played yesterday, so they have a
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: game out of the way. It was an easy win
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: over LaSalle, but that means they just got adjusted to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the venue, you know. I think Bonaventure actually does have
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: somewhat of a crowd there because they're playing in Pittsburgh,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: which is probably one of the most advantageous locations that
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: the A ten could hold this thing in For Bonaventure,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: because they're upstate New York. I think they're in Western
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: New York really, so not really upstate Western New York
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: my mistake. So I think they're pretty close. Actually, I
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: think somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: think Bonaventure might be the closest school well besides Dukine.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Of course, Dukaine basically has a home advantage here. But
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: besides Dukane, I think Saint Bonavencher might be the closest
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: school to where this tournament is being played in this conference.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Bonavencher got the win. It was an easy win over
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: a bad Lesale team. That will give them some new
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: momentum coming into this. They're used to the venue. George
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Mason is gonna have to get used to the venue here.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: George Mason. I think they could still be in letdown mode, man,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And look at what they did to end the season.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Nobody is gonna want to fade George Mason after this.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: They beat Saint Louis by almost thirty points to end
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the season. You couldn't possibly look better than George Mason
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: did in that game, and I think that's gonna overvalue
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: them in a big way. And they beat Saint Bonaventure
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: two games before that by thirteen points, so they, you know,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: are probably gonna be feeling high on themselves. And they
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: also played a really tough game against VCU in the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: middle of those two. I think they're gonna be feeling
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: really high on themselves and not take Saint Bonaventure totally
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: seriously here. And they're coming in having played in this location.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Yet either the other they played Sat Bonavencher twice. I thought,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: let me see, Yeah, the other game where they played
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: at Saint Bonaventure, Saint Bonaventure probably should have beaten them.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: This is a four point win for George Mason. But
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Saint Bonavencer had the lead for ninety six percent of
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the game. Uh, there's no way Saint Bonavencher should have
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: lost this game. And if you dig into it, you know,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I mean there were something statistically that would lead you
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to believe that George Mason, I guess, shouldn't have been
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: losing by that much. But Bonavencher did have control of
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: this game, man, So that does indicate something. And then
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: in the other game where Bonavencher lost worse at George Mason,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: there was a huge free throw to separity in this one.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I believe George Mason had some real home cooking. Actually
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: they didn't really, but Saint Bonavencher only made three free throws,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. And Mason also hit almost
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: half of their three pointers. So yeah, it was a
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: little bit of an outlier. But I got it wrong,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: but that's what I was Yeah, I got that a
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: little bit wrong, but Bonaventcher actually out rebounded them, by
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the way, So Bonaventure, you know they didn't. They weren't
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: as bad in this game as it looks on the scoreboard.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: They were three for nine from the free throw line.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's definitely a bit of an outlier there.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Mason being plus fifteen from three point range and hitting
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: almost half their threes probably unlikely to happen again. And
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Bonaventcher only shooting thirty eight percent from the floor. They
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: had ten more field goal attempts in the game that
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: George Mason did, so that game was not really what
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: it looked like. Yeah, we're definitely gonna be on San
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Bonaventure here in this one. I like it. That one's
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: on USA Network there. That is my other play. Let's
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: get some wins today, man, I mean, come on that.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And oh yeah, I mean I usually look at Ken
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Bond for stuff like this, So I dude, I gotta
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: go back and I'll show you Kent State real quick.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Even though I know Kent State is the second luckiest
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: team in the country. I know, I get it. But
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: they're better on offense and deepfense in Ohio is like
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I said, they're one nineteen and two ten respectively. Ohio's
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: one ninety four two fifty eight, and Ohio is in
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the top one hundred in lock almost so you know Ohio, Yeah,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: it's a bad spot for them. It is really not
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: that good of a team. Uh. One of the rare
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: scenarios where I will go with the luckier team. Uh,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: George Mason is thirty sixth in luck by the way,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: so we are fading them. Uh. They do play slow
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and they are a balanced team, so I don't mind
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: that how they profile that way. They're in the top
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: one hundred and kenbum But again, Bonaventure, they're an unlucky team.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: They're almost in the bottom, like sixty in luck. I
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: know they're not going on deepense and I usually don't
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: like that, but they are top one hundred offense. They've
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: you know, shown that they can definitely compete with the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: George Mason here, and they're kind of a mid tempo team,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: So even if they fall into a slower paced game here,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: it means points would be more at a premium, so
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: it's more likely for the game to be close if
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: that happens. That one's mostly about the situation. So that's
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: what we got there. Rhode Island and Ducane. Like I said,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Dukane is playing in their home I don't know if
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: it's their home arena, but it's definitely in their home city.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: It would be ridiculous if it's their home arena. But
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Ducane is a Pittsburgh school. They're a one point favorite
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: against Rhode Island, but seventy eight percent of tickets only
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: fifty one percent of the cash on Ducane, so the
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: money is coming in against Ducaine here. Neither of these
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: teams have played yet in the tournament. Rhode Island finished
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: the season really ugly, losing four or five, only putting
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: up forty nine points against Fordham, so they didn't look
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: good towards the end of the season. But the one
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: win they did have was against Ducaine, and in fact,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, actually they split the season series in my mistake,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the home team won each game in this matchup by
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: double digits actually, so the home team was good in
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: both games, which that that makes it look okay for
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Ducaine here though, because Dukane will make the adjustments. After
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: losing out of Rhode Island a couple of games ago,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Duque ended their losing streak with a win over Richmond
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: to end the season. So I think that's okay that
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: they're not gonna come into this having lost like positive momentum.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, the money is saying Rhode Island here,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: but I kind of needed Duquine to be honest, let
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: me see, if this is actually their home Marina, that
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: would be ridiculous. It is not. I don't think assuming
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: that this is actually I don't know, that looks like
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: it's the I don't know, upmc cooper Fields. That doesn't
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: seem like that would be Duquine's actual home arena, is it.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not too familiar with Ducane. I
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: guess it is. So this is not Duquine's home arena,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: but it is in their home city. But yeah, the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: money is saying Rhode Island. I don't know. I kind
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: of slightly leaned to Ducane in that one though. And
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: then we have Loyola Chicago, who won yesterday against Davidson.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Davidson is up to a seven point favorite here. The
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: money is coming in on Loyola fifty two percent of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: the ticket, sixty percent of the cash on Loyola. So
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: the money is indicating on I mean, do you think
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: they can pull off two wins in a row. I
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: don't think so. But they did get a win yesterday,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: which is good, you know, mild upset against Richmond, but
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: that means they're used to playing in this venue now.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: They got the win, so they have some momentum here
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: now against Davidson. They lost at Davidson by twenty points.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: They lost by fifteen to Davidson at home, so Davidson
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: did handle them both times. Davidson clearly the better team here.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Davidson comes in winning three of their last four, but
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: they did lose to Saint Joe's in the middle of
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: it there, so you know, maybe not a ton of
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: momentum they're gonna lose coming into this one. The money
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: is saying Loyola in this one after the line got
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: driven up. I don't know. I kind of like Davidson
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: in this one, to be honest, even though they haven't
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: played yet in the venue, and I usually liked the
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: team that did play. But Loyal, I don't know, man.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know them being bad as factored into
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: the number, and that's not a good excuse. But I
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: think Dave it's in. It seems like Davidson is a
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: bad matchup for Loyola Chicago. So I don't know, man,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: but I guess, you know, we'll we'll see what happens,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: all right, Finally we're gonna get to the Big Ten.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Let's go, don't I don't know if is our girls
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: still around there, Amanda? Are you still out there, Amanda?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm I'm Bostonian, man. So we add ours
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: where there aren't any. We add the ass to everything.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: The first game in the Big Ten is the Big
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Ten Network game at noon Iowa and Ohio State. People
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: will say this is a bubble battle, but I think
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: both these teams are almost certainly going to be in
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the tournament at this point. You know, with the way
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the bubble is played, I don't see how that couldn't
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: be the case. So, you know, I think whichever team
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: loses is still gonna make the tournament. Iowa did win yesterday,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: breaking a three game losing streak. They wound up not
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: covering even though it was a weird game where I
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: think think Maryland was winning at halftime and then Iowa
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: had a twenty one to OHD run, they had a
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: double kill shot in the second half, and then Maryland
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: still wound up covering and getting in the back door
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: barely right at the end. You got to like those
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: back doors, man. But it was a win for Iowa.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: You know, they got used to the venue, which I'm
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: still mad about them getting rid of the pinwheel logo
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: for the Big Ten there. These games are all in Chicago,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I believe, so Iowa got the win there. They do have,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: you know, some familiarity to the venue now, so that's
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: a positive for Iowa. They beat Ohio State not that
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: long ago though, the only time they played this year,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I believe they won at home against them by seventeen.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: So maybe Ohio State will make some adjustments here now.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, they've been playing a lot better down the stretch,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and a lot of it has to do with their health.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Ohio State's had a lot of guys in and out
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: of the lineup. Man, So like the fact that it
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: looks like they have one of the heroes. Is he
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: one of a Tyler heroes? Brothers? Does he have like
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: a million? Because I know Austin hero who unfortunately will
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: not be in the tournament is on Saint Thomas. I mean,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: how many hero how many guys? Like how many different
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: basketball players named hero. Could there be that are not related?
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Uh so, yeah, maybe this
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: is another one of the he looks like them, so
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: maybe this is another one of the brothers Miles here. Oh,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: there you go. Anyway, the best player on Ohio State
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: is Bruce Thornton, though, I'm pretty sure, and he's missed time.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: This Ohio State team, they're getting healthy and they're getting
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: good at the right time. Man. They haven't played yet
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: in this tournament though, and that's kind of the problem.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: They had a nice big bubble win over Indiana, who
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: is fucked now, by the way, That was how Ohio
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: State ended the season. They ended the season with three
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: wins in a row. So maybe they're momentum will be
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: a little bit disrupted here because they haven't played since then,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: haven't played in this tournament yet. The money, however, is
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: actually coming in on Ohio State. Here they flip from
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a two and a half dog to a one and
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: a half way favorite. Here, fifty six percent of tickets
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: are on Iowa, fifty five percent of the cash on
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Ohio State. Yeah, it's this is a real difficult one, man,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: real difficult handicap in this one. The money's saying Ohio State,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: and I think Ohio State is pretty undervalued right now.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Uh like they're playing a lot better now that they're
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: fully healthy. Let me see here, I'd like they could
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: be super dangerous in the tournament. They're actually only one
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: ranking spot behind Iowa and ken Bomb now, and they're
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: favored in this game. Now, Iowa is the better defense,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: so you do have to keep that in mind. That's
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the biggest disparity between the two teams is Iowa has
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: having the better defense, Ohio State has the somewhat better offense.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Both teams actually play slow, and both teams are actually
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: pretty unlucky according to ken Bomb. So yeah, and both
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: teams are going to be motivated because you know, they're
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: both trying to secure their tournament spot. So this is
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: a very very interesting game. It'll be a fun game
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: to watch, I think, man, I mean, I guess I'll
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: agree with the market and agree with Ohio State there.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: But man, that's a tough call, very very tough call
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: in that game. I don't want anything to do with it.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Washington and Wisconsin. Wisconsin's a seven point favorite here, eighty
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: nine percent of the tickets on Wisconsin, eighty eight percent
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: of the cash on Washington. Like I said, yeah, mister Pinsey,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: there is no fucking way that I would play Wisconsin
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: in this game. It's gonna be a pros versus Joe scenario.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: The pros are gonna be on Washington here. As you
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: can see, this is a huge ticket versus cash split here,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: and the spot is not good for Wisconsin either, which
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: I'll show you in a minute. Washington played yesterday, which
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I think is a good thing, and they didn't look good.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: They beat this USC team that everybody basically thought was dead.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: But remember I told you the conference tournament is like
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: a new season, man, So I actually thought USC would
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: actually show up for that game, and they did. They
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: played well in the game. Washington won, but Washington had
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: an escape there, man. And I know the game went
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: into overtime. Yeah yeah, But Washington hadn't played for a
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: few days before this, so I'm not that worried about that.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just saw MacNeice win in a blowout
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: a night after playing a three overtime game, so I'm
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: not concerned about Washington playing one overtime game in a
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: game where they rested coming into that game. Washington definitely
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: had a scare in this game against the USC team
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: that looked like they'd packed it in for the season.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: USC was winning the majority of that game, which yeah,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: does mean the Washington didn't play well. But Washington is
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: the better team, and when the better team doesn't play
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: well like that and they escape, they're usually gonna show
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: up with more force in the next game. And Wisconsin
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: might think this is just an easy game that they're
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: gonna get through because they already blew out Washington in
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Washington by almost twenty points not that long ago, so
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I think Wisconsin might not take them seriously. Wisconsin is
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: now ranked again for the first time in quite a while,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: which puts a target on your back, and you know,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: might have them feeling a little bit high on themselves now.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with Winter for Wisconsin
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: because I don't think he played in the Purdue game,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: and he is Wisconsin's big man. Yeah, he did not play.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I mean they're a fairly deep team, but even so
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: well actually, really they only run like a six man
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: rotation without him, so maybe not, I guess, So I don't.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Winter is coming back or not.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: But regardless of that, I like Washington in this game.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin finished the season on a three game win streak.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: They haven't played yet in this venue, which Washington did,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: so Washington has that advantage. And Wisconsin not only finished
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: the season on a three game win streak, but they
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: beat Purdue on the road. Man, that was a monster
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: win for Wisconsin, So they could be in a letdown
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: spot here too, feeling too high on themselves after that
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: crazy win where and we know Wisconsin is gonna get
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: into the tournament. You know, it's a matter of seeding
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: for them. Seating is not a huge motivator. They don't
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: care if they're a five seed, a six seed, who
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: gives a shit, you know, they just want to be
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: healthy getting into that tournament there. In fact, they'd probably
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: rather be a sixth seed because six seeds getting easier
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: path in the tournament there, you know than fives. Fives
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: have to go up against ones, and the ones are
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: really strong, you know. So Washington they're completely free rolling.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: They know they're not going anywhere, so they're gonna play.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to really play loose in this game.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I really like Washington in this one. This
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: one almost makes my car I'm really considering actually throwing
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: this one into the mix here. I like it a lot. Actually, yeah,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Fuck it, We're gonna add Washington
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: plus seven, seven and a half. I don't know what
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: it is, but let's get really crazy here, man, because
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I've done so well with the conference tournament
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: so far. One in seven. We're gonna We're gonna do it. Man,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: We're gonna play Washington plus seven or seven and a
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: half here, Let's do it. Yeah, I really do like it.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: All right. Finally, if Amanda is still with us, we're
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: gonna talk on Northwestern and Purdue here. If you saw
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: my conference preview, you you know that I actually like
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Purdue to get to the final in this tournament. Here.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I think Purdue is very undervalued. Ken Bum still has
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: them as a top ten team. They're really good on offense,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: but they're not very good on depense, and that's the problem.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: They're by far the worst depfense in the top you know,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: twelve thirteen teams whatever. But very efficient on offense. They
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: get good shots, they're very experienced, they play a slow
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: tem boat, and they're unlucky. According to Ken Pomp. You know, Purdue.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: They've lost a lot of games at home, kind of inexplicably,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: but all those games were to good teams. Now Northwestern,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: they're also an undervalued team. There's no doubt about that.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Northwestern has been under the radar like all year. They're
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: nowhere near as bad as their record makes them look.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: They just pulled off a nice upset win over Indiana yesterday.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Those spoiling Indiana's tournament hopes the most likely really good
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: win for Northwestern yesterday. And while yeah, Northwestern will will
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: be accustomed to the venue now, I don't like it
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: that they're coming off an upset like that, and now
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: they're playing a Purdue team that they almost just beat
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: at Northwestern. So Purdue is not going to overlook Northwestern
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: after that, I don't think, because Purdue knows that Northwestern
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: almost beat them now. I know Purdue does. Even though
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: they play slow, they do rely on offensive timing. But
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think their momentum is gonna be disrupted because
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: they lost three out of their last four games, including
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: losing to Wisconsin at home in that season finale. So
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna get a good effort out of Purdue.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Here Man and the game prior to that was the
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Northwestern game, where they also didn't play well. I think
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a reset. I think the real Purdue
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: is gonna show up here eighteenth ranked in the country,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: even though Kenbomb has them eighth in the country. This
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Purdue team is under the radar right now. Nobody's gonna
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: want them. I think they're gonna win this game. I
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: think they're gonna beat Nebraska as well again, and I
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: think you're going to see Purdue in the conference. Vinyl Man,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: That's what I think Northwest and is the public side.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: It looks like sixty three percent of the tickets on them, Purdue,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: sixty percent of the cash on them. They're laying twelve
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: and a half right now. I would lay it. It's
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: not gonna make my card or anything. But you know,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's a low total because Purdue
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: they do play slow, but when they're when they're on
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: top of things, they can score a lot of points
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: despite playing slow because they're so efficient on the offensive side.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: But again, they're also super experience, like they're always involved
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: in this tournament and a lot of times making runs
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: in this tournament. They have super experienced guards so have
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: been with this team, very rare. They have like three
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: players that I think have been starters on this team
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: for the last like three years or something, or starter
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: plus like six man I guess with Koppman, Wren whatever.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Other two starting guards have been with them for multiple years.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: So coming into this seat, like they have the most continuity,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Like with the transfer portal, the nil all that shit,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: you don't see continuity like that anymore. Purdue is like
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: one of the only uprash on teams, the only one
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: really that has that amount of continuity. And you know,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I mean very experienced coach of course with Matt Painter. Yeah,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win this game by double digits.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: So those are my thoughts on that game. Dirty sock,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: what's up? Thanks for hanging out. Uh, hopefully Amanda's still
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: with us there. My leans are UMass plus the points
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: and Purdue minus the points in those games, but those
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: are not plays for me. Rutgers in UCLA is the
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: final game here. Ucla looks like they're a pretty public
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: side here, seventy three percent of tickets, only fifty one
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: percent of the cash on them. You know, I hesitate
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: to lay huge points with Ucla because they usually play slow,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: although interestingly enough, UCLA they're actually way better on offense
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: than defense this year, which is interesting because last year
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: is the complete opposite. But it's a low total. It's
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: expected to be an ugly game. Rutgers plays an ugly,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: ugly style as well. UCLA. One real knock on them
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: this year is that they don't play well outside of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the Pacific time zone, so that might come into play
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: here as well. When they've traveled into the Midwest. They've
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: done pretty poorly this year. Like all their huge wins
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: have been at home basically, and then their best like
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: road games have been against their former Pac twelve foes
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: out there, you know, Oregon, u C, l, USC whatever, Washington.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: They're they're winning those games, but they're not winning the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: games when they come to the Midwest here. Now, do
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: I think UCLA is gonna lose this game? No, I
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: don't do. I think they're gonna cover, though I would
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: probably in towards Rutgers getting the points here. Rutgers did
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: play yesterday, I know they got a little bit of
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: an upset win there against Minnesota. Fairly ugly game. It
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: was kind of a toss up type of game. I
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: think Rutgers got the win. They have a little bit
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: of momentum now, they got their bearings. They played in
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: this gym, so they're used to the gym. That can
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: help a little bit. Ucla, you know, going into unfamiliar
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: territory here, which you know Washington was able to win,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: but they did beat another back twelve team in you know,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: four back twelve team in there. But now that Washington
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: is familiarized with the gym, I do like them today
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: or the Wisconsin is obviously useless. Wisconsin will have a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: huge fan base for the game, I think, or for
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: this tournament, but I don't know, man, some of these,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: like earlier games in the tournament, the fan bases just
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: aren't there yet, you know what I mean. So even
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: though Wisconsin is not that far from Chicago, maybe they
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: won't have a huge fan base there. Anyway, talking about
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: UCLA here, they did finish the season with two big
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: wins against Nebraska and then against their rival USC So
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: UCLA might have their momentum a little bit stopped here. Yeah,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: I'll lean to Rutgers plus the points here. But one
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: thing to know about UCLA is they've been playing a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: lot better with what's the dude's name. Since he's been back,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Sky Clark, they've been way better with him than without him.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: He's a very experienced player guard a senior, so they've
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: been like a different team with them back in the lineup.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: So I will say that they've been a lot better
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: with him in the lineup. So that's one thing to
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: consider here, but I would probably take the points with
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: the rut curse. All right, SEC is the next one
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: up that we're talking about. Man, this is gonna be
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: a long fucking video. Again, we have a ton of
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: NHL to cover as well, even though I don't have
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: any plays in the NHL today, and there's some NBA
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: as well, but at least all right, big Conference. This
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: is the last one of those twelve thirty pm SEC
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Kentucky and Missouri. Usually the team that played earliest the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: previous day usually is gonna play earliest again, so they
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: stagger it that way. Now, Kentucky, they're gonna have some
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: momentum coming into this because they didn't look good yesterday.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: They were losing a lot of that game to LSU yesterday.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: But as I told you, even though LSU is the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: lowest seed in this entire tournament. They're not actually the
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: worst team in the SEC, so that wasn't as bad
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: as it looked. But because Kentucky had an iffy game yesterday,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: they already played in the turn, they got the win,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: they escaped. I think that's a very good thing for
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Kentucky coming into this one. And I think this is
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: even better because now, not only are they familiarized, familiarized
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: with the venue, not only are they coming off a
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: scare so they should give you a better effort here.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: They lost to Missouri at home earlier this year. That
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: was the only time they played, so they have road
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: revenge in mind here too. Basic go though, this isn't
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: a road game, but you know what I mean, all
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: these games are in Nashville. By the way, Kentucky they're
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: gonna have a huge fan base here for it too,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: so they're probably gonna have the fan base the crowd
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: edge here as well. You know, Missouri coming in here
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: probably won't have as much, but Kentucky is gonna have
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: adjustments in mind, revenge in mind, whatever you wanna call it. Missouri,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I know they're a bubble team, but they're probably pretty
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: safe with the way the bubble is played, They're not
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: gonna really get knocked that much. You're having a loss
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: to Arkansas in there at the end of the season.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: All that would have really helped them if they won. Though.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Of course, if they win this game, they're almost definitively in.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: But I think they're gonna be in any way. Man,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: Like the bubble teams are just playing so badly. They've
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: all pretty much eliminated themselves. So I think Missouri is
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: gonna make it even if they lose to Kentucky, who
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: is another tournament team. Here on Missouri, the one good
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: thing about them, I guess is that they did lose
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: their last two games, so maybe they'll be able to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: end that losing momentum. But the problem is that was
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: a huge game they played against Arkansas and they almost
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: won the game, and that's what they're coming off of,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: so they could potentially be flat coming off of that game.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: So I actually like Kentucky in this game. I would
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: lay the points with Kentucky their three point favorite. And
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: in fact, it looks like the public is slightly leaning
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: towards Missouri. Fifty five percent of the tickets on them,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the cash on Kentucky. So the
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: money looks like it agrees with me on Kentucky. That's
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: how I would lean in that game as well. Second
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: game up in the SEC is Auburn and Tennessee. This
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: is the game all the eyes are gonna be on
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: at three pm SEC Network. Now Auburn. I usually say
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: these bubble teams are usually overvalued, man, because everybody knows
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: that they got to win, you know, because they're trying
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: to get in. Like, if Auburn wins this game there,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: they might make the tournament. If they beat Tennessee here,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: that might be enough to get them in. And people
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: are gonna still be pissed, Oh my god, a sixteen
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: lost team is gonna get in because they're not gonna
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: win the SEC tournament. You know, I highly doubt it.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: But they could win this game today and that would really, really,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: you know, that would put them right there in the
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: mix there in the bubble, especially because the rest of
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: the bubble has been so bad it's almost like it's
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: right here for the taking, man. And Auburn already played yesterday,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: and because they're more of an offensive, fast paced team,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: that's good that they got that game out of the way. Yesterday.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: They're used to the venue. They didn't look good for
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: most of that game. Again, Misissippi State was beating them
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: throughout the first half. So Auburn started cold, they got
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a scare, they turned it around,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: they won the game. Now they have momentum coming into
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: this and you know, like I said, normally, I don't
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: want to play on the team that is the bubble
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: team because usually they're gonna be overvalued. Normally, I don't
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: like the team that's the worst depfense that's also Auburn. Here,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Tennessee is the way better defense. But Tennessee is laying
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: points here and they're a slope as defensive team. Now
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: they are getting Nate Ament back as well to lament
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: their line up here their roster. But I actually think
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: that's a bad thing, you know, not in the long run.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Of course, he's one of their best players, so obviously
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: that's a good thing in the long run for Tennessee.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: But I thought they might not play him in the
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: conference tournament to get ready for the tournament, but it
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: might be a good thing to get him, you know,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: reacclimated now, like have him played games in the conference
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: tournament to get him reacclimated. So I can see why
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: they're doing that, But for this specific game, it might
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a disruption, right because they're
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: used to playing without him. Now he's I think he's
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: been out for close to a month. I want to say,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: so having one of your best players come back like
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: this might not be the best thing in that first
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: game because it might disrupt your flow a little bit.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Although Tennessee, you know, they're the type of team that
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: can overcome that more easily because they're more of a
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: defensive team. They did lose three of their last four games,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: but the problem with thinking that they might disrupt they're
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: losing momentum is that two of those games were huge.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: They barely lost to Alabama and then they had a
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: huge game against Vandy. They're in state Ryland. Vandy got
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: revenge on them, and Tennessee they know that if they
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: win this game, they have Vandy up next in this tournament,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: because Tennessee's the five, Vandy's the four. So if Tennessee
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: wins this game, they'd play Vandy. So they're actually they're
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: actually in a Vandy sandwich here, They're in a Tennessee
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: sandwich and you know, everybody wants that game because it's
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: in Nashville, you know what I mean, that's what everybody wants.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: The Tennessee team's facing off in Nashville in the rubber match,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: and you know that does make for a lot of
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: storylines whatever. So that does work because I like Auburn
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: plus the points in this game, and that does worry
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: me that the storyline probably wants Tennessee to get this win.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: But does it though, or does the storyline want this
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: whole thing where oh, Auburn, you know, they're a bubble team,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Like they beat Tennessee, so now they're like, really in consideration,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: you know, the whole Miami Ohio thing, That whole thing
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: might come into play here as well, a lot of
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: crazy things going on in this one. Tennessee only lang
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: five and a half the money is all coming in
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: on Auburn. Sixty four percent of the tickets are on Tennessee.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants Auburn. Everybody hates Auburn, dude. But when you're hated,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: that kind of motivates you. You know, Auburn's probably hearing
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: all that where everybody is like, this fucking team, they
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be in the tournament whatever. When you hear all
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: that shit out there, like usually that's gonna motivate you
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: a little more. Auburn's got ninety three percent of the
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: cash coming in on them in this game, and I
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: do agree with it. I would take the points with
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Auburn in that one. I'm rooting for the man. We'll
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: see what happens, all right. The next SEC game, it's
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: seven pm. SEC Network is Ole Miss and Georgia ole
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Miss upset Texas yesterday. You know, I don't know what
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: they're gonna do in this game, man, I mean that
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: was that might have been their game, like, hey, let's
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: let's get a huge upset win will play spoiler. They
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: did get a game under their belt in this venue here,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: which is a good thing. But I don't know if
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have much left after that upset. Man, that
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: was a pretty sizable upset against Texas yesterday. Actually it
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: was only five and a half. I thought it was
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: like seven. Anyway, Uh, Texas, they're gonna be sweating on Sunday.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: With the way the bubble teams have played, I think
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: they're probably gonna get in. If you saw my bracketology update,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: I they were in my round of sixty four, so
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: I bounced them down into the first four. So I
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: have them playing in Dayton now for the second year
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: in a row. But I think they will probably wind
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: up doing exactly that. But we'll see. Ole Miss might
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: not have a whole lot left in the tank here.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: By the way, they actually won at Georgia when these
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: teams played earlier this year, so Georgia is not going
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: to overlook Ole Miss here man Now again, the one
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: advantages that Ole Miss did play in this venue already
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Georgia did. Georgia is a fast paced team that does
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: rely on offensive timing. But Georgia did get a bit
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: of a scare in their last game against Mississippi State,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: and they were coming off a huge win over Alabama.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: So I liked Mississippi State to cover in that one,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: and they missed by a half point. Luckily I kept
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: that off my card, but Mississippi State probably should have
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: covered that number. Now george is coming in of a
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: lackluster performance. The one problem is they haven't played in
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: the tournament yet. You know, their momentum from three straight
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: wins still might disrupt might be disrupted a little bit
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: coming into this one. This is a tough call, but
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of things going on in this game.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: The money is all coming in an Old Miss though.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Georgia's a six point favorite, fifty eight percent of the
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: tickets on them eighty nine percent of the casual Old
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Miss though, so pretty big disparity there. I was kind
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: of leaning towards Georgia in this game, though, to be honest,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, man. I I don't know. I
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: think I would almost slightly lean towards laying it in
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: that one. But that one is certainly not gonna be
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: on my card, which I already gave you everything that's
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: on my card. So that means I'm not playing the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Big twelve today, where any of the small smaller conferences here.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I think no one of my players is in the
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: A ten though, but the other two are in the
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: Power conferences? All right? Oh, no one is in the MAC.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: What am I saying? I only have one Power conference
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: play the Washington one? All right? Next game up? Last
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: SEC game is Oklahoma and Texas A and M the
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: late game. Oklahoma didn't start out well last night, which
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: you know was kind of expected because they had a
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: huge win against Texas in the last game of the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: regular season. They didn't start out well against South Carolina,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: but they turned it on they won the game. Now
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: they're acclimated to the venue. They got momentum coming into
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: this one. And Texas A and M. They're a bubble team,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: so they might be a bit of an overvalued commodity
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: here man A and M. I know they got a
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: little bit of a scare in their last against LSU,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: but they haven't played yet in this venue, you know.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was kind of saying the same thing
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: about Georgia in the case of A and M. They
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: beat Oklahoma on the road by four the last time
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: they played them, so and they beat them at home
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: by seven. So there's kind of a double revenge angle
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: here for Oklahoma, if you want to call it that.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Both games were pretty close, but Oklahoma might have the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: adjustments to make here, and they already played last night
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: in this venue. Oklahoma, by the way, they're actually a
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: bubble team now too. I put out my bracketology. I
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: have Oklahoma in the first four out right now because
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: all the other teams have like basically killed themselves, so
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma could make the tournament. As insane as that sounds
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be motivated here, and they're the underdog here,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: and I think the undervalue commodity here, So I would
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: take the points with Oklahoma here. They could definitely win
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: this game. Oklahoma might wind up being the team that
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: makes the surprise run in this tournament. Man, I don't know.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: Seventy one percent of the tickets and sixty percent of
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: the cash on A and M. This side of the
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: bracket I think has all those fast paced teams in
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: it A and M Arkansas, Alabama, like those teams play
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: a style that is kind of susceptible because you know,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: even though they could run you out of the gym,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: they also don't play defense. So you know, I bet anyway,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: seventy one percent of tickets only sixty percent of the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: cash on A and M, so the money's agreeing with
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma here. I agree with it. Let's see what happens, man,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what Oklahoma's pacing it, to be honest,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: like you forget I was gonna say, I think they're
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: a slow team. They are, but they're a very odd
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: team where they play good offense and they play no
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: defense and they play slow, so they're actually really really
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: similar in style to Texas. Uh, just Texas is a
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: little bit better at it. So that's strange for sure.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm still rooting for Texas to get into
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: the field though, because they are still better than like
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: the O their bubble teams that are in consideration. We'll see. Man. Uh,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of these teams, you know, they
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: get brutalized by these difficult schedules wind up getting knocked out.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: So all right, the Big Twelve is next and the
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: last power conference to talk about here. I think, wait,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: I skipped the Big Twelve. I'm an idiot. I went
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: to the SEC and I skipped the Big Twelve. Big
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Twelve starts at twelve thirty on ESPN Iowa State and
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Now, Iowa State dropped to the five seed,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: but they are a seriously good team, and they're the
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: better team right now. I'm in Texas Tech is without JT.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Topp and Ken Bumb Even over the course of the
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: entire season, he's got Iowa State seventh in the country,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech fifteenth, and he's got Iowa State the considerably
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: better defense. Texas Tech's the better offense, but they're outside
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: the top thirty in defense. Iowa State outside the top
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: twenty on offense, but fifth defensively. Both teams like to
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: play slow. Both are kind of similar in luck, kind
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: of near the middle of the pack and luck, so
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: all that kind of cancels on. Now. Iowa State looked
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: good yesterday, although maybe they look too good. They blew
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: out Arizona State, but you know they Bobby earlier right there. No,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: don't fire me, he's gone. He's I thought it was
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: already announced that he's gone. I don't know anyway, horrible,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: horrible game for Arizona State yesterday. I thought there would
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: be a I thought that would be much more competitive now.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: I usually don't want teams that are coming off a
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: fifty point win, basically because that's just insane. But you
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: saw me with my bracket preview of this conference. I
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: liked the Iowa State to beat Texas Tech here. I
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: do think they will. They are the favorite here. But
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: the question is gonna be will they cover. I kind
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: of think yes, because they did. You know, they won
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: the game yesterday, looked really good at doing so. But
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: still they're acclimated to the venue. Now people are gonna
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: maybe think that it's weird that the lower seeded teams
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: favorite here, although they are the higher ranked team, which
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: is correct, so the rank newsmakers do have these two
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: teams pretty much ranked correctly for the most part. Texas
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Tech did finish the season with a couple of somewhat
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: uglish losses to two tournament teams, though, and BYU TCU
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: is definitely gonna make it. They're still alive in the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Big twelve right now, so they'll make it for sure.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: BYU will still make it, but they're struggling down the
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: stretch although they are still in the tournament here. Texas
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: Tech didn't look good in that last game, so maybe
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: their momentum will be disrupted like that, losing momentum. Maybe
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: they will turn it back on, but it looks like
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: they are starting to kind of suffer the effects of
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: TOP and not being there. And they without TOP and
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: they went into Iowa stayed and beat them. Man, that
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: was a huge upset win for Texas Tech there. Iowa
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: State I think was in a bad spot in that one.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Let me see, I mean, they had Arizona on deck,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: so it might have been a look ahead I suppose
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know, but that was a
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: crazy win for Texas Tech. But I think what that
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: means is Iowa State is gonna remember that and they're
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: gonna give you a better effort this time. Man. So
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: I actually like Iowa stayed in this one. The money's
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: not agree with me though, seventy four percent of tickets
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: on them, only sixty six percent of the cash, so
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: the money seems to be going against me here. It
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: looks like the public is on Iowa State, I guess
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: because they know what this went out. Texas Tech no Top,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: and they haven't looked good over the last couple of games.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Now there's they haven't suffered that much of a drop
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: off without him though, like BYU's drop off without Saunders,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: even though he's not even their top player, has been
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: really really big. Texas Tech drop off without Top and
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: hasn't been as big as people thought it would be,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: So that it is something to keep in mind. I'd
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: probably still lay it. I do think Iowa State's gonna
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: win the game, but yeah, that's that's a tough call.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: The next game up is UCF against Arizona some bullshit.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: You know it should be Cincinnati here, and you know
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: that you could get really interesting Citcinnati try to, you know,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: play to maybe put themselves in tournament consideration. They're not
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: gonna be now though. Even though they are considered to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: be a bubble team, I'm pretty sure they're not gonna
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: make it. I can't believe they blew that game. It
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: was such horseshit. They were winning that whole game. They
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: had the game pretty much wrapped up to bullshit overtime
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: win from uc YEP yesterday. Now UCF is acclimated to
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: the venue now because they did get that win yesterday.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: Now they got to play Arizona. Arizona's coming into this
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: game on a big win streak, they won six in
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: a row. But again, that momentum could get disrupted a
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: little bit because they haven't played for a while and
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: they haven't played in this venue yet. This is in
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: Kansas City, and it's a weird glass floor that lights
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: up if you've been watching it when guys make free
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: throws and make threes, the lines light up and shit,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: it's like ridiculous glass led floor. So if you haven't
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: played on it yet, you might start out being a
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: little bit weirded out by it. Now, the good thing
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: for Arizona is they do not rely on three point shooting,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: so they're not gonna rely on site lines here. Like
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: they take the fewest amount of three they take the
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: third fewest amount of threes in the entire country. It's
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: just not what they do. They get in there. They
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: dominate in the paint, they dominate from two point range,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: and they've been really successful at it. They did have
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: a game that wasn't that great against Colorado to finish
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: the season. They did not cover and they won by ten,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: but the game was actually closer than that, so they
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: are coming off a little bit of an escape there. Yeah,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: this is a difficult game to call. The money's all
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: coming in a UCF plus the points, and you know,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: you could make the argument they're a little bit more
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: motivated right now because they're trying to make sure that
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: they make the tournamental. Though losing to Arizona's not going
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: to hurt their resume, you know, if they win it,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: like you know, of course, it'll help. But they're in anyway, man,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're like an eight seed right now in
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: the bracketologies they're not going to be out of the tournament,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: even though I think they suck now, Arizona did win
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: at UCF only by seven though. That was I think
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: the only time they played this year, so maybe Arizona
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: will actually take them a little bit more. Seriously, that
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: was a weird travel spot for Arizona to have to
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: go all the way to Orlando though, so that was
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: odd to say the least. Yeah, you know, the money
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: is coming in UCF though. Fifty two percent of tickets
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: are on Arizona at minus sixteen and a half ninety
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: seven percent of the cash on UCF, So the money
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: is saying UCF there. I won't really I'm not gonna
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: disagree with it, but I don't have a good read
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: on that game. The next game up after that is Houston. Yeah,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: I think so BYU and Houston at seven pm. You know,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: I think this is probably where it runs out for
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: BYU here. They really, dude, they're a bad defensive team
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: without Saunders. You know, they got through these first games
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: against Kansas State and then West Virginia. I don't know
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: what happened in West Virginia because that game was clearly
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: at West Virginia's pace yesterday. It was insanely slow, and
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: that game was forty five to forty BYU. With the
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: lead with like ten minutes to go, and then the
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: final was sixty eight to forty eight. What the fuck
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: was that West Virginia scored eight points in the finals
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: ten minutes. It's that BYU depfense. That's so bad, you know,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: I thought West Virginia was going to cover that. I
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: don't know what happened there, But now BYU's got to
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: really step it up. Playing Houston. They only played them
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: once this year. Houston beat them like double digits in
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: BYU in Elevation, and that was back when they did
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: have Saunders. I guess there is the possibility that Houston
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: will overlook them. You know, Houston has been off for
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: a while. But Houston their final couple of games, they
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: didn't play that well. They had kind of a close
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: game against Baylor where they were actually losing I think
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: at half to They were really close with Baylor until
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Houston pulled away in the final couple of minutes of
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: that game won by thirteen. But that game was really
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: close pretty late in the game. And then the game
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: against Oklahoma State almost went to the y or so.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: I think Houston might show up with some effort here
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: because those games are so close way too close for comfort. Byu.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: I think he is starting to suffer the effects of
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: not having a deep roster anymore. Here, you know they're
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: having to rely on de bonsa basic, and they're one
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: other guy I forget his name. Houston is up to
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: a ten point favorite here. The money has come in
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: on Houston. And for Houston, you know they haven't played
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: for a while. But Houston's slow, defensive style like that
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: travels better than any other style, so getting accustomed to
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: the venue should be a little bit easier for a
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: team like that. Fifty tickets, eighty three percent of the
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: cash on Houston, I'd probably lead towards laying the points
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: with Houston. Here. I worry because you know, Houston's a
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: slop based team. I don't like laying points with teams
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: like that, defensive slope based teams. Not that their offense
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: is that bad, but their defense is certainly better. But
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: by U's defense is so bad that Houston probably could
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: put up enough points to get that done. And then
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: the final Big Twelve game is TCU in Kansas. TCU
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: has played two games in the tournament already. I'm pretty sure,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: is that right? Oh? No, excuse me? They only played one.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: My mistake, Oklahoma State played two. TCU beat Oklahoma State
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: last night because CCU is the sixth seed. Yeah what
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: am I saying? Close game last night to some extent
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: against Oklahoma State, TCUHO got the job done. Now they're
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: playing Kansas. I think TCU could definitely be competitive here. Man.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: They actually beat Kansas. I thought they beat Kansas once
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: this year or am I wrong about that? Let me see, No,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: they almost did. They went into Kansas and they lost
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: I think in overtime, That's what I was thinking. Yeah,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: they put up a huge effort at Kansas. It's really
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: hard to win in Allen Field House, man, and they
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: took them to overtime before losing, which, on the one end,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: it might mean Kansas is gonna take them more serious
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: because Kansas probably remembers that that this TCU team gave
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: them a real fight. But TCU is already accustomed to
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: this venue. Kansas isn't. Kansas is is very unpredictable. Man.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: They're coming up a very satisfying win to finish the
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: season against rival Kansas State. You know, Kansas State really
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: having a horrible season. But still, when you pound your
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: little brother like that, a lot of times you feel
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: a little bit too high on yourself. Man, maybe they
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: do coming into this one against TCU. You know, when
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: I talked about the bracket here, I thought TCU had
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: had a chance in this game. Kansas is a five
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. Here. We don't really know
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with Peterson either. Kansas is the best
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: player there was supposed to be a high NBA draft pick.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: We don't know what's gonna happen with him. Man, sixty tickets,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: eighty six percent of the cash on Kansas. The money
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: is coming in on Kansas. I kind of leaned towards
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: taking the points with TCU the team, it's more accustomed
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: to the venue. Kansas in some ways somewhat plays better
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: without Peterson in a way, they beat Arizona without him.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. This Kansas team is very hard
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: to figure out. It's going to be difficult to figure
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: out what to do with them in the NCAA tournament
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: as well. All Right, we got to finish this shit off. Man,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: We have a lot more games to still get through here.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: We have the swack going on. They stagger their games.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: I think there are two Swack games. Alabama A and
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: M and tw Southern. There are some of the middle
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: seeds in that tournament. I don't know. I don't have
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: much to say about it. Alabama State, I think they
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: only played once against Texas Southern this year. When I looked,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: they lost on the road by fifteen. Alabama A and
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: M finished the season with a really tough game against
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: Southern and lost the game right at the end. Southern
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: probably the second best team in this conference. That was
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: a tough game for them. That was the last game
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: they played. Texas Southern lost their last game pretty badly
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: in their home finale against Prairie View A and M,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: who I believe is still alive. I think Prairie View
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: just knocked up with Dune Cookman yesterday. I'm pretty sure.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: So the one seed is gone in the swack here,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: not that that really matters because you're looking at a
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: sixteen seed, probably a Dayton sixteen seed here. Whoever wins
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: this conference. Texas Southern had a worst game at the
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: end of the season. I would say, I think Texas
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: Southern is probably the way I would lean here, But
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: I don't have a good feel on this at all.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: They're a pick them in this game. They're probably the
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: higher seed though, so it might look too easy to
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: play them, but that's yeah, there's no way I'm gonna
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: have anything to do with that one. And then the
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: other swack game is Southern playing Arkansas Pine Bluff. Southern's
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: the two seed. I believe Pine Bluff, I guess is
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: probably the seven. Pine Bluff. Neither of these teams that
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: played yet in the tournament, so I don't know. I
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: don't think. I don't know how this tournament works. Arkansas
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Pine Bluff. I think this was a regular season finale
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: against Alcorn where they absolutely destroyed them. They look pretty
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: good at doing that. That Alcorn team is not very good,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: though Southern is better. Don't be fooled by their bad
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: overall record. You know they are a decent team in
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: this conference. Actually, they're the three seed. My mistake. Florida
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: A and M is the two seeds, so this must
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: be a three to six game here. Southern finished the
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: season with two wins, but they kind of barely escaped
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: against Alabama A and M there, so I think they
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: might show up here with the Thune Cookman gone. Southern
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: is the best team in this conference, but I think
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: it's kind of wide open in this conference, though, who
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: knows what's gonna happen. Southern's a five point favored here,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: sixty percent of the tickets on them, but seventy eight
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: percent of the cash on Pine Bluff, so the money
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: is coming in on Pine Bluff. I mean, I don't
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: really have much of a reason and not agree with that.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: When you see a strong market read like that, a
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: lot of times you do just want to agree with
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: it more often than not. So you know, I guess
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: I'll agree with that one because I don't have any
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: opinion on that really. Otherwise, all right, Mountain West. Four
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: games in the Mountain West. These games start later in
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: the day, of course. The first game up is I
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: guess Nevada and Grand Canyon I think is the first
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: game up. These games are all at the Thomas and
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: Mack in Vegas, which is UNLV's home arena, and they're
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: still alive on Nevada played yesterday and Grand Canyon did not,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: so Nevada does have a game under their belt. They
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: crushed the Less Air Force yesterday, you know, not really surprising,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: although maybe surprising that they won by so much thirty
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: five points makes them maybe look a little bit too
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: good coming into this game against Grand Canyon. Nevada won.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: The only time they played this year, I'm pretty sure
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: was at Nevada. They won by six. So this Grand
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: Canyon team is definitely competitive. Man. They moved up to
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: the Mountain West and they've played well in their first
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: season in the Mountain West. Man. And they're not really
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: gonna be thrown off by playing a tournament in Vegas,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think, because the Whack where they were before
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: this year also plays in Vegas or just outside of Vegas,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: so it probably won't be a distraction for them. But
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: they haven't played in this venue yet. They did finish
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: the season by beating Air Force and Fresno, so they
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: finished on a two game win streak. Maybe that will
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: bust their momentum a little bit. But you know me,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: I thought Grand Canyon might be a might be worth
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: a look like as a future in this tournament here
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: or you know, roll Over or whatever. And sure their
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: favorite here. They're up from two to four now eighty
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: three percent of tickets, ninety seven percent of the cash
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: on Grand Canyon. The money is coming in on them.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: I probably agreed with it when it was two to
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: two and a half. I don't think you can lay
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: the four, but I think they will win this game,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: and it looks like the money is coming in on them,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: even though Nevada does have sort of a location edge
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: being in Vegas, you know, home of their rival there.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: Nevada is Reno School, so that's not that close to Vegas,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: but you know, and then yeah, and Nevada having played
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: yesterday is helpful to them too, but I would still
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: probably lean a Grand Canyon and that one. No real
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: strong opinion on it though. The next game up in
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: the Mountain West. How many Mountain West games are they?
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Oh? I skipped UNLV? Sorry?
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: Oh shit, un LB in Utah State is in the afternoon.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: I'm thrown off by that. Yeah, UNLV, they're playing in
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: their home arena. They almost lost yesterday to Wyoming, but
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: they got through that game. Wyoming definitely could have won
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: that one. It was a three point win for UNLV.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: I watched the end of that, so UNLV did escape
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: kind of and they played in their venue here, so
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: they are used to the venue. Of course, they got
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: sort of a home edge here as well, So there
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: are some things going for UNLV here, But Utah State,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be in a real foul mood here. Man.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not. They lost both times to UNLV
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: this year. They lost at home by ten and then
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: when I thought they were gonna do better, they were
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: laying like seven and a half points at UNLV, they
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: got absolutely drilled. And that was two games ago. They
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: lost by almost thirty points in one of the most
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: embarrassing games of the year. I think they're gonna show
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: up with more effort here. I don't think UNLV is
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: gonna beat You're gonna perform the triple play here and
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: beat them three times. I just don't think that's gonna happen.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: I know it's easier to do when you've already won
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: twice and you only have one more game to win.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Utah State, they're gonna make the adjustments. That
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: was ridiculous and now they're in UNLV again. Basically, they're
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: laying less than what they were in that game. They
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: were laying like seven and a half. I know it's
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: a tournament setting, so you do have to lower the
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: number a little bit for that reason, or no, excuse me,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: you should upgrade the number right, because if a true
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: road game at UNLV there were seven and a half
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: in a tournament setting, you should give less home court
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: advantage to UNLV. So Utah State should really be like
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: eight eight and a half in this game, and they're
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: only six and a half, so I think there's actually
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: value there. Now. The one problem, well two problems. One
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: is that UNLV already played last night, so they're used
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: to the venue now. Utah State also finished the season
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: with a nice win over New Mexico, who is one
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: of the better teams in this conference, so there is that.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: But I still like Utah State in this game. They
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: are up to seven and a half now though they
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: open six six and a half, they're up to seven
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: and a half. I would still probably lay it, though
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: fifty four percent of tickets eighty seven percent of the
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: cash on them. I don't see UNLV doing that again,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: not even close. I think Utah State wins and covers
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: in that one, and I know they haven't been able
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: to do it either time so far against UNLV. But
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: you know, the better team better team in double revenge usually,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: like I think they get the job done more often
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: than they don't. It is a good angle to look at,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: you know, the favorite in double Revenge. Let's say, all right,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: the third game in the Mountain West is Colorado State
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: san Diego State. Very interesting one. Colorado State was one
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: of the hutter teams to finish the season, although they
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: were beating a lot of bad teams in here. They
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: did beat San Diego State though at home, and I
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: believe they lost to them on the road of them
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: not mistaken, Yeah, they did. So. They lost by twenty
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: three at San Diego State and won by nine at home.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: They finished the season. They did have a loss to
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: Bois in there, who's already out of this tournament, which
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: shocks me. Shocked the Boise loss, which we'll talk about
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: with the last game that we have up here. Colorado
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: State did bounce back with a not a great win
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: against Fresno to finish the season. Man, so Colorado State's
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: coming off kind of an escape against Fresno there, so
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: they might show up with a bit more intensity for
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: that reason here. Neither of these teams have played yet
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: in this tournament. San Diego State barely beat UNLV in
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: their final games, so they also had an escape they
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: didn't cover in that one. So you know San Diego State.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: They're a bubble team though, and that's kind of the problem.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: You know, everybody knows which teams are on the bubble
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: and oh they must win, So those teams usually are overvalued.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: They're laying five and a half here. They are definitely
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: the better team, but sixty two percent of ticket, sixty
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: three percent of the cash on them, Colorado State is
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: definitely combetitive. Man. I think I would probably only towards
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: taking the points of Colorado State in that one. You know,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: San Diego State again, just because of the bubble effect.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: I think they are probably a little bit overvalued there.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: And then the final game is San Jose State and
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: New Mexico. Who would have ever thought San Jose State
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: pulling off the fourteen and a half point upset or
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: whatever it was knocking out Boise last night. So Boise
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: is definitely done. I thought Bois might be able to
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: make a run in this tournament. Man, I'm pretty shocked
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: by that. I have no idea how that happened. Absolutely ridiculous.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: San Jose State might have shot their wad and that
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: one I know that means they got a game out
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: of the way in the tournament here in this venue,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: so you know, you shed the nerves whatever you get
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: used to the venue. I still don't know if I
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: like it though, coming off such a huge upset, I
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: don't know that they're gonna have much left. Sure, they
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: should show up for a game against New Mexico. New
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: Mexico beat them in their own place by ten, and
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: then New Mexico won the game between the two at
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: New Mexico by twenty three. New Mexico, I mean, no surprise. Obviously,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: New Mexico is the considerably better team here. New Mexico
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: finished the season with a couple losses to finish the season.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: But that last loss is a very very competitive game,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: very close game at Utah State. So that might not
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: be the best setup for New Mexico coming into this one. Man,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: they might be a little bit hung over after a
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: game like that, so you have pseudo hangover spot here
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: versus potential huge letdown spot here. The money is indicating
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: on New Mexico. They're up to a fifteen point favorite,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: sixty two percent of the tickets, ninety five percent of
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: the cash on them. I think I agree, like I
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: think San Jose State like that was their like wad
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: shooting game in that game last night. They're also gonna
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: have to go from playing against a slope aced Boise
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: team where I believe San Jose also likes to play slow,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: to now playing against the New Mexico team, and I
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: think is probably gonna speed them up. Yeah. New Mexico
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: is a fast tempo team for sure. Still, usually they
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: are in the top fifties, so that might be a
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: bit of a shock there to have to transition styles
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: like that. All right, what else do we have here?
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: Trying to get through it? Man? Every fucking game. This
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: is the this is gonna be the day with the
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: most games. Man. Uh So, one of the game is
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: about to kick off, Miami Ohio is about to tip off.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: You know what, maybe I'll put it on what that's
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: on ESPN Plus only, Come on, Miami Ohio basketball. I'm
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: gonna do it. I can voice command this shit. Let's go.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: Come on. It'll let me watch. It's not on yet.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: But oh, it doesn't give me the ESPN option. It
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: only gives me the Disney Plus option. Now it's the
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: same feed, but I don't know. Usually they give you
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: both options. I usually go with the ESPN one, but
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: I know it's all into the Disney umbrella. It's all
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: the same whatever, all right, me ac, we have a
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: couple of games going on here. They stagger their games.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: We have the I want to say this is the
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: four versus five matchups South Carolina State and Norfolk State.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: South Carolina State is definitely the considerably worse of these
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: two teams, and they finished the season with a couple
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: of wins on the road, very odd. Norfolk State is
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: definitely better than they are, though, and the last time
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: they played them, they lost at Norfolk State by almost
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: twenty points. They lost by seven to them at home
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: as well. By the way, I know, I said I
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: didn't like Delaware State's logo that much. They're like honeycomb,
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: like paint there or whatever you want to call it.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: Is actually kind of I kind of like that though,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: so you know, I'll say that although their hornets not bees. Anyway,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: South Carolina State finished the season with a couple of
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: upset wins, I think, or at least the last one
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: was probably an upset. Norfolk State clearly the better team
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: out of the two. Out of the two, Norfolk State
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: is coming off close loss to Howard though to finish
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: the season and Howard is the absolute dominant team in
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: this conference, like by far the best team in this conference.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: So that was a tough game for Norfolk State there.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: So what do we do with this game? Besides you know,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: of course, stayed far far away from it. This game
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: is in Norfolk, by the way, so they have like
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: a home city advantage here. They're up to an eight
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. But it looks like some
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: of the money is coming in on South Carolina State
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: now fifty percent of tickets, fifty eight percent of the
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: cash on South Carolina State. I don't know if I
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: trust Norfolk State to cover a huge number like that.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're the totals low. I mean they don't
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: score a whole lot. I mean I guess I would
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: lean to taking the points. That is an ugly one.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: No strong opinion for me on that at all, though,
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: don't take my word for it at all. The other
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: MIAK game later in the day is where the fuck
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: is it there? I know there's one other game in here?
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: Or did I just did I do the later game first?
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe I did? No, it's somewhere, Yeah, it's the later game.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: Maryland Dstern Shore in n C Central. Where is that? Yeah?
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: Here it is Maryland Eastern Shore. I'm pretty sure is
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: the better defensive team here. That's basically what they hang
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: their hat on. They had a bad loss at home
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: to Delaware State to finish the season, so they might
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: bounce back from that. They lost by two on the
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: road to n C Central when they played them this year,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: and then I believe they must have played them at
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: home too, right, Yeah, they lost by four at home,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: so both games were very close between these two teams.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I think this might be the for this I think
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: might be. No, this is the three six game, and
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the fuck it is. Whatever it is,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, No, Norfolk State must be the three,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: I think. Actually I don't know. I think Norfolk State
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: is the four or five because I think they have
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: to play Howard. If Howard wins against whatever the eight
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: seed is or whatever, I don't do. No, No Howard gets
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: a bye because there are only seven teams in the
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: in the tournament. Is Coppin State got thrown out of
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: the tournament or whatever for I don't know, some violation.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: I have no idea. It's a very very weird tournament.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think this is the three sixth game.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: I believe NC Centro I think is actually the three seed.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: They had a bad loss in the season as South
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: Carolina State. I don't know. I don't have much of
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: a feel for this game at all. The money is
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: coming out a n C Central one and a half
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: point favorite, fifty six percent of the cash on them,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: fifty percent of tickets on Maryland Eastern Shore. The money
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: looks like it's indicating on a n C Central. I
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: don't even know if I like that, man. I mean,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: these teams are all so bad, though Maryland Eastern Shore
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: they're a bit better defensively. They at least crack the
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: top three under it in defense, man, n C Central
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: does not. In fact, they're yet They're like a bottom
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: ten defense. So I don't even know if I agree.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: You know, n C Central's a bit luckier too. As
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: bad as they are, they probably have the better offense.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: But I don't know, man, In a game like that,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: I kind of like the deepfense. I kind of like
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: Maryland Eastern Shore. But again, yeah, don't take my word
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: for it. In conferences like that, there's a reason why
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: I pretty much avoid them. We have Conference USA playing
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: as well, a couple of games in the Conference USA here.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: Let me see, I think it's only two and there's Whack,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: and then I think we're done at I don't know,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: there's American as well. Two in each of those Middle
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: Tennessee and Louisiana Texts the first game up in the
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: early evening. You know, I said, I like Middle Tennessee
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: to potentially make a run here. I know Louisiana techs
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: decent team in this cot like, they're very good defense,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: and I do like the better defense, and they are
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: getting points here, so there is that. These games are
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: all in Huntsville, Alabama. By the way, Middle Tennessee I
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: think has really been kind of an under the radar
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: team though they finished the season hot. But I don't
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: love that because when a team ends the season hot
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: like that five wins in a row, you know, again,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: the conference tournament is like a reset. It can disrupt
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: your momentum. So I don't love that. For Middle Tennessee
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: against Louisiana Tech. They lost at Louisiana Tech by one,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: but they also beat them at home by thirty seven.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: Uh So Middle Tennessee, you know, I know, those are.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: That's kind of an outlier. I expect this game to
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: be more like the second game that they played. But still,
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: you know, and the momentum might be disrupted for Middle
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: Tennessee here, But I don't know. Something tells me Middle
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: Tennessee is the right side here. Man. They're the better team.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: That's why they laying points here. Lot Tech getting points. Hey,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: you mass scored already. They're winning the game, man. Louisianattack,
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, look at what they did in their last game.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: But they finished the season with two wins in a row,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: and they beat Liberty, who was the one seed on
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: I know Liberty has been bounced from the tournament. I
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: told you Liberty wasn't gonna make wasn't gonna make it.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: They weren't gonna win this tournament. Louisiana Tack beat them
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: towards the end of the rail season, and then their
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: final game of the season they beat Delaware eighty one
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: to thirty eight. I mean, come on, I know their
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: defense is good, but come on, man, so I think
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: that's gonna overvalue Louisiana Attack a little bit coming into
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: this and that's just absurd. Neither of these teams that
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: play it in this tournament yet. I like Middle Tennessee.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: They're up to two and a half here, seventy one
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: percent of tickets ninety six percent of the cash on them.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: But we will see. We will Middle Tennessee and then
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: Kennesaw and Western con talk you're playing in the other game.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: None of these teams to play again in the tournament.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I think these are all like the
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: middle seeds in the tournament. Kennesaw is getting the money
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: in this one, fifty percent of tickets, seventy seven percent
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: of the cash on the Western Kentucky is up to
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: a one point favorite, though, But this game, I do
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: think there's a double revenge scenario in this one. Let
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: me find it. I also here, I think my hoa
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: is fucking mowing the grass out there or something. It
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: very much annoys me. I hate that fucking sound. Kennisaw
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: lost their last two games to end the season, so
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: you know they might have a bit of a reset
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: here against Western Kentucky, though. I think they beat them
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: both times. Like I said, yeah, they beat them on
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: the road by sixteen and they beat them at home
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: by three. I think it was I just lost it.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: I just saw it in there. I don't know. Yeah, three,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: so Kennasa did beat them both times, beating them by
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: more on the road somehow. Now Kennasaw is new to
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: this conference, though they were in the Atlantic Sun I
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: think up until last year, or maybe until this year. So,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: but they're still playing in the same area of the country,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: so I don't think it's really gonna throw them off
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: that much. Western Kentucky finished season with a couple of
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: ugly losses, especially, Yeah, they lost real ugly to FIU
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: to end the season, So you know, I think this
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: could be a reset for them here. It's double revenge.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Western Kentucky's actually a slightly better team. I actually lean
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: towards Western Kentucky in this one. I don't really agree
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: with the money there. I agree with the initial move
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: on Western Kentucky in that one. That is the way
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: that I would lean there. All right, Oh, we have
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: big West to God, there's so many games to talk
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: about here. We got the American Conference going on here.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: I think all these games might be at night in
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: the American Tulane and Charlotte. This is like the battle
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: of the overrated here. Both these teams are not as
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: good as people think they are. Neither team is as
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: good as their record looks. Tulane did play yesterday in
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: the tournament, so they got a game out of the
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: way in the tournament, which should be good as far
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: as you know. They got adjusted to the venue. They
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: got the win, but it was a win over Memphis,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: who is like kind of a staple of this conference,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: and that wasn't upset this Memphis. Penny Hardaway's got to
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: be fired. Man. How many games is Memphis gonna lose
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: as a favorite? How many games is Memphis gonna be
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: completely non competitive as an underdog too? You know, it's
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: just insane. Tulane's not that good of a team. Now
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: they're playing Charlotte, who's also not good. These teams played
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: once this year. I think it's Charlotte won by three
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: at home. Not much to really see there. Uh, Tulane
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: is adjusted to the venue here. Like I said, they
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: are the team with the better record, though, so people
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: might be hanging their hat on that. People might be
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: looking at that as far as the betting is concerned.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: Charlotte lost their last three games of the season, getting
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: blown out by the top team in the conference, South
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: Florida at the end of the season there. Charlotte is
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: a one point favorite here, though the public is coming
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: in on Tulane. Like I said, eighty five percent of
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: the tickets, only sixty six percent of the cash. These
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: games are all in Birmingham, Alabama, and which is gonna
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: help you a be stupid now because they're not the
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: one seed. Now. I know that Tulane did get that
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: game out of the way, and they played yesterday so
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: they were accustomed to the venue. But I still think
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: they're an overrated team. Beating Memphis looks good. I know
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: Charlotte is not good, but you know the public is
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: all over Tulane. Basically picked the winner. All I'm getting
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: one point with the team with a better record. Nothing's
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: really that easy. I'll lean to Charlotte, but I don't
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: love it. And then the late game is FAU in
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: North Texas. FAU did get the win last night. I
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: told you I thought they would. They won, so they're
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: now adjusted to the venue, of course, but North Texas
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: is a slow, slow team. They flip from a bust
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: one and a half to pick them now. The good
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: thing for North Texas not having played yet here. The
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: good thing, though, I mean that's not a good thing.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: But the good thing is that they play slow, so
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of times teams like that can overcome that,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: and you know, they don't have their momentum disrupted as much.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: They won their last two games by the exact same
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: score of sixty two to fifty eight, although one was
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: a nice road up set of UAB. The other one
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: was a bad home performance against Rice, so you can
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: have two very different games even though the final score
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: wound up being exactly the same. They beat FAU by
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: one at home not that long ago. I thought they
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: played them twice. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe they didn't. I
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: might be wrong. That might have been the only time
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: they played. So maybe a little bit of recent you know,
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: revenge for FAU, I guess, But that game was not
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: an outlier. Really, it was really close. I kind of
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: like FAU though, man. I think they've been kind of
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: getting healthy at the right time. They're adjusted to the venue.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: I kind of lean towards them in this one, but
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: you know, it definitely could go either way. North Texas
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: is a very annoying team to have to deal with,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: so with the style that they play, so who knows.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: As I touched my nose. My nose is itchy, man,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here. All right, then
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: we have what games do I have left? The Whack.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: We're getting almost done with it, man, we're in the
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: last games here. Now. We do have the Whack and
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: the Big West, and I think that's it. A Southern
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: u on ut Oleans and Southern Utah. They're a bad team, dude.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: This is the five versues four I think. And as
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday, Utah Valley paid the after they got
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: the temporary injunction. The Whack decided to let them play
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: in the tournament if they paid a lesser fine or
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: some shit. So they did pay that. So Utah Valley
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: will be playing in the tournament, which at least shows
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: that they want to be here. They're not playing yet though,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: But Southern Utah they're a bad team, dude. Like power
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: ratings wise, I think they're the worst team in this
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: whole conference. So needless to say, I don't think they're
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: gonna win against ut Arlington. They did beat them once
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: this year, the most recent matchup they won at ut Arlington.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: It was kind of double revenge because they think they
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: lost to them the other two games yeah, they did,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: so they lost at home and on the road. In
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: the whack. These teams played each other three times. Southern
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: Utah also finished the season with two pretty big performances
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: against Utah Valley and cal Baptist, the top two teams
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: in the conference. So they're coming off a couple of
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: close performances against good teams. It could be a little
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: bit of a quick revenge for ut Arlington here. They're
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: absolutely the better team. I know UT Arlington finished with
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: a couple of wins, so their momentum might be disrupted
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But I like UT Arlington in this one.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: The money's disagreeing. Fifty percent of tickets ninety one percent
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: of the casual on Southern Utah. I don't yeah, I
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: don't think so. I would lay it. Texas Arlington is
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: minus five and a half here. They're definitely the better team.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: These games were all in the Orleans in Vegas, which
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: I thought they were in the same arena as the
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: WCC was, but because I think they also played at
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: the Orleans, but it looks like a different arena. It
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: looks smaller in this one. We're basically like all the
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: seating all looks like it's like temporary in this arena
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: there when I was watching the Tarlatan game last night,
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. And Tarleton lost last night to
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: Abilene Christian. So Abilene Christian is the one team that
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: already played in this tournament, so they are used to
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: the venue. And I think it was wasn't Abilene, I
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: think it was. They're playing Utah Tech here, which I
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: think is now Ablin Christian I think was the They
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: must have been the sixth seed in the tournament, is
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: that right? And Utah Tech is the three something. I
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: don't know, something like that. Utah tacks minus two and
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: a half or fifty percent of tickets and ninety seven
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: percent of the cash coming in on Abilene Christian though.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: Now they did play last night, so that's an advantage
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  Speaker 1: that they get, you know, game under their belt in
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: the tournament, they get used to it. They beat Tarletan
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: last night against Utah Tech. I think this is actually
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: triple revenge. They lost by four at Utah Tech. The
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: most recent game they lost by six at home, and
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: they lost by what is that fifteen at home as well,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: So triple revenge for Ablin Christian. Canta Tech beat them
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: four times in one year. I don't know, Man, this
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: situation usually doesn't come up Utah Tech. I don't like
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: the spot there in either. Men of men. They had
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: that huge game against Utah Valley in their home finale,
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: and they took them to double over time, I think
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: is what it was. I was watching the end of
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: that that was insane. So Utah Tech really could be
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: flat coming off of performance like that, even though I
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: know they've had some time off now. But they're also
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: not used to this venue yet. So I like Abilene
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: Christian in this one. This one was actually closer to
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: being a play for me, believe it or not. Plus
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: the two and a half in that one, I would
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: lean to Abilene Christian. I think Utah TeX's an overrated
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: team too. I don't even really think they're the third
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: best team in this conference. So that's what I have
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: to say about that. And then we have the Big West.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: I think is the last conference type to hit here, right,
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: I believe. So we have you see San Diego against
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: cal State Northerd. You see San Diego played last night,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: so they're already used to this venue. They're playing in
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: Vegas as well. I think it's Henderson, Nevada. And this
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: one though outside of Vegas. You see San Diego looked
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: like they were gonna lose man to cal Poly last night.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: They had a bad game against cal Poly. They escaped
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: with a win, and you know me, I like good
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: teams that escape, and that's what they did last night.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: They were a D and size favorite, had a real
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: scare last night, and they're now used to the venue,
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: so I like all that. And they most recently lost
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: to Cal State Northridge, who they're playing tonight. They lost
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: by seventeen against them on the road, and they actually
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: lost at home to them two by five. So I think,
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: you see, San Diego might make some adjustments here. Man,
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: They're actually the better team here cal State Northridge coming
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: into this one. Uh, they did lose their last game
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: to Fullerton, so they did end the season on kind
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: of a bad note, three losses in their last four games,
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: barely getting by Bakersfield, who's the worst team in the
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: conference other than the fact that they have a pimp coach.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: So cal State Northridge, I mean, they might use this
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: as a reset and come in and play better in
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: this one. But I like, U see San Diego in
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: this one, they're laying three points here even though they're
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: the lesser seeded team. So I do kind of like that,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: but the public, you know, might not buy into that
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: that much because they do have the better overall record,
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: sixty tickets, ninety four percent of the cash on Northridge.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: I don't really agree with that, though, I like you
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: see San Diego in that one. We'll see what the
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: market looks like at night there and then once we
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: get to you know, when the game actually happens. And
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: then the final game is the latest game at eleven thirty,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: along with a couple other games I just talked about,
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: you see Davis and cal State Fullerton. You see Davis
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: also played last night, so they're now adjusted to the venue.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: They beat you see Santa Barbara last night. Now they're
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: playing Fullerton and they actually lost on the road at
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: Fullerton by one. The last time they played them, they
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: beat them at home by five. So these two teams
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: played a couple of really competitive games this year. Davis
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: does have the edge of having played last night, though
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: Fullerton one. I mean, they had three huge games in
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: a row to end the season, losing by two at
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: home to Hawaii, who we haven't seen play yet in
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: the tournament one of the top teams in the conference.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: They beat you See San Diego at home, who's one
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: of the best teams in this conference as well, even
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: though they weren't seeded like it. And then they beat
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: Cal State north Ridge on the road, another pretty big
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: win against one of the better teams in the conference.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: Now they're playing at UC Davis, team they did just
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: beat the last time they played them. I kind of
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: like you see Davis in this one. Man. The money's
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: all coming in up Fullerton, which would worry me. That
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: market read is very strong on Fullerton, but I don't
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: really agree with it. You see Davis fifty three percent
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: of tickets on them, eighty seven percent of the cash
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: on Fullerton. I think I would lean at Fullerton, excuse me.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: I think I would lean to you see Davis. Excuse me.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: The money is coming in up Fullerton. I lean to
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: you see Davis slightly. But I don't want to emphasize
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: that because it's not a strong opinion for me. All Right,
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: that's all of college basketball. We're gonna do NHL in
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: a second. When I get back. It's a massive NHL board,
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: which I hate because I gotta go through and talk
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: about all the games, and I don't even have an
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: NHL game that I like enough for a play. I'm
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: trying to be selective here, man, so you can check
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: out the board. I'll be back in a second. Hell yeah,
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: all right, allry back here. You can hear me. It
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: looks like the mic is working You Mass with the
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: lead right now. Then I'm roving for my boys at
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: you Mass. Not only because I'm extremely annoyed by Miami Ohio,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: but you know, I got a lot of friends that
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: went to U Mass and whatever, so all right, and
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: it was on the list for me too. I got
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: into U Mass, but I did not decide to go there,
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: but yes, even though they were gonna give me a
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: free ride as well, because they offer a free ride
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: to all high school valedictorians. So I had a free
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: ride there, and I'm like, nah, I'm gonna go to
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: a more expensive school. Though I did get some money
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: from the school that I went to as well, but yeah,
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know the vibe suited me better where I
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: actually went. So going to a D three basketball school
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: is where I is what I actually did. All right,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: let's do this San Jose at my Boston Bruins at
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: seven pm. Here. San Jose on a three game losing streak,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: so unfortunately for the Bruins, I think San Jose will
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: be motivated here. They lost pretty badly at Buffalo to
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: start the road trip, six to three. I think they'll
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: show the motivation here, although the Bruins have been very,
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: very excellent at home. Though I don't really want to
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: fade the Bruins at home unless they're in a really
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: bad spot. They're not really the thing at home. They
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: won an overtime in their last game against the Kings.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: It's not a game I'm gonna I'm gonna have anything
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: to do with. Like I said, I'm not doing anything
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: with hockey today. But for the Bruins, the money I
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: think is fading them. Where is this game there? It
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: is Bruins have already dropped form minus one seventy to
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: minus one forty six. It might mean Swaymen's not gonna
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: be a net here. Corpas Salo is not great. The
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: tickets only seventy seven percent of the cash on the Bruins,
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: so they're a public side. With the money all being
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: unloaded on San Jose, it looks like they're so I
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: can't really disagree with San Jose in that one. But again,
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: the Bruins very very good at home. Just somebody keep
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: in mind there twenty five eight and one is their
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: home record, which is really good. It might be the
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: best in the NHL. It's got to be up there.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: Washington at Buffalo Bruins. By the way, they do have
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: a TV game coming up against Washington, so if you
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: want to consider that to be a look at, maybe,
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: But Washington hasn't been playing that well. Washington did play
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: yesterday and they lost badly to Philadelphia. I think I
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: told you I leaned to Philadelphia in that game yesterday.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: Bad loss for Washington. Now it's a third game in
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: four days, in a fourth game in six all in
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: different cities, and that's not easy to do. So the
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: rest situation is very bad for Washington. They're gonna have
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: to switch to Lindren in net year. I would imagine
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: he hasn't been great. They've given up a lot of
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: goals when he's played his last few times that he's played.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: But they're probably gonna at least give you an effort
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: against Buffalo. I mean, Buffalo's good. Everybody's going after them.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: Probably like when you play Buffalo, you're gonna get up
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: for the game. You know, Buffalo's won eight games in
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: a row. I think they just pummeled San Jose the
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: other day. They have a day off, so they do
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: have a rest advantage here. I kind of lean towards Washington,
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: though Buffalo is up to minus two o three. You
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: get a real big underdog price on Washington if you
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: want it. I don't want it. But you know, we
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: don't really see the ticket percentages yet, but it would
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: be like a Washington puck line. Maybe I don't know
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, no real good read on that. Anaheim
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: is gonna be at Toronto. Anaheim, as I continue to
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: point out, they are better at home than they are
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: on the road. They did, however, just win on the
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: road against Winnipeg on Tuesday, so they started off the
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: road trip with a win on the right note, on
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: the right foot. Going to Toronto, who's really having a
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: bad season. Toronto on a massive losing streak here to
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: eight losses in a row. That is bad. They just
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: lost at Montreal, which is a game, big game for
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: both teams, So they are coming off a big game.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: You know, there could be the potential of a hangover there,
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: big game up Nex against Buffalo, but when you're losing
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: to everybody, I don't think you're really going to overlook anybody, man,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: So this is not a game I want anything to
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: do with either. Toronto's minus one oh nine. Basically we
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: don't really see the percentages yet. Ninety percent of the tickets,
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: ninety three percent of the cash on Anaheim. I can't
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: really read that market either. Man. It's a very tough
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: game to even figure out. So that game is a
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: pass as well. We're skipping it, you know. I could
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: see a few arguments for Anaheim in that game, though,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: with Toronto coming off a tough game against Mondrell with
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: a bigger game on deck, But I do not want
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: to really fade a team that might be in desperation
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: mode and try to win any game they can. Detroit
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: at Tampa Bay is one of the better games of
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: the day. Two good teams here. Tampa Bay has been
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: struggling a little bit recently, but they are better than
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: they look recently. I'll tell you that Detroit just lost
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: at Florida on a tough game. They lost four to three,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: really difficult game there. So they're having to do the
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: Florida trip here, play both Florida teams in three days,
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: so that's not that easy to do. You know, potential
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: that they could have a bounce back here, but it's difficult.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: And they got Dallas on deck two, so they're having
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: to play three big games in a row. Obviously, like
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: they'll get up for this game, you know, mentally and whatever.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: But for Tampa Bay, they've been on a bad losing street.
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: They've lost six of their last seven games, their only
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: win coming against Toronto. But a lot of those games
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: are on the road. They were turn home from a
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: road trip, and you know, I always talked about how
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: difficult it is to return home from a road trip.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: They had a bad loss at home to Columbus. A
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: lot of times when that happens, you return home from
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: a road trip and you have a bad game, it's
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: because you're distracted. You got to get back to a
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: home life, and a lot of times you play a
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: lot better in the next game. So I think that
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: might be what we're gonna get here. This Tampa Bay
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: team is nowhere near this bad So I do like
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay here. They drop from minus two twenty to
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: minus two to ho five eighty eight percent of tickets,
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: ninety two percent of the cash, and then they'll probably
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: be a public side. You know, I don't know if
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: I would lay like a massive favorite price with them, though,
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't go like money, you know, I'm never
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: gonna go like minus two hundred money line in any
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: of these money line sports. You know, I think there's
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: rarely a situation to find where it's actually worth it
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: to do that. Uh, But you know, maybe, uh, I
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: don't know, something like Tampa to go over their team
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: total could be in the mix here, or something like
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: you know, a minus one puck line maybe or something
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: like that, you know, could be a way to figure
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: it out. Or Tampa Bay to win in regulation. Maybe
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in fact has played zero or excuse they
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: have zero overtime losses at home, But that kind of
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: means that you want to play them to win in
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: either regulation or overtime, because it kind of means that, well, yeah,
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: because they have no overtime losses, So I don't know,
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: it kind of means that they win an overtime when
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: they go there at home. So I don't know. Columbus
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: is at Florida Columbus, like I said, coming up that
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: huge win against Tampa Bay, could be in a letdown
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: spot here now after that, I mean, sure they should
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: get up for Florida because they're the back to back
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: returning champs, But they did just beat Florida on March fifth,
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: Florida two at home, so Florida might make some adjustments here. Man, Florida,
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: they've kind of lost their luster a little bit because
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: their record's not that good. So I think Columbus could
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: be in a letdown spot here. But Florida's coming off
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: two big wins against Detroit, who's a pretty good team.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: So I don't really want Florida here either, ma'am. And Columbus,
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: you know, probably still will get up for this game mentally,
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: but Florida looks like they're the right side in the
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: market here. Sixty eight percent of tickets around Columbus, sixty
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: one percent of the cash on Florida. They drop to
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: a very tempting minus one ten down for minus one twenty,
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: So the oddsweakers are telling you Columbus is the better team.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: Florida is not even getting home ice. I don't really
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: agree with that, but I still think Florida is the
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: better team, which would indicate I should be on Florida here.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: It looks like that's where the money is. I agree
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: with it. I agree with Florida, but I'm not gonna
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: give it out as a player or anything. Calgary at
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Calgary just had a bad game at New
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: York the Rangers, where the Rangers never win at home,
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: and they still beat Calgary Florida and up then Calgary bad,
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: but they might be in bounced back mode after two
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: really ugly losses by a combined eleven to three score.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: Now they're going to New Jersey. It's a quick trip
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: from New York to New Jersey, although they're playing a
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: third game in four days, fourth game in six days,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: all in different cities, which isn't great. But again, going
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: from Manhattan to northern New Jersey is not really that
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: much of a That's not a huge deal there. Let's
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: say New Jersey not playing well. Man Actually they have
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: been playing well more recent They're not having a great
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: season overall, I should say, but they did win four
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: games in a row before they finally lost on the
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: back end of a back to back at home to Detroit. Now,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: what I don't like is they lost a win streak.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: They've been a streaky team, and a lot of times
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: when you lose a win streak, it'll hang you over
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: and you'll lose again in the next game. I don't
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: know how much attention they'll really paid to Calgary, but
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: when a team gets shut out at home, a lot
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: of times they will bounce back from that. This one
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: was against a good Detroit team though, so I don't know.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: But New Jersey is the way more rested team here though,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: and they're staying at homes. They have a big rest
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: and travel advantage here, staying at home coming off a
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: bad home loss. I would probably have to lean New
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: Jersey here. They're up for minus one seventy eight minus
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: one eighty three. They are getting the money. It looks
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: like fifty six percent of the tickets are on Calgary,
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: ninety one percent of the cash on the Devils. I'll
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: lean that way. But that's yeah. My strongest opinion that
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: I've talked about, and probably actually my strongest opinion out
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: of any of these games, is actually Florida. That's how
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: bad this board is today. Man Saint Louis Is at Carolina.
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: We did get the win against Saint Louis. And you know,
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: if you think I was lucky getting that win with
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: the Islanders, there the overtime win with the Islanders the
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: other night, Islanders had to come back from down three
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: to nothing. Look at the stats in this game though,
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: and this wasn't just because the Islanders were losing, the
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: fact that they outshot Saint Louis. They were out shooting
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: them all game, Like, they had a twenty shot lead
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: when they were down like one to up. Thing. They
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: outshot Saint Louis forty nine to twenty three. They had
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: more than half the faceoffs one and they out hit
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: Saint Louis. So they dominated this game. Like I said,
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: that was ridiculous. So Saint Louis, who were talking about here,
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: they were bad in that game, but they almost pulled
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: off an upset of a pretty good team. So they're
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: coming off with that performance. That ended a win streak
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: for them too, So that could hang them over a
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: little bit, although you gotta think they'll get up mentally
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: for a game against Carolina. Them Carolina coming into this
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: game with a bounce They had a bounce back win
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: over Pittsburgh that was a decent win after a Carolina
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: lost to Calgary to finish their road trip. Nice bounce
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: back win despite it being a return home spot. They
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: got the win. But they do have a huge game
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: on deck against Tampa Bay. Although they did beat Tampa
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: Bay not that long ago. I think they might be
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: looking ahead to that. So that's the problem with Carolina here. Really,
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: Carolina minus two seventy down for minus two ninety two,
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: they look pretty public. Ninety tickets, ninety eight percent of
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: the cash. I don't know, can't really put much weight
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: into numbers like that, but I know it's real ugly.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: But I guess a slight lean for me to Saint
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: Louis is like a big puck line underdog. But no
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: way I want to touch that game. Hulu has one
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: of the better games in the night, which is Edmonton
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: at Dallas. Edmonton's coming off a really big win on
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: the road at Colorado, and they beat Vegas the game
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: before that, also on the roads. They're coming off two
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: big road wins. Now they got to play a third
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: big road game in a row. Could be difficult, man.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you're not gonna overlook Dallas, but coming
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: off winning in elevation at Colorado, is a pretty sizable underdog.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: That's not something you just, you know, overcome with ease.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: Let's just say Dallas coming into this game off of
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: beating Vegas staying at home they played two nights ago.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: Both of these teams played two nights ago, Dallas staying
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: at home, though one two to one. I think the
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: spot does set up better for Dallas here. That's probably
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: the way I would lean here. The money looks like
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: it's on Edmonton, though Dallas dropped for minus one thirty
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: five to minus one twenty eight. I don't really agree
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: with that. There's no way I'm gonna jump on a
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: team after they beat Colorado. You know, at the very least,
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay away from it. Fifty four percent of tickets,
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: eighty four percent of the cash on Edmonton for now,
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: But I don't really agree with that. One Philadelphia is
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: at Minnesota. Philadelphia did win yesterday. Like I said, they're
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: one of the only teams playing on a back to
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: back tonight. They beat Washington yesterday at home. Now they
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: got to travel to Minnesota for a single game road
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: trip with no rest. Maybe not that easy, although you
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: probably will get up for a game against Minnesota just
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: because they've had a good season. Uh, so they're not
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: a team that you're gonna overlook. Minnesota just had a
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: SmackDown of Utah at home. They beat Utah five to
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: nothing at home, and Minnesota was returning home from a
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: quick road trip. But they were coming off beating Vegas
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: and losing to Colorado in a shootout. I don't know
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: how Minnesota had such a great game in a spot
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: like that, but they did. Maybe they're feeling a little
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: bit high on themselves here after that. This is a
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: tough call as well. Uh, I think I would probably
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: lean to Philadelphia. To be honest, You're gonna get a
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: pretty big underdog price here, even though they did play yesterday.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: Minnesota down for mine two fifty minus two thirty five here. Uh,
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: they're coming off a really satisfying win. Though I will
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: say that I can't really see the percentages yet here.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: You know, the percentages that we see here don't help
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: at all. But yeah, probably would be a puck line
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: play for Philadelphia. But again, I don't want anything to
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: do with any of these games. Range are coming up
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: that four not they shut out, actually winning at home
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: against Calgary. Now they're going out on the road to
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: start a quick road trip. A lot of times when
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: you start a road trip with momentum, though, you will
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: be focused. But you know, do you think they'll be
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: over confident after a shutout win at home? I don't know,
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: Probably not, because when you're having a bad season, you
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: can't really be over confident. But they are playing a
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: fourth game in six days, all in different cities, which
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: is not easy to do, having to go from New
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: York to Winnipeg here with like one day off. Winnipeg
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: is staying at home. They just took a pretty ugly
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: loss at home to Anaheim, so they might actually show
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: up even though they do. Of Colorado on deck. Winnipeg's
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: not having a good season either, so they can't really
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: overlook anybody. I would lean to Winnipeg here they drop
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: for minus one sixty five to minus one fifty. I
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: know the Rangers are pretty good on the road, they're
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: awful at home. They're actually fairly good on the road,
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: But eighty three percent of the tickets are on the Rangers,
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: sixty percent of the cash on Winnipeg, so the money
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: is coming in a Winnipeg I'm not going to disagree
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: with it, and with Winnipeg. He got to see if
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: Hellibuk is going to be a net We really don't
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: know because he's played six games in a row, they've
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: had one day off, they had two days off prior
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: to the last game. It probably will be him again
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: because he's a grinder. But we'll see, man. I don't
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: know Chicago at Utah. This is a quick rematch game
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: where Chicago beat Utah as an underdog at home in
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: an overtime game three to two back on Monday. So
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: Utah might zigzag this man because Utah is the better team,
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: and when the better team loses a lot of times,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: they will show up and play a better game the
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: next time. And I don't know when Night is gonna
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: come back because he's had an illness. So I don't
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: know what's going on with him. Because he is the
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: best goalie for the Blackhawks. I don't really see any
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: news or anything like that. So maybe he will be
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: back for this game. I have no idea a couple
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: of days off for the Blackhawks here now. But Utah
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: did play a game in between these two games. They
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: played on Tuesday and they got smacked by Minnesota. Like
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: I said, they're returning home from a road trip though,
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: and that's the biggest concern. And third game in four days,
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: fourth game in six days, fifth and eight, and sixth
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: and ten, all in different cities. That's not easy to do, man,
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: So Utah is very traveled right now. In the return
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: home spot. I always hate, as you know, I like
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: betting against it because when teams returning on from a
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: road trip, a lot of times they'll be hungover, you know,
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: they'll be distracted because they have to get back to
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: home life, whatever the case may be. So even though
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: they might not overlook a Chicago team that just beat
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: them towards the end of the road trip, it's still
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: a really really bad spot for Utah potential to maybe
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: look ahead because they have Pittsburgh, Dallas, Vegas, Anaheim on
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: on deck. All those teams are better than Chicago. So
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, this is again a stay away
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: from me. But look into the market here. Utah dropped
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: for minus two thirty five to minus two ten. They
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: look public, I mean, ninety one percent of tickets, ninety
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: eight percent of the cash. I don't know what weight
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: to put into that, but I would I'd probably still
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: lean to Chicago on the puck line in that one,
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: but not a strong opinion for me there either. Nashville
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: and Vancouver. Nashville, they just beat Seattle for the second
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: game of this road trip. Here Seattle, I thought Seattle
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: would be in a decent spot, and that one I thought,
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't remember what my thoughts were
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: on that, but it was a nice win for Nashville,
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: I guess against an overrated Seattle team. Though. Now they're
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: playing Vancouver, who's an awful team, and on deck they
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: do have Edmonton, so they got to go to Edmonton
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: after this, So there could be a look ahead maybe here,
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: because Vancouver's just very easy to overlook. Vancouver's had two
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: days off and they're staying at home, and they got
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: shut out at home in their last game by Ottawa,
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: So I think I would lean to Vancouver here. A
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: lot of times when a team's staying at home and
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: they got days off to you know, recover from it,
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: they give you a better effort in the next game.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: Nashville is up to minus one fifty eight as a
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: road favorite, eighty nine percent of tickets eighty five percent
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: of the cash on them, so their public side too.
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: I like this one more than most of them. To
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: be honest, I would I would play Vancouver probably just
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: money line on that one. I mean you could do
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: a split puck line money line or something like that
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: too if you want to, or you know, five to
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: plus one puck line if some of the books might
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: offer that. Pittsburgh and Vegas. Pittsburgh is coming off that
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: big game against Carolina. They played three overtime games in
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: a row since Saturday, that one against Carolina, falling just
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: short of Carolina on the road. That's tough to get
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: to bounce back from it. And now they're gonna fly
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: out to Vegas for this. I mean, they could consider
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: it to be like the start of a new road
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: trip or something, but that's really difficult to come off
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: a Carolina game like that. And they just beat Vegas
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: at home on March first, five to nothing. So I
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: think Vegas is gonna be in revenge mode here or
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: adjustment mode. Vegas is coming up of a couple of
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: big games too, though they played Detroit, Minnesota, Edmonton. They
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: had to go to Dallas on Tuesday, so that's not
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: that easy either returning home here. I still like Vegas here.
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's a worst spot for Pittsburgh, and you
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: know you have the adjustment, revenge angle, whatever you want
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: to call it. For Vegas. They dropped for minus one
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: sixteen to minus one, fifty eighty eight percent of tickets,
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the cash on Vegas. I agree
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: with that money. I like Vegas, but I don't want
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: to put it on my card. I don't want to
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: play a team that's coming back from a close game
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: at Dallas really, so unfortunately that's not on my card either.
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: And then the last game is Colorado and Seattle. Colorado
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: just lost a five game win streak, although a lot
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: of times I don't know, man, I mean, when they've
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: lost win streak, sometimes they have bounced back, But a
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: lot of times when a team loses a win streak,
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: they won't bounce back right away. And they've had a
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: bunch of big games in a row, man. They won
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: at Dallas in a shootout, beat Minnesota at home and
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: a shootout, and then they lost at home to Edmonton
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: to break their win streak. That could hang them over
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: to this game, man, they might not totally pay attention
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: to a mediocre at best Seattle team. Here Seattle coming
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: into this with that home loss to Nashville being their
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: last game, they had a lot of They had two
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: days off before that, I should say two days off
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: prior to the game, prior to that, just they have
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: had a lot of time off recently. They're staying at
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: home too, and they've had some ugly home losses. So
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: I think this spot is better for Seattle here. I
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: like Seattle in that one. Colorado very public. Ninety seven
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: percent of the tickets I don't know, ninety five percent
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: of the cash probably doesn't mean anything, but their minus
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: one ninety five, so you might be able to get
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: a decent like puck line on Seattle or something like that. That
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: would be the way I would lean in that one.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: Probably one of my stronger hockey opinions as well. U
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: Mass still winning towards the end of the first half year.
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: By the way they've been leading most of the first half.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: It looks like Fingers Crossed Baby didn't give out a
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: play on it though. Although I gave you my lean
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: at the top of the show, I gave you a
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: leen on U Mass plus the points. All right, let's
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: do NBA and get out of here. Man, there is
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: a decent amount of NBA and you're not gonna like
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: the one play I'm gonna give you in the NBA. Man,
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: first game up is the first of the Amazon Prime doubleheader,
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia at Detroit. Philadelphia coming off a win over Memphis.
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia is still an injured team, man. I think they're
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: still without embiid MAXI now George is still suspended. I
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. These guys are all now.
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: Ubra is out as well, So this is like Philly's
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: entire team is out here, man. So yeah, I mean
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: that's that's the deal. Ubra I think got hurt in
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: their last game, So I guess you could argue they're
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: in like an injured player theory spot. But when your
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: team has literally nobody left, I don't know how like
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: your players that are left can really step up. All
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: we have seen that happen in the NBA. But they're
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: also playing a fourth game in six days, all in
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: different cities, which is not easy. Beating Memphis barely at
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: home in their last game. Detroit's coming off of a
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: revenge SmackDown. I told you laying the points was the
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: right way to look in that Brooklyn game last or
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: two nights ago. They did do that. They destroyed Brooklyn.
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: Now they're back home, but we're only returning over a
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: two game road trip, which isn't really a big deal.
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: The money is saying the seventy six ers here, which
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: is insane. Pistons are minus fifteen seventy two percent of
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: the tickets on them, only sixty two percent of the cash.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: The Margaturita is saying, to take the points of the sixers.
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. The seventy six ers more
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: like the thirty tours. I don't know what thirty three
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: years I should say, but whatever we want to, whatever
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: we want to call them. No, that's not a wait,
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: seventy six, that's not even what I said. I'm thinking
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: sixty six. What am I even saying seventy six? Thirty
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: eight the thirty eight ers because they're half a team.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: There you go. I can't even think. After I wake up, man,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: she squealed, what's up, man, Thanks for hanging out. I
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: got perfect math as a teas baby. I just had
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: a stroke, and you know I'm not awake. Still Phoenix
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: at Indiana, Phoenix on a nice little wind streak here.
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: They're playing well even without Brooks they do have and
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: Booker back. I think Grayson Allen's been missing some time.
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: But whatever, they did just be Milwaukee on the road
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: with Giannis in the lineup from Milwaukee there, so Phoenix
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: decent win there. They might overlook Indiana. They got Toronto, Boston, Minnesota,
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: San Antonio all on deck, so those are all bigger
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: games than this Indiana. You got to question how much
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: effort they're gonna give you. But they did just have
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: a close loss to Sacramento, so maybe they did put
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: an effort there. But the problem with Indiana is they're
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: returning over from a road trip from the Pacific Coast,
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: and you know, I don't like that they've been away
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: from more than a week. You get back home, you
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: got stuff to do at home, you know, family life.
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: You might not pay total attention. And they do have
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: a game against the Knicks tomorrow where maybe if they
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: get up for a game, maybe it's that one. So
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: I certainly I would not trust the Pacers, and in fact,
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: I probably lean against them, to be honest, because I
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: just hate these teams are turning over road trips. Sons
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: are laying eight and a half on the road though
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: sixty tickets fifty two percent of the cash on them,
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: so the money is indicating on the Pacers. No way
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: could I do that. Though. Phoenix has been a really
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: good covering team, but they're better at home. I'm pretty sure, Will.
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: What's up man? Yeah, I responded to that, I had
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: to keep March Madness. Yeah, me too. I went with B.
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: NFL playoffs is fun as well, and they're in that group.
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: NBA playoffs are my best betting basically, so, but I
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: love March Madness. You gotta keep March madness, even though
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: you know the other stuff. You know. I like the
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: MLB playoffs, I like the Stanley Cup playoffs, but yeah,
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: B wins mostly because of March Madness and the betting opportunities.
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: All right, next up is gonna be my last play.
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give out. You're gonna hate me. You're gonna
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: hate this play. We're gonna be on two different Washingtons here. Yeah,
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: that's right. We're playing the Washington Wizards again here plus
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: fifteen and a half. Hear me out, man, hear me out. Uh.
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: They do have sorrow back, at least Sars back in
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: the lineup for them. I'm pretty sure so at least
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: one of their best players did come back. Trey Young
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: is actually back as well, so some of their better
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: players have come back. So at the very least you're
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: looking at a more intact Washington team here. Yeah, they've
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: lost nine games in a row, whatever this is, I know,
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: but look at their last game, and they were the
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: victim of BAM out of Bios bullshit eighty three point performance.
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: You saw what happened in that game. Miami was intentionally
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: following Washington just so they gonna have more possessions to
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: get him more points. It's such horseshit. I fucking hate
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: that shit. But Washington was the victim of that horrible
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: You know, everybody's gonna just make fun of them. Ah,
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: they gave up eighty three to out of Bio. They
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: gave up one hundred and fifty points in the game. Yeah,
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: but they scored one hundred and thirty themselves. So that
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: was just a stupid game. That was just an outlier.
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: I don't care about that game. I think they're gonna
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: show up for this one man. They're staying in the
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: state of Florida. That was just an embarrassed man. I
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: think if anything is gonna motivate you. It'll be a
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: game like that that's causing you to be made fun
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: of all over the place. They're playing an Orlando team
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: that is playing better right now, even though they don't
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: have Wagner. Still, Orlando's won five games in a row.
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: So we're jumping in the middle of two streaks here
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: and trying to fade them. But yeah, Orlando just had
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: a very satisfying win yesterday, by the way, against Cleveland,
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: so they're on a back to back. They had a
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: big win against Cleveland, and they do a Miami on deck,
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: Miami then Atlanta. Then okay, seeing all those games are
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: all those teams are gonna be playoff teams and or
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: play in Round teams at the very least. And they
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: just be Washington at home one hundred twenty six to
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: one hundred and nine. So I don't think they're gonna
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: pay attention to Washington either. So we're doing it. We're
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: fa It's like the I mean, it's like the Magic
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: are like some magical covering machine. Although looks like the
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: money's coming into the Magic now, but the line already
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: dropped from fifteen and a half. I'd probably still take
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: it at fourteen though, but unfortunately since the beginning of
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: the show, it did drop one and half points to fourteen,
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: sixty nine percent of tickets seventy six percent of the
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: casual on the Magic whatever. I like the Wizards here.
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: I gave you the reasoning. Yeah, we're taking the points
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: of the Wizards Brooklyn at Atlanta, Brooklyn coming off that
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: blowout loss to Detroit, who got revenge against them, now
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: they're going to Atlanta here. I don't really see a
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: whole lot, you know, as far as the situation. You know,
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: situations set up here. Atlanta is on a huge win street,
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: the one seven games in a row, they beat Dallas,
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: they're staying at home, beat Dallas in the last game. Whatever. Uh,
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: you know, probably I would lean to the nets just
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: because the Hawks are laying fifteen to have it. Who
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: are the Hawks to really be laying fifteen to a half
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: against anybody? Really, sixty eight percent of the tickets on them,
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: fifty three percent of the casual on the nets. I'll
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: lean to taking the points of the Nets. But that
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: is not a strong opinion for me at all. Yes,
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: I just gave you the reasoning why you don't have
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: to do it, But That is my recommendation there. That
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: is on my card, all right, Milwaukee in Miami, dude,
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: you got to play ugly teams to make money here,
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: like that's just the way that it is, because a
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: lot of times they're undervalued or overlooked. Milwaukee just took
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: that ugly loss at home to Phoenix. I believe Giannis
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: is playing, even though he's not showing up as the
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: stat in the stat leaders here. They've had a couple
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: of real bad games in a row at home, so
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: it might be good for Milwaukee to just get out
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: of there go on the road. They did beat Miami
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: back on the twenty fourth, and that's who they're playing tonight.
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: They beat them at home by eleven. But I think
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: this is a spot where you're gonna get more focus
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: out of Milwaukee here. For Miami, of course, they were
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: the team that had eighty three points from out of
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: bio and won one nine against Washington. So any team
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: that scores one to fifty, you probably want to consider
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: fading them in the next game. So I would have
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: to lean to Milwaukee in this one. Miami does have
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: a Orlando on deck and Orlando's hotter right now, and
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: their Florida rival and whatever, which is another reason to
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: favor Orlando here though, because they heat or like one
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: of their big rivals. So the heat or up to
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: six and a half here, seventy nine percent of tickets
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: eighty six percent of the cash on them. I don't
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: agree with that. I would lean to taking the points
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: with Milwaukee in that one. Dallas and Memphis. Dallas on
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: a big time losing streak right now. They're not playing well.
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: They got Cooper flag back, They're still not playing well.
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: I gave them a pass for a lot of they're
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: losing ways here because they were losing to a lot
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: of good teams, and in a way that's still true.
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: They've had a couple of pretty bad losses in there too.
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: They did just lose to Atlanta. I mean, Atlanta will
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: be like a play in playoff team probably now they're
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: playing Memphis. They did lose to Memphis on February twenty
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: seventh at home by almost twenty points, so there is
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit of revenge here maybe for Dallas. I
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: know they got to play Cleveland tomorrow and again after that.
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: But when you're losing games like this, either you're packing
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: it in for the season, or you're gonna show up
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: and try to win a game. You know. Memphis, though,
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: they've lost five games in a row two although they
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: look like they are putting an effort. They're returning home
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: from a quick Monday Tuesday road trip, but they do
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: have a big game against Detroit on deck. I don't
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: really care about returning home from a very short road
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: trip because things don't really pile up for you to
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: do at home. But they have that look ahead. It's hilarious,
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, that the MAVs are laying five points
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: on the road. Who's gonna lay points on the road
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: with Dallas. They're up from four to five here. But
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: I agree with it. I would lay the points in
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: this one, seventy three percent of the cash on them,
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: fifty two percent of the tickets on the Grizzlies. I
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: think the Grizzlies might get caught in that look ahead
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: that one is. It's crazy. And then we have one
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: of the best games of the night, Denver at San Antonio.
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: These two teams are both coming off a pretty good performances.
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: Denver beat down Houston yesterday, so they are on a
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: back to back, and they had a huge game against
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma is sitting on Monday too, so the spot's not
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: exactly great for Denver here, even though they were a
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: decent road team and their defense finally showed up in
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: that game against Houston. I think they have Aaron Gordon
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: back now, so maybe their defense will start improving. But
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult to come off of games like that. Man.
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: Now they're having to go to to San Antonio from
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: Denver with no time off after playing two big games.
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: Even though this is a big game too. San Antonio
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: did just play a pretty tough game as well against
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: the Celtics. Unfortunately, because I'm a Celtic fan, san Antonio
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: pulled away late in that game, and Jalen Brown got
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: ejected early in that game, which is bullshit, you know,
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: so they had Celtics had to play pretty much the
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: whole game without him, so I'm not happy about that,
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: and the Celtics was still in that game with like
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: six minutes to go. Big win for San Antonio, though
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: they're staying at home. They didn't play yesterday, so the
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: setup is better for san Antonio here, I'll lean that way.
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: Their six point favorite here sixty seven percent of ticket
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: seventy percent of the cash on them, I'd probably lay it.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to take it with the Nuggets in
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: that spot, but big game for both teams. I'm staying away.
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: And then the second of the Amazon Prime doubleheader is
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: going to be promoted as a potential NBA Finals matchup
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: now that Jason Tatum is back. The Celtics, even without them,
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: have been one of the best teams in the league.
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not. They're like the number two offense.
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: They end number two deepfense in the NFL this year
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: NFL one of mys NBA excuse me, believe it or not,
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: the Celtics have been excellent and with Tatum back, you know,
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 1: they are a pretty serious threat. Celtics did just lose
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: that tough game to San Antonio, though. Now they're gonna
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: go to Oklahoma City. This is a pretty brutal road trip, man,
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: So good thing for them that they got that win
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: over Cleveland at the very least, because I don't think
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: they're gonna win this game at the Thunder. Thunder really good,
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: They're really good at home. They're an extremely deep team.
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: The Celtics are deep as well. Okayc is coming up
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: a good win over Denver, but they haven't played since Monday,
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: and they didn't cover in that game, so you could
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: argue that they made an escape there, and maybe they'll
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: show up with more intensity here. They got an ABC
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: game against Minnesota coming up. I don't think they're really
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 1: gonna overlook the Celtics, though I would lean to the
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: Thunder in this one. They're a six and a half
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: boy favorite Celtics, seventy two percent of tickets on them,
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 1: fifty percent of the cash on the Thunder though unfortunately,
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: I think the Thunder probably cover in that game. And
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: then we have the Bulls and the Lakers, and this
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: game almost made my card. The Bulls. They did beat
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: Golden State in their last game, and that's kind of
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: the reason why I don't want them. A nice overtime
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: win as an underdog here, six and a half point
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: underdogs against a decent Golden State team. Decent win for
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: the Bulls there. I think they will still show up
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: for the Lakers, though they're staying in California for this
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: which isn't too bad. I do think the Lakers are
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: an over valued team. I mean because they're the Lakers,
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: but also people think they're better than they actually are.
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: We tried to fade them here on the show against Minnesota,
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 1: and Minnesota had a horrific second half in that game.
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened in that. Now the Lakers
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: are coming up beating the Knicks and Minnesota, and on
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: deck they have Denver, Houston, Houston, and then Miami. So
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: this is like clearly the flat spot in the Lakers'
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: schedule here. So I would play Chicago in this game.
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: The only issue I have in Chicago's coming up that
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: upset win on the road. And that's the one thing
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: I don't like about it. Lakers are an eleven point favorite,
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: eighty nine percent of tickets, only seventy percent of the
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: casual on the Lakers. Yeah, I would take the points
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: man with the bulls in that one, and that if
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna If I was gonna add another play, it
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: would be that. That's it. Finally, two and a half
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: hour video my plays one more time. None of them
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: have started yet. We're on. In college basketball, we're trying
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: to redeem ourselves in the conference tournaments. Saint Bonaventure plus
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: the points in the A ten Tournament, Kent State minus
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: the points in the MAC Tournament, Washington in the Big
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: ten plus the points. I know you guys don't like
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: that one, and then the even worst Washington. Well, no,
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards would beat the Washington Huskies. But Washington
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: plus the points in the NBA. That's gonna do it.
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: Let's get back on the winning side. Man, have a
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: good one. I gotta have some lunch and I gotta
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: put out the Instagram videos. Let's go, you mass come on, man,
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: Let's let's make it really tough for the committee having
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: to analyze the Miami Ohio bad loss. Let's uh, let's
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: go man. Thank you. I appreciate everybody hanging out in
• 2:31:21
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• 2:31:29
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• 2:32:01
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• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: but you know, the tournament's gonna be crazy. I'm gonna
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• 2:32:09
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