Speaker 1: Welcome into wager Talk's Last Call. Kelly and Stuart. Kelly Stewart,
Kelly in Vegas. I am, it's been a fun morning.
I got bad news right out of the gate. No
VR with us this morning. We hope that he does
feel better. But we do have the full court press, guys.
I got them here early. I know that is a
struggle for Robino because he is the man with about
four thousand papers on his desk, and we don't even
know where Trig is right now. Your guest is as
good as mine, But I'm gonna bring in both of
those guys because we have a monster college basketball slate.
It is March. It is finally here, and I know
a lot of you guys want to talk about the WDBC.
Maybe Trick's got a WBC play for us. What do
you say, Trick, do you got a WBC play for
the for the audience?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I can't worry about betting World Baseball Classic while this
is going on. I will be ready to start fire
and base his first game that I'll really start to
dig into baseball like mid mid March, because I'd rather
give them a couple of weeks to like get a
little baseline of spring numbers, and then I feel like
that second to third week in March is where you
actually start to get some reasonable outings in spring training.
Pitchers start to go a little bit longer. So I
ignore the first couple of weeks of spring training. That's
something I can look at on a piece of paper
better than I think. You just like, there's no point
in watching the I mean, I'll catch the World Baseball
Classic if I'm up, but no, it's just not something
I've ever done, not just this year, all right, So.
Speaker 1: You want to tell everybody where the hell you are today.
Speaker 3: I'm in the middle of West Virginia right now. I'm
gonna try to get it looks towards Mason game this afternoon.
I'm at the Starbucks office.
Speaker 1: Second one was in the background. I just I'm gonna
mute you on my own accord.
Speaker 2: You would do that anyway?
Speaker 1: Well, I sometimes can, but I do not have a producer.
Johnny Detroit said, Kelly, you are smart enough to run
streamyard and the show and the comments and everything by yourself.
So today's sink or swim. So the comments from a
couple of weeks ago where they're like, Wow, this girl's
all over the place. You guys better buckle up. I
did just get a text from Art to Caesar. Rob
Veno is gonna take all of these crazy questions that
you guys have, and then Adam Trigger is gonna take
the even crazier ones. But we are gonna start off
with a couple of the top twenty five games, because
let's just be real, those are the games that people
want to watch, and there is some amazing ones. So
I'm gonna throw up Shane's question because I think this
is an interesting one. Now, is there any value here? No,
but these are some pretty sizable favorites today. Houston, Florida, Virginia,
UMBC moneyline parlay. I like, oh boy, all right, Robin,
I'm gonna ask you a tough question. Of those four games,
which team is most likely to lose?
Speaker 4: Well, that's probably wow.
Speaker 1: I know it looks like it looks like I am
not a big money line parlay better like that, But
I'm like, it looks good to me. Shane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not gonna say U, NBC because I'll get
a tacked by Trigg.
Speaker 4: You and BC's in Florida. Profit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Houston's probably not losing Virginia's arrivalry. Maybe Virginia had
I don't know. They shouldn't lose either though.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, guys, I did get the list from
Art to Caesar. I'm gonna drop it in this chat
early and often today, and I really want you guys
to jump in the comment sections. I want you guys
to tell us which games you want us to cover,
and we're gonna go through them all three two one, Alright,
you guys should have it. Let's kind of go through
some of this stuff here and see what everybody wants
to talk about. Kelly posts the games asap. I just
did have to go to the tiki bar. Our good
friend shown Michael must be in Saint Martin. Good for him.
So we've got everybody in the questions asking for Garth.
If you guys don't know who Garth is, he is
the number one Full Court Press fan for today. And
I still see no questions about games they want to
talk about. So Trigg, I'm gonna kick it to you first,
while we let the comment section popular break down a
game that narrowly missed your client card.
Speaker 2: You want to narrow miss.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna give one of the client plays out,
does that work or you know?
Speaker 1: Listen today we're just going with it and you want
to give out a client play.
Speaker 2: So be a trig Listen.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a few, so I feel like I
can spare one for the show. We'll start with some
conference tournament action. Let's go Long Island the Steinberg Wellness Center, Brooklyn,
New York.
Speaker 2: I laid the eight and.
Speaker 3: A half with Long Island four percent play for clients.
This is a home game, so remember Northeast Conference, they're
going to host their conference tournament. Higher seed hosts and
in this case Kelly the higher seed being Long Island.
If they win this game, and the same thing for Wagner.
If Wagner wins as well, they might be in the
NCAA tournament already. Reason for that. The twelve pm game
mercy Hurst and stone Hill. If mercy Hurst wins, they're
six point home favorite. They can't go to the NCAA
tournament because of the reclassification rule. So that's just a
little added bonus that you'll know by the time this
game tips off, regardless of what happens in that game. Though,
I think this is a pretty big mismatch Wagner relies
a lot on three point shot making, and the way
they got by Central Connecticut the other day was Central
Connecticut just didn't come out of the locker room, complete
no show in the second half, had an injury to
their main ball handler, made it very difficult to score.
And Wagner did hit a couple of three. So pull
away in that game. That's not going to be as
easy here. Long Island is so much more athletic. There
was a pretty big difference this year in my opinion,
between Long Island and Central Connecticut, best.
Speaker 2: Team in the conference by far.
Speaker 3: They're on their home court and there's just Wagner's just
not going to have a chance in this game in
my opinion.
Speaker 2: So I laid the eight and a half Kelly, I
made this twelve.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty big difference between my number and the
current number the Sharks. I think they're gonna blow this
team out and they could be going dancing if if
Mercy Hurst wins that game that goes before them all.
Speaker 1: Right, Trig says, we got a blog coming in. There's
Garth asking you shall receive He's in the comments section
fourteen and four with his plays on full court press
rotation number six oh five, six oh six. Make sure
you have your odds logic screen open to follow along.
To Paul minus two and a half is no longer
I just laid three and a half from Art's very
extensive list from the Westgates super book, Rob Veno, I'm
gonna let you have the floor on this one. Please
tell me what you think about this. To Paul Butler, game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think two and a half probably was a
good number to lay with de Paul. Here Butler. Obviously,
at this point in the season, we know who they are.
That Mad has had difficulty all season long getting this
team to play any type of defense. To Paul, for
what it's worth, gives us forty minutes of full focused
for each and every time out. A little bit shy
on the personnel level, but still good enough in a
watered down Big East to perform well against this type
of weight class. Here Butler, like I say, they're going
to try it out square. I looked at this one,
Garth from the totals perspective, I always do.
Speaker 4: I want to play this one over the number.
Speaker 5: Kelly just asked, Adam, give me one that didn't make
your or fell short. On your client list. This was
one butler to paul a twelve o'clock start. I wanted
to send it out over one forty four and a half,
but pulled back a little bit because that had a
couple of things I liked better. I still think there's
wiggle room there, Garth where the total is concerned. I
know you're attracted to side here laying the points, but
for me, this game's moved from one forty one to
one forty four and a half, and it's a little
bit of the reason why I pulled back on it.
Speaker 4: To those who got.
Speaker 5: The early number, I think you're on the right side.
To those who take this late number prior to tip,
I still think this game gets to about one forty seven,
So you've got some room here in my estimation.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see if I can't screw up this
entire layout today. This this is a fun one for me.
We're gonna we're gonna have a great day to day guys,
and we're gonna catch some tickets. Let's keep going and
see what are the questions we've got from the chat.
There's a lot of games here today that I'm I'm
really debating on and what I like to look at
as a myriad of things, trig and seeing the most
popular bets at X Sportsbook. Right, I follow John Ewing.
I know he gets a lot of grief on X two,
but all he's doing is sharing the information there. The
number one bet team today is Houston, the number two
bet team. I believe it'll be double checked as I'm
stating this. I don't want to misquote him, but I
thought it was really interesting the I believe it's North Carolina.
Just wanted a double check, Yes it is. It is
North Carolina before I speak to that. That is a
massive number. Adam, you were just down there in North Carolina.
Talk to me about that atmosphere. Talk to me about
this point spread, because I've had several people say, wow,
that looks short, and you know, talking to John Murray
with the Westgate Superbook. Knowing that Duke is by far
the number one most power rated team, I think this
number speaks volumes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would only take Duke here.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, the first game was a little bit
of a fluke in my opinion, the way North Carolina
just hung around, made that late run. Of course, hits
the big shot to win it. I think Duke has
been waiting for this game. You know they haven't. The
thing with Duke is they're covering numbers in bad spots.
They haven't even really had to exert a ton of energy.
Like just look at earlier this week on Monday, people
who are like, oh, Duke might be in a look
ahead spot on.
Speaker 2: The road in Raleigh.
Speaker 3: They won that game by twenty nine points, no problem.
And you know, New NC right now was just a
I think they were just a six point dog in.
Speaker 2: Raleigh a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Of course, they're without their their top player for the
rest of the season, broken thumb and practiced, so where
as they thought they might have him in this game
at one point, they're not.
Speaker 2: Going to now.
Speaker 3: And you know, I just think Duke, Rob and I
talk about do pretty much. Almost feel like it comes
up at least two to three times a week on
the show.
Speaker 2: They're the legitimate number.
Speaker 3: One team in the country right now, top offense and
defensive team, like they're if they want to win this
one by twenty kel, they will and I wouldn't bet
against them to do so. I know the number seems big,
but this feels like they run him out of par
and Kelly were they were already camping out when I
was there.
Speaker 2: That was like two three weeks ago.
Speaker 3: It's going to be an eleven out of ten atmosphere
and they will absolutely lay into North Carolina if they
get the chance.
Speaker 2: So it would be Duke minus. The points are passed
for me.
Speaker 1: All right, Robino. I know you're not a big situational player,
but Florida is probably six or seventh on this list
over there as the most bet games, right, and I
was looking at fade in Florida, but man, they've been
so good on the road, especially in conference play. But
a rock makes it kind of a good set, like
a good point here. They don't have anything to play for.
Do you start to look at teams like that in
early March, headed into conference tournaments, headed in to March matters,
when they really can't improve their position by blowing out
a team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, except in this instance, this year, Kelly, that fight
for a NCAA tournament number one seed comes into play.
Where Michigan's concerned, where Duke's concern, where Florida's concerned, where
Yukon is concerned. There's like five like musical chairs, right,
five people for four chairs. So for Florida, and Trig
alluded to this the other day when we had Florida
on the show, suggested that Todd Golden might rest players
in that game against Mississippi State. Sure enough, he rested
Thomas Hauk. But guess what happened. They got off to
a slow start. Golden said, we were kind of slow
on our defensive assignments because how wasn't in the game.
But once they got it into a rhythm, once they
got into a rhythm, they blew Mississippi State out without
one of their best players. So for me, Florida just
shows that intensity still and that push toward a number
one national seat.
Speaker 4: I get where.
Speaker 5: Where the chat is coming from here as far as
SEC seeding is concerned, there's no reason to play. You're
locked in. It doesn't matter. Take a break and he
may rest another guy or too. Today it's just difficult
at this point in time to bed against them.
Speaker 4: And I'll add to that.
Speaker 5: Really quickly here where Kentucky is concerned. You know, Mark
Pope has struggled with this team all season long. We
go back to it's had to be at least three
or four times that I've either either read or saw
him in a postgame press conference say the same exact thing.
We got to get these guys to play as a team.
Too much individualism on Kentucky and it goes in Spurts
Kelly like they'll play together as a team and you'll
see really good results out of Kentucky a couple of
games in a row and then boom right back to
where they were prior to that. They're so inconsistent that
they're hard to bet on or against. Honestly, in rupt today,
I would think you'd get a really good effort out
of them as a team. All that said, I still
think Florida is going to try and win this game.
Doesn't mean I have to win by the number, but
I don't think Florida is in a letdown spot.
Speaker 1: All Right, very good analysis there by Rob Vino Trigg.
I never let you do the promotion, but Johnny Detroit
told me I have to promote the hell out of you.
So three days, double the firepower, fifty nine bucks. Let
everybody know what they're getting in this two for one
special with you and Veno.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's three days, all of my picks, all
the Rod's picks. What you get with. That is a
pretty I think comprehensive view at the slate.
Speaker 3: Rob, that's a lot of totals. I bet a lot
of sides on you know, betting teams like Long Island.
Speaker 2: I will. I will.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean I won't play a Power Conference game here
and there, but I just think that, like we touch
on a lot of different games. You could probably count
on one hand how many times Rob and I have
had this bet this whole season. I mean, go back
to November. I literally think you could count on one
hand the same time or the amount of times we've
been on the same side, because it's just we have
different styles. But I think they you know, when you
put it together, it gives you, you know, a nice
picture of you got totals, you got sides, you got
mid majors, you've got Power conferences, and it's a great
deal relative to like what we typically charge for three days.
You're getting us both, and you're getting it in the
middle of the busiest time of the year for college
who so well, and we're both.
Speaker 2: And Rob's having a fantastic season.
Speaker 3: I have pretty much bounced back from a bad November
December at this point two and oh last night for me,
Rob and I usually recap the day, so I don't
know how Rob did last night, but I had a
two and o after losing Wednesday Thursday.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel good about the plays I have today.
Speaker 3: And we appreciate you guys, you know, jumping on, so
give us a chance.
Speaker 2: That's all I said.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about a game that's gonna be
tipping off here at about forty five minutes partition number
six O one six oh two. Can Missouri cover the three
and a half. Now, this Missouri team has kind of been,
i'll say, a little Jackal and Hyde this year, drag,
and I haven't quite had a good enough read on
them to want to get involved with them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things at handicappers as
we do to say, you know what, I cannot get
a good read, good, bad and different on a team,
and that's how I feel about Miszoo. I will say, though,
that three and a half does look rather intriguing.
Speaker 2: Here, I'm gonna make one statement and then I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Let Rob take this because he is he is our
Missouri Tigers guy in the show. All I say is
all I have to say. Is Listen, Darius Akoff. It
is a generational talent, incredible player. He's obviously not playing today.
Don't just write off Arkansas because he's not there, because
Arkansas still has some really, really good players.
Speaker 2: And I think this line has.
Speaker 3: Been bet the way it's been bet because Acup is playing.
But I think that was already known in priced in
so now and now this is where I'll serve it
to Rob. Line's getting a little big there. I don't
know if I would lay that number with Missouri. I
just think you're taking the absolute worst of it. But
I will let Rob break down the Missouri side of
the point here.
Speaker 1: Now, let's here what Rob has to say. Rob, at
this point in time, is Missouri unbedable?
Speaker 4: It's it's climbed. Pretty good cal five point move.
Speaker 5: For those who don't know the reason why, Drake says
that my youngest went to Missouri, so it's miz and
you're supposed to respond with z ou.
Speaker 4: I figured that out real quick. I could tell stories
about the.
Speaker 5: Border war jokes between Missouri and Kansas, and my oldest
went to Belmont, so yes, they was not a good
day for Belmont. But I don't let my bias getting away.
I was on the show yesterday. I've been doing a
segment in Columbia, Missouri, Missouri Tiger Station for about twenty
one years now, and we talked about this game a
little bit. Guys, we just saw it not too long ago.
Arkansas won ninety four ninety six I believe, or ninety
four eighty six. I believe it was the game right
after Arkansas went doubt with Alabama. Miszoo went down there,
played really really well, better than I thought they would.
They would stood a couple of Arkansas punches in that game,
scored really well. This total has moved up from one
sixty and a half to won sixty two and a
half both teams. There's implications in the SEC standings for
both of these teams. So I believe that the effort
and the focus.
Speaker 4: Is going to be there.
Speaker 5: But I also think that Miszoo knows after that game
in Fayetteville, you just don't go into bud Walton this
year or in recent years and hang around with Arkansas.
Speaker 4: They did.
Speaker 5: I think that's in their mindset because this game is
pretty fresh. So I do think Miszoo has an edge
in this game. But I think the betting edge is
kind of gone. You wanted to get Miszoo yesterday when
this thing opened before everybody jumped down the not Darius
Acuff angle of this Missouri team total in this game, guys,
for what it's worth, probably worth a look here at
eighty one and a half. They scored eighty six down there,
and today they showed that they don't mind getting into
a running kind of track meet with Arkansas. So for me,
I think the best angle I could have here would
be Missouri's team total over eighty one and a half.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get some more of these questions. Here's
one that's rather intriguing to me. All of a sudden
trigg and if you know, you know New Mexico catching
some points at Utah State, And if you don't know,
there's some rumors swirling that maybe the head coach of
Utah State is interviewing at Kansas State. We'll see allegedly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could, I could see that, and I don't
think it would be I've always liked Calhoun, came from
Youngstown State. I think he's done a good job there.
It seems like Utah State is you know, Ryan Odin
was wooed away by bigger things, and I wouldn't be
surprised if that was the case.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: As far as this game is concerned, this conference has
been really, really tough to figure out. You know, Utah
State has been the best team in this league for
I think what most would agree they're the number one
team in this league. That they have found ways to
lose twice to UNLV. They're not quite as they don't.
This team doesn't have quite that killer instinct in my opinion,
like they did maybe last year. But I have been
kind of looking for a spot to faye New Mexico,
especially when they go out on the road. I didn't
have like a huge opinion on this game, but I
don't I wouldn't put someone off from laying the points here.
This just feels like a spot where Utah State at
home maybe gets right against the New Mexico team that's
overachieved for a lot of the year. And I still
think New Mexico is a home road split type team.
They have such a good app such a good advantage
when they played at the pit that now you send
them out on a road. You know, this was a
Utah ST eight team rolled into Albuquerque, won by twenty
earlier this year. They were thoroughly embarrassed earlier this week
by you and I'll be ninety two to sixty five.
But UNLV, I'm starting to think is just a bad
matchup for them because UNLV won in uh, you know,
in Logan earlier this year. So kind of feels like
a spot where Utah State bounces back. I wasn't dying
till late eight, but you wouldn't be surprised if you
saw a double digit Utah State win here.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep them rolling. If you guys have
a question for the guys, please drop it in the chat.
Where did you do our parlay here? In a few minutes,
I'm still deciding on my third leg. I'm go's there's
a couple of teams I want to fade today, and
I'm sure Kansas is not one of them. Let's just
be real. That line has gotten absolutely chocked up. Here's
a game that's gonna tip off here shortly, and it's
a total, So I'm gonna go to Robbino Tennessee Vandy.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: This isn't a total. This is a rotation number six
forty three, six forty four. But let's talk about the
total here, Rob Veino, I got my Odds Logic screen open,
and I am curious to kind of see how we
start to look at some of these early games right
when you have teams with a lot more to play
for which I can tell you this, I can look
at the Let me look at this list from our
diseason before speaking. Yes, the Sharp group did play Vanderbilt
plus four. This total's coming down, Nah, this total's going
up one. Well, depends on who you talk to. One
forty seven and a half was the opener. One forty
five and a half. It's super book coming down here
in Florida at the hard Rock down to one forty
four and a half. So it looks like somebody likes
the under Rob, Do you agree with that move?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: The move is probably because of Nate Ament, the star
freshman for Tennessee not going to play today. And Tennessee,
for what it's worth, has really been on the offensive
side a two man team Jacoby Gillespie x Belmont ex
Maryland as well point guard and Aiment. So you had
the the perimeter shooter and the down low post player,
and now without Aiment they ruggle. They haven't found a
third scorer this year on a consistent basis. Tennessee hasn't
Tennessee beat Vanderbilt earlier this year, so you had this
in state rivalry. It's Vanderbilt knowing that they lost Immemorial
Auditorium at home to this team. Now they can go
down there and repay the favor I think Vanderbilt's the
better team. Vanderbilts decide that's gotten a little bit healthier
over the course of the last couple of weeks. Duke Miles,
I think is back for maybe his fourth or fifth game.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: They still haven't got Frankie Collins back in the lineup,
but still Vandy played a chunk of the season shorthanded,
hung in there. I like Mark Bindington what he's done
in some of his comments there after losses, especially where
he called it unacceptable and Vandy responded to me Vanderbilt's
the correct side here. I would agree with the sharp move.
Total wise, Kelly, I guess you know because of Ay
meant that number is going to come down. I don't know,
It's probably in a really good place. This is one
of those games we have a stronger opinion on side
they in total. I do like Vanderbilt plus three and
a half. At this point in time, I think they
could you know, what they could be a money line
play in this instance. I'm sure aim it's factored into
this line. But I still think Vanderbilt has a lot
of let's just say atonement for that game that they
lost at home to Tennessee earlier.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, if you haven't seen already, I do
have a March Madness survivor contest up on Splash Sports
splash sports dot com, backslash Kelly and Vegas. I'll drop
it in the chat and I will also redrop those
sharp plays. You guys are too lazy to scroll up.
We got some really funny comments as Adam waiting for
a table at Denny's is hey at Perkins Like.
Speaker 3: I got the best I got the best comment just now.
So I'm I'm at a Starbucks. Actually, as you can
see that, that's just the I tried to put the screen. Well,
that's whatever's back there. I tried to put the screen down,
but it's like the camera like sees through that. But
the guy that's been sitting next to me for like
the last forty five minutes just like showed me his
phone and he he bet l I U like he
must have been listening, showed me his fan duel app
so I basically have a There's actually way more people
here than there was an hour ago. So I kind
of a live, live audience out of Starbucks in the
middle of West Virginia.
Speaker 2: Trying to a fair.
Speaker 1: Jenny was one of the first states that got legalized betting,
and I remember my buddy from Ohio, my buddy from PA.
They would all drive to gas stations similar to the
prop queen drive into New Jersey whenever she was in
New York. All right, Trick, I'm gonna let you go
first in the parlay, so give us your parlay pick
for today.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean my parlay pick is going to be
Long Island. I just want to lock that in. If
I'm gonna come on here and give out a four
percent plate, it's got to go in the parlay. So
I will pick a different game to just kind of
discuss real quick. But Long Island is the play that
I will put in the parlate. It's minus eight and
a half. I just I again, I had that up
closer to twelve. I think are gonna win that game
fairly easily. So Kel I'm just gonna so that is
my parlay way, but I'll talk about I'll talk about
just another game at random. I'm just gonna pick one
out of my I have a lot of notes here,
I'll throw another one out there. I don't know if
I'll play this at the current number or if I
would even have played it at the opener of three
and a half. But I do think Tennessee State finishes
the job tonight. I think they win the Ohio Valley
Conference tournament, punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 2: I had them last night.
Speaker 3: They won big Rob and I have talked about him
on the show, Nolan Smith.
Speaker 2: His first year.
Speaker 3: I just love the way they play a lot of pace,
tons of ball pressure, and you know, they really just
disposed of Tennessee Martin last night. And I guess for me,
the only reason I didn't come out in lay three
and a half year is because I think Morehead maybe
matches up with them a little bit better. But again,
Morehead State hit of tough shots to win that game
last night against Cimo. I'm actually pretty content with I'm
happy that I didn't just take a bad number on
Simo last night because it would have been a loss,
So you know, pays to you know, be disciplined and
stick to your number, because had I had I not
missed the move on Simo, I may have actually played
that yesterday, but for a lot of those same reasons,
willingness to go against Morehead State here with a Tennessee
State team that I just think is is far better.
And so three and a half or four again, even
though I didn't see a ton of number value there,
I still think they find a way and if they
win that game, there's a good chance they're going to
do it by by three and a half or four.
Speaker 2: So Tennessee State's worth the look as well.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got a question for Robino. At least
I think this is a good one for Robino. You
see San Diego Santa Barbara seven oh five, seven oh
six on the Odds logic screen. You see Santa Barbaro's
a well, it was a two and a half point favorite,
now down to one and a half pretty much, and
cross the entire screen opener one for two. So we're
seeing one thirty nine and a half start to pop
up here. Rob Do you have an opinion here side
or total or maybe it'll be nice to take the
second half of Andrew's question and quick breakdown for Michigan
Michigan State tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could.
Speaker 5: I could do both really fast here killing because I
had no interest in the U see San Diego Santa
Barbara game to me, Santa Barbara, you know, if they
could ever get mirror a little back, they would probably be,
in my estimation, one of the teams to make the
Big West Final here against Uce San Diego. Difficult spot
and not a lot of meeting inside the standings for
Santa Barbara. Probably a little bit of the reason why
you see a tip down in the number as far
as Michigan Michigan State is concerned, you know, be a
little bit of revenge for the Michigan State side, which
on a Friday night a few weeks back had Michigan
in their gym. A lot of money came on the
Michigan State side. It was one of those games. I
think it was the game where Michigan was on like
an h to eight point spread run in the Big Ten.
They were just being priced too heavily and in this
instance they weren't. It was I don't know, somewhere in
the one to two and a half range. I forget
exactly what it was, but Michigan blew Michigan State's doors in.
I would expect tom Izzo to have his team pretty
well prepared, not that he didn't the first time around.
There are going to be the same matchup problems that
existed the first time around for Michigan State. I'm one
of those who, in football and in basketball, always subscribes
to the theory that coaches loved to fix what went
wrong the first time around. And probably no better adjustment
head coach in college basketball than tom Izzo, so hopefully
he can make some adjustments here for his team. I
think I would look a little bit toward Michigan State
in this game to put up a better fight, and
they've really hung in in that big ten. I mean
I thought they were going to falter a little bit,
but they have not, So I would look a little
bit toward Michigan State in necking.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the five dollars to charity. They're
mad Max. I like TCU today, both teams coming off
an upset win, but TCU has a more balanced offense.
They're at home. I have not looked at this game.
Let me pull up the Odds logic screen here tc
who was playing Cincinnati rotation number six thirty three, six
thirty four. TCU was small two and two and a
half point favorite. Ooh, a very prominent sharp book minus
one and a half interesting one forty one. This total
has been met up pretty significantly. Drag any opinion here
on this Big Twelve matchup.
Speaker 2: I want to like TCU.
Speaker 3: I still think I like this TCU team better than Cincinnati.
I know Cincinnati has really come on of late, but
man like TCU. I mean, this is a team that
has a win over Florida, like they you know, they
have some really impressive results and then they have impressive
like just near missus. They took you know, when BYU
was playing well, they had a lead in Provo. You know,
they took Kansas to overtime in Lawrence, like their guards
really get after a great defensive pressure from their guards.
They've just been like kind of Jacko Hyde, right, kell
like them. But you know, on the flip side, they
go to Colorado, you get crushed, lose to UCF. Here
they're at home. I'm just I'm still not fully buying Cincinnati.
So for me, I think TCU kind of needs this one.
I mean, I think they're gonna be in the tournament regardless,
but could really hammer the point home with a win
over Cincinnati here. So I leaned TCU, But I have
to say I've been wrong about Cincinnati. That team has
really come on and sort of turned into a legitimate
basketball team, which I did not think was going to
be the case earlier this year when they were like
doing things like losing to Eastern Michigan. So yeah, I
lean TCU, but likely will not be something that makes
my card.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that turning point was in Manhattan. All
of a sudden there came our good friend Cincinnati, and
they've kind of really turned the corner of the season.
All right, let's go out West Robbno. Six seventy seven,
six seventy eight. Thank you Jason for following directions. Wyoming
San Jose State. Any thoughts on the total here at
one forty nine and a half.
Speaker 5: You know, really, in my mind, Kelly, the only way
to play San Jose State at this point in time
is to the over.
Speaker 4: I always looked at direction first.
Speaker 5: Wyoming's not necessarily the kind of team that you want
to get involved with in a lot of overs, especially
at this price.
Speaker 4: But I will say there seems to be a little
bit of added.
Speaker 5: Intensity with Wyoming this week, especially from their head coach.
Trigger and I talked about this yesterday where went on
a little bit of a rant about how difficult it
is for mid majors to schedule, and his whole rant
was really about the Miami of Ohio undefeated season and
maybe getting x looted from the NCAA tournament. But the
fire inside the head coach here for Wyoming in the
middle of the week toward end of the season kind
of made me believe that Wyoming still has a little
bit in the tank here. They've been kind of a
middling team all season long. Again, it's tough for me
to get involved in a Wyoming total where you have
to get to one fifty. The counter side to that
is it's not that hard in a San Jose State
game to get to one fifty.
Speaker 4: Side.
Speaker 5: I guess to the question here, Jason I'm looking at,
I would say the answer has to be, do you
believe more in fading the San Jose State defense or
do you believe more in Wyoming's inability really to play
games that high score.
Speaker 1: Huh okay, very very good breakdown there by Rob Veno.
Trigg kind of debating on the next question. There's a
couple of games I want to talk about, and I
know everybody has their own and some of you guys
are really mean today in the comment so I'm just
going to ignore you. Okay, God, here's a good Trig question.
Anyone going to back Drake plus five and a half day?
This seems right up Triggs.
Speaker 3: Aally, listen, I'm very impressed with what Drake did yesterday
to Belmont. I am impressed really actually go back to
you know, two days ago, even beating Southern Illinois. But
they're up against an Illinois Chicago team that I think
is like sort of maybe built for this, uh sort
of you know, physical.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the.
Speaker 3: Deal is, but you know, the the unders in the
in the Valley tournament have been going on for a
long time. It's tough to shoot, like everyone has a
hard time shooting in this arena. It doesn't really make
sense to me. It's just like a big arena. I
don't really understand how it's gone on this log, but
it has. And so now you know, you get a
Drake team that runs into an Illinois Chicago team that
I think is gonna like out tough out physical them here,
I will think, I'll say this is where the dream
ends for Drake Kel. You know, Illinois Chicago handled them
in both regular season meetings by more than this number,
most recently eighty to seventy.
Speaker 2: On the road.
Speaker 3: I just like the way Illinois Chicago has played really
since the start of conference play, and I just don't
know that I can see a world where Drake is
in the title game in this league. I'll throw one
more thought out there while we're on the topic. The
other Missouri Valley gain same thing. I would lay the
points with a favorite. I think Northern Iowa is similar
in the respect that their defense wins out and they
cover against Bradley. So if you forced me to pick
which Valley Semi I liked more, I would say Northern
Iowa because I think they're a little bit undervalue by
getting guys back. They're healthy now. They weren't healthy for
a lot of conference play. But I like both of
those favorites in the Valley today.
Speaker 1: All right, lots of questions about if I'm going to
take case state today, you guys, I here's the problem.
We spoke about this last week about teams quitting, who cares,
who doesn't care. I don't know what to make of
this case eighteen. We know that there have been significant
issues within them. They were went on a four game
losing streak back November December five game losing streak through January,
six game losing strike boom. They fired Jerome Tang and oh,
by the way, then I bet on him to beat
Baylor and that was the one shining moment there. In
mid February, they did have a nice win over West Virginia,
but that was more of a letdown spot versus West
Virginia coming off that nice win over BYU. Just my
personal opinion there. I thought this line was going to
come out closer to thirteen thirteen and a half, so
to see it all the way up now to I
think we're starting to see seventeens. Let me open up
the Odds logic screen. I know the comment section loves
to tell me that I'm unprepared seventeen and a half,
but I've got about forty five things in motion right now.
First of all, your twenty four minutes until tip off,
and I'm not as organized as Rob Veino, but as
far as ky State goes, No, I'm not gonna take
ksetate guys. I don't trust this team. I think they
are ready for the season to be over. I think
they are ready to transfer. Frankly, I'm ready for them
to do so. Is it a little late to sate Kansas?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do think it is. They have their own set
of problems, their own sets of issues. Bill self and
Darren Peterson cannot wait to get away from each other.
I think they're gonna have a very early exit in March,
Rob Veno, I'm gonna go to you six sixty five,
six sixty six Colorado State. From our wager Talk insider
Matt pa wt dot buzz Backslash Insiders to join. He
wants to know about this total. It's gotten bat down
to one forty three and a half currently.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll say this about Colorado State. They're picking up
steam at the right time.
Speaker 4: Season.
Speaker 5: Was looking at them the other night as it potentially
you know they in UNLV, both in that Mountain West Conference.
They haven't been talked about a lot this year, but
both are playing extremely well right now. I would look
at Colorado State's side in that game. The athleticism that
Boise lacks kind of helps them in this game because
they're not facing one of the more athletic teams in
the Mountain West Conference. However, Colorado State shoots it really well,
and like I say, they're just red hot at this
point in time. So from a side perspective, I would
look at Colorado State both teams rather methodical. I could
see the reason why the total was bent down. In
my case, I don't like to play unders in this
price range. I often make the statement in football, and
I'll make it here that teams in college basketball can
get to one forty by mistake nowadays, so it's hard
for me to stay under.
Speaker 4: But it's the obvious way to look here.
Speaker 5: With both of these sides a little bit defensive oriented,
I think Colorado State is more juice on the offensive side,
and I also think that they're just playing better at
this point in time. I think minus one and a
half is more attractive than the total in this game.
Speaker 1: All right, shout out to Monzie man h. Nice little
donation there for charity. Treg, I'm gonna kick it right
over to you. Six seventy one, six seventy two, Wisconsin
at Purdue. A lot of people like the Badgers here.
I am not certain that I like the Badgers here
in the spot. I will say whenever a respected group
comes in on the other side, it always makes me say, wait,
what am I missing here? They laid eight and a
half at the Westgate Superbook on the list that I've
dropped twice in the comment section, I will drop one
more time before the show is over. Everybody relaxed. All
you gotta do is scroll up treg give me your
opinion here on this one. Oh boy, only one time.
See foot guys sometimes and then other times. Here we are.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal.
Speaker 3: I understand the anti produce sentiment right now because that's
been me for like the last month month last I
haven't had any desire to bet on this team. But
in this spot, the final game of the year, they're
at home. You know, Wisconsin can be jump shot reliant,
they can sort of need to get hot and three
to win a game like this. I think I would Purdue.
I think I would prefer the Purdue side here. Am
I gonna come out and lay eight and a half? No,
there's in my opinion, there's much better stuff on the
board today to better than that. But this is not
the spot where I'm gonna come out and try to
take points with the road dog.
Speaker 2: You know, go back to January third, Purdue was just
playing better.
Speaker 3: I think I don't even know if it was that
they were playing better as much as they just haven't
hadn't fully been exposed yet. Purdue won this game easily
in Madison eighty nine seventy three.
Speaker 2: Could I see something similar?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if Purdue gets hot and they sort
of ride the home crowd and it's you know, senior
day for Smith, like this could be a Purdue day.
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not saying I like them anymore.
Speaker 3: Like I'm still anti Purdue right now, but I think
I'm pro this spot for Purdue.
Speaker 2: Shane, Listen, I don't sleep on the Badgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if these two teams rematching a week on
a neutral maybe, But I don't know if I want
Wisconsin in this in this road environment, in this spot.
Speaker 1: All right, Robino, time to give me your leg of
the parlay. I think I've got mine, and it's really
ugly and you guys are gonna hate it.
Speaker 6: So Trigg's on l I u Rovena, what say you yeah,
let's go to the sun Belt Conference tournament, guys, where
they're calling this the Stairway to seven catchy conference tournament
named so many rounds, so many stuffs, like the one
in two seed.
Speaker 5: Don't play for six days while we get through all
the rest of these teams. But in this one, you
have a couple of games tonight both intriguing. Georgia Southern
is going to be playing their fourth game in four days.
Continue to run the table here, and Southern Miss is
gonna be playing their third and three days. And that's
why I'm gonna go here. I like Appalachian State to
four and a half against Southern Miss. Here again, Southern
Miss third straight game they played one time this season
only because of the configuration of the schedule inside the
sun Belt. Appalachian wins that game by seven points. I
think what gets me to this game is just the
difference in tempo for this one. Appalachia State was able
to control. They're the thirteenth fastest tempo in the league,
so they're very very slow. Southern Miss is three they
want to run. Appalachi was able to control that in
the first game win by seven. Here they get Southern
miss potentially on some fatigue legs. You go through the
minutes that these guys have played in three and the
two consecutive, now this will be their third. I think
that Appalachian State's number one rated defense inside that league
could wear them down, grind them down, and offensively, Appalachia
is just a better team at this point in time.
They were extremely hot for a while, sort of cool
towards the end. But I like this matchup. I like
the rested against the severely unrested. So I'll take gap
of Leach and State minus four and a half in
this game.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm just gonna go right into my parlay
and then we're gonna take you guys home right up
until the noon slate here getting all your questions answered. Yeah,
I'm gonna fade Alabama. I looked at on my long list,
I was like, all right, do I want to fade Houston?
I don't know if I want to fade Houston. Definitely
don't want to fade the Florida Gators. I can understand
the reasons why you guys might want to do so,
But instead I'm gonna fade the Alabama Crimson Tide. So
I'm sitting here looking at the Odds logic screen. This
one opened eight. Now we're seeing seven and a half
yet everybody. Oh and by the way, two sharp prominent
sharp books all just went to seven. Look at that
screen lighting up boys, that's one of my favorite things
to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know Auburn Bruce Pearl was trying to give them
a nice argument to get in, but this isn't a
plan on Auburn. This is a play against the Alabama
Crimson tide in Natoates coming out that really ugly Georgia
loss Tuesday, George's plus one and a half went to
pick them. I was like, come on, I missed it.
I was unfortunately at the VA with my dad all day,
not great WiFi. I said, all right, I gotta stay
off and Georgia just absolutely rolled. Those types of late
season wins can be really demoralizing for teams like Alabama,
and it could cause them too, as we like to say,
lose a game twice. Well, at least hopefully against the spread.
We do know that Auburn has the offense to be
able to play with Alabama. Hopefully they can stick with
them for the better part of two halves. They don't
turn the ball over. We know they're going to get boards,
and of course if they can keep the fouls to
a minimum, I think they can keep it within this
seven and a half. So grab the seven and a
half now because it may not be there come tip off.
So we've got Liu Rob Vino one more time.
Speaker 4: Appalachians State minus four and a half.
Speaker 1: All right, app State one four and a half and
Auburn and plus seven and a half is our team
ticket for today. I'm gonna try to load some of
these comments so we can get in here and get
some more questions answered. We've already talked about Utah State here, guys.
I think that's kind of it. You guys don't have
any more questions. I'm in the show because I got
bets to get in. I know Rob Veno's got some
work to get done. Adam Trigger is probably gonna get
a coffee refill.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been here for a long time. I probably
shouldn't have another coffee.
Speaker 1: All right, let's hit.
Speaker 4: Let's hit.
Speaker 2: I got to hit the road after this.
Speaker 3: But yeah, okay, good, I like that for you. I'll
talk listen, I'll talk to Sianna real quick. Someone just
asks Sienna, Okay, talk Sianna. You know, so quarterfinal round
of the Mac Tournament, Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City. I would
be lying. I'd be lying if I said Sienna was
going into this game in the greatest of sort of situation.
Antonio Chandler is not going to be able to play
in the Mac Tournament for a reason that I think
is no one has been able to give a great explanation.
Yet it's essentially a clerical error on his transcript. Now,
why it's coming out now, probably some ion a fan
that alerted someone.
Speaker 2: It's it's nonsense. He should be playing.
Speaker 3: But the point is he's, uh, he's not, and they're
gonna be without him tonight. Now the line came out shorter,
it's moved a little bit.
Speaker 2: Do I agree with that? Not really.
Speaker 3: I think this hurts he and his chances maybe to
have a shot against Merrimack in the final. But they
should This is a game, in my opinion, they should
still win. Mount Saint Mary's is not the same team
that went to the tournament last year.
Speaker 2: Listen, they're scrappy.
Speaker 3: It'll it'll be a good game like this, you know,
that's the one thing you'll learn about the mac tournament
at Boardwalk Hall. Is we every year it seems like
a lower seed wins this tournament. You know, we've had
some like big like I think even Mount Saint Mary's
last year was the sixth or the seven But when
you look at these two teams neutral court, I really
think Siennas is still even without Chandler, who's come out
of late. He's just been a really good he almost
like role player, turned like bigger contributor for them. But
even if you take him out, I still think Sienna
is categorically better than Mount Saint Mary's. And now you're
talking about only having the late two and a half
on a neutral You know, I don't have the warmest
fuzzy feeling about Sanna for the entire tournament, but for
this round, this is a game I think they should win.
And that number is now what I think is a
little bit short. So Sianna passed for me. There kel
a little bit of a homer take, but I really
think that they are just much better than Mount Saint
Mary's this year. They fared well against them during the
regular season, and you know what, I'll throw one other
thing out there. They've got to be pissed off about
the whole Chandler thing, and I think you see a
big effort from them tonight.
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Speaker 5: Out absolutely on Saturdays, especially Kelly, I like to put
a night game up over there at sports Memo to
give the people a little bit extra time to get
to that particular play.
Speaker 4: I'm going to speak.
Speaker 5: Really quick here since snobody has a question on something
that could arise as a factor here tonight. Coming out
of the Big West.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hawaii, and you see you.
Speaker 5: First of all, we have to label this as our
one of our favorite colleagues, Drew Martin, the Degenerate Special.
It's his term for the last game in college football
each and every Saturday. But here the Degenerate Special is
going to be Hawaii at twelve am Hawaii, and you
see Irvine tied right now for the number one spot
in the Big West, the number one seed. You see
Irvine wins the number one seed with a victory tonight.
The thing about this game is, you see Irvine plays
at eight easterns, So by the time Hawaii plays at midnight,
they're gonna know whether or not they can win this
league or whether or not they're gonna finish second because
they can't fall to third. It kind of renders the
game meaningless.
Speaker 4: For Hawaii at midnight.
Speaker 5: If in fact Irvine wins against UC Davis earlier in
the night, So something to keep people up really late
for tonight. It could be an instance where Eric Gno
and Hawaii, who are really on a good hot streak
right now. But I do wonder what that lineup would
look like tonight or how the minutes would be dispersed
tonight for Hawaii if in fact they know going into
their game we can't win.
Speaker 4: The league title anymore.
Speaker 5: Guys were the two seeds, So let's just stay healthy
and move on to the Big West Tournament.
Speaker 1: All right, Here's the game I wanted to get to
before Triggs started telling you guys all about his alma mater,
all jokes, silet's go to the big twelve six thirty
six thirty eight. I got the Odds logic screen open
and to all of you guys bashing me in the
comments section, I've got about forty five browsers open, and
I don't have a producer anymore because as well, I
should be able to do this myself, but it's really
kind of hard with three people. And yeah, I'll quit
bitching now. Six thirty seven Arizona State six thirty eight
Iowa State fifteen and a half was the opener one
forty seven and a half treg This one's starting to
get some Arizona State love. We double check arts list.
I do believe this was a game they played, yes
plus fifteen and a half, so some sharp money did
come in here on the sun Devils. Do you have
an opinion on the side are total?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not you know, I'm not dying to
back Arizona State right now, even though they are playing better,
But I'm all for a fate of Iowa State, who
I think they've regressed considerably since earlier this year. I
think teams are starting to figure out how to defend them.
They've it's it's become easier to make them a little
one dimensional on offense. And so when you just just
right there, I'm not going to lay a premium with
Iowa State when I think they're having trouble putting the
ball in the basket.
Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, like, of course, Hilton magic is of course
a thing.
Speaker 3: You know, not too long ago, they destroyed Kansas on
this floor seventy four fifty six. But I mean, if
you look at the way this team has played the
last month, a loss to TCU, a loss to BYU,
you know that that BYU loss is really bad right
now because if you look at what this BYU team
has been since Richie Saunders went down, and then you
consider the fact that Iowa State managed to not only
lose that game but almost kind of get dominated.
Speaker 2: Lose by ten, that that's really concerning to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they end up beating Utah by sixteen, but again
that that's one of the worst teams in this league.
I just would I have real concerns with Iowa State.
I don't think they're a top ten team at this point.
You know, Rob and I talked about that on the
show not too long ago. I they're still gonna group
getting this one or two seed line, and I just
very much disagree with that based on how they've played
the last month. So yeah, I get where the Arizona
State love is coming from here, because laying any sort
of a number with Iowa State is just difficult right now.
Speaker 1: All right, here's a game we haven't talked about that
I think is rather intriguing. Miami's been bet up from
a Pickham versus Louisville. Thoughts on this game here, Roveno,
I can see why people are bet in Miami. I
could see the early Miami love here, But I have
not paid that much attention to ACC basketball this year.
So you're gonna need to help me out.
Speaker 4: All right, So Miami, this is a pet peeve of one.
Speaker 5: Adam triggers the way the conference schedule shakes out in
the ACC because of the amount of teams that they
have in there now, including Notre Dame. Miami, for what
it's worth, has played the weakest ACC schedule of everybody.
Adam reminds us of that constantly, and here they're going
to play a pretty good team in Louisville. I wanted
so badly to get to Louisville here. My problem with
Louisville is that they really do become perimeter dependent. I
wish Louisville could find a way to have a consistent
interiors post type scoring game to go with the array
of three point shooters that they have. Their explosive they
can score in bunches. Miami's played pretty good defense. Miami's
very physical. So there's a couple of sides of the
defense here. One is Miami. Even though they've answered a
couple of bills here, they just haven't been really tested
thoroughly this season, so you would look at Louisville as
being a real test here. From that angle, you like Louisville.
But from the other angle, Louisville's dependency upon the threes.
If should they not fall, Miami probably wins. I mean
Jay Lucas, the head coach of Miami, has absolutely taken
on a philosophy and ingrained it inside this team of
we're going to be more physical than the opponent. It's
worked for them so far season.
Speaker 4: They do score a lot.
Speaker 5: I could see an overplay here if you were to
look at total. But my glance at this was I
wanted to play Louisville and I just couldn't get there
because I don't know that they have enough of an
interior game to help out the offense.
Speaker 1: You know, Trigg only has a few jobs, and one
of them is to remind me of things I completely forgot.
We're doing a show tomorrow, guys, say, I'm the same
place Sunday, eleven am Eastern, eight am Pacific. So you
guys are enjoying all the college basketball talk, come join
us again tomorrow. I drove all the way back home
for Trigg, and I have to go all the way
back to Gainesville tomorrow night just for him to be
able to do a Sunday show.
Speaker 3: So he is, we are, yeah, and I promoted it
on our show this week so our viewers. I know,
we got a slightly different audience here, but our viewers
should be there as well.
Speaker 1: So love that. Let's keep going. I almost said Pac twelve.
But both of these teams are in the Big ten. Now, uh, Trigg,
how do you feel about USC versus UCLA? Let me oop,
there's Robbie. I knew I was gonna screw that up
at one point in time today treg talk to me
about this USC team, because I believe they took some
sharp money there early. Nope, the under took sharp money
here at the West gatesoper Book under one fifty and
a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Ucla took some money too.
Speaker 3: I think Ucla got slammed on the Overnight's got that
this morning.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that comes back at all, but.
Speaker 3: I think there was some rogue like four four and
a half that were gone pretty quickly. With Ucla it
was up to six. I definitely agree with the move.
You know, when Ucla Kelly when they don't have to travel,
they don't have to come to the East Eastern time.
Speaker 2: Zone or the Central time zone.
Speaker 3: They've been fantastic this year and the I don't know
where USC goes from here at this point. This feels
like this feels like a season that's kind of cooked
for them. Yes, they'll get to go to the Big
Ten tournament and play it out, but the sentiment around
USC right now is it's not something I would want
to bet on.
Speaker 2: And you know, Rob and I joke about this a
lot too.
Speaker 3: Mick Cronin always seems to like he always seems to
find a way to like get his team's attention at
some point.
Speaker 2: A lot of times it looks bad and.
Speaker 3: You feel like he's losing the team, But if you
watch Cronin long enough, you know that that tends to
not be the case. I think UCLA is playing as
good as they've been all season, and you know, I
go back to my early season rankings. This was a
team that I thought was going to be like right
in the mix there in the Big ten. So I
don't know if I'm ready to like throw UCLA in
is like a dark horse yet in this conference tournament,
but they've been playing great right now. They don't have
to leave California. I think I would be UCLA or
Passer even at the current number. You know, even with
there's actually some value at like six if that's where
it still is at the double check the odd screen.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I like the Bruins in this one.
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goes all right, seven thirteen seven fourteen air Force Nevada
total one for two and a half. This is a
big number for Nevada to lay here, Veno, but I
can't trust air Force whatsoever. How does that affect the total?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it affects.
Speaker 5: I mean, air Force has just been an absolute ATM
as far as betting their games over are concerned.
Speaker 4: I just cashed one the other night.
Speaker 5: Again defensively, there's zero resistance on the air Force side.
It's been a nightmare all season long for them. With
the Joe Scott saga started early this year. I think
back to the very first full court press show that
we did, air Force was on the card I think
against Belmont, and Triggered made the comment air Force might
be the worst team in D on one. They certainly
haven't done anything to disprove that. What they do though,
of us betters who appreciate it, is they just constantly
do one thing well, and that is go over the total.
They don't get priced extremely high. Your problem here is
probably Steve Alfred's team plays a lot of defense, But
Nevada is going to find their way to eighty plus
in this one. So you're never asking air Force to
do too too much there, and you're not asking them
to do too much here either. Over one forty two
and a half, I would totally agree with Jason on
that one.
Speaker 1: All right, let me see if there's one more question
that I want to answer today. If there's anything you
guys are getting kind of boring here. We've got people
dropping off because we know the games are tipping off here.
In about ninety seconds.
Speaker 2: I got, well, I saw a question, Can I just
go ahead?
Speaker 3: I saw a couple of people ask about the America
East tournament. So all the quarterfinals are today. What you
got to remember about the America East is those are
campus site games high Steed hosts. I would have loved
to take Maine today, but I don't know what Beal's
status is, and without him, I could not make that bet.
So you know something, if TJ. Beal is gonna play,
I would I would look toward Maine plus the points.
I think they're getting four right now. If he's out,
I want no part of that. So I guess to
give you my my strongest America East lean today would
be Vermont to just absolutely destroy Bryant. You know, Vermont,
they're not the team they've been in years past. Kelly,
this is not a dominant Vermont team. They did not
win the America East this year, finished second to UMBCU.
But Patrick jim is going to is a great It's
it is the biggest home core edge of any team
in that league. It should be rocking today and Bryant
has just been in it. It is just a big
time rebuilding year for them. Phil Martelli Junior obviously takes
the job at VCU. You know, the Bryant team that
went to the NCAA Tournament last year now is like
totally restarting Jamie and Christian first year head coach. They
actually overachieved to an extent. I thought they would have
finished last in this league this year. So the fact
that they were seven out of ninet teams and got
themselves in the America East tournament is actually somewhat impressive
to me. But they're in a rough spot today up
in Burlington. I think they get destroyed in that game.
So one, you know, you gotta lay a big number.
Speaker 2: It's thirteen, that's why, you know, you're still laying a
big number in that game. But I made it. I
think seventeen point one.
Speaker 3: I if the find in my notes, wouldn't be surprised
if that's a runaway for Vermont.
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