Speaker 1: All right, welcome in. It is Wednesday. It's time for
full court press, Robino. Before we even get into it,
I went three and one last night. I was five
seconds away from going four and oh Missouri gave up
a basket to Georgia with five seconds left.
Speaker 2: But I can't complain. I'll take the three in one night.
Speaker 1: And I'm just telling the folks that I'm probably gonna
start letting the five percenters rip here in college basketball.
I've only had one all season, but I have back
to back winning days, and there's probably gonna be a
couple in the coming days, maybe even today. Haven't decided yet,
but that's my promo to Hop on our package, the
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Speaker 2: So it's already a great deal.
Speaker 1: When you start to do the math on what wager
Talk charges for the five percenters, it becomes a very
good deal if you know you're gonna get at least
one or two of Oh so quick. Promo to start
it off, and Rob, I don't know if you checked
your texts, but I chose the feature game Tonight the
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Fox Sports won and I sent you a picture of
the Grand Canyon student section from when I was there
last year.
Speaker 2: It truly might be the I think it was.
Speaker 1: Rick Patino, one of the big time coaches, said that
like he's never experienced anything like that.
Speaker 2: It was it was someone that's played there recently.
Speaker 1: It really is insane, like it's it's the craziest atmosphere
I've ever seen for how small the building is. So
it's only about fifty five hundred people that fit in there.
They've they've literally so that space was smaller, right like
Grand Canyon Cup came from the whack. They have put
a seat rob in every possible crevice of that building,
so they're like maxed out on seating capacity. Every single
one will be will be full. If you watch Fox
Sports one on Saturday afternoon, you'll know what I'm talking
about because they were out in full force for that
game and they knocked off Utah State, a ranked win
for Grand Canyon. Tonight they get another big name. San
Diego State might have not have the number by their
name this year, Rob, but They're still a pretty good team,
and I think Grand Canyon is now getting a little
bit more respect than they were three days ago with
this number. So looks like no mgoon guath, but San
Diego State hitting the road in front of the Havocs Phoenix,
Arizona to night.
Speaker 2: How you seeing this one?
Speaker 3: Let's start there. No mcgoon guath is a big deal.
I think in this instance, big center for San Diego
State and multi talented, multi skilled, I should say center
a couple of those out there in the mountain West
San Diego State. I saw them play against New Mexico
the other day, another win for San Diego State. Every day,
it seems like every time I turned on San Diego State,
I'm impressed. When I don't watch them, it seems like
you get a meet theocre result. But a couple of
times i've seen them obviously a well rounded team. I
think a little bit more capable of scoring this year
under Brian Dutcher. They showed that again Saturday with eighty
three points re sticks and Water's been very very good
for them this year. A couple of things in this one.
I would think, you know, San Diego State at their
core is still the same fundamental type of team. They
still want to go to the glass, they still want
to play good defense, especially half court defense, and Grand Canyon,
to an extent adam somewhat the same. They rebound especially
well on the defensive end. Sitting at twenty ninth in
the nation, which if San Diego State doesn't get some
second chances here could be in a little bit of
trouble SD State. That's going to be really good matchup.
As a matter of fact, San Diego State's offensive board
work against Grand Canyon's defensive boardwork. The Utah State win,
you wonder if that loss didn't trigger Utah State to
lose twice. Lost to UNLV last night in another great game.
I would say this, I really like the San Diego
State team from what I've seen, but I'm expecting more
of a defensive natured game in this one. Total here
sits at one forty three and a half, probably a
good spot for this game, but I think it's probably
gonna stay under the side. Is difficult for me to pick.
I will say this as I set off the top.
I think GWAP is a big deal. It helps Grand
Canyon rebounding wise. He's a definite force side is difficult.
Starering here. San Diego State minus one Grand Canyon now
minus won in a lot of places, but one for
three and a half sticks out to me as a
total that might be a little bit too high. So again,
and I know we got some complaints about this yesterday,
Adam where we analyze but then give a you know,
didn't bet the game, But we don't bet every game, guys.
I mean if we bet every game, it would be
you don't have pockets deep enough to beat every single
game in college basketball. This one, I could come to
a conclusion a little later. It is a late start
eleven o'clock, but right now I would say I lean
toward under one forty three and a half and what
I think should be a pretty solid defensive battle between
these two teams.
Speaker 2: I can't stress this enough.
Speaker 1: We do not get paid to do this show, so
we can't just come here and give everything out. That's
why you gotta you gotta grab the double the Fireboers
CBB package because you're gonna get a lot more games
in there, and then you're gonna get the games we
actually picked. But Rob, we still come out and give
out picks on the show. Uh you know, listen, I live,
I live in New York. That Bill Stadium isn't paying
for itself. We're paying for it, right, I don't. I
don't know why because they have billionaire owners, but we're
paying for the bill Stadium, So you.
Speaker 2: Got to buy the package. That's just, that's just. It
is what it is.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna come out here and talk about an
hour's worth of games, six or seven games. And the
point is it's not always to give a pick, because
sometimes there's a good game, a great matchup late like this,
where there's not something that's like so clear cut. In
my opinion, I truly believe this game is going to
be decided on who can avoid the drought offensively. I
am confident in saying someone is going to have an
offensive drought if not both, which makes me lean your
way with the under The thing is like, neither of
these two teams are are are great. They're they're not
super consistent shooting the basketball. So it's like San Diego State,
they've kind of shot it well of late, but this
is an environment where I could see them maybe having
a cold stretch. You know, Utah State had a cold
stretch the other day in that game, and San Diego
State's a lesser offensive team than them. But that's ultimately
my biggest problem with Grand Canyon is they're just not
gonna you know, they're just not gonna torch you from distance.
And you know that that to me comes up here someway.
I don't know which team. I don't I don't think
you can really know which team has the like five
minute scoring drought. My my best takee is someone's going
to have that drought. I like the Grand Canyon side.
The atmosphere is going to be incredible. I could see
them winning another game here. But at the same time,
you could talk me into this being a little bit
of a letdown. You come out, you knock off the
ranked Utah State team, you got kids rushing the floor.
It was incredible, But now you got to do it
a couple of games later. Maybe you take San Diego
State a little bit for granted, because they aren't that
ranked San Diego State team from years past.
Speaker 2: So Robino, I'm with you here.
Speaker 1: I will I think that the thing I can bank
on the most is that these are two teams. San
Diego State's very good defensively, but Grand Canyon does not
shoot the ball well and they're not super consistent in
making shots. I think the same thing could be said
for San Diego State. So I'm gonna go with an
under here as well. I like the under in this game.
And we are going three teamer again today. I know
it lost yesterday, but we got to listen. Rob and
I split every two team parlay last week. I think
we went one and one on every single one. So
now we're chasing a couple of units, so we got
to get a grasp if it's time to We got
to get that parlay payoffs, so it will be a
three teamer. I don't know what we'll do for the
third leg of it. We'll decide as the show goes on.
Yesterday we did a joint leg. Maybe someone will step
up and be like, hey, I got this, I got
the third winner, and we'll go with that. Guards Dore's
Grand Canny rinks three thirtieth in the country from three. Yeah,
that doesn't really get easier against San Diego State, Am
I right?
Speaker 2: Rob, Like that doesn't get easier against San Diego.
Speaker 3: State, especially on the road. We talk about how defense travels.
Adam and again Rim protection could be a little It
will be lesser for San Diego State without Guath, but
they pressure the basketball up top so well that a
lot of times you can't even get into the paint.
So we'll see how it goes, but it does set
up as a really good defensive battle. One last thing
on San Diego State, six of the last eight games,
believe it or not, they have shot fifty percent or
better from the field. That seems like a real outlier
statistic for this team that you know overall doesn't shoot
that well. They've been pretty good lately, but going into
this environment, I don't think it's going to be fifty percent.
So again we'll look at under and let me just
before we get to the next game, Adam, I'll say
really quickly, you've mentioned the parlay. My apologies for having TCU.
Is my leg of the parlay last night or yesterday
the TCU team total over. However, Adam was talking about
packages before four and two in college basketball last night,
what I gave out on the show lost everything I
had for clients. That was the only thing that lost
for clients because we had four other winners last night.
So again it's double to CBB firepower. The powers that
be will love us for promoting so much. But yeah,
it was a nice night, and it just can't always
be a winner here on the show. But certainly it's
why you look for the rest of our stuff.
Speaker 1: It never fails, Rob Veno three and one for me
last night college basketball, though one was the one I
picked for five dollars Tuesday, so I'm sure I'm sure
everyone is thrilled. All right, Garth, thank you for the donation.
I'm glad you brought this game up. That's what I
wanted to talk about. There was actually a a scenario
my schedule got moved around, but I made some pals
in Tulsa, and I am gonna try to get out
there for a game at some point this year. This
one was when I kind of had circled Glad I'm not.
I'm glad I'm not going to Tulsa because it looks
like the Midwest is gonna get absolutely pummeled with snow
over the next couple of days. I leave Central New
York to not deal with snow so once. Once there's
snow in the Midwest, Trigg is out. But this would
be a great game to attend. Tuls meant this heading
to Tulsa.
Speaker 2: Tulsa.
Speaker 1: I've said it on the show a couple of times.
I really like this this team, and you look at
the AAC and a lot of these teams that kind
of underwhelm in this league, and Tulsa for me, is
up there in terms of like who I think could
have a real chance to be at or near the
top when it's all said and done this year. I
don't hate the matchup here with them, Rovino, but man,
that that spread was a little bit bigger than I
expected it to be. Of course, Penny hard Way meant this.
They get a lot of love as an underdog. Maybe
they will buy the market again here.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: But Garth wants to know Tulsa Memphis. He's looking at
the over one fifty three and a half. I'll tell
you what, Garth, if Tulsa shoots the way they did
on this road trip, you're probably gonna get there. Rob,
you know you're the totals guy. What do you think
Tulsa Memphis over one fifty three and a half?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And Memphis put them in the category for myself
where I think I said this last week. They are
so sporadic with what they do in the totals market,
as far as their results are concerned, that I find
them hard to gauge in unless yeah, was Sunday afternoon, right,
because the AAC played on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2: They played you, thank god, no one else did, thank god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they played Utsa, and I wanted to get to
the over because Utsa is so bad defensively, so bad that,
you know, Memphis is probably a game where they break out.
They're off of a fifty five to fifty three against Temple.
I think it was very low scoring game, which makes
no sense to be fifty five to fifty three with Tulsa.
But that's or with Temple. Excuse me, but that's just Memphis.
And they come out and score ninety five points. So
they're so sporadic they're hard to gauge, and their Seesaw
world at them, and again this isn't even This is
such exterior handicapping. But exterior handicapping pays as well. When
I say Seesaw, you know, play them, over play them,
under play them, over play them, under just up down,
up down against Tulsa, which is a pretty decent defensive
team but a far better offensive team. Maybe Memphis comes
out here and struggles shooting. Again. This is a strange
team that plays at different tempos at different times, scores low,
scores high, but Tulsa's been really consistent. I'm with you,
somebody really loves Tulsa. I mean, maybe Paul Pressey back
from nineteen eighty one, has huge pockets and has pounding
the album mater here for Tulsa. Nolan richardson money out there.
I think, honestly, I think that this line might be
a little bit too high. I'm going to disagree with
Garth here and I seldom do, but I think this
game probably stays under again. It's a clash of the
top of the conference. Surprising to me that Tulsa already
has a pair of losses Memphis four and one here.
I think that probably this game ends up in like
the seventy six seventy three range, which puts you at
one forty nine. It's not enough to climb the mountain
and get over the top. The Tulsa side money, I
just I would love to agree with it, but I
don't know that I want to lay six and a
half in this instance. Adam. I like the Tulsa backcourt
I like the way they're able to score, but I
do like Memphis defense in athleticism at all times in
this league, and I think that defense in athleticism causes
some teams, a majority of the teams in this conference,
some problems on the offensive end. So again, I'm going
to go with back to back under here. While that
might be the first time on any show where I've
ever recommend get back to back unders, but to me,
this number is just a little bit too high at
one fifty three and a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, I thought the line was like
maybe a touch high at four and a half.
Speaker 2: Five.
Speaker 1: Now you're looking at six six and a half some places,
I don't listen.
Speaker 2: I know that the students are back.
Speaker 1: I know that they expect their biggest crowd of the
year to date for this season at this game, So
you know, definitely going to be a good atmosphere relative
to what their their typical sort of home game is.
So you should have a I guess you're going to
give them full marks for home court. Is it worth
enough to make them a six point favorite here? That's
a little tough for me. I'd love to know. I'd
love to know the status of Miles Riggsby, he hasn't
played the last couple of games. But something I will
note about Tulsa my cousin who I was with, So
I was at the North Texas Tulsa game a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Tough loss for Tulsa.
Speaker 1: It was more North Texas making big shot after big
shot in the final like six to seven minutes of
that game, in my opinion, than it was Tulsa like
playing poorly or like playing to lose. It was just
North Texas hit three after three, big shot after big
shot to win that game seventy two to sixty seven.
They turn around and lose to South Florida. But like,
that's not I mean, South Floria was a team that
I thought would win this league coming into this year.
So I don't really dock Tulsa too much for a
road loss at the super Pit and then losing to
South Florida. Don't know the status of Rigsby, but he's
been out the last couple of games. Don't know that
it matters a ton because this team is very deep.
Cousin is good friends with Jalen la Wall's dad, and
so that's kind of why we've followed the team closely.
Jalen wall is a freshman and it's like, you know he.
I think he's played well at times, and he's had
a hard time getting on the court for more than
ten to twelve minutes. Because they have a deep team.
This was a team that didn't know. I don't think
they knew they were getting David Green. I think that
was one of the scenarios rob where he ended up
with an extra year of eligibility, was that he didn't
know he would have.
Speaker 2: So there's some of these around college basketball this year.
Speaker 1: The notable one, the one that's like, we'll come to
everyone's mind is tie On Grant Foster who's now at
Gonzaga kind of maneuvered his way to that extra year.
Speaker 2: Freddie Hicks at Tarleton State. There's a couple.
Speaker 1: I think David Green was one of those guys, great
player at Rhode Island. Tulsa gets him, gets him, and
he's their best player. I mean he really is like
upperclassmen leading the team and scoring sixteen point seven points
per game. So I don't know that the market is
even like I think the market has caught up, but
I think this Tulsa team's very very good.
Speaker 2: I can only bet Tulsa here.
Speaker 1: I don't want any part of Memphis on the Road
that this as an underdog has a hardaway underdog Magic
has worn off a little bit one and three against
the spread as a dog on the road here. Maybe
this is one where you try to pair a pair
to Tulsa with another money line in that range to
make yourself a little moneyline parlay, because I really like
them to win here.
Speaker 2: But man, it's tough to lay six. That's a big number.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I see you guys in the listen like
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Speaker 1: It's just Kelly Stewart will be blowing me up if
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another handicap out for a game in there.
Speaker 2: You never know.
Speaker 1: You ask, I'll probably give an answer. That's how it goes.
Let's go to a different game. Billy Humphries says, anyone
on Creighton tonight at home.
Speaker 2: Minus seven against Xavier.
Speaker 1: Rob You you know, we're back in the Big East
where it's just once you get past Yukon and maybe
Saint John's, it's a lot of mediocrity in this conference.
Davier has to hit the road, go out to all
my I would say we would probably both agree that
this is the toughest logistically the toughest trip in this conference.
I still think the toughest trip in this conference is
having to go to stores Connecticut. But minus seven Crayton
at home tonight, what do you have here, Xavier Creyton.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you can Obviously I'll get on a
different track here because I think you can assume points,
especially from the Creighton side in this game. As we're
speaking here, I'm very tempted at him to use this,
and maybe I will. As we speak, the Creighton team
total here is eighty and a half to me, and
I'm always you know, you do this long enough, and
you go down the board each and every day and
immediately something will grab your attention like that's off, that's
not right, that's wrong. And when I see eighty and
a half for Creighton, I just feel like that's wrong. Xavier,
we've seen very little on the defensive end. Creighton gets
back home now after playing Providence in the ninety three
eighty eight. But how about Creighton's output offensively ever since?
You know, beginning of the season, we talked about their
struggles not the same team, A couple of transfers here,
including from Iowa Josh Dix. Now all of a sudden
eighty eight against Providence on the road, eighty six against Georgetown,
seventy three against a very good defensive team in Saint John's,
seventy six against Nova, et cetera, et cetera. They've become
a pretty good offensive force, and Xavier puts up little resistance.
It's not a good defensive team. Two fifty three against
the twos as far as national statistics are concerned. Creighton
can get inside. Now, I think Creighton's found a lot
of ways to score at them that they didn't have
in the beginning. Now, some of that could be product
of a subpar Big East. You're not really facing aside
from Seaton Hall, aside from Saint John's, aside from Yukon.
It's hard to find defenses that you would regard as
tough in the Big East. Xavier certainly doesn't qualify, and
they qualify even less on the road. They play at tempo,
which Creighton, for what it's worth, will choose to play
faster at home than they do on the road. I
think that's just been a philosophy of Greg McDermott for
a long long time as head coach of this team.
But we know Richard Patino's gonna get up and down.
You're gonna get this scoring opportunities. You've got a good
shooting team at this point in time, or at least
a higher scoring team at this point against a pretty
bad road defense. As far as Big ET statistics are concerned,
Just looking at my notes here on the Xavier on
the Xavier game, as far as Big East is concerned,
Xavier sits tenth in this conference, ninth in defensive efficiency.
I just to me, Oudam, this number is way too
low for a game that I think is going to
go over anyway, because Xavier will put their share up.
So wow. I keep hemming and hawing here because I'm
making a firm decision, but I think I write it down.
I want to use Creighton team total over eighty and
a half ten twenty one, A little early in the show.
But I don't know that I'm gonna find anything better
as we speak here than what I'm looking at right now.
So Creton team total over eighty and a half will
be one leg of the parlay today. I just don't
think that's that's a good number. I think that's a
weak number, very light, and Creighton should end up in
the eighty four eighty five vicinity in this game.
Speaker 1: Rob been or are you okay making that our joint
leg and then you'll still have one left for later?
Speaker 2: Oh? Sure, because I wanted to find like, so what
was that total? What was the number?
Speaker 3: Again? Over what eighty and a half? So we need
one to win?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll go with that.
Speaker 1: The reason is, you know, I I think Creighton probably
just Roy Xavier in this spot.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if I wanted to lay seven.
Speaker 1: Xavier has not played since I bet against them last week,
so they've had seven days off. They Yeah, Jacob, it's
Jacob says, it's at eighty one and a half. Now
it's we'll we'll double check toward the end of the show. Well, we'll, we'll,
We're not gonna lost the parley in toward the end
of the show. So if we have to take one
number worse, I think it's fine.
Speaker 2: I'll let I'll leave that.
Speaker 1: To rob to to follow up and let you know
if there's still value at eighty one and a half.
But I guess the reason I'm looking at the Creightonside.
You know Xavier. Last week, they get back, they get
back to back wins. On Friday, Providence, Providence was without
why can't I remember his name, oh Jones? Jamiir Jones
did not play in the game against Xavier. Xavier ran
up ninety seven points in a win over Providence. They
come back, they drop eighty nine on Butler. I was
on Butler in that game. It was just an atrocious
effort from Butler. I think they were in that lull
of like having lost a couple of games straight, couldn't
really break out of it. Of course, since then Butler
broke out of it. Go on the road, upset Seaton Hall.
You know you have your Xavier. You have to come
all the way across the country. That was a nice
setup for them last week, back to back home games.
Now you've got to take this team on the road
that I've described this year as a year zero type team.
Richard Patino has been on Twitter like almost like you know,
keeping the mood light, okay, like he's I think he
knows that this is a very young team. I think
he's got to be thrilled with the effort at home
last week. But like when they go and get run
out by thirty and Creighton or in a road game,
I just don't think it's the end of the world
for this team right now. I think there's you know,
they're they're building something. Patino is trying to build this
from the ground up. I looked at the Xavier roster
coming into the year, didn't think there was a ton
of talent. Creighton coming into the year I thought would
be better. They've certainly had their struggles, but you know,
their results recently have not been terrible. The win at
Nova is a decent win for them. They beat Saint
John's over the you know, on Friday night at Providence
that was a very desperate spot for Providence, and to
Providence's credit, I know we've ripped them on the show
a bunch of robino. They could still put the ball
in the They could still put the ball in the basket,
and that is exactly what they did ninety three points
on Creighton over the weekend, So I think to your point,
Creighton probably does need to score to cover this spread, right, Like,
because I don't think Creighton's defense has been anything to
write home about either. They they they play the way
they used to with Kulkbrenner, but he's not there anymore,
so they're given up. They you know, they still can
get scored on, I would say in this game. So
because I like the Creighton side don't really know how
to play it, I'm going to join forces with you here.
Let's go team total over And do you want to
follow up and just talk about like maybe where the
cutoff is for that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was as soon as that was mentioned to me.
And just so the chat knows. For wager talk purposes,
we do use a consensus line to try and be
fair to everybody, because these numbers are scattered across thirty
five different books outlets that we have at our disposal
here with the line service. The consensus number is eighty
and a half. But I will say Adam that there
are a huge there's a huge amount of eighty one
and a half's out there, and those eighty one and
a half are mostly at places that are easily accessible
for the masses. So I think in fairness, you know
eighty and a half does come up as the consensus,
but I know a lot of people don't have accounts
where a lot of these eighty and a halfs are.
So either way, I would, saying fairness to the chat,
we would use eighty one and a half because that's
more than likely the place or places that they're going
to be able to get action down on this game
at this point. But it has jumped eighty one. I
see a place right now going to eighty two and
a half, So please eighty one and a half is
where we'll use the cutoff, but we'd like to get
in and not way till tip off when it's eighty
three and say you guys blew that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I do think as always shop around, you're
always gonna want to shop around, especially on team totals.
Speaker 2: I think I think if it.
Speaker 1: Was to get out of hand, you could just go
creating money line in the parlay and just take less odds.
Like I think that would be a reasonable way to
pivot if like suddenly to the team total got so
far away from it now if you do play at
some of these more what we'll call it legal public
type books. You can probably just adjust the team total
in your parlay. I do think it's allowed, so you
can just knock it down a little bit, which is
which is totally fine in a parlay. All right, let's
move on Garth. We'll go to Garth. Appreciate the donation.
And I know this is a so Robino. I have
a pretty good memory that my memory is sharp, and
I remember when we talked about this game the first
time around.
Speaker 2: You liked Murray State.
Speaker 1: I can't remember if you used it as a client
play or if it was a part of the parlay.
They smashed Drake in that game, and I remember vividly
talking about it on the show. I believe they were
like a six and a half point home favorite in
that game. Drake made a couple shots at the end,
but Murray State pulled away. I remember you liking the
matchup a lot for Murray State in that game. Drake
says his favorite play of the slate is Murray State
minus five and a half. Drake is two and six
against the spread at home. Drake's just not very good
in general. This is really has been very much a
transition year. Obviously, Ben McCollum goes to Iowa. I think
Eric Henderson's a good coach, but he's been up against
a little bit of tough luck injury wise. Is there
any different outcome in the rematch? Or do you like
Murray State again here?
Speaker 3: Murray State has been so dominant in conference plays so far, Adam,
that I don't know that I could like any other
way than him. I would almost say that the Indiana
State game the other night might have been a slight
look ahead, knowing that they had to go on the
road and play Drake in the rematch after winning by
nine at home. I agree with a ton of what
you said where Drake is concerned kind of a transition year.
I don't know that that cohesion has been formed yet.
They lose to Illinois Chicago the other day. In past years,
Drake wouldn't be losing to Illinois Chicago right, but now
they are. It's a different style, it's a different team.
It allows Murray State. Let me put it this way.
It allows Murray State to do what they do best
this year, which is play with pace and score, and
nobody in this league is stop Murray State from scoring.
It will be so interesting. And I'm waiting, and I'm
a little bit nervous being a you know, having or
paying a lot of attention to Belmont basketball. As I've
said before, my oldest son went there, so I've been
a fan of Belmont for quite a while. The Murray
State Belmont game is going to be something when those
two hook up. But here, I just don't know that
Drake is has gotten to the level they need to
get at yet. While Murray State has been absolutely steam
rolling teams, and to Ryan Miller's credit, Adam, there's really
been no letdown in this team. I know they only
won by four against Indiana State the other day, but
there really hasn't been a letdown here. They've rattled off.
It's in fact, as I look here, it's now the
nation's fifth longest active win streak twelve games in a row.
And one thing you can depend on here is they're
going to score the basketball. There's game film obviously from
first time around that Drake can go to. Question is
can you stop it? And I don't know that they
can stop it at this point in time. So I
would agree Murray State, even on the road five and
a half might be I want to get too carried
away here. I mean, they probably can win by seven plus.
You only have to win by six plus, but they
could probably make it by seven plus here. I would
say Murray State's likely the right side. I'm just trying
to look at the total here real quick. It shows it. Wow,
that's you know, one fifty nine and a half is
a little high Garth. If you're interested in total here
as well, or anybody who is one fifty nine and
a half could be as well. As Murray State's scoring,
that could be a little high in this game. It's
come off of one sixty one. But I think Murray
State's the right side for sure.
Speaker 2: Murray State feels incredibly too easy.
Speaker 1: I don't see I don't see how they don't just
rip Drake here, like honestly, and I don't do this
very often.
Speaker 2: I'm never going to release these for clients.
Speaker 1: But a Tulsa money line to Murray State money line parlay,
tell me how that loses. I mean, there's just you
know what I mean, Like I if the market's gonna
move two points to Tulsa and then you got Murray
State here just needing a win, like the other thing
with Drake that'll point out. Okay, this is this is
Henderson's first year. When I looked at this roster coming
into the year, I thought Owen Larson was the one
guy that stuck out to be a truly like I thought,
you know, he's when you look at the rest of
the roster, he's their best player. Every everything's going to
sort of revolve around him. And what happened was he
started the season hurt month and a half, two months
go by, he didn't come, but he came over with
Henderson from South Dakota State. So I just don't think
he's really truly like, even though he's back playing rob,
I don't think he's ever really gotten in the mix
with this team. He's not a fishing at all. I mean,
he's up to playing thirty two minutes a game. Last game,
one for six from three. He doesn't score a ton,
doesn't really do much rebounds, you know, he doesn't Bee
is one assist. Like he's out there for thirty two
minutes a game, But like, what does he really do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So that was supposed to be your best player on
top of that will exact exact day. I'm again just
butchering names left and right. I think it's exact. I
think it's how it's pronounced. But he hasn't been out.
He hasn't played since the Illinois State game, so he's
been out for five games. He's probably been one of
the more impactful players on this team. So I think
this is kind of becoming a throwaway year for Drake.
I still think they get credit for the name on
the front of the jersey, they get credit for playing
at home, and I just I don't think they're in
the same stratosphere right now as Murray State. So it
feels easy, feels too easy, but maybe it is. That's
the thing with college basketball sometimes you know, this isn't
like the other sports. Sometimes like there's so many games
on the board that sometimes there's one out there, especially
in a smaller league, where it just is like a gift, right,
And I would not be I hate to use that term,
but I would not be surprised if we showed up
tomorrow morning and we were all like, Wow, Murray State
minus five and a half was kind of a gift,
because I'd really be surprised if they don't just rip
Drake here like the ball would have to be going in.
You know, you'd have to get a couple banked in
threes here for Drake to hang around in this game.
I just think Murray State's so much better, and my
numbers like right in line with that. But as I
think it through, I'm just like, no, you know, Larson
hasn't done anything, Zach hasn't played in five games. How
does Drake hang with Murray State? So, Garth, I'm with
you right there. Murray State five and a half makes
a ton of sense.
Speaker 3: Real quick to Garth Drake. Eight Missouri Valley games so
far this season, They've shot over forty five percent from
the field one time in eight games already, just to
show you the offense is going a little bit south here,
but the defense has picked up the last three, held
their last three opponents to under forty percent. Even doing that, Adam,
they wound up losing to Belmont. They wound up giving
up seventy three points to Southern Illinois and seventy forty U.
I see if those teams, just to clarify this point,
if those teams can get to seventy three and seventy
four not even shooting forty percent, Murray State is gonna
shoot better than forty percent. Yeah, probably land somewhere in
the eighties. Last thing I know, Murray State is not
you know, it's an Ohio Valley team previously, and they
have not been in the MVC all that long. But
I feel like Drake is one of those gold standards
of the MVC that always whenever they play, even at
nine and ten this year, they still wear that bullsseye.
Teams still want to beat the heck out with Drake
for what Drake has done to them in the past.
It hasn't happened often with Murray State. Understand they've only
been in this league two three years, but you know,
these are games you get up for if you're a
Drake opponent.
Speaker 2: All right, Garth and I are teaming up for the
second leg of the parlay. I can't I can't come
on here.
Speaker 1: Use the term gift Garth is like, it's my favorite
favorite play of the slate, and then just leave it
out there. So Leg two, my leg teaming up with Garth,
Murray State minus five and a half. Again, just the
matchup is not good for Drake here and they are
not in a good place. Murray State's playing great ball,
why would they not continue to do that here? So yeah,
let's let's do that. So one more leg of the parlay.
Rob Bino's got twenty five minutes to lock it in.
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back. I see some
folks talking about this game, and I got to tell
you a quick story, Rob. So my two lane shirt
right here was a gift from Buy You Bets by
You and I went to So. I called him up
like a day before and I said, Hey, I think
I'm going to change my flight home, so I have
a five hour layover in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Can you go to a two pm two lane game
with me? He's like, yeah, I'm in I can do that.
Speaker 1: So I fly to New Orleans, which was out of
the way trying trying to fly back from Texas to
New York. I fly over to New Orleans and he said,
all right, just uber from the airport to my house.
We'll then take an uber down to the game. So
I uber to his house, throw my stuff down. He's like, Trig,
I've already went to the bookstore for you. You're ready to go.
It gives me the two lane shirt. So great, great gift,
I said. The other day. Three three programs have gifted
me gear and then by You has also gifted me gear.
So that's where the shirt is from him and I go. Actually,
it was the year two Lane was really good and
it was probably the beginning of the end for their
NCAA tournament hopes because this was like mid February. They
lost a game to which Tita State and they kind
of like fizzled out that year.
Speaker 2: But we're that was two three years ago. Now we're
at this year. However, this game as I as I
scroll through, it's a lot of games tonight, so I
gotta find my place here. But the two A Green
Wave are on the road. They're heading to Boca Ratone.
Speaker 1: I got to go to this place last year, the
Ellie rob Vino down in Boca Ratone, the Eleanor Baldwin Arena.
Only twenty nine hundred seats there. That's a great atmosphere
as well. When the kids are there, which I believe
they're back from spring break, that should be pretty full.
I saw Florida Atlantic play on Sunday. I don't know,
I haven't been. I gotta be honest. Most of the
teams in this league don't really impress me. That's why
I'm kind of high on Tulsa because I've I've gotten
to go to a few American Conference games this year.
Wasn't overly impressed with Florida Atlantic, wasn't overly impressed with Temple.
Florida Atlantic did get the win. They're gonna turn around
and lay eleven to two lane here. I don't know,
that's a pretty big number. What do you think two
lane Florida Atlantic? And do you have anything on the
total in this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think we're where Florida Atlantic is concerned at
this point in time. Adam, you and the adjemakers have
this pegg I mean, but you look toward the over
with this team because their scoring ability, really good shooting team,
really fast paced, really high scoring and ken Tulane defender.
You know, Ron Hunter is never going to come out
of that matchup zone, right, So you do have to
be able to shoot from three a little bit. You
have to be able, you have to really have to
move the ball against this particular team. And I watched
that game on Sunday, North Texas and two Lane just
to see if North Texas could slam the door on
the two lane offense. The game went seventy one to
sixty three, but North Texas did better offensively than you
would expect them to do, which leaves me somewhere in
the land of doubt as to how twu lane is
going to stop FAU from scoring. That said, fa U
is not the greatest defense in the world. They want
to do one thing. They want to do one thing
only really a score the basketball. They can do it.
Can they do it at a high enough rate to
cover this type of number somewhat questionable, But then again,
I have doubts about the two lane offense, which has
been so sporadic, And now you have to go on
the road. On the road against UTSA, no big deal.
On the road against East Carolina, no big deal. They
won those two games. But on the road at Florida
Atlantic you just mentioned cozy type Jim. Maybe not the
most raucous environment out there, but I would think Florida
State excersby Florida Atlantic finds their way to like eighty
five plus points in this game. Home games, excuse me,
against Memphis and Wichita, and for those who haven't seen
Wichita yet, they're just a monster as all. He's on
the boards and FAU is able to get to eighty
five at home against them eighty nine against Memphis in
this building, two of the better defensive squads in the league.
I don't know the two lanes matchup zone is good
enough to stop them from scoring. So the question becomes
at him, do you trust Florid Atlantic's defense enough to
cover this number? I can't say that I do. It
would lean me toward total, probably lean me toward over
money's gotten there already one fifty three to one fifty six.
Or the more sure fire play for me probably would
be the FAU team total over eighty two and a
half against Tulane. I just mentioned what they did against
Memphis and Wichita in this building, So to me, that
would probably be the best way to look.
Speaker 2: Bayer's convinced that the l has like now the invitational rims.
I forgot. He's told me that a couple times.
Speaker 1: Is he is convinced that they that building has extremely
soft rims.
Speaker 2: I guess it make sense a little bit.
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic shoots so much better at home than they
do on the road.
Speaker 2: They managed to beat Temple.
Speaker 1: I was at the Temple game on Sunday again, wasn't
overly impressed with either of these teams. But Florida Atlantic
ended up winning that game, going three for nineteen from three. Like,
you know, looking back, like the way that that game
played out, feel like they should have lost. I think
maybe we'll talk about Temple in a minute. That might
that might reflect more on Temple than it does on
Florida Atlantic that they were able to sort of just
still win that game shooting the ball that poorly from distance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you make a really good point.
Speaker 1: The the Iran Hunter matchup zone, which is is gonna
be what he plays no matter what, just not been
very good this year. And if Bayou's correct and those
rims are as soft as he claims, which hey, listen,
it's a real thing, right, every every building is different,
every site line is different, places have different rims. Like that,
there is an element of truth to that, right, I
don't I don't know, you know, I think the soft
rims thing gets a laugh, But I mean just go
look a look at how the ball goes in at MAUI, right,
I mean, every shot goes in. Again, I'm not saying
you should bet on that, but I do think that
you should have the venue the team is playing in mind.
So in this case, I thought the number was big.
But yeah, Rob, I'm with you. I could not. I
could not take Tulane with the rate at which they're
giving up points this year, and knowing that if Florida
Atlantic does shoot it better at home, and maybe those
Rims are a little soft. And suddenly that three for
nineteen from three, which they still managed to beat Temple with,
turns into let's say nine for nineteen from three. Maybe
the math on that is a fifteen point Florida Atlantic win.
So and I think what I forget? I don't know
what the team total is. I had eighty four point
two for my projection here, So does that put it over?
Speaker 2: I think you said like the eighty two.
Speaker 3: And a half it shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe the Owls get their points because I'll note
that they did not shoot the ball particularly well against Temple.
But again that's the that's a totally different gym. By
you says we should do a meet up in Vegas
for March Madness. By you, you don't want to come back
to Central New York. Turning Stone, We got by you
up here, another good bye you story. You got him
up here. It was easier for him to get a
flight home out of Albany. I said, no problem, I'm
going to the game. So it was the year that
Yukon or Albany was the regional So I was like,
I'll just bring you to the airport and then I'm
going to go to the because the games were at night.
Speaker 2: I drove.
Speaker 1: I think it was the first time he saw snow,
and like I drove him through a snowstorm to the
airport and I'm just like ripping through it because I
do this like every day, and I'm pretty sure he
was terrified. Like we saw there was a tractor trailer
just laying on the side of the road. I'm like,
that's just how it goes up here, Like, don't worry
about them, They'll get out eventually.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think he was, uh he was terrified
on that ride. Yeah, there he is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That's That's just another day here in
Central New York. By you, it gets way worse when
you get out to Buffalo. I've seen driving from like
Buffalo to Erie, I think I've seen nine tractor trailers
blown over in one in one time. Actually, it was
when I was going to meet Brian Power for the
Pit Duke game a couple of years ago. I mean
it was like just there was seven of them off
the road. Yeah, that's just how it goes.
Speaker 3: Keith, really quick, Keith, I don't know if that was
a suggestion or if you're really going to be in
Las Vegas, but if you are, I will be there
at the start of March Madness. I'll be there the
nineteenth to the twenty fourth. So if you're actually going
to be there, certainly we could hook up. If that
was just a suggestion that the three of us hook up,
then you know, I'll be there. You two guys would
have to make the arrangements. But I will be there
nineteen to twenty four. My son's band actually is playing
in Las Vegas at ford Walk Bowl.
Speaker 2: Oh nice.
Speaker 3: I think it's called Fordwalk Bowl when those nights playing
in a room in Las Vegas. So yeah, we'll be there, Keith.
If you're there, we'll see you.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm doing for March Madness. Yeah,
I may go to the games in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Buffalo's a regional site this year, and I love they
put on that's a real good like I've been to
Buffalo and Al many multiple times for the NCAA tournament, Like,
but Buffalo does it better? Key Bank Center where the
Savers play. I really enjoy that one, So.
Speaker 2: I may be there. I may go to Vegas the
week before.
Speaker 1: I can probably get passes to the Whack Tournament, the
final Whack Tournament ever, So we'll see. But I will
be around. You know, I'll be around. If you ever
see me at a game where you're like, hey, I
want to go to that game with you.
Speaker 2: I'm in your town. Just hit me up.
Speaker 1: I'll make it work. I've had a great time with Truman.
We went to that Tulsa, North Texas game the other day.
I am not going to go to this one, but
big time I will. I will talk about it. This
one is in. I am home finally. I was cruising
the Philly area. I was down visiting my sister and
my one and a half year old nephew for a
few days. Had a good time going to games out
in the Philly area. So many different options to hit
a game. I didn't realize how quickly you could, like
get to DC Baltimore. You're in a very accessible area, Robino,
you can be like in five different big cities, very quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bothmore. I mean I go to Camden Yard's quite
a bit too. It's about an hour ten from my home.
It's it's not under it. And for college basketball you
have UD Delaware pretty close as well. He can get
some coast election in So yeah, it's very accessible for
sporting events.
Speaker 2: Central New York. You can't be anywhere quickly.
Speaker 1: To get to get to city, you know, I my
little town is whatever, but to get to anywhere like
quote unquote bigger. I'm thirty minutes from Utica, thirty minutes
down to the Dome where this game is going to
be played tonight. I'll be on my couch because it's
cold as shit here. I'm not going out today. I'll
be watching this one from the couch nine pm. The
locals will complain, but acc the ACC has that nine
pm national TV slot, rob and the Syracuse keeps put
getting put in it. So, uh nine pm tip here,
which people will complain about, but they'll still back in
the day, no one would care.
Speaker 2: Now people are out a little.
Speaker 1: Bit on Syracuse basketball, so it might affect the crowd
boy Syracuse over the weekend. It was funny to me Rovino,
the Boston College Twitter was hyping up their sellout. It
was all Syracuse fans. So the Boston College finally sold
out a basketball game. It was all CUS fans and
Qus went in there and managed to lose to Boston
College in overtime. It is something that this Syracuse team
does better than anyone. Finally get a little bit momentum
and find a way to just completely kill it. Earlier
this year, they beat Tennessee, they come out the next game,
beat Saint Joe's, lose to Hofstra.
Speaker 2: All the momentum gone right.
Speaker 1: They rattle off three straight ACC wins, road wins at
Georgia Tech pitt they beat Florida State at home.
Speaker 2: What do they do?
Speaker 1: Go to bc AS like a six point favorite and
find a way to choke that game at the end.
Now they come back to the Dome. I gotta be honest,
I kind of disagree with this line move. I think
this is a good matchup for Syracuse. I think that
this is a you know, a game that their defense
can alter a game. They might be able to score
at the rim a little bit. And yet it's moving
toward v Tech. What do you think You're Virginia Tech, Syracuse,
do you think the Orange are live in the Dome tonight.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll reverse this parlay and maybe we could collaborate
here at them, because I really want to play Syracuse
in some way, shape or form. Now, Virginia Tech the
SMU game last week, I think they called SMU in
a tough situational spot, but they made the most of
it and almost when that's the game where Boopy Miller
hit the half court shot at the buzzer to win
for SMU and get put the l on Virginia Tech.
But Virginia Tech has scored better lately, but they just
don't defend. And my options here are do I want
to lay three and a half with Syracuse or do
I just want to go, you know, sitting from the
television and root for Syracuse to score points at seventy
seven and a half. And I just feel like they
can do that in this game. The Boston College lost,
you know, you're right, there's no excuse to lose to BC.
In fact, I should probably be looking at Pittsburgh as
well tonight going to BC off a loss. But to me,
Syracuse should get the seventy eight points in this game.
Virginia Tech has no problem giving these numbers up seventy seven,
like I say to SMU seventy six to Notre Dame.
How do you get caught up in a game that
lands on one sixty five against Notre Dame. It's just
not possible to get to one sixty five against Notre Dame.
But they did score seventy eight, give up seventy five
against Cal etc. All these teams are in the offensive
range of Syracuse, which I do believe will have a
pretty easy time at the rim here tonight. Virginia Tech
is not a great rim defending team. The problem for
me is I want to lay the three and a
half as well. I just don't know which is the
better side. I'll ask you this for my sake, because
I'm going to play this game one way or the other.
Is it better for me to play over seventy seven
and a half, which I think Syracuse will get to,
or is it better for me to have Syracuse win
by two buckets win by four. Three and a half
just seems small than this game. But I think the
reason why I'm not tilting that way is because I
don't want to sell Virginia Tech's offense short in this game.
I think this game could end up with both teams
in the eighties.
Speaker 1: So you have a we have a third option here
for the parlay, which would be just Syracuse money line,
because you know, I wouldn't play Syracuse money line for clients,
but certainly Syracuse money line and three team parlay makes sense.
I really do like the Syracuse defense. I think it's
I mean, yes, it was aided by overtime. I can't
believe they gave eighty one points up to Boston College.
That's really just not And you know, the game before though,
ninety four to eighty six is a little bit deceiving
because Florida State obviously is going to play a more
uptempo game, They're gonna play a higher scoring game. Syracuse
really led that game throughout, So it's like I think
they just, like, you know, that ninety four eighty six
a little bit deceiving because Syracuse never really had to
like totally lock in defensively. They kind of always had
Florida State at arms length in that game. So here
like this is the type of game I could actually
see their defense showing up potentially, But like you were saying,
like Virginia Tech, even with Toby lowallback. Not a great
rim defense, and you have to take away the paint
against the Syracuse team. They can't shoot. I mean, yeah,
they've been a little bit better from three lately, even
with improved three point shooting, this team's still thirty three
point two percent from three. It's it's outside the top
two hundred nationally. They're not a great jump shooting team.
They're a really bad free throw shooting team right, like
worse in the country. But if you can't defend the rim,
it allows guys like William Kyle, who is I love
this guy, I mean just an absolute electric player, unbelievable defender,
great rebounder, but like the only way he's scoring is
ripping the rim off on a dunk.
Speaker 2: Like he's not going to score any way out.
Speaker 1: So if you can't defend the rim against Syracuse, you
open it up to William Kyle actually contributing offensively. And
that's a big deal to Syracuse because teams that do
defend the rim, well, he's not gonna do anything offensively
because he can't hit a free throw and he's not
going to be able to really score anywhere other than
just like sort of be you know, bullying his way
through the lane and getting a dunk. That's how he's
going to score points. So if you're gonna let him
get ten points just on like rock in the rim,
on you, that is a huge boost for Syracuse, right
because they don't get a ton of offense from other places.
That's you know, you know, obviously Donnie Freeman. It's a
totally different offensive team since he's been back. He can
get his own points, right, Like, he's averaging twenty point
two points per game. Totally different offensive team since he
stepped back on the floor. But still, I just think
that if you're Virginia Tech and you can't keep Will
Kyle off the offensive glass or getting in the paint,
it opens a lot up for Syracuse. So Rob, you know,
I'm kind of okay with either because I think they're
gonna score their points and I think they're gonna win
this game.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've had a pretty good gauge.
Speaker 1: I'm like, when Syracuse wins and loses, I don't always
bet them because like a lot of times that the
number gets like a little bit more inflated for what
I want it to beat for Syracuse. Like over the weekend,
I thought it was a good I thought they would
probably win. There was no way I was gonna lay
six on the road at BC, and they obviously found
a way to choke that game away.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Like I'll tell you right now, they're gonna win this game.
I don't know that that's you know, I just I've
watched this team so much over the years. This is
the type of game they win. If they win, they
probably cover three and a half, but they're probably gonna
hit there. What's the team total on this one? I've
got seventy nine point four for.
Speaker 3: Seventy seven and a half? Is the number here? Real quick, Adam.
Just I went through some numbers because I've noticed this
a lot recently in handicapping since conference season started. The
overall statistics, the season long statistics tend to vary from
what's going on in conference play. How about Syracuse inside
the conference? I guess I'll count the Clemson game just
for the heck of it. Clemson they shoot from three,
probably at their norm thirty three percent. But after that,
Georgia Tech they shoot thirty seven percent. PIT they shoot
forty five to five, Florida State they shoot forty point seven.
BC they shoot thirty nine. It's like four consecutive games
where they've been above what their season three point percentage is.
I think the point you make about Donnie Freeman being
back does a lot to the offense, including open things
up for their guys. I'm gonna say this, it's gonna
cost us one eighty five. As I look here, well one,
there's a lot of one seventy five's out there. So
I'm gonna middle this up and say one eighty Syracuse
money line. I think in a three teamer it's the
safest play. I think they'll win this game. So yeah,
my end of it would be, let's try money line Syracuse.
I just win the game at home.
Speaker 2: Me too.
Speaker 1: I think, like I said, I think their defense could
show up here. They've they've defended well. I was at
the Tennessee game earlier this year. It was a spot
where they kind of needed one at home. They played
tremendous defense. If you can listen, if you can defend Tennessee,
you can find a way to defend Virginia Tech.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I really like them to win here. So
that is a three teamer.
Speaker 1: We've got a few minutes left, So what I'm gonna
do is this as I sort of calculate what the
odds are on that. I'm gonna bring my guy, Colin
Gregory in and Rob you have sort of been an
assassin on these Conference USA totals of late. There's been
a couple of good ones the FIU. The last couple
FIU games come to mind. I think they played Kennesaw
in one of those games. So Colin Gregory wants to
talk Kennesaw State, Sam Houston, Let's get a little Conference
USA chatter to close out the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kennt Kennesaw State has been on my radar, Colin,
as far as total is concerned. Antoine Petways group, they
just play so fast. Now, I'm gonna say this half
jokingly but half seriously. I played the FIU Kennesaw State
game over the total last week, and Kennesaw had been
off of or FIU had been off of a couple
of games where they didn't make it over the total,
so I played a bounce back theory. It did happen.
But the next day the college basketball gambling scandal came out,
and of course Kennesaw State gets caught up in that net,
and I'm like, wow, I can't I don't know if
I could play this team right now, I don't know
what's going to happen. But they bounced right back and
scored eighty one against Western Kentucky on Saturday, which leads
me to believe that there's probably not a heck of
a lot that's going to change a the way they play,
be the way they score. Now, what it did do
is it took Sime and codd a lout of the
lineup Saturday, which is why you wait and see what's
gonna happen here, and without Coddle, they still got to
eighty one. I still have my questions about whether or
not they can get over in this game because Sam
Houston has been far more defensive oriented than offensive oriented,
and I think the odds makers when they set lines
on Kennesaw games, they use Kennesaw as the primary primary
style for how they handicap. I know it's done the
numbers wise, but I still think that it's done with
Kennesau State first and foremost open one sixty six all
the way down to one sixty three and a half.
I'm not sure that I disagree on the basis that
Coddle's out of your lineup and Sam Houston State hasn't
really allowed teams to get up and down against them,
so it's a clash of wills here. I would somewhat
side with under in this instance. Kennesaw State is on
the road. I see a lot of money going towards
Sam Houston four and a half all the way to
six and a half in some spots right now. I'm
not sure I agree or disagree, but probably an under
for me in this game. Keennessae State Sam Houston.
Speaker 2: State, I think I agree with that Sam Houston money.
I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna see guys that were like
kind of caught up in a gambling scandal, like just
sort of rushed back in. I feel I feel like
if I had to guess, he's probably not playing tonight,
and if he's he's out. I think that that's listen,
like when you he's kind of your guy, that's gonna
get you a bucket. When it's when you you know,
on the road, you need to put a ball in
the hands of someone on this Kenni State Saw State roster.
It's probably coddle right, like that's you know, twenty point
two points per game. I mean, you're just right there alone.
You're taking out a guy that is well, potentially, I
don't know if you are not, but like taking out
a guy that's average twenty point two points per game
did not play over the weekend against Western Kentucky. So like,
that's pretty notable here, and listen, Sam Houston, this team's
grown on me.
Speaker 2: I I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't super high on them coming into the year.
I actually bet against them and incorrectly. Probably the only
Sam Houston game I bet this year was earlier this year,
I played Wyoming against Sam Houston in this building. They
got a really impressive win in that game, seventy eight
seventy And I'll note rob they've only had six home
games all year. They played a lot of road games
in non conference play. This team has only played six
home games this year. They're five and one on their
home floor, and the lone loss was to Liberty, which
is not a bad loss, as we know that is
the you know, Liberty is one of the better teams
in this league. So I agree with the Sam Houston money.
I'm not sure I agree. I'm not sure I have
a good enough read on this team to actually play it.
But like, man, this open four and a half. I
think that that was if Coddle is out, which it
looks like this move suggests he is.
Speaker 2: That opener was a very very low at four and
a half, and I would be no Coddle.
Speaker 1: I'd be closer to So if you can still grab
like the five and a half at Caesar's, some of
these other books are still at five and a half,
that's not a terrible look on this slate. All right,
we are we have reached the end of the show.
I've calculated the parlay for the rep for everything Rob
and I play today. Check out that double the CBB
Firepower package, but for our three team, and we're gonna
give that to you right here. We've got the Creighton
team total over eighty one and a half. We've got
Murray State minus five and a half, and then Rob
and I are gonna team up really on really most
of them. I get, I think we kind of agree
on all of these, but we're gonna team up. Syracuse
money line minus one eighty that comes out to plus
four sixty seven, but obviously shop around that Syracuse money line,
Murray State minus five and a half, Creighton team total
over eighty one and a half. We'll see you guys
in the morning. Check out our joint package, and we'll
be back ten am to talk more hoops with you.
Speaker 2: Have a great day.