Speaker 1: Okay, welcome in everybody. It is Monday. It is time
for Full Court Press. Momentarily, Brian Power will be making
his return to the show. Veno's got the day off.
He he had a I think a little operation on
his knee, and so we're just giving him the morning
to recover, but he'll still be putting out plays. I
think we will have him back and ready to go tomorrow.
So in the meantime, we're gonna do a Monday show.
We've got BP coming in and while he is switching
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So we'll do a little double feature today. We're gonna
talk Duke Syracuse and then we're gonna talk Iowa State Kansas,
and then we'll just hit whatever you guys want to
hit in the chat. I was at Cameron Indoor Stadium
over the weekend. And just bear with me for a
second here, I am sending re sending the link to BP.
So sorry for the technical difficulties this morning, but we
are going to be up and running in just a second.
And yeah, I was at Cameron Indoor this weekend. It
was actually my third time in the building. My sister
went to Duke way back, so this would have probably
been like twenty ten twenty eleven. Actually got to go
as a student a couple of times, so got an
ID from someone that wasn't going to the game, and
played the role of a student a couple of times
at Cameron, which is it was a phenomenal experience. As
I bring Brian Power in BP, I was telling people
I think I've told you this a couple of times.
My sister went to Duke back in twenty ten, twenty eleven,
I got to what we used to do. So she
went as a grad student, and there's different ticketing for
undergrad and grad students, and it's actually it's actually a
lot easier to get a ticket as a student if
you're a graduate student because by the time people are
there for grad school, they're probably trying to get jobs
and they're they're less focused on going to every basketball game.
So over the weekend, I made my return to Cameron
Indoor Stadium for the Duke Clemson game. And it's one
of those things where you could probably go once, you
could probably go go ten times twenty It's like it
never wears off. It's still just as awesome as the
first time you went. And so that was it was.
It was very cool this weekend I was I did
a show with Kelly Stewart Live.
Speaker 2: We actually made it happen. The internet.
Speaker 1: The Wi Fi is way better in there than it
was fifteen years ago, I'll tell you that much. But yeah,
we're back from North Carolina and we're gonna start with
this game. So before we get started, though, BP first
of all, welcome back to Full Court Press. Folks thought
they thought we kicked you off. Why don't you tell
people what you've been doing. Tell people what you've been
up to.
Speaker 3: Well, what I've been doing is actually what I literally
just finished up. Morning Wager available both here on the
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sure you subscribe to both of those, Ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you very much. Yeah, Mark Zendel and I haven't
seen the board well that show. Having a lot of
good times doing that. Wish I could be making my
return under better circumstances. I know Rob, you know, first
of all, I hope everything's good with Rob. And number
two kind of sucks that I had a big loss
yesterday with Murray State by five percent. Play really loved
that play was really looking good for twenty two minutes.
Bro up nineteen. Let me tell you something I was
going off about this treg on the Morning Wager. When
you're up nineteen with eighteen minutes left of the game
and you just need your team to win, you're feeling
pretty damn good. And I never feel good about a
play until you know the very end to lose that
even if they just lost outright would be really bad.
To lose by seventeen is borderline insanity. They were outscored
sixty one to twenty five the last eighteen minutes in
that game. I have never seen anything like that in
almost forty years of watching college basketball.
Speaker 1: Especially a team the caliber of Murray State like this is.
This is not just like some middling like team that
fell apart.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a very very good team.
Speaker 3: To start Missouri Valley play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one, but listen, BP. I'm I'm
I'm gonna shout you out here because I know coming
into last weekend you were having a tremendous February. So
it's it's gonna happen. Am I wrong about that? I
feel like you are all over the least.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm still not. I mean I'm between NBA
and college still number one in February at wager Talk
twenty two and eight with all basketball, I'd won eleven straight.
I opened the month with eleven and zero with college
basketball sides, which is great. So let's get back on it.
It's a it's a I know it's a small card.
Today I was joking it was funny. When you asked
me to jump on the show today, I said, I'm
gonna warn you the big game today. I have a
shocking lack of conviction on Houston and I stay. I
don't know if that's where we want to open or not,
but uh, let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's open just because I guess I I teased it
with all the Duke talk.
Speaker 3: Let let's have more talk. I have I have stronger
conviction on that. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I have, Well, I have strong conviction on
just talking about that game. I want to I want
to start by saying this, Brian, Okay, Central New York here,
we still want to burn it down just because we
want a couple of games like the the the Syracuse
fans and the fan base here, we still want to
burn it to the ground.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the basketball program with the whole city, you.
Speaker 1: Want to well, if with the way well you're you're
having a similar winter with the way winter has gone,
maybe the whole city, but certainly the basketball program.
Speaker 2: They have one too straight.
Speaker 1: But here's the problem, and this will be our segue
into Syracuse Duke from a from a betting standpoint. Tonight,
Syracuse basketball fans judge everything based on the good days,
the past national champions with Jerreed, mcmay, Carmelo Anthony even
ten years ago. Kind of like making the run to
the Final four, Syracuse expects to go into a Big
Monday game with a chance, right like we might not ever,
Cues might never be favored at Cameron on a Monday night.
And you know, I don't think anyone would expect a
scenario where Duke's not a home favorite to Syracuse on
a Monday night.
Speaker 2: But we expect, you know we.
Speaker 1: I'm saying the Syracuse fan base expects to go into
a game like this and at least have a shot.
Similar to earlier this year, Syracuse goes down to North
Carolina on Big Monday. No one thought they had a
chance to win that game, And I would say this.
Speaker 2: Is even worse.
Speaker 1: This spread open twenty and a half Brian Power. So
my question to you is Qus isn't winning here. I'll
tell you that much, But do they have a chance
to hang within that twenty and a half number?
Speaker 3: Well, if you're Syracuse fan or just following the team,
you know that this the Orange on a five and
zero against the spread run coming into this game. But
let's investigate that five and zer against the spreadrun shell.
We trigger, okay, and they upset SMU over the weekend.
That was a one point win. The game before that
was against Cal the double overtime game that was an
absolute miracle. They cover against Virginia by half a point.
They cover against North Carolina by half a point. Let's
stop right there, North Carolina. You mentioned Syracuse was a
big dog going to that game. It was on Big Monday.
I remember why I was out it too. Where was
I was out? I was in Florida watching that game
with my father in law, and I joked that maybe
it was a bi lo spot on Syracuse, and he
was making fun of me because at the time I followed,
Syracuse was down by thirty points in that game, remember Drake,
and then they came out it was I joked, it
was an absolute Jim Morrison backdoor band special that they
pulled off. I mean, North Carolina just stopped playing when
they were up thirty. They were just like, this game's over.
We don't care. Who cares, We don't if you bet
us tough, you know tough whatever. So Syracuse did not
deserve to cover that game. My concern with betting the
Duke's side here, Shrag and I, you are probably the
last person on earth that needs reminded of this, maybe
outside of john Shire. You know, they're coming off the
big way over Clemson over the weekend, and they they
looked fantastic. I saw you tweeted pretty early in the game.
If if I remember correctly, that you're like, Duke's running
away with this thing. I mean, they just came out
absolutely looked like the better team, and and you know
they weren't the better team for all forty minutes. Syracuse
hit a season high eleven threes last game. It's not
that speaks volumes about Beyonce. When eleven is your season high, right,
do I have that correctly? It was eleven, It was
the season high. When that's your season high, that means
you're not a good three point shooting team. So what
did I do, Trag breaking this game down? I immediately
said what Syracuse's team total in this game? Because I
don't think I would rather bet that number under than
lay it with Duke. I think you're of the same
ilk where this is not a number you're interested in laying.
Probably even though Duke is going to win the game.
Sixty one and a half is Syracuse's team total. That's low,
but that look guys at what Duke has been doing
at the defensive end. They held Clems into fifty four
pit the fifty four. They've held seven of their last
nine opponents under sixty points, and a lot of those
teams are better than Syracuse. So if you forced me
to make a play on this game, I think it's
Syracuse team total under sixty one and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I we're on the same wavelength because I look at
this and say, try to get creative and find a
way to play Duke. And I think that's what you're
You're you're basically doing too. You're saying, okay, we'll fade
Syracuse scoring. Yeah, listen, Syracuse. They've shot the better, they've
shot the ball better of late, but they've I mean,
Col's not a good defensive team, right there was there
was one hundred that was a one oh seven to
one hundred game. Syracuse that's actually deceiving their three point
percentage for the seasons now up to thirty three point
three percent, and it was worse than that. And I
have a feeling it's more based on who they've played
lately than it is they they've just become a better
three point shooting team.
Speaker 2: We know this team can't score from the foul line.
One of the worst free throw shooting teams in the country.
Speaker 1: So here's the interesting thing to me about just this matchup,
and this is something I talked about ahead of the
SMU game this weekend. Syracuse, which we know here and
has become common knowledge, is a very poorly coached team.
That's part of the reason it needs to be burnt
to the ground. Poorly coach team. And that's why we
and that's why Syracuse shows up on Big Monday and
has no chance against the better teams in the ACC
because it's just not a good bat like all around
basketball team. Now they've got some talent they've got. You know,
there was point in time this year I was at
the Dome. They beat Tennessee. That's a good basketball team.
Eight point dogs. Syracuse beats Tennessee. They hung around with Houston.
They do have some defensive talent. They can defend. William
Kyle tremendous paint presence there. Well, you know, I would
say one of the better ones in the league at
sort of what he does. Now he's a liability scoring
the ball and they need him on the floor, so
that probably helps you're under But here's the problem for
QS here is even with the talent they do have,
they don't have talent comparable to Duke, right, and if
Duke wants to, they can win this game by thirty
plus if they want to. They were on the way
to doing that on Saturday, and they started playing with
their food, right, they started kind of you know, it
got it was seventeen eighteen the majority of the second half,
and I think Clemson came in and depending on what
number you got, numbers matter, folks, Right, the Duke minus
twelve and a half crowd was fine. The Duke minus
thirteen and a half crowd no bueno. Clemson gets in
at the end for the cover. So for me, it's
got to be a way to play Duke here. I
would I would look for does Syracuse come out and
just like scratch, tooth and nail for the first ten
minutes and keep it a four point game? If so,
I'm gonna I would want to in game Duke do
I maybe just take Duke in the first half and
hope for something like the North Carolina game where CS
is just overmatch right from the start.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you do that, and maybe you play a half
unit on Duke in that scenario, then you can you
can always go bigger in the second half if it
doesn't work out, and then you'll have a better number
relative to the game number. I actually make the spread
twenty point seven here VP, so I'm on market, but
I'm actually a little higher. I think C's is taking
a little money to this point they have. It's gonna
be I think it's gonna be Duke by twenty. That's
the I'm just gonna call it Duke by twenty. If
you can get nineteen and a half or better, I
think you can lay it with Duke. I don't think
you're gonna have the lack of focus that you had
the last sort of five minutes of the Clemson game.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, the only thing is that I
always get nervous. I mean, if they're up in that
twenty range, you know straight. I mean Clemson, I mean
it totally stole that cover, so I mean, I guess
it could happen again. I don't know. I just think
I think if Duke does cover it's because they Syracuse
stays under rather than Duke scores ninety. Like like, if
Duke covers this number, I don't think it's because they
score ninety plus. I mean, I guess they're capable of
doing that, but it's more likely that they just hold
Sarah that Syracuse is pathetic at the offensive end scores
fifty eight, you know, like, yeah, Duke covering it's eighty
to fifty eight, right, something in that nature.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess what the final thing we'll say
before we go on is like, it's very possible spot
wise that that happens. They just play double overtime with Cal,
and they just had a tooth and nail barn burner
with SMU on Saturday. Now they have to turn around
and travel the Cameron. You could get your flat spot
for Syracuse here. I definitely think that's that's possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. I meant to say
that when after you've sarted that that you know, when
you see guys, you just have to click on the
game and you'll find out. But if you're just looking
at the scores to be aware that that Syracuse Cal
game was a double overtime game. So the facts, Syrick
you scored all those points is highly highly.
Speaker 1: Misleading double ot with like no power at the dome,
like all all the scoreboards failed.
Speaker 2: They're basically playing in the dark.
Speaker 3: The Cleveland State recently and then they Cleveland State at
its best offensive game of the year at a different gym.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we could do a we could do the
rest of the show on why Cleveland State should move
back to campus, but we just don't have time for
that today.
Speaker 2: You have to save that. We'll have to save that
for a different show.
Speaker 1: What you have time for And Garth I see you there, Garth,
I say, Garth Is is putting out his first five
percent personal Player of the Year, which.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go We'll go to that, but we've got
to do I sort of hijacked the feature game segment
just to like tell people I went to camerony door
over the weekend. So we we gotta do we gotta
do the Yeah that was a yeah, that's Fortunately this
show gets clipped so they don't you know, no one
will know and they clip the the Kansas Iowa State
Breakdown or I'm sorry, Houston Iowa State Breakdown. The reason
I had Kansas Iwa State on the brain. Is we
just saw that game on Saturday. Brian Power or Iowa
State sort of flexed in a spot that was good
for Iowa State to do, so Kansas had come in
So it's almost like you can make the parallel here.
Kansas had come in off a couple of really tough games,
you know, getting to the getting to tip off, not
sure if Daron Peterson's gonna play or not, then sort
of banding together to beat the number one team in
the country and their perfect season, and suddenly they ran
out of gas at Iowa State over the weekend.
Speaker 2: So I feel like, you know, you take that with
a grain of salt.
Speaker 1: Iowa States in a similar spot here where they now
have to turn around after they had their big Hilton
Magic Aims moment over the weekend. They're still at home,
but they've got a top five team come into town.
So big games tonight, Houston, Iowa State. You and I
both were kind of like, man, what do we do
with this game? So I like, I guess let's talk
about it and find it angler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a quick turnaround too. I mean, you
talk about the Kansas turnaround, they face after beating Arizona.
At least that was month. You know, they beat Arizona
on Monday. The Iowa State games until Saturday, you theoretically
have some time to get over you the ecstasy of
that victory, beating Arizona, handing them their first loss the season. Here,
I always state you're talking about it's a forty basically
just forty eight hour turnaround. You're playing another top ten
team in the country. I think the fact that game's
in aims is huge for Iowa State. Not only are
they undefeated there this year, they're forty seven to two
the last forty nine home games. Points you would expect
to be at a premium. I will say this, Arizona
are part of the Houston number one in the country
and scoring defense. They do give up a lot more
away from home. They're by far and away number one
scoring defense. At home, I think they only give up
fifty four points per game. Whether the home team away
from home, that number does jump to sixty eight. Now,
it's not a big sample size, correctly, if I'm wrong,
drag Houston has just not played a lot of true
roadies this year at all. Now, they had an easy
one on paper, Saturday as they put the final nail
in the coffin of one Jerome Tang in Kan's State.
So that was kind of an ideal settle, and it
seemed like perhaps they were looking ahead to this game
a little bit trigged because they didn't have a great
start Houston and they were lucky that Kansas State happened
to just be well a lot worse. So I don't know,
I'm interested where you say, like my thought is in.
Zenna laughed at me when I said this on the
Morning Wagers. The loser of this game is staying under
its team total, and he said, that's the sort of
analysis everyone is paying good money to tune in for.
But then that's what I think. I think, you know,
whoever wins this game, it's gonna because of a superior
effort on the defensive end. I do not see this
like being a seventy five seventy two game.
Speaker 2: It's funny you bring up Kansas State. I was.
Speaker 1: I was chatting with CT last night and we were
talking about that, just like Kansas State and the Tang
and I was just like, you know what, they should
just like Kelly coach the rest of the year and
we've all started dying. Yeah, we were involved laughing because
it's just like, let just let her get on the sideline.
Speaker 2: And whip them into shape.
Speaker 1: You know, just a different, different, different personality right there.
But digress weird.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't need to tell you there's no
three scary words to show up on your computer screen.
Then KIV is typing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, right, that is.
Speaker 1: That is very true as far as this game is concerned.
So you talk about Kansas State, you know Houston. Yeah,
I think Kansas State actually kind of played hard in
that game, at least of what I watched.
Speaker 2: I don't know that Houston.
Speaker 1: Maybe there was an element of Houston going through the
motions a little bit, kind of knowing they have this
game on deck. But I'm with UVP. I'm far more
interested in the total here. I feel like Veno today,
I'm far more interested in the total. He's totals guy.
Speaker 2: For the show.
Speaker 1: I'll be the totals guy for the show today. Where's
the pace going to come from? That gets this one
over one thirty six?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Because you've got two teams Houston is is so not
only is Houston a bottom ten pace team in the country.
But they're also it's reminiscent of Virginia back you know,
our buddy Aaron Kid would tell you the days of
not that Virginia basketball.
Speaker 2: Isn't it a great place? Right now?
Speaker 1: They are, but you go back to those Tony Bennett
Virginia teams that were winning national titles are in the mix,
and you would see a team that was in the
top ten of the country but played a bottom ten piece.
Speaker 2: What does that mean, Well.
Speaker 1: It means they probably are pretty good at dictating terms. Right, Like,
if you are a top ten team nationally, an elite
team like Houston is, and you play a tempo that
Ken Pom ranks three fifty first, there is a good
chance that you're going to be able to dictate how
a game goes against most teams in the league. Now,
on the other hand, you could say, well, Iowa State
their top five team. Yeah, this is a battle of
top five teams, but Iowa State is still around two
hundredth nationally in tempo. I think there. I think Iowa
State is fine playing slower. We've seen them do it
at times this year, and I almost think that if
you're Iowa State and you're even a little bit asked
from the Kansas game, probably makes sense to slow.
Speaker 2: It down a little bit.
Speaker 1: So, Yeah, I kind of like the under here because
two teams that are very good defensively as well in
a game that I don't think you're gonna get a
ton of pace.
Speaker 2: I think this one stays under.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like I said, I think the losing
it's gonna be a tough night. Whoever does lose this game,
it's gonna be a tough night at the offensive end.
Form how about a first half total of sixty six
and a half? That's that to me is too Like
I look, I think if you like the under in
this game, you probably do need that first half under hire,
But God, is that a low number sixty six and
a half.
Speaker 1: I just want to I want to make one comparison
here because I think this is a little bit relevant.
So I think if you were to argue the other side,
you could be like, well, you know, people kind of
had that handicap when Houston played Texas Tech a couple
of weeks ago and the game was ninety to eighty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: For for me, though, Texas Tech is still I still
think they're not quite as put together as Iowa State,
and they're they're they're a little bit more open to
like the free for all. Grant McCaslin does not have
his best defensive team there this year, right, Like that's
so what I would say to that is Iowa States
elite defensively. And when you have a team that hovers
around two hundred in pace Ken Palm, and they're playing
a team with Houston that is notorious for dictating pace,
this is one where I think it's likely to slow down.
I don't think you're gonna have the ninety to eighty
six final like you did in Houston, Texas Tech No
and five.
Speaker 3: Straight unders for Houston as well. Now they were all
except one a higher total than this, but you know,
three of the five stayed under would have stayed under
the number than Iowa State has obviously gone under in
three straight games as well, and their last two games
would have stayed under this number as well. So it's
always important, you know, when you're doing total trends, I
think it's obviously very important to you know, do some
parodi of line analysis.
Speaker 1: Look at us, we said, we said, oh, you know,
it's gonna be tough to talk the big games today,
we were not sure if we have opinions, and we
came on and I feel like I feel like we
landed on kind of two relatively consensus.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I think we're looking at them the same
way for sure.
Speaker 1: And again I think there's a I think there's a
number of even this game similar to Syracuse. Dude, there's
there's different ways you can go about it. But I
think we have the same idea when we're looking at
at both games. I kind of think it's the right
way to look at both games. So we'll see how
those go.
Speaker 2: All right, let's head to the chat. Gars.
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for the Thank you for
the donation of the show. Much appreciated. Guard says his
first five percent personal play of the season Old Dominion
team total over seven and over seventy and a half.
He says, eight and oh at home and conference play.
SID went under three times on the road, but they
put up sixty nine, seventy and sixty four in those games.
This is not only is this a five percent personal
play for Garth, it is an early tip today. I
believe Brian Power, we have some teams making up games
from the terrible weather. I don't know if this is
one of them, but I do know that there's a
couple of other teams, so make sure you got your
eye on that because people of other teams. Yeah, a
couple teams that are playing makeup games today and they
could be in quirky scheduling spots and we'll talk about
them if they come up on the show. This one
in particular, I could not remember if this was a
makeup or not, but it is a five pm tip
Old Dominion at Home where they've been better this year
against Louisiana.
Speaker 2: So are you with Garth on that team total?
Speaker 1: Do you have an opinion on the side anything for
you on Louisiana Old Dominion this after?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would fade Louisi kind a way to
fade Louisiana. That's the way of doing it. The only
thing is, I think you know Louisian for the year.
You look at their offensive their offensive numbers, they're bad
real and so I don't know, I mean their teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, while you're while you're looking at that, I was looking.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, like my like looking at how
Louisiana has been better of late. I'm using the air
quotes there you would think that it's the offense that's
more likely faith. So I was just bringing up their
team total, which sits at sixty five and a half
right now, I would maybe look at that under But yeah,
I mean if you like, if you like Old Dominion,
I mean I don't probably I mean Old Dominion if
it's it's a correlated bet, right obviously, you know, if
you like Old Dominion, they probably do need to get
the seventy one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, And I was trying to pull up Louisiana's, like,
you know, pretty much out outside the top three hundred
nationally and in a lot of like kem Pound's got
them three twenty eight in offense of efficiency, they do not.
So the one thing that'll I guess potentially hurt you here.
And this goes back to but this goes back to
who can dictate the game? Right, Like Louisiana plays a
pace slow as yeah, glacial PIP that's a.
Speaker 2: Good word, VP, that's a good word. It's a glacial pace.
Speaker 1: The only team there's only three teams in the country
playing a slower adjusted tempo than than Louisiana this ship.
But Old Dominion plays much faster that than that and
this is where this is kind of the the the
what I was talking about with Houston, Iowa State. A
lot of times the better team and then and then
the home team, especially if the better team is at home,
it is gonna be able to sort of enforce their impose.
Speaker 2: I would Yeah. I was an English major for like
a little while at Ciena.
Speaker 1: And then I yeah, then I realized you had to
read a lot and I didn't want to do I
like to, right, I didn't want to read, so I
switched the major.
Speaker 2: But yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: The word I was looking for is imposed, impose their will.
I think Old Dominion probably does that here. How about
this VP, Old Dominion is one of the unluckiest teams
in the country per kettle.
Speaker 3: That gets me excited.
Speaker 1: I know it does three forty fifth in luck and
you know, it's funny, like I'm just going back to
my preseason rankings here, I would.
Speaker 3: Just take I'll be honest, we're talking ourselves. I would
just probably take Old Dominion here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: And just so everyone knows, BP and I did not
talk before the show. Actually we didn't know he was
going to be on the show until about twenty minutes
before the show.
Speaker 2: But we're seeing the board very similar here, very well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went back to my sun Belt preseason rankings.
That's what I was trying to queue up over here
as as on my other screen, and I was I
was much higher than the market coming into the year
on Old Dominion. Now, Old Dominion has not had a
you know, a very good season by most accounts. Right,
they are second to last and sun Belt play five
and nine. The only team with the wre sun Belt
record is Louisiana Monroe.
Speaker 2: But again, like how much of that is some bad
luck they've had?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know exactly what goes into that
luck metric, but I think it's notable that you're a
a you know, so I'm gonna do some Here's here's
the way I'm looking at this. You're a bottom twenty
luck team on Ken Pop. M. H. Trigg had you
pretty high in his sun Belt rankings. For whatever that's worth. Now,
you know, you can you can be like, well that's
your that's trash whatever, But I'm just saying I had
them ranked pretty high coming into the the year. This year,
like I was almost always showing some value on the
Old Dominion side in a lot of games, at least
through the first couple of months of this season, they've
won two of three. And you know, one of those
wins your Ohio Bob katz I, I you know, you
got to take that with a grain of salt, because
of course they're not that good this year. Yeah they
really aren't. Yeah, they really aren't. And that's a sun
Belt Mac. Some of those games, like.
Speaker 3: Other than Miami, I knew other than Miami, I knew
the entire MAC was gonna punt that weekend, and they did.
Other than Miami, twelve of the thirteen teams lost.
Speaker 2: Well yea.
Speaker 1: And the way that challenge works, they all all the
MAC teams were on the road. I think it was
sun Belt at Mac, the first time MAC at sun Belt. So, yeah,
you're not gonna put a ton of stock into a
road game when when you're in the middle of like
your conference season, like it's just unless unless you're unless
you of course you're Miami in Ohio where you're trying
to keep it perfect season. Yes, that's a really good point.
But I'll look at the last two games for Old Dominion.
I want to talk about luck. They were extremely unlucky
to lose to Marshall last week.
Speaker 2: That was a they had.
Speaker 1: I mean, they had a huge lead in that game.
Marshall came back and stole it at the end. So
there's an unlucky one. Now over the weekend, they go
out and beat Georgia State by thirty three or yeah,
twenty three.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what I wasn't.
Brian was a math major.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a math may even though you're supposed to
be you're supposed to be good at math. Thankfully, Thankfully,
I got spreadsheets and algorithms that calculate themselves for us. Yes, yeah,
but twenty three point went over the weekend against Georgia State,
so that's encouraging.
Speaker 2: They're still at home.
Speaker 1: This is you know, as we talk about this, I'm
starting to like Old Dominion more and more. I think
it agrees with what Garth is looking at with the
team total over. But for me personally, I would just
lay it with the Monarchs, Like that's the way I
would play this one.
Speaker 2: I'd lay it with the Monarchs.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that they just came off of
a blowout win over the weekend, and they've got some
good you know, they were able to bounce back from
a crushing loss to Marshall. We know they've been unlucky
this season, and they've bounced back with a win and
just to hammer the point home for garth if Old,
Dominion controls this game. It's going to be faster than
Louisiana wants to play. That is not good for Louisiana.
They don't they don't rebound well, they'll likely turn the
ball over. You'll probably get some open court uh of
open in uh live ball turnovers.
Speaker 2: I think they like to call it BP.
Speaker 1: And so I think you're getting your points and I
think you're gonna get an old old Dominion cover. Here.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the odscreen right now, right now at Ay,
one of the more popular books. You can get minus
five and a half minus little five right now on Ody.
So So I mean, I you know, I mean you're
getting a better price than obviously at the open of
this open six and a half. So you know six
is two possessions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where's where's Vno Vino will be I think he'll
be back tomorrow. Honestly, he probably could have done the
show today I think he was. I think he had
like a knee operation. He had it's something something with
his knee. So we lost Richie, Saunders and Veno to
knee injuries this weekend.
Speaker 3: They run into each other. I hope they didn't. They
did they bang knees like.
Speaker 1: Unlike byu vno season is still alive and well b
YUC it might be over after Saunders because they were
they had no depth anyway. That is a crushing blow
to a team that was sort of looking up against
it already. And and that is a that was a
tough blow U for for the b YU Cougars to
lose your sounders over the weekend. We did not lose Veno.
He is the he has the morning off. VP has
made his return to the show, which, like I said,
the people have been asking about you, so we had
to get you back in the mix. And yeah, well,
well I'm sure Rob will be back probably as.
Speaker 2: Soon as tomorrow. So uh uh.
Speaker 1: For other one we talked about, we talked about the
big games. At the top of the show, I saw
a couple of people asking, so, as always Wager Talk
YouTube channel, check out the replay this is now If
if you're I have to pretty much say this every
show this week. If you're looking for the stream, I
don't think X is gonna let us. I don't think
they let streaming anymore happen like automatically on their platform.
So so if you want to watch the show live,
it's always on the wage you Talk YouTube channel. You
can find it on my Twitter because I'm tweeting the
YouTube stream. But someone was like, I can't see it
on X, I can't bite it on X. I'm going
to just continue to say, just make sure you've got
YouTube pulled up. We're live on YouTube. That's where we
see the majority of the comments anyway, as they come
from YouTube. So uh, just a little a p s
A right there.
Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about live. They don't. I
got to deal with Zeno every day so that they
don't let him go live, I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 3: We're not they're not ready. They're not ready to give
that live featured our program.
Speaker 2: So there you have.
Speaker 3: I are we still are we still uh we still
got to pick something right att.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're still doing No, we're still doing a show.
Speaker 2: Parlay we'll still you and I will at least.
Speaker 1: So Now what we do BP is we either do
a two or three teamer, meaning we'll either do a
two teamer, but if we've got one that we both
really like, well just will yolo it as the kids.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think the kids say that anymore.
I don't think the kids of like ten years.
Speaker 3: I say it, but I'm not old.
Speaker 1: But so, either two or three teamer, if you have
one that you want to throw out by.
Speaker 2: Any means, go on and pull this out. All right,
let's go, what do you What do you got?
Speaker 3: Marshall? Team total over South Alabama is if you're not
If that's not a team you pay attention to. They're
a crazy team in the sense that they allow an
insane percentage of attempts from three relative to the total
number field goal attemp slot. Sixty five percent of opposing
team shots come from behind the arc. That is more
than ten percent higher than the number two team. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: This line cratered a little bit this morning on Marshall.
Why because the big man Van Coleman is on it
stood next to this individual very large.
Speaker 1: He's not playing to get my phone out quick enough.
I think I actually may have a picture of you
standing next to him.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm a tall guy and he dwarfed me.
It was crazy. But he's out. But that's okay. With
the Marshall team total, Marshall is a as you know,
trick is a very good three point shooting team at
home in Huntington. It's been a while since I've been
a Huntington West Virginia. I went there for Randy Moss's
last home game, believe or not, when they played Ohio University.
That's I think the last time I was that was
a while.
Speaker 2: Was that Pennington as well?
Speaker 3: Was he Champ Pennington was the quarterback in that game.
Yet he set the touchdown record, the NCAA touchdown record
in that game and then threw the ball out of
the stadium at landed in McDonald's parking lot. It was.
It was incredible. Anyway, I think Marshall's not gonna have
much like Randy Moss that day against the suspect Ohio
University's secondary Marshall's basketball team will not have problem scoring
here with him coming out. Instead of laying it, let's
just bet them to go over their team total, they
shoot over forty percent from three against an opponent that's
gonna let you take a lot of threes. So Marshall
over seam total and let me get that because I
think it's been moving. I gave it a it is.
It's seventy six and a half.
Speaker 1: Still listen, that makes all the sense in the world.
And I'll all all my handicaps going to do is
support once again, support your thought here so we continue
to see it similar.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Marshall.
Speaker 1: So Matthew van Coleman came from Elon, right, like this
is his first year on Marshall, Corney Jackson really had
to sort of revamp the team to accommodate him. So like,
if you go back to last year, Marshall played a
lot faster, right, they were a little bit they were smaller, quicker,
faster this year to because Van Coleman was so good
at Elon as the anchor of that zone, Marshall started
to play more zone and they started to play in
a manner that made it because they basically were like, well,
we acquired this seven to four big, we should be
playing in a way that, like you know, makes him comfortable, right, like,
we don't want to have this game ripping up and
down the court where our seven foot four big is
now trailing the play because he can't run with the
quick six to one six y two guards that like
to get up and down the floor.
Speaker 2: So in theory, now that Matthew Van.
Speaker 1: Coleman's been out, and now that it's been a couple
of games, I think you should get a pretty big
pace bump from Marshall. I think they're gonna start reverting
back toward the way they played last year, which was
which was faster. Now they're still like I don't know
that that's like, you know, any sort of crazy news
to anyone. They're still ninety first in adjusted tempo.
Speaker 2: So it's like.
Speaker 3: That's with the big. That's what I'm saying. If they
speed the pace up, that means they're going real fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let me uh that's that's that's exactly right.
So again, I I my gut would say that they
only get faster, Like, as long as Van Coleman is out,
they are only going to get faster on the pace
and if and if that's the case, you gotta like
your chances out of team total because we've been talking
about South Alabama since they opened the season with Toledo,
because you and I watched that game and we went
to the Toledo game like the next game after, and
it was just like, Oh, this team, this is Richie Riley.
He's gonna play this zone hell or high water VP.
He's not getting out of that zone. So like, if
Marshall can figure out the zone, they are going to
have a lot of good looks from three in this game.
So I'm with you, team total over makes complete sense.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I'll go I'll go to one here.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of chatter in the chat about Colgate Boston,
you and uh far be it for me to deprive
the chat of some national televised Patriot League actions as
we get into conference play.
Speaker 2: We are in go ahead BP.
Speaker 3: No. I was gonna say, I'm glad we are talking
about this because Zeno and I went back because Zeno
the Patriot League guy.
Speaker 1: He is ay, he used to be a MAC guy
the Loyola he was a Mac guy and they moved
to the Patriot League.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I think this is a horrible spot for
Colgate coming off the loss of Navy where you laid
it all on the line and then you lose an overtime.
But he was very adamant that how bad Boston you
is defensively okay, so he thinks that's gonna be a
I don't know spot like spot wise, there is no
way I want to play Colgate.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the mediator of this discussion between you
and Zeno because I think you both have good points here,
and so we'll try to figure this one out.
Speaker 2: Because I've really looked at this one.
Speaker 1: Hard as as a guy that was on the wrong
side of Colgate Navy.
Speaker 2: Uh, that was I I didn't I middle had Golgate too,
and that was it.
Speaker 1: Listen, that was a tough beat, right, Like they lose
an overtime, there was a at the end of regulation,
they really probably if they make their free throws, they
probably win the game.
Speaker 2: But BP, you can't. You cannot.
Speaker 1: The spot matters here, right because here's the other thing.
Here's the other thing about about this game. The Patriot
League makes concessions to play on national TV on Monday nights.
This is typically a Wednesday Saturday league. Right, Usually Patriot
League plays Wednesday Saturday except when they get the National
TV spot.
Speaker 2: What does that mean.
Speaker 1: It means that for two teams to play on national
television six pm CBS Sports Network, they're gonna have a
quick turnaround. So I am very much with you in
the respect that this is a really tough quick turnaround
for Colgate because you just had I mean, that was
Colgate's season on the line. When I say their season
on the line, they needed to win that game to
have a chance to win the Patriot League regular season, which.
Speaker 2: Is a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's arguably a bigger deal than it is in other
leagues because all these teams. This is still a campus
site tournament. So the one seed in the Patriot League
is going to get to host at any game that
they play in the conference tournament.
Speaker 2: So it was a huge game for Colgate. They were
right there, they.
Speaker 1: End up going to overtime and losing, and now they
got to hit the road and go play Boston University.
Who Here's where I'll here's where I'll sort of support
Zeno's theory a little bit. They've been decimated by injury
this year, completely decimated by injury. They're not the team
like coming into this season I thought, b I thought
this league was going to be Colgate, Boston University, Navy,
and then everyone else. Those three teams would have been
far and away the best teams in this league. Now
BU has not been in that conversation because BU does
not have the team that they were supposed to have
at the beginning of the year. They've been just dusted
by injury, like I mean, maybe more so than any
other team in the Patriot League this year. However, they've
won four straight and it's about time. This is this
is where this handicap becomes interesting, because it's time where
we have to start judging BU for the team that's
on the court and not like what they would have
been had everyone been healthy and so for for for
months they struggled, but it's like they're starting to figure
it out. They're starting to put it together a little bit.
Four straight wins. They blow out Bucknell over the weekend
and Brian Power. That game was at Case Gym as well,
which means b you hadn't they haven't had to go anywhere.
Speaker 2: They're chilling. Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna get.
Speaker 1: A nationally televised home I wonder that the last time
I can remember them playing at home on national TV
on a Monday, the swim team was there and nothing
but they're they're they're underwear trucks. Yeah, right at half court,
right on the right in the camera screen. So that's
my sister went to be U, so just a theme.
She went to be you for undergrad. She actually played
volleyball there, so she was friends with some of the athletes.
Speaker 2: That was.
Speaker 1: Uh, that was during the John Holland days. Pat Chambers
the head coach. So that's a really fun little, uh
little building case, Jim. It's in like the second floor
of their like student rec center. Probably a decent atmosphere
tonight they tend to it's weird. Bu Hoops tends to
start to show up like mid February, so like they'll
have no one there and then it's like, you know
they have.
Speaker 3: The Patriots for all those years, that's why that's what
they're paying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I don't know, man, this is a it's
tough for me to go against Colgate having been on
Colgate over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that guy where I'm just like,
you know, now now I lose.
Speaker 3: Now you jump out yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
If you like them, I think.
Speaker 2: I think I'm I think I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have the points and be you
here with them staying at home, whereas Colgate has this
crushing defeat and now they have to hit the road
on a quick turnaround. Yeah, I think I think I'd
roll with the Terriers plus the points.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's a tricky game, though, That's a very
tricky game.
Speaker 1: All Right, we still have fifteen minutes left. I will
be locking a play in. I'm gonna I'm gonna think
about what I'm gonna make my leg of the parlay.
Let's this is a makeup. So let's talk about this
one quick because I do have opinions here. Uh. It
is the third time that Abilene, Christian and Charleton have played.
I believe this game was the one that got uh.
They had an ice storm in Texas. They tried to
so they tried to play this game like two different
times and and canceled it both times. And so the
interesting dynamic here is the Whack this season.
Speaker 2: Brian Power.
Speaker 3: Is getting out a hand man.
Speaker 1: Well, everyone in the Whack is playing three is playing
three times. So that is that is the norm for
Whack Conference basketball. This year, everyone is playing three times.
What's interesting about this game is these two teams played
two days ago in Abilene, So this is a literal
home and home Saturday in Abilene.
Speaker 2: Charlton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I I kind of I was at
a game while this game was going on, but it's
it's one, you know. I I follow the Tarleton program closely,
made some friends down there. Tarlton was winning the game
until they weren't. Like it was almost like your your
Murray State bellnot type, not quite as drastic as that
last night, but Tarlton was winning for like a long
stretch and I think I I tuned out for a second.
By the time I tuned back in, they were down
by double digits very quickly. I'm trying to scroll through
Saturday's game games to get a get a final.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: They lost. Yeah, I mean so Abilene Christian out scored
a forty seven to twenty seven in the second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's and that's saying something because Abilene Christian
does not score like, they're not a team that really
scores the basketball. So for them to come out and
drop forty seven in the second half and blow that
game open, is uh, you know that's that's not that's
not something they typically do Abilene.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 1: They're not a bad team this year, Brian, but they
they're not gonna they're gonna grind out these defensive, low
scoring games. They're not a team that typically comes out
and drops forty seven in a half against a team
that's comparable, right like Abilene and Tarleton. I think most
power rankings have them pretty close, pretty even, and so
for them to do that was was shocking because they
turned that game on its head. My concern for Charleton
is the season has just kind of caught up with them.
They've had injuries, they don't have Deor Johnson hasn't played.
Freddie Hicks is back, but he's also been coming off
of injuries, so you're not really getting like the full
Freddie Hicks experience. Of course, he played twenty one minutes
off the bench over the weekend, only scored five points.
It just it feels like things are going south for
this Tarleton team. And also they just don't have a
ton of scoring without Dior Johnson on the floor. Who
I believe, correct me if I'm wrong. VP is still
the leading scorer in the country in terms of points
per game. If he's not one, he's very close to
being the leading scorer in the country. He's averaging like
something like twenty four or twenty five points per game.
Now you've got the quick turnaround is at Tarleton, so
I suppose, like, but I have no idea what the
deal is with Dior, whether he's gonna play, whether he's not.
It feels like if this is the same personnel that
showed up on Saturday, I think I'd have a tough
time taking Tarleton here. If if de or Johnson is back,
they they would That changes my opinion completely. I'd be
all over them in this spot because they I mean,
he's he's worth like, I mean, he's gonna put up
twenty for you. But I but Brian, I will say
this and maybe you can talk to me about the
total or how you're seeing the side. I don't know
that I really want Abaline either because they don't score.
So what so what do we do in this spot?
Speaker 3: I mean that would be first of all, Johnson be
number two in the country at scoring gate, that that
if he qualified, he's off the qualifier board. Now officially, look,
you see this in the NBA sometimes where the teams
will play back to back games, so oftentimes it's at
the same place. They actually don't switch. I often like
to go with the team that lost to get immediate revenge.
In those I would you make a strugg at the market.
The early market has moved towards Abilene Christian here. I
don't know if if I can get a cheap money
line price on Tarlot, And actually, I actually might consider
doing it with the revenge because you look at how
the game just played out, and it was it's a
misleading second half. To me, that's a that's a one
out of ten, one out of twenty one on a
thirty outcome for Abilene. The way that second half played out,
that's not gonna happen again, especially now that they're on
the road. So I would actually, I don't know, I
actually would kind of maybe lean just on principle, less
schematic stuff for me, trig just more on principle. You know,
it has left I think the handicapper is less to
do with the specifics of these actual teams, and hey,
I'm getting a cheap I could get a cheap money
line price on the team at home playing with immediate revenge.
That is attractive to me, at least from a situational perspective, obviously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's one of those two.
Speaker 1: And I guess the final thing I'll say about about this,
it's like, I wonder, especially for a team like Charleton,
the focus has to be, like, we need to do
everything in our power to try to get as healthy
as possible for the Whack Tournament. Right because as of
right now, as of right now, it was only it
was already going to be a seven team tournament. If
Utah Valley doesn't pay their tab, it's only a six
team tournament. Yeah, that is a major opportunity, even for
a team that's having a tough conference season, to only
have to play if you're if you're like either of
these teams and Utah Valley doesn't pay the million and
they're not in the tournament, it's it's a six team
tournament to get to the NCAA tournament, right, Like that's
incredible that that is, like that the opportunity of a
lifetime for teams that are maybe not having the best season,
so still everything to play for. And I maybe you know,
don't maybe I shouldn't be discounting Charleton for like, they
still have everything in front of them here, and they
do have some depth, and they do have some good players.
So it is a very it is going to be
very interesting to watch this game. I don't know, I
don't know how to really process all of that. I
think it could be. And listen, look at go back
to Saturday VVI the swings in that game. Yeah, maybe
you are, maybe maybe you've convinced.
Speaker 3: I just think conception again. I mean, I think if
you're if you're really in the weeds with the two teams,
you might have your down. I just think, you know,
just brought you know, broadly conceptually speaking, you know the
revel I mean it's not I mean, you know, for me,
you don't want to just limit your handicap to one factor.
But I don't know from that perspective, I would lean
a little bit towards Carlton. The only game on the
main board. We haven't talked about Trigg if we could
jump because I actually want to get this in and
get your response to it, because we talked about it
on the morning. Wager is Drexel Stonybrook. Zeno made a
strong case for the over in this game. It is
a very low total at one thirty three and a half.
Now these teams played. You talk about rematches, I could
guarantee you that Stonybrook is going to score more in
this game than they did the first time against Drexel.
Because they scored thirty seven points in the first game Againstrexel.
I was just on the wrong end of a team
scoring sixty one, sixty one points in eighteen minutes. Last night,
Stony Brooks scored thirty seven points in forty minutes the
first time. So you know, stony Brook's at home obviously
this time. I think this stony Brook. The Coastal is
a very odd league. This year is very wide open.
I don't think there's a big North Carolina A and
T and Northeastern obviously suck. Those two teams are are
very bad. But I think the rest of the league,
like anyone can beat anyone on any given night. Yeah,
I think Wilmington's a pretty weak first place team. But
I don't know, what do you think about that? I
kind of when he laid it out, he made a
pretty compelling case for that Drexel stony Brook over It's
just it's such a low number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean, this is a game i've I've
I've actually had a you know, I had a nice
winning the Coastal last night with Towson plus.
Speaker 2: One and a half.
Speaker 1: Somehow held on I have been so so Drexel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's I guess I'll talk about the side bels.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the total first, and then I'm actually
gonna you know what you've I was on the fence
with what I was going to use for the parlay.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to use this game. But let's
talk about the total first.
Speaker 1: My problem, my only real problem, because I actually like
this Drexel team. My issue with them coming into the
year was they really didn't go to the portal at all.
It's I didn't know if it was a resource thing
or what it was, but they didn't go to the
portal at all, and I felt like their team didn't
have a ton of of of basketball talent. Why that
was disappointing to me is I love Zach Spiker. He's
a great coach. He had he had a run at
Army for years. Is a really good coach like he
He is a fantastic basketball coach, and so I want
to like his teams. I actually went to uh see
Drexel play at Drexel earlier this year, and my whole
thing is, like, you know, this is too bad because
they're a pretty well put together team, but they just
don't have a ton of offensive ability.
Speaker 2: They don't have a ton of offensive talent. Now, to
Drexel's credit.
Speaker 1: They've improved in that regard, right, like they they've got it.
Like this is a team when I went and saw them,
they played Howard, that was back in early December, and
they got they got They lost on their home FLOORIA
or a team that I think that anyone agree would
agree like a capable Drexel team should should beat Howard
at home.
Speaker 2: And they lost that game.
Speaker 1: And I said, man, it's just because this team, this
team just can't score. They just don't have like they play.
They play hard on deepense, they're organized. Spiker's a great coach,
but at some point it does come down to putting
the ball through that or in cylinder. Right, that is
the game we are playing here. It's still and that's
what I felt like they had a hard time doing.
You can go back to early you know, go back
to that sort of same window of games, right losing
to Charleston sixty three points losing to Wilmington, they only
scored fifty three. They lose to Hostra, fail to break
seventy again, and then something's happened with them. I think
it was I really think it was more. They started
to win a couple of close games. But this team
looks more confident on the offensive end. They put up
eighty three against against Northeastern, recently eighty two in a
win over Elon. You know, they're still winning low scoring games,
which is why I'm gonna move towards the side of
this breakdown, but I guess I can't. I I don't
really disagree with Zeno's look on the total last time.
Speaker 3: It's interesting, totals the same, it's the same number as
it was the first time, So I like, you know,
obviously it's the odds makers were unmoved and understand that
that was an outlier performance.
Speaker 2: You know that one, right, and that was more of
an outline.
Speaker 1: Listen, that was more of an outlier performance, probably more
of an outlier performance for Stonybrooks scoring thirty seven points. Yes,
but I wouldn't listen, like if this game is decided
in the sixties or someone's like, maybe you know, I'm
not that surprised for me as I go back to, uh,
I just want to see because I'm I'm probably I
do think this is what I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna use for the parlay.
Speaker 1: It's again I was, I was close with the games
I was going to use. I don't think Drexel should
be like an underdog. I think maybe like by a point,
maybe you could make the minus one here minus one
and a half. I had to I had one more
thing I needed to add in to my calculation of
this line. But I was I think when I finished
my calculation for this one, which I just was, yeah,
happened to not do yet this morning, I'm gonna be
closer to like one point eight two, I'm not gonna
be at four.
Speaker 2: That's that's the point I'm trying to make.
Speaker 1: So even though I didn't play it at the open,
because again I go back, I you know, this wasn't
one for me that like just jumped off the page
as like something I had to lock in. And the
reason for that is I do think Stonybrook is gonna
get a little bit of love for being at home.
But from a number standpoint, I don't think Drexel should
be a four point dog on the road here, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Stonybrook.
Speaker 1: I haven't been to this building, but I do know
it's it's great if they could fill it, but they
haven't really that. I don't even know that they're filling
it for the Hofstra game these days, which is of
course the Battle of Long Island for those of you
keeping track of your rivalries at home. So I just
don't know that Drexel's the big draw. Maybe if Charleston
or Wilmington come to town, people will show up.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be parlay leg for me. I'm gonna
go Drexel plus four. It looks like I for the parlay,
I'm gonna put minus one twenty.
Speaker 2: There are fours.
Speaker 1: Out there, so this open three and a half. It
looks like it just is starting to touch four places.
I'll probably monitor throughout the day if I can get
a widely available four. This may get a this may
make my client card. But for the parlay, I'm gonna
go Drexel plus four. So I just don't think they
should be a dog here. And if they lose this game,
I think it's gonna be kind of a dog fight.
If you will be a close game, one that could
be within a possession or two. So I kind of
like my I kind of like the idea of getting
two possessions here in this game.
Speaker 3: You know, we talked about the coastal being wide open.
These are two teams that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think there's better teams than both these teams in
the state. Like they're lower that like I think William
and Mary and towsand are more live to make a
run in that tournament than the either of these two teams.
Speaker 1: But one thing I want, I really this is sort
of important to the handicap. Drexel is starting to gain
confidence as a team that can that knows how to
win games. They didn't have that earlier in the year,
but they have strung together some wins and they do
it ugly where I think they I don't think they
ever think they're out of a game, and that's because
they're Zack Spiker is a tremendous coach, and this is
I'll be on. This is a team I think Drexel
could sneak up on teams in this conference. Attorney every
year in the CAAA we see some remember last year,
I think it was Delaware a couple of years ago
it was Stony Brook going all the way to the
final and then eventually losing the UNC Wilmington. Don't sleep
on the Drexel Dragons, Brian Power. I think they're better
than people think.
Speaker 3: Breathing fire.
Speaker 2: All right, we have hit the end of the show.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put one twenty juice on that, so the
parlay of the day will be plus two fifty. Brian
Power is going with Marshall team total over seventy six
and a half. I'm gonna go with Drexel plus four BP.
Thank you so much for coming back to full court press.
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Speaker 1: Why didn't you hit the the folks with a quick
promo what you got going on on the way out?
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Speaker 1: Phenomenal stuff. BP always good to chat with you. Appreciate
you guys tuning in as always. We'll be back one
way or another.
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