Speaker 1: All right, welcome in everybody. It is Friday. It's time
for another edition of Full Court Press. The Calm before
the Storm, Robbino, that's what the Friday Sleep is.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 1: They give us a couple of games, at least at
least we've got the Mac and the Ivy knack on
Friday in h apparently find being lost in the shuffle
last weeks. But they're back on Friday night where they belong.
He got, you know, you got to have these lead
the smaller league opportunity there for you on Friday to
play Friday Sunday and get your game scene. And so
it's great that the Mac and the Ivy, which which
always used to be on Friday pretty much every game,
are back in the Friday time slot. But first, rob,
you know, before we get in a Friday, let's talk
about Thursday real quick. No, get on the parlay. It
was my only loss though, and I kind of got unlucky.
Charleston had Connor Hickman ruled out like right before the game.
It appears he is ineligible and done for the year.
Is that what you gathered on that one?
Speaker 3: It's what I saw, but I didn't confirm.
Speaker 4: But it looks that way, yet he had been a
pretty big piece since he returned.
Speaker 2: Too, Rob. I mean, I'll be honest, I don't.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I had enough time to really
react to that news. The number didn't move a ton,
so I just decided to ride out my bet. There's
no way back in Charleston without Tickman. So that was
a little bit unlucky for me. But I did get
a little bit lucky.
Speaker 2: With mercy Hurst. They kind of came back.
Speaker 1: I had them plus three, they come all the way back,
never really led in the second half, but lose by one.
Speaker 2: So that was a good result for me. And then
South Alabama role.
Speaker 1: So two in one night for me on Thursday, bounce
back from the five percent loss on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: How did Thursday go for you?
Speaker 3: Thursday was a split one in one.
Speaker 4: The good news was Belmont team total, never in doubt
ninety one points against Northern Iowa, just a The three
point shooting clinic that they put on from about the
eleven minute mark of the first half until the end
of the first half was really something. Yeah, Belmont offensively
in Northern Iowa hung right with them. Northern Iowa played
extremely good offense as well. Team to watch out for
inside that Missouri Valley Arch Madness Tournament, the Unlucky Coross,
the Florida International Delaware game, which was the craziest. If
that had been a March Madness game opening round, first round,
we'd have seen the.
Speaker 3: Endings one hundred times by now. But just to let
the folks in.
Speaker 4: Who didn't go to Twitter or see, I think by
You was with me on this frustration and that game,
Delaware leads sixty two to forty six, going away victory,
no problem.
Speaker 3: Five minutes left that by You cannot be the thing.
Speaker 4: They had only scored sixteen points the entire second half,
missed every shot they took, basically, and then all of
a sudden, here comes the rally from nowhere to the
point where Adam they they are final three possessions, They
hit three threes. They keep getting stops or missed ends
of a one to one come down, bang three threes,
the one that ties the game at sixty six, which
was incredible. I'm like, oh my god, I can't believe
I'm even gonna have half a chance at this. In overtime,
about five seconds left they make the three. Delaware doesn't
call time out, they let it play out. They take
the ball down the court, pushed through the lane. I mean,
the struggle to get through the lane off the dribble
was crazy. Looked like it could have been stripped, looked
like it could have been a file, Looked like it
could have been.
Speaker 3: A lot of things. It was none of those. It
was a shot.
Speaker 4: Put up that missed and Delaware player running from the
far baseline comes in and tips it home with about
I don't know, zero one point one left on the clock.
So Delaware gets there. We just missed overtime. Would have
been lucky to get it to and I can't really
consider that as a smart play. Delaware Florida International over
the total, but just an incredible You fight all that way,
You fight a sixteen point deficit to get back in
it only to have a.
Speaker 3: Chip in with like you know, zero point one left.
Speaker 4: But is what it is. It was a split, which
is in bad news. We'll get on to today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a couple of folks referencing in the
chat the package, the joint package between Rob. You know,
Rob and I have done well this week. Another winning
day yesterday. That is up till further notice. Double the
CBB Firepower, and it is officially the weekend Package, Rob
because it's Friday, which means Friday, Saturday, Sunday. If you
get it today, you get all of my plays, all
of Rob's plays in college hoops for the entire weekend.
Mansy says, good morning, he says, let's start a big weekend.
And I kind of I thought he maybe threw the
one in there, you know, but I didn't know if
he was going to help me segue into a big
one in the Big Ten, Rob.
Speaker 2: But that's where the big weekend is going to start out.
Speaker 1: In Madison, Wisconsin at the Coal Center, Big Ten Basketball
on a Friday night. You've got the Michigan State Spartans
top ten team. I think they were a little bit
fortunate to be Illinois, but they got it done last week.
They've been off since then, so they've had time to
prepare for this game Rob. While Wisconsin they've had a
couple of things going on. One of those things was
a very impressive midweek win over Illinois. So Michigan State
Wisconsin Coal Center Tonight, tight spread feels like a toss up.
Speaker 2: Who do you got?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Coule, let'll just get the Ats housekeeping out of
the way here first, and Wisconsin their team total eight
and two to the over last ten games. We've come
to know Wisconsin is a far more offensive team than
defensive team. This year, five of those eight overs team
total oars have come by eleven and a half points
or better, so some of them not even close. Wisconsin
has been getting way older. For the Michigan state side,
they are four and oho to the over their last
four games, although the Illinois game which is in those
four was only one forty two at the end of regulation,
and the number was one forty two and after if
you want to go by regulation, only three and when interesting,
both of these teams, like you just mentioned, they enter
off of wins over Illinois. The Wisconsin one, I sort of,
you know, keep reservation or hold reservation on because we
know Kylin Boswell's been out. But Stoyakovich didn't play in
that game either and Illinois was still and that was
another one of those late rulings where the player was
out at him because that day for the parlay, I
believe Illinois team total over was my end of the
parlay and it got to overtime at eighty one eighty one.
I think we're looking at eighty one and a half.
But at nine or excuse me, at you know, ten thirty,
ten forty five am when we were on I probably
would not have made that play, knowing Stoyakovich was.
Speaker 3: Out of the line of as well. It didn't matter.
Speaker 4: Illinois scored on Wisconsin, Wisconsin scored back. But I do,
you know, feel a little bit of reservation about Wisconsin
having to struggle like that without two of the better
players for Illinois even on the floor. I guess it's
a It's an absolute, absolute positive for Illinois to know
that they can go without two of those guards and
still almost beat Wisconsin. Here we get a matchup where we,
like I say, Michigan State's been off six days, the
other side comes off the midweek game. I'll say this fundamentally.
I had just a quick list in my notes from
early this morning of what Wisconsin absolutely needs to do tonight.
You know, it's interesting, Adam, Michigan State, they score a
lot of points for a team that doesn't shoot well,
they've rebound. How do they score their points? Well, they're
number five in the country in fast break points. Believe
it or not, an ISO team being the fifth highest
scoring team off the fast breaking League, they get a
lot of fast breaks, they get a lot of second
chance they get to the free throw linement out there
not necessarily good shooters. If you're Wisconsin tonight, you cannot
be slow in transition defense against this team.
Speaker 3: No how, no way.
Speaker 4: Michigan State's going to defensive board and get out and
if they see an advantage, they're going to take it.
You can't allow second chance points. This matchup height versus
height is pretty close.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Somebody had said the other day that Wisconsin should play
Austin Rapp a little bit more, and I agree with that,
and he had a big game against Dillonoi the of
the night.
Speaker 3: But they have to get on the board. They can't
lost second chance points.
Speaker 4: And again they have to keep Michigan State off the
free throw line, you know, especially Fears.
Speaker 3: You can let con Carr get to the line.
Speaker 4: He doesn't shoot him well, but Fears and Jackson Cohler,
really Jackson Cohler is another unheralded guy who is an
elite rebounder on both ends, shoots the three better than
anybody on this team, and gets out on the break.
Speaker 3: So Cohler is a big deal.
Speaker 4: But if you're Wisconsin again, you want to be able
to stop the break. Don't let Michigan State get the
cheap points that they want, second chance points, or get
to the free throw line.
Speaker 3: If you can do all that, it's still going to
be difficult against this MSU defense, which ranks towards the
top in every single category in Big Ten play.
Speaker 4: You know Boyd and Blackwell, what more can you say
about the guards here? That's where it all starts, and
they do have a little bit of ability to shoot
from the outside of the bigs to crash the boards
with the bigs. My first inclination here when I started
going through this was I'm going.
Speaker 3: To play Michigan State.
Speaker 4: I don't know that Wisconsin is going to be able
to consistently score in this game. But what kept me
back a little bit, Adam, is the fact that, yeah,
Michigan State is a fast break a solid fast break team,
and they depend on it a lot. But the Wisconsin
team doesn't turn the ball over much. So again, if
they're not slow in transition defense, they could hang in there.
I do still think Michigan State's the better team. Somebody
pushed it up to two and a half this morning
came right back to one and a half. Let's look
now real quick before I turn it over to you
and see what the line is here. Yeah, we're back
to two and a half. So this line's done some
flip flopping over the course of the three hours between
seven am and ten am now Eastern time. I would
probably look Michigan State's way, just because I think in
the end that rebound toughness is going to get them through.
And again I wonder slightly about Wisconsin having to struggle
so much against it.
Speaker 3: That struggle because Illinois is a tough team.
Speaker 4: To beat, but it feels like when you don't have
Boswell and you don't have Stoyakovich and you're leaving it
in the backcourt to Waggler solely, you should be able
to win.
Speaker 3: They couldn't do it. We'll see.
Speaker 4: I don't see a lot of lane penetration out of
Wisconsin that I'll tell you that. Nick Boyd, he's gonna
have to shoot threes because he's going to go into
the trees and get swatted away.
Speaker 3: So rim defense is huge on the Michigan State side.
Speaker 4: I'm going to take a stance it's going to be
with Michigan State minus the two points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I had to take a stance, that's how
it would be. As well.
Speaker 1: I threw the Michigan State hoodie on this morning just
because I was like, you know what, what are we
going to talk about here? And new we would talk
about this game if I had to bet it, That's
the way I would bet it. But I want to
go through I'm going to my breakdown is just going
to be kind of there's a lot of good comments
coming in from our viewers for this game, and so
I want to kind of just like answer them one
by one because I think it's very interesting. So, uh,
we'll start with Mark. He says, how do we not
take Michigan State money line? Well, it depends on how
how you think this game is gonna go. Because if
you if you like a team that's gonna win in
the gray area, that's gonna win all of the intangibles,
you gotta love Michigan State money line. But the game
of basketball is still putting the ball through the basket.
And Wisconsin, if they get going, they can shoot the ball,
and then you have to then you have to worry
about you know, them kind of riding the home atmosphere
to a natoh run, a ten oh run, and you
know that's something that Michigan State has been prone to.
They have not They've had They've had a couple of
very near well, no, they did have a catastrophic loss
on the road to Minnesota, and prior to that, rob
they almost lost to Rutgers at Rutgers.
Speaker 2: That is that is not a those are those are
not good road results.
Speaker 1: To throw one more and from much earlier in the
season they only lost or they only won by or
at Penn State. So like, if you're having these near
misses on the road to the bottom half of the
Big Ten, you know, try the Cole Center on for size, Right,
that is not the place that you want to go
and have a hiccup and suddenly gave up a ten
oher run, you know, to a Wisconsin team that can
make shots, and suddenly you're in a ten point hole.
Now you got to claw back. Ocho says, both teams
are off ot games. Yeah, but Michigan's game against Over
in overtime was a week ago, So what does that matter, Right,
They've had a week off and I just want to
double check that because now I'm going off memory.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they have not played.
Speaker 1: They have not played since Saturday when they beat Illinois
in overtime at home. Wisconsin has had to play multiple
games since then, and one of those games was of
course an overtime trip to Champagne. They've actually played back
to back OT games because the game on Saturday against
Indiana was decided in overtime as well, so again created
equal In my opinion, I think that probably favors Michigan
State a little bit. That was a you know, that
game took a lot out in my opinion that that
was a grueling game for Wisconsin to have to then
go into OT with Illinois really needed a big second
half to do it. Let's go to Shane. So Shane's
gonna be in the building tonight. I absolutely love this, Shane.
I'll be in the building somewhere tonight too, It's just
not gonna be at the Coals Center. So I absolutely
love that. Shane'sys Michigan State playing in Madison. Give me
the Badgers. Well, if you like the home angle, and
if you agree with Shane who's saying the Badgers are
going to hit a bunch of threes. If Wisconsin's hitting threes.
They're probably winning this game. Like if they are, if
they could go out and have a night rob where
they shoot forty or fifty percent from three, I'd be
shocked if Wisconsin win doesn't win this game. So it
really comes down to and this is why I kind
of use I don't like throwing the term coin flip
around because I feel like too many people throw the
ter coin flip around, and it's like, just because a
spread is won does not make the game of coin flip.
The reason I think this one fits that sort of
moniker is it's really going to come down to how
Wisconsin shoots the ball. If they don't shoot it well,
Michigan State will likely win in every other area, which
means they should win the game. But the great equalizer
in the game of basketball, where you only earn points
for putting the ball through the basket, is the ability
to put the ball in the basket. Wisconsin can do that,
they can shoot the rock. If they shoot it well tonight,
they will win. And that's why even though I lead
Michigan State, I'm out of this one. Ocho says, Michigan
State will kill them on the glass. Yeah, they probably will,
but again you don't get points on the scoreboard for rebounding.
You do get points on the scoreboard for the ball
going in the basket. And that is the fear for
me with Michigan State is that Wisconsin gets hot and
suddenly they're able to sort of ride that Coal Center
atmosphere to a lead, which means they can probably win
the game. But enjoy the game tonight, chain good luck,
whatever decide sighed, you decide to be on. I feel like,
if you're at Call Center on a Friday night, rob
Wisconsin Michigan State, You've already won.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what you're right there, You're already a winner.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the game real quick, just to sum it
up or wrap it upbout it.
Speaker 3: It's such a contrast.
Speaker 4: You know, Wisconsin is a fast paced team, third tempo team,
third fastest tempo team in that league. And that's how
you want to beat Michigan State's defense, right. You want
to get out and get down the floor a streakcaus
you can before they can set up.
Speaker 3: And again, I don't see Blackwell and Boyd getting to the.
Speaker 4: Rim a lot against this Michigan State team, which not
only rebounds but block shots.
Speaker 3: Is well, they protect the rim, let's put it that way.
Speaker 4: But if those two guys are hitting threes, and also
they have bigs that can step out and hit threes,
and so Wisconsin just has more options. How many times
have we in Michigan State this year where Fears has
no help on offense, it's just Jeremiah Fears and nobody
comes to the rescue. Jackson Cohler when he shows up
is good. Cone Car when he shows up, you're even better.
But it's just an.
Speaker 3: Interesting contrast in styles here.
Speaker 4: And like you say, if Michigan, if Wisconsin's hitting their shots,
I don't know that Michigan State can make as many
shots as Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: Can they? In my mind, they certainly can't.
Speaker 1: Manzy somehow managed to get to a teaser to Michigan
plus eight and a half. Listen, I don't condone teasing
college basketball, but if you're there with that number, ride it.
Don't don't try to middle that you got a good position.
Just just see it out. In my opinion, let's go
to mad Max. Let's go to a game number two.
Max says, Saint Louis looks like they're in a smash spot,
but it looks too easy. Always get a little weary
when it seems like a shoe in.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: Well, I my thought, my first thought is it's a
big number. My second thought is, Rob, it's big for
a reason. My third thought is there's not a chance
that I would take Loyola Chicago. So the way my
very quick handicap before I turned this over to Rob,
if you do.
Speaker 2: Not like Saint Louis, find something else to bet.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, there's no there's there's no basketball reason
to think Loyola Chicago doesn't get their brains beat in
tonight by the Saint Louis team. My number is actually higher,
It's not that much higher, but I'm at twenty point one.
Since I've basically taken every prior out of my handicapping
for Loyola Chicago, It's what I had to do. Rob,
I told you that this was a team that kept
showing value for me because of like where I expected
them to be at the beginning of the season. Now
on in season data, I've got Saint Louis minus twenty
point one, so I didn't have many numerical edges today.
This one is not enough for me to act on.
But if you can get eighteen and a half, which
is it opened eighteen and a half, it's still eighteen
and a half. I think there's actually slight value on
the billikens.
Speaker 2: Do you agree or disagree?
Speaker 3: Well, I can't disagree.
Speaker 4: I mean Saint Louis has been too good to boosting
the accounts this year, and they've just been too good
on the flote.
Speaker 3: My first, you know, when you have.
Speaker 4: A team like Saint Louis Adam in a conference like this,
The first thing I did was say, well, is there
a game on debt that might have their interest? Then
I remember, oh, yeah, it's the A ten. There's nothing
that could be on debt that would have their interest.
It turns out to be Rhode Island on Tuesday night.
They haven't played there, another team that hasn't played in
six games. They'll have played two games in ten days
when they take on Rhode Island down the road. Listen,
Loyola can't defend anything if you firmly believe that. Coach
Shirts might say, you know, let's guys, second half and
you want to get in and get out.
Speaker 3: You want to play first half because the number is
a little bit cheaper if you split it.
Speaker 4: That way, And maybe Saint Louis has been off to
some great starts this year where they've just destroyed people
in the first ten minutes and you collect your cash
pretty easy first half. But I don't know that I
would fear anything as far as full game is concerned.
Speaker 3: Here. Loyola gives you no reason to believe.
Speaker 4: Unless Saint Louis is just that either they're rusty from
six days off or they're just not caring enough on
defense to let and let Loyola score. In fact that
those things don't happen, this has to be a twenty
five point win for the Saint Louis side. I think
in my mind, this team is probably absolutely hungry to
get back out on the court and do some more
offensive damage. Sure, and there's there's just no keep up
for Loyola here, Adams. So the team total, it's like
eighty seven and a half. You have to get to
eighty eight, not that Saint Louis can't, but I don't
think I want to go there, just because if the
end of game gets like we're.
Speaker 3: Winning by thirty, who cares.
Speaker 4: The other side of me says Rob, they probably putting
ninety on this team, go ahead and do it. I
mean you kind of ride that fence here because the
oddsmakers put in a good spot. But there's no way
to back Loyola here. They could cover it. Don't get
me wrong. Things happen in college too, but there's no
way you're going to give me the bit Loyola.
Speaker 3: In any capacity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't think Loyola can get run out at home.
Saint Joe's won by twenty one here not too long ago, right,
Like you know, last time out they lost by twenty
to Davidson.
Speaker 2: That's not a good Davidson team. I mean, Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: Is just so elite in comparison to pretty much everyone
else in this league at this point that it twenty
is doable.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 1: Like you knee jerk reaction to see in eighteen and
a half with the road team is like, oh, that's
a big number. I don't know, I think that's doable. Like,
let's put it this way. Saint Louis in their last game,
they were at home against Lesal. They were a twenty
two and a half point favorite. They still covered that.
That was that was what I consider to be kind
of a big number eighteen and a half on a
road against a team that's six and nineteen and has
just had no like semblance of like being like any
good all year. I would have to lay it with
Saint Louis. It's that is it is a tough thing
to do national TV ESPN two, and you're talking about
taking an eighteen and a half point road favorite. But
rob they know they're on ESPN two as well, right
Like they might not care so much about Loyola Chicago,
but don't get make no mistake, Saint Louis is going
to know they're on national television tonight, and my guess
is they're gonna want to show out, so lean towards
the Billikens. For me, I don't I saw a couple
of people in the chat. I don't hate doing the
first first half thing. Listen, I've kind of said this.
You could do first half. You could go like first half.
If it doesn't work out, come over the top with
second half. Saint Louis will roll one of these two halves,
right like they will. They're going to win one of
these two halfs. So if you take the first half
it doesn't work out, maybe you do half a unit
on the first half, come over the top with like
one point five on the second half if you want
to go that way, or just lay the eighteen and
a half. Like I said, I'm at twenty point one,
so I do lean toward the Billikens. All right, Rob
Bino quick promo, double the Firepower CBB. That's all of
my plays, Alla, Rob's plays for the entire weekend in
college basketball. Like I said, I'll, I will. I'll be
at a game tonight too. I'll see if you guys
can figure out which one.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll probably tell you by the end of the show.
Totally unexpected. I had to change some plans, but something
came up that I couldn't pass up. So we'll give
you guys the rest of the show to guess what's
going on. But I will be on the road as
soon as this show is over. I guess that's a
little bit of a hint. All right, Garth says, let's
go to the ivy. He says, thoughts on Cornell Princeton.
He's leaning the home dog with Princeton. Also real quick Twitter,
it looks like change the algorithm. So I'm just gonna
make this announcement on a show by show basis. Now,
if you are if you are accustomed to watching this
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I've retweeted the link, but I don't know that wager
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Speaker 2: I just have to like, that's gonna be a PSA.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say it for like the next
week or two because some folks said they couldn't find
the show live the other day. We're always live on YouTube,
so you may have to start watching the show there. Okay,
back to Garth Robino. He wants to talk Coronell Princeton.
We talked about this game earlier this year.
Speaker 2: I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I believe I put Princeton in our parlay and they
got their teeth kicked in by Cornell. I was completely
wrong about Princeton's ability to handle the Brian Earle two
point zero pressure.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: This is Joe Jocks. He's basically was an Earl assistant.
He's playing the same style that Brian Earle played at Cornell.
I'm on record calling them Timu Coronell, which is apparently offensive,
But I really believe that this Cornell team is like
a knockoff version of the Brian Earle teams Robino. We
have raved about Brian Earl on the show and the
job he has done at William and Mary. So my
question to you is this, Cornell, what does Princeton do
to not allow what happened in the first meeting to
happen again here?
Speaker 2: I don't know that they have the answer. What do
you think, Cornell Princeton.
Speaker 4: Well, they probably don't. I don't know that you can
change that quickly at him. Again, that game was January thirtieth,
so you're talking about a two week period to make adjustments.
And again, I'm one of those guys who says coaches
always want to fix what went wrong, but if you
can't handle a certain style, just refer to the two
meetings between NC Wilmington and William and Mary to use
a comparison. NC Wilmington, as good as they are second
time around, could still couldn't beat this style, and it
could be the same exact thing for Princeton. Cornell is
actually playing pretty well at this point in time, I
think four and won their last five. They continue to
score at will You have to outscore him to beat him.
Penn Well Fran McCaffrey was able to do so a
couple of games ago, Fran out scored him, got over ninety.
But Princeton was just beaten in every single area of
the game the first time around. Just to give you
some quick numbers from that box score in that game,
how about Cornell from two point range in that game,
Adam twenty four of twenty seven? Who's the guy who
missed the three shots? Twenty four to twenty seven? Eighty
nine percent from inside the arc? Eleven threes to go
with that free throw line was necessary in that game. Again,
I just certain teams can't handle certain styles, no matter
how good statistically they may look. It's the same in boxing.
Matchups make fights. Matchups make these games. I don't know
that Princeton's equipped enough to slow Cornell down. What slows
Cornell down, Adam, is a bad shooting night, And if
that happens, But when you're that close, when you're inside
the r kidding eighty nine percent, that's kind of red flagish, like,
how did you allow?
Speaker 3: I get that?
Speaker 4: That's a you know, that's like it and beyond excellent
shooting night when you shoot eighty nine percent from inside
the ork. But the deepense has to be somewhat responsible
for that as well, and can Princeton correct all of that.
Suppose Cornell shoots I don't know, seventy percent, they shoot
twenty percent less tonight, still probably gonna win the game.
They won that one by twenty three. On that night,
game hit one fifty one. As always with me, I'm
looking at totals with Cornell. Game has come down to
one fifty five and a half with the Cornell price
going up somehow, you know, money thinks it's going to
be an under. It was the first time one fifty
one despite eighty seven out of Cornell. I think if
there's one thing to look at here for me, it
would probably be Cornell getting back to eighty in this game.
Their team total seventy nine and a half. I find
it hard to believe they don't get to eighty in
this game. So my best advice for Garth would be
I'd look Cornell team total. And Garth says he's leaning
home dogs, so he's taking points here. I'm coming from
the other angle here, coming from total side. Cornell team
total over seventy nine and a half.
Speaker 1: Rob, I think you made the best point you could
possibly make on this game, comparing it to the Wilmington
William and Mary sort of dichotomy that we just saw,
where like Wilmington's of course last night, also shout out Colin.
Colin Gregory, his parlay would have hit Elmont William to
Wilmington we talked on the Moneyline party we talked about
on the show. But like that's a great example Wilmington
since the William and Mary games right, like, they crushed Charleston,
they win big last night, they won all their other games,
but they just can't handle this style.
Speaker 2: It's just a bad matchup for them.
Speaker 1: And it like didn't even matter that it was a
huge home game sellout at Trash Coliseum.
Speaker 2: William and Mary went in there and won, no problem.
Speaker 1: Now this is a weird one for me because my
this is I didn't have many numerical edges on today's board.
A lot of the numbers are close to what I
make them. One of them, there's really only two that
stuck out. One of them was Princeton. So like Garth,
I get where you're coming from, being like, yeah, you know,
I kind of maybe like Princeton on the number because
now you're up to three and a half. Cornell took money,
so you're up to three and a half. My number
leads Princeton as well. There and listen, Coronell, it can
it's they could mess up a game like this, Like Cornell,
by no means is a great team this year. So
they can come out play poorly on the on the
road and you know, not really defend, and suddenly Princeton's
in the game. But I look at the way they've
played of late. They've won four of their last five.
One of those games on this stretch was an eighty
seven to sixty four win over Princeton, and the one
loss on that stretch was to pen who really has
some offensive talent at this point. That's fran McCaffrey. That's
you know, he inherited a couple of guys that can
really score. And that's a team that I think matches
up well with Cornell. So for me right here, like
I just want no part of fading Cornell with a
team that I don't think is equipped to play their style.
Princeton is clearly not equipped to play their style. So
I actually leaned toward the big red, But it was
the number that sort of kept me off because as
much as I think this is a nice stylistic matchup
for big for Cornell, I want no part of them
as a road favorite because they're still not that great
of a team. This isn't if it was Brian Earle
and the teams from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Sign me up, la la five. This team don't really
want to lay three and a half, so I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was enough to talk you
off Princeton. Not trying to talk you off Princeton, but
for me it has to be Corneller pass. Just the
matchup and what going back to what Rob said, I
think nailed it. Hard to imagine they figured out in
this quick of a turnaround since the last time that
these two teams played. Good discussion there though, that was
an interesting one. I'm glad that one got brought up.
Glad that one got brought up because I thought that
that was an interesting conversation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Princeton's path is just to score more of
this game. It don't score sixty four, shoot better. Cornell
will allow you to score. That's their path. If you're
going to play Princeton, just think that their offense is
going to be better.
Speaker 3: Because I don't think their defense matches up against that style.
Speaker 1: Silver Hazey says, Hey, Trig Whitey gave me permission to
go to a game next weekend for my Valentine's Day
gift them in Southeast Michigan.
Speaker 2: Want to go out of state? What do you suggest?
I'll have to look at the schedule and get back
to you.
Speaker 1: Southeast Michigan, so I'll have to figure out you can
get down to Ohio. You could probably get over to Wisconsin.
Illinois isn't too bad. I'll have to see, we'll get
back to you. I will jot that down. I'll look
at the schedule. I will be at Merrimack Cianna next weekend.
That's where I will be on Friday night. I think
that might be a one off for me, especially after
this weekend, but can't miss that one. So you know
that's that's going to be Massachusetts by the New Hampshire border.
Don't don't know if you're in the market for that,
but that will be a fun one. That's probably sold out,
but I could probably get you a ticket to that
if you need if you needed one regardless, all right,
back to games. We've got a lot of donations today
that'll that. Hopefully that will make Kelly in Vegas happy.
She was not thrilled that I informed her I will
not be doing full Court a Last Call tomorrow, so Rob,
you will have a guest post to do the games
because I will be in an arena. And again I
will reveal that at some point as the show goes on,
I want to go to Robert Surpus First. Robert wants
to go to the Mac. I love talking Mac basketball,
he says, any thoughts on Mount Saint Mary's, I'm all
in on Mount Saint Mary's.
Speaker 2: Well, I get it.
Speaker 1: They're on the road in Lawrenceville, New Jersey tonight at Ryder,
who's been one of the worst teams in Division one
all season. But I will note that this is kind
of a tricky trip. It is so Ryder's not the
easiest place I think to play.
Speaker 2: Rob.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, I got a name for you
as an NBA guy, Jason Thompson, great rider BRONC first
round those games.
Speaker 2: That was so.
Speaker 1: Jason Thompson is the same age as me. He was
in school two thousand and four to two thousand and eight,
so his years at Ryder. It's unfortunate he never got
to the NCAA tournament. The reason he never got to
the NCAA Tournament was he either had to go through
the Marist Jared Jordan teams, another guy that had a
cup of coffee in the NBA. Thompson had a great
NBA career, but he also had to go through Fran
McCaffrey's Sienna teams. I believe we beat Ryder in the
final one year. But like you want to talk about,
kind of like, you know, disappointing that he never got
his crack at the NCAA tournament because those were some
really good Rider teams that just ended up not being
able to get over the hump against better teams. But
Jason Thompson best player in the history of Ryder. Ryder
has seen better days. I'm sure that they would love
to get back to that point because this gym alumni,
Jim Lawrenceville, New Jersey, used to be rocking for Ryder
home games.
Speaker 2: It's small, They put the kick kids in the end zone.
Speaker 1: It's almost like a cutout, and it's like auxiliary bleachers
that are lowed as hell.
Speaker 2: It is a great atmosphere for Ride of basketball. When
Riders playing well, you know, what.
Speaker 1: It hasn't even been that bad this year, now that
the kids are back. I've seen some Rider fans at games.
It's obviously not as many when you're three and twenty
and you've only had one win over the D one
opponent this year, rob which was a game I happened
to be at. They beat Iona. You know, tough times.
But the reason I bring all that up is Mount
Saint Mary's is to make the trip. It's not an
easy trip. And I was on Rider in this game.
In the first meeting, I felt like I got a
little bit unlucky to push.
Speaker 2: I had Ryder plus ten. Ryder was tied at half.
Speaker 1: It was a very very competitive game and Mount Saint
Mary's kind of distanced themselves at the end.
Speaker 2: So this was another one. My number kind of came
out right in this range. But I would I don't
think it's going to be that easy.
Speaker 1: Mount Saint Mary's is a tough you know, they're all
the way down in Enittsburg, Maryland. They're a relatively new
addition to the conference, and like I think it's tough,
it's tough to go down there if you're a visitor.
In my opinion, it's also I think tough for them
to be on the road, still relatively new to the league.
I think this is their second or third year, so
based on how even the first meeting was, I like
Ryder here. Plus the points hasn't made my card yet,
but I've cast a couple of times this season with Ryder.
I don't know, do you think I'm crazy for liking
the Bronx tonight in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Speaker 3: I've tried here to help build a case for you, Ryder.
Speaker 4: First of all, I could not get involved here just
based on the ups and downs of results by Riders offense.
You know, in ninety against Manhattan, eighty one against Saint
Pete and then fifty two and forty seven in their
last two games, lose by nine, lose after that by
twenty six. However, in Ryders defense, those games are against
the two best defensive teams in the league, right, Merist
and Merrimack. If anybody's gonna shut Ryder down, Riders the
worst offense, so you put the worst offense against the
two best defense, then you probably going for that result.
The fact that they got to eighty one and ninety
a couple of days before, it's kind of interesting, but
they have the ability to get destroyed. Mount Saint Mary's
wins by ten the first time. As you mentioned that,
they didn't really allow much in the way of offense
for Ryder. Ryder shoots thirty percent from two point range,
forty six shots inside the ark and can only make fourteen.
It's tough to bet a team solely based on what
would be considered a defensive step down and class off
of their last two and a Friday night home floor.
Mount Saint Mary's is a more talented side. They're not
great offensive, which I guess is what would kind of
hold you back from laying five and a half again,
the total is the thing that's been really.
Speaker 3: Pushed here down down down to now.
Speaker 4: One thirty seven and a half is the low point
I see, and one thirty two were only scored in
the first game, so.
Speaker 3: It shouldn't get a lot of pace. You probably get
a lot of bricks. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe I could agree with the folks who moved over
down five points and play and I got there ticket
in on under, but Under's not generally in my vocabulary
at this price range.
Speaker 3: When thirty seven and a half, no matter who's playing,
so I'd have to let it pass. I would find
it really hard.
Speaker 4: It's one of those we used to say, just hold
your nose and play the dog riders that kind of dog.
There's spots where they cover, but you have to just
cover your eyes and wait for the.
Speaker 2: Final Yeah, it's a really good point. Rob Where I've
where I've had success.
Speaker 1: With Ryders so far this year is in that like
almost like that eight to eleven point dog range where
if they're in the game, you're probably gonna have a
good chance to cover the number. This is sort of
this is one of those where it's like it's just
a little too you know, the number is such that
it's like if Mount Saint Mary's can get a lead
at the end and then they take a couple of
trips to the free throw line, you could be in trouble.
And honestly, that's how the first meeting went. Like I
was in that game the entire way. It was tied
at halftime, and they nearly covered ten with the last
two minutes of like kind of you know, fouling going
to the line all of a sudden, Rider needs to
make a shot. Now, they're not a great offensive team,
as you've pointed out, you know, and now all of
a sudden you're you know, you're kind of in need
of a late sort of like backdoor situation when you're
talking about a number like five and a half. So
that's ultimately why I passed on that one. But again,
I would be I be weary of I'd be weary
of laying.
Speaker 2: Points on the road with Mount Saint Mary's.
Speaker 1: This is not last year's team, which I didn't even
really love, last year's team that somehow made the NCAA Tournament.
I think Mount Saint Mary's has been overvalued all year,
and they are overvalued still in my opinion. All right,
here's what we're gonna do. So I gotta shout out
mad Max real quick. We appreciate the donation, but that's
a Saturday day game. We are gonna leave Saturday games
for the Saturday Show, So I will text it. I
will be texting Kelly Stewart as soon as I'm off
the show, even though she's mad at me right now.
And I'm gonna say, Kelly, Kansas Iowa State has to
open the Saturday Show. Why would it not. Anyway, it's
a one pm game and aims a huge game between
two top ten teams. So mad Max, we will do
that one tomorrow first thing on Last Call. If you
want another one, let me know in the chat if
you want one from today, because I feel like we
owe you one from today. Appreciate the donations. A lot
of donations to the show. Like I said, Rob and I,
we donate the donations to charity. It's more of a
pride thing. I just want to out. I want to
out earn donations on all the other shows. Then I've
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you know, I don't know if I actually don't know
if that's Ammo or not.
Speaker 2: We'll find out. Colin, you got it all right.
Speaker 1: So the reason I'm not going to be on Last
Call tomorrow is I had an opportunity to go to
the Duke game follow my lab, which I can't pass up.
Speaker 2: Duke Clemson tomorrow at noon.
Speaker 1: I would do the show from the arena if we
were if I was in like you know, some other place,
But uh, I don't think the Cameron Crazy's are going
to allow that. They're very loud, and I have to
imagine you won't even be able to hear in the
arena at eleven fifteen when last call is going. So
I will be in the d ish area this weekend.
So Colin, you got it correct. As soon as this
show is done, Trigg on the road bombing down the
whatever highway that is to get to Washington, d C.
It's about six hour drive from where I live. I
should be there with a few minutes to spare. And
I am going to this game tonight George Mason, George Washington.
It also happens to be a client play for me,
and it also happens to be my leg of the parlay,
So we're gonna knock out a couple of birds with
one stone. I've got two client plays locked in for
tonight already, so I felt like, you know, I can
give one of them here. I am on George Mason
plus two and a half. I cashed earlier this week
backing George Washington, and in that breakdown in the you know,
part of the reason I really like George Washington against
Rhode Island was I did not think that that was
a game that was going to matter. That Rafael Cashro
was not there. You know, he George Washington by all
accounts I had struggled big time in his absence and
they had lost three straight, and I said, you know what,
this Rhode Island team is not very good. They are
not going to be able to get to the probably
do much in the way of getting to the rim. Anyway,
I felt like we were getting a very cheap number
because I think the market had moved too much for
Castro being out, and all of those things turned out
to be true. We got in at George Washington minus
three and a half. I believe the final was five.
It should have been a lot more. George Washington got
it done. Now they go home to play George Mason.
But Rob, I don't think they can win this game
without Castro. I think he's too important to keeping George
Mason away from the rim. And George Mason, for as
good as they've been this year, they really don't shoot
the ball particularly well, so they kind of have to
score at the rim, and now that you don't have Castro,
I feel like they will score at the rim. They
won the earlier meeting with this George Washington team. Castro
played and he played well. So you take Cashtro out.
Suddenly George Mason maybe get some offense. That's a little
bit easier than they would had they had to deal
with him being the rim presence that he is. And
I kind of think the wrong team is favored. So
I took George Mason plus two and a half for
parlay purposes. We're gonna call it plus two because they've
taken a little bit of money. Since I will be
rolling into GW tonight.
Speaker 2: On the visitors.
Speaker 1: This is called the revolutionary rivalry, Robbino, did you know
that this is a rivalry game? And I'm gonna go
with the visitors. George Mason will have a bunch of
fans there. G dub had a bunch of fans at
their place earlier this year. I expect a good atmosphere
and I think George Mason wins this game. Rob with
no cashtro do you have a way in on the
total here now knowing that George Mason might be there
for some easier points.
Speaker 4: And I always feel like with George Mason, I want
to play lower scoring games just because the defense has
been so good.
Speaker 3: First time around.
Speaker 4: Just to your point, the importance of Castro Adam eight
of thirteen from the field twenty or excuse me, seventeen
points in that game, ten defensive rebounds, twelve rebounds overall.
I mean it's by far and away leads the team,
So obviously you're taking an awful lot away for a
team it's already missing Benjamin to begin with.
Speaker 3: So GW loses the first.
Speaker 4: Time around by to five with that production from Castro.
Hard to see them, excuse me, on the road, hard
to see them coming back home here, even though the
revenge angle, I guess you would say, because it's in state,
rivalry could apply just tough when you're out manned, and
especially on the DEFENSI end. Sometimes George Mason goes into
these droughts, he's scoring droughts. But again to your point,
without Castro at the rim, probably not anything extended here tonight.
Speaker 3: So I could see that George Mason's.
Speaker 4: Side total wise, to me, it still seems a little
bit high at him. It started at one point fifty,
and I get GW wants to play with pace and
it's probably their only ticket to victory here.
Speaker 3: But Mason was able to control it the first time.
Speaker 4: Do they control it on the road, Maybe not for
all forty but maybe enough to stay under one forty
eight and a half, So that would be as far
as total is concerned, that would be my look under
one forty eight and a half. It seems like money's
gotten there a little bit, one fifty bit down to
one forty eight.
Speaker 3: And a half in that game, so I think I
would lean under.
Speaker 2: I like that. Yeah, I mean, listen, they're again. I'm
just banking on maybe a couple of easier points.
Speaker 1: But George Mason has not put the ball in the
basket with any sort of like regularity of late, So
you know that's I don't dislike the look at under
by any means. Like the way that these two teams
like play, you would think that this is a sort
of dogfight, lower scoring, close team that's got to dig
in and get a defensive stop. I just feel like
with cashtro I'm getting pretty good value getting the bucket.
With George Mason, So George Mason will be my parlay
le Robino, I'm putting you on the spot. Thirteen minutes
left on the show. What are you looking at for
the parlay today?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Boy, this one was hard, Adam, because I got to
tell you I wanted to try just based on spot.
I wanted to try and get to UNLV plus the
ten points against Boise tonight. Boise comes off of two
really good wins against Nevada and New Mexico, and Utah
State is up next for them top of next week.
It's that, you know, UNLB won a couple of games. Now,
maybe they can sneak in here plus ten points. I'm
not saying they can't, But what I am saying is
I think I like one thing a little bit better.
We talked about it earlier and when we were talking
about Cornell, and that's Penn and fran McCaffrey at home
tonight against Columbia to get beyond their team total of
seventy four and a half. Penn has started to you know,
they were kind of choppy at them for a while
as far as scoring goes. They played Columbia a couple
of games ago, seventy two to sixty seven final in
that game, and Penn probably couldn't shoot it any worse,
whether it be from inside the ark or from the
foul line, and they still got the sixty seven points
on the road despite the poor shooting. They're asking me
now to get eight more points on the home floor
with a team that shot well below with their expectation
or what their averages every single night. I figure that
law of averages. People call it, you know, regression to
the mean or whatever. I just call it positive point production.
I think is in effect here for Penn in this
game against Columbia, which to be honest, hasn't been that
great of a defensive team so far this season in
the IVY. They're rated as the lead worst defense defensive
efficiency wise, So it only makes sense that Penn would
come back and shoot better against them tonight in their
home gym. Again, They're not asking me for a terribly
an overly amount of points extra to what we had
last time, sixty seven to seventy five. Tonight at home,
with a little better shooting against a ridiculously bad defense,
I'll take my chances here.
Speaker 3: Like I said, UNLV crossed.
Speaker 4: My mind, and I wouldn't talk anybody off UNLV tonight
because of the situation. But I think I'm going to
roll with ten the Quakers Fred McCaffrey team total over
seventy four and a half.
Speaker 1: Braand McCaffrey's my guy, as you guys know, he was
our head coach when I was at Sianna College back
in the mid two thousands the best days for Sianna.
I hope we can get back there at some point.
Not quite there yet, but maybe Jerry McNamara will will
lead us there as far as this game is concerned.
You know, something I've liked about Penn recently is, like
what I alluded to this in the other breakdown, I
think they have the probably the most offensive talent in
this league outside of maybe Yale. And Harvard's got some
offensive talent as well, but like Penn, you know, don't
sleep on that trio of like TJ. Power, Ethan Roberts,
Like they've they've got some guys that can score the basketball.
For this for the for where this league is at
right now, like pound for pound they have they have
as good of scorers, like I said, as anyone in
this league, maybe other than than Yale, who's like the
obvious best team. And then you've got Hinting and some
guys that can really fill it up. On Harvard and
of course Ran you know he I mean, you know,
like he's all offense, like he's all gas, no breaks,
He's trying to put the ball in the basket. That
perfect example, they played Cornell ninety one points. They dropped
ninety one, no problem on Cornell ninety one eighty one.
Speaker 2: They've gone.
Speaker 1: They they've so they have the ability to throw some
size in there, which I think is very important in
this game. Penn has one of the bigger like rosters
of the IVY. And that's the thing. Columbia has the biggest,
right so Colombia. Kevin Hovda is it hoved. I'll butcher
his name forever. He's the guy that came over from Florida,
brought a lot of size with him. This Columbia team
has elite size for the IVY for a low major.
But what they don't do very well rob is take
care of the basketball. And this is where this is
where Penn. They've got some guard quickness. They get up
and down the floor. I could see this being like
kind of a nightmare for Columbia given the fact that
fran mccapery has now had the ability to make adjustments
off that first meeting which occurred two weeks ago. Right
like Franz the type type of guy they lost that
game seventy two sixty seven.
Speaker 2: He's probably going to go higher pressure.
Speaker 1: He's probably going to try to force turnovers on the bigs,
and I think it creates more of an up and
down game, which absolutely supports the thought that the team
total goes over.
Speaker 2: I like Penn here.
Speaker 1: It was right on the number, Like my number came
out almost identical, like I think it was minus two
point six. If you force me to lean in this game,
I think Penn probably finds a way to win. But
I so I like that you're on the team total
over because I think there's some correlation there.
Speaker 3: Let's good, get it.
Speaker 4: It's a bad it's a good matchup from beyond the
arc for Penn too.
Speaker 3: Adam.
Speaker 4: They're like eleven in the country three point shooting percentage,
and Colombia is the worst three point defense in the IVY,
so they should be able to make some hay here
at home. I like the way the odds makers gave
us a number that, you know, is is a pretty
reasonable position to get ourselves over the tour.
Speaker 1: Billy Humphrey says, hey, he said we talked to him
off George Washington. That's why I love the show. Makes
me smarter that that's the best compliment we can get. Obviously,
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So we appreciate you, you know, supporting the show. The
donations help, and then of course if you really want
to support, double the CBB Firepower package myself. Rob, it's
gonna be a great weekend, will be absolutely loaded. I
have a I have a second, so I put two
four percenters out for tonight. I gave you one of
them with George Washington. I've got another one on there
that I like quite a bit. We've got seven minutes left.
I I'm kind of scrolling through the chat. It seems
like most people want to want to touch on the
undefeated Miami of Ohio Red Hawks Hawks. So let's do it, Rob,
Miami of Ohio, Ohio. I had to swerve this game.
I was going to go to this game, and then
the opportunity to get to Cameron Indoor came up, and
I said, well, you know, Miami of Ohio, Cameron Indoor,
Maami of Ohio, Cameron. I listen, Millet Hall is gonna
be rocket tonight. The game sold out. It's on ESPN
National TV. Rob, I don't think this team would be
undefeated if some of these MAC teams could could could
step to them. And you know the fact that they
got by Akron early in the conference schedule, Like I
truly believe if Akron plays in Miami of Ohio again,
Ackron's probably winning the game by ten. Like I just
I just think that it's a really nice story. I
love it for college basketball. Listen, if for nothing else,
the fact that Millet Hall in Oxford, Ohio tonight is
going to have over nine thousand people.
Speaker 2: There is tremendous.
Speaker 1: I would love to take a position on Ohio, but
I just don't think they shoot the ball while enough
to keep pace with Miami of Ohio. They will have
opportunities to score. They will probably get to the rim.
I don't think it's crazy to think they can hang
around within ten. And you've seen some of these other teams.
Buffalo UMass put a scare into Miami of Ohio. I
tend to think if Ohio's got a chance in this series,
because again they play in a couple of weeks in Athens.
Speaker 2: I will be there with Brian Power in attendance in
that game.
Speaker 1: I think Ohio maybe has a better chance at home
on the road, it's going to be tough, but I
ever so slightly lean toward Ohio plus the points.
Speaker 2: You've been really good with Miami of Ohio totals.
Speaker 1: Do you have anything for us in the totals department
Miami of Ohio, Ohio tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they clipped us that one night on the parlay
when Peter Souter walked to the free throw.
Speaker 2: Eleanor missed a free throw too. Yeah, that was really Yeah.
Speaker 3: They from missing free throws down the streets.
Speaker 4: The two guys you want there couldn't get it done.
But my idea would be Adam, and I think it
goes a lot with what you were saying about the
second time around, which is going to come pretty quickly
at Ohio you. I think for Ohio you you have
to see this one time first and then be able
to react to it. And when I say this thing,
I talk about the Miami offense, the pace they play at,
the rate they shoot it at. You know, they looked
like they were stumbling a little bit, and they just
went to Marshall in that Max Sunbelt Challenge type deal
and they blew the doors off Marshall in that game.
Ninety points again, it's interesting their team total is three
and one to the under in their last four. But
it's difficult when you're scoring eighty six and eighty five
and your team total is still under because the odds
makers setting it up in the eighty seven and a
half eighty nine and a half range. It's hard to
get there every single night. But Miami's gonna consistently score.
There's no question they're going to be in the mid
to upper eighties tonight against OHIOU. And what you need
to do is what Frank Martin and UMass did score
with them Northern Illinois. Somehow, some way, falls got this team.
But I think that was more of a letdown spot
for Miami of Ohio in that game. Like I say,
I'd be more inclined to lean Ohio you when they're home,
after they've seen this once and they can react to
it the second time around. But tonight, I don't know
that I would take my chances with Ohio you, the
team total, the total itself. If I trusted Ohio a
little bit more, because I don't trust the Miami defense
to stop people, that's for sure, but the opposing offense,
if if Ohio can get you to I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out and.
Speaker 4: Say, if they can get you to seventy six, then
you probably get over in this game. It's been bet
up a little from one sixty two to one to
sixty three and a half. I'm not gonna say that
I would fight against that, but I wouldn't be on Ohio.
You in the first time around. Might be their second
time round. Probably. If you like Ohio, you, you want
Miamio to smoke him here so that when we get
to the next game a couple of weeks from now,
you're getting a little more valued with Ohio you at home.
Speaker 2: Tough part is this Miami of Ohio. This year.
Speaker 1: They're first in the country ninety two point seven points
per game, their first in field goal percentage fifty three
point six percent from the field. Ohio doesn't rebound, they
don't hit outside shots. Ohio three thirty fourth nationally shooting
the three. Outside of Pablletski, no one can shoot. You know, Halthaway,
what is it eight and Halthaway. Holloway, He's like, he's
the kind of guy that like can take guys. You know,
he's gonna probably win his matchup with whoever he's on.
But my might like, is it gonna be enough, especially
when you're probably gonna get out rebounded, right, Like, I
don't know, I feel I feel like it's gonna be
an uphill.
Speaker 2: Climb here for Ohio.
Speaker 1: And then you've got a wonder in front of a
packed house on national TV. Does Miami Ohio go for
the juggular?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna go to try to land the knockout punch?
Are they gonna try to show out on national television?
I don't know how that works because because on the
other flip side, you could say, well, all the pressure's
on them. Ohio is playing with house money. All the
pressures on Miami o Ohio. Right, they could be a
little too jazzed up for the game. That's really really
tough to tell. I don't know really how you quantify that.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 1: What I can quantify is Ohio just does not to
shoot the basketball well, and at some point over forty minutes,
I feel like that's gonna matter. So that's why that
was a very difficult, difficult game for me to to
sort of make heads or tails up. All right, Rob,
we have hit the end of the show, Like I said,
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I every play we make all weekend long. I gave
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there's plenty of two and a half now, so.
Speaker 2: We'll go with that for the parlay.
Speaker 1: To four percent play for me George Mason plus two
and a half will be the first leg of the parlay.
Second lege ten team total over seventy four and a half.
I don't know who the mystery guest host is, but
Robino will be on Last Call tomorrow with Kelly Stewart
knocking out games for forty five minutes after Gianni leading
up to tip off tip off of the game. I'lbe
at Duke Clemson at noon Cameron Indoor Arena. It's actually
going to be my third time at Cameron Indoor. My
sister was a student there years ago. I'll see if
I can dig up some photos of me in the
student section. They definitely exist. I'll tweet them out. Appreciate
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