Speaker 1: All right, welcome in, we are live. It's time for
full court Press. It's Friday. We've got Brian Power back
in his normal spot, your typical Friday slate. I think
couple games, obviously a trillion games. Tomorrow I showed up
in my Buffalo Bulls hoodie. They have one of the
biggest games that they've had in years tomorrow. But that's tomorrow. Today,
we've got a nice slate to talk about him, Brian Power.
I'm gonna go to you first, Nashville, Tennessee tonight, Gonzaga Kentucky,
neutral court. Both teams kind of had a bad effort
last time out, if you will, Gonzaga got blitzed. Kentucky
hasn't had a good effort against a good team yet
this season, neutral floor, Big Blue Nation will be there.
We know that. How are you seeing Gonzaga Kentucky tonight?
Speaker 2: So I'm going to open this breakdown by asking a question.
It's kind of an odd way to open a breakdown
by me asking a question I'm supposed to by being
on full core Pressed, I guess allegedly supposed to have
the answers. But my question to the both of you
and everyone that is thankfully watching the show here on
Way to Talk TV, guys smash that like button, a
few would be so kind? Who's betting Kentucky in this game? Like?
And I asked that because it's very instructive. And I
asked Trigg, you know you and I something and I,
you know, having talked to you a little bit more
than Rob the vieers, I know for you, that's a
very instructive question because when you have a matchup, a
high profile matchup like this, and no one wants a
part of one side, all of a sudden, you know,
guys like me, I know me. I'm not going to
speak for you, Drig, but yeah, I know myself. All
of a sudden, I start looking at that side, maybe
a little bit more than I should. I was in line.
Now before we get to the number you mentioned it
both teams off poor performances. Why is no one? Why
do I ask? Who's betting Kentucky in this game? Will
a lot of people just watch this team?
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: Seventy two hours ago? Play North Carolina and Rob Vino.
I believe they went ten minutes about making a shot
very different called to win a basketball game. When you
go ten minutes without making a shot. I believe they
were one for thirteen from three in that game. And
we talk about three point variants all the time. The
problem for Kentucky if you're just like, oh, well they'll
bounce back, you know what, are they gonna go one
for thirteen again? The problem is they this has sort
of been a long term, big picture issue for them
shooting from deep. And it's not like Gonzaga is a
bad defensive basketball team. Zag is a good defensive team.
If you can't score against North Carolina, I'm not confident
that you're gonna score against Gonzaga. Now on the Gonzaga side,
this is a team that's had what over a week now,
more than a week, close to ten days to stew
over being absolutely humiliated in front of a national television
audience in the Player's Era Final by Michigan. So I
think a lot of people and clearly this is what
you look at the hod screen, what the market's thinking here,
this is a bounce back. They think it's Gonzaga more
than likely to bounce back. I was in line with
the opener. So when I saw this short number, I
was like, oh man, there's gonna be value on Gonzaga,
and then I looked at my numbers and I said, ooh,
it's actually not really very much value on Gonzaga, especially
after they've taken the early money. So I don't know,
we've gotten into trouble on some of these high profile matchups,
haven't We triggered Rob Moore. We're like, man, I can't
believe how this numbers taken off. Eventually, I'm gonna want
to punch back at the market. And that's what I
feel like. I want to say right here on this
game that it's going to reach a point where I'm like, hey,
maybe there's a little bit of value on Kentucky. I
don't know, though Gonzaga. My feeling is Mark fu is
gonna have his troops ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would concur Brian. I wrote down some numbers
just to put some context into what a couple of
things that you were saying. You know, they've played three
big games this year Kentucky. They played Louisville. They played Michigan.
Speaker 1: State on the neutral.
Speaker 3: They played UNC out rebounded by thirteen by Michigan State,
out rebounded by ten by UNC. It prompted Mark Pope again,
let's go to Mark Pope quotes because he's been actively
talking this year. We got crushed on the glass. We
just got crushed on the glass. It's very, very disappointing tonight.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's who we are. I'm really frustrated
with the eight assists and nine turnovers. That's not who
we've been either. We need guys to step up and
give us great efforts. It's not the first time we've
heard that from him. He's obviously the guy who said
he was going to straighten this whole thing out a
couple of games ago because he didn't think they were
playing as a team, but as individuals. Not only were
they outrebounded guys. Brian, you talked about three point shooting
one for thirteen against USC. It was seven for thirty
against Michigan State, and Michigan State, to me, is probably
the better comp game because I feel like Gonzaga falls
in line D defensively and on the glass more with
Michigan State. Although UNC is always a good rebounding team,
but Gonzaga on the boards, Gonzaga on the defensive end
is generally comparable to what Michigan State is, and if
you look at the rebounding numbers this year. Gonzaga is
a really good rebounding team. How is Kentucky gonna win
the boards tonight? They probably don't. For all the shooting
woes that Kentucky had in their game, Gonzaga had him
twofold against Michigan. And I'm sitting there watching that game
and I'm like, Okay, eventually the Gonzaga run is coming,
and you know what came another Michigan run. It was
like Michigan ten, oh, Michigan twelve two, Michigan fourteen to three,
all these runs and they were run totally out of
the gym. I don't think since the championship game against
Baylor a few years back, I don't think I've seen
Gonzaga beating that soundly in a long time. I think
they'll bounce back. I'll tell you what to you guys.
The total at one fifty eight and a half. If
you're just talking bounce Both of these teams were so
poor offensively, you would think they get back to the
norm a little bit here, and maybe that total is
a shade too low off of the prior results or
the most recent results. I would have loved to have
been in on the opening number Gonzaga minus three. I
think that's a win. Pushing, like you say, Brian out
of five and a half, five to five and a half,
it gets a little bit tougher.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna ask me which one of these coaches
is going to get there too, or which team is
better prepped so far this season or have shown better
results so far this season to make us believe that
there's a there's a bounce back here, I'd have to
say it's Gonzaga. I think they're more well rounded. I
think they go and transition better. I think a lot
of things are better about Gonzaga and Kentucky to me
still seems to be in a little bit of an
evaluation experimentation stage. If I had to bet it, guys,
I would probably lean to the Gonzaga side, And I
think I would lean over here. I think this game
probably gets into.
Speaker 1: The one sixties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just one quick point. If Kentucky makes their threes,
and that's a big if the game's probably going over right,
I mean I would almost say that, hey, you know
that we you know taking me over. You don't have
to worry about a potential Gonzaga bounce back. I think
if Kentucky it's their threes, this game does probably go
over the total.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I so my general sort of thought on this
board today. I haven't bet anything yet college basketball, which
is is not totally rare, but like I kind of
I bet later in the day for a couple of reasons.
But on this particular slate, I find myself thinking, Oh,
I'm gonna want to push back at some of these numbers,
some of these moves. This one's kind of on my
list to do that. Now do I do I want
to step in front of Gonzaga. I don't know. I
don't really want to. But everything's got a price, right Brian, Like,
if they're gonna I mean, if they're going to push
this one up, I'm seeing five and a half some
places right now, Like, there is a price that I
may consider jumping in when Kentucky. Now, it might be
contingent on a couple of things, the first being Jalen
Low playing in this game. I heard it's a possibility
that would certainly sort of make me like Kentucky a
lot more than I would without him. Of course, my
numbers all out of whack on Kentucky because they've they've
had key injuries pretty much all season, the transfer from
Arizona State, Quentin's I don't think it is even stepped
on the floor yet this year. Dia bot p Yeah,
he's been out so and of course Jalen Lowe's only
played two games, come over from Pitt. He was someone
that I remember you and I did a pit preview
Brian and we were all about him maybe a year
or two ago as hit. So would love to have
him on the floor. That would make me sort of lean,
you know, if you had the combination of like low
playing and this got up to five and a half
or six, would I like Listen, I saw Bayou in
the chat speaking to someone else saying, Hey, this isn't
Someone said, well, this isn't at ro Arena. It's in Nashville. Listen,
Nashville is might as well be roughed. This is like Yukon.
This is gonna be like Yukon ban showing up to
the garden.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a lot closer than it's a lot
closer to Lexington than it is just Spokane. In case,
if you don't guys, don't have your map out in
the chat.
Speaker 1: But even if it was on the moon, Brian, the
Kentucky fans would get there somehow, like they just they
just show up, like you're not gonna get Gonzaga fans
probably more than like a small section traveling to Nashville
for this game. So I do think maybe you bump
a point, maybe a point for for Kentucky having the
environment being kind of quote unquote at home here. The
concern for me is the three games that Kentucky has
now played against. I think we've coined the term weight
class on this show, like the only ones that you're
really going to evaluate Kentucky so far this season would
be the Louisville game, the Michigan State game, and the
North Carolina game. Have have none of them have been good? Right?
Give up ninety six points to Louisville, just get destroyed
by Michigan State, and then by sort of all accounts,
played poorly even though it was a close game. Did
not play well in that game against North Carolina in
a game that correct me if I'm wrong, they were
close to a touchdown favorite in when it was all
said and done. So I'd love to like confidently come
on here and say, oh yeah, Kentucky plus the points,
they've got a great chance to win. But I think
there's some things that need to happen before I can
get there with that. So I'll lean if I see
five and a half. At five and a half, I
got a lean Kentucky's, but I haven't bet it yet,
and I don't know if I will.
Speaker 2: A few things here just to put a bow on it.
Number one, our chats has gotten very lively about this game,
certainly conflicting points of view on who's going to win
and cover the night. Number two. I think we mentioned
this before the North Carolina game, and yes, driag, Kentucky
did close. Six and a half is what I marked
it down as Kentucky last year was significantly worse outside
of Rupp Arena. We talked about how they'll still have
the fans support edge in Nashville, obviously just one state down,
but this was not the same team away from Rup
that it was last year year. Let's note that now,
of course the North Carolina game where was that? That
was right in Lexington, Kentucky, and they couldn't hit water
from boat, so that doesn't bode well. I don't know
if you know, it's a new team. It's a new year,
but that was not encouraging. Normally you see a shooting
display that bad, you do want to run in, bounce
and back the team. But I don't know. Like we said,
three games now, Kentucky's played a good team and they
haven't looked at any of them. Yeah, well as cowboys
smug by the way, whoever asked in the chest full
of cowboys tears this morning, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that was big for me too, BP. I
know you had Lions for a big play. Shout out,
BP hit a five percenter and I didn't even know
you had the Lions and I had the Lions for
a four percent. So big, big night for us in football,
in college basketball, my teams continue to find inexplicable ways
to blow games. Doug Gottlieve is still punching air right
now for me. So anyway, by you says like Kentucky
likes lady yesterday, we have not seen their ceiling yet,
we could tonight. My argument would be, you can't without
Jayalen Low. You're not gonna see Kentucky sniff their ceiling
without Low. Given the fact that they've also missed two
of their other best two of their other top players.
So they're gonna need to get healthy to realize their ceiling.
But low back would be a pretty big step in
the right direction. And that's something I will monitor as
the day goes on. Today. So people ask me sometimes
a little segue here into a different game, and then
I'll get you. I see you, Garth. I know you
want to talk mac basketball. We'll go there in a minute. Obviously,
I'm you know, I'm ready to talk mac hoops, but
I want to do a little segue here. Someone asked me, like,
how do you pick the games you're gonna go to?
And it's like really a combination of like just when
I have an open day Mallory letting me out of
the house, maybe getting maybe getting some uh maybe getting
some media credentials, how many games I can hit at once,
and then I like to see teams when they're they're
really good, and so a spot I kind of had
circled because I also like to like try to get
three or four games in twenty four hours, just economical, right.
I was going to try to go down to the
crosstown rivalry this year and I bailed on that. And
the reason I bailed on that is, I can't. I
can't justify I would have dragged you out there, BPR.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like, because Noway's like, how many
times are you gonna go to Ohio?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would have dragged you out there. And
I said, you know what, I can't do with these
two teams. It just can't do it this year. We
got to do it a different year. The Crosstown Shootout
I believe they call it, is at the Cintas Center
Xavier Cincinnati tonight, both teams massively underachieving right now.
Speaker 2: Present Chili by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that would have been the draw. That would
have been the draw for me, BP the fact that
we would have probably hit up Skyline Chili at some point.
I don't know if Xavier has one fifth third has
a Skyline Chili in the arena. I'm not sure. I've
never been to Cintas Center, something I found extremely interesting.
I'll let Rob kick this one off and then we'll
go to VP. Cincinnati hasn't won at Xavier since two
thousand and one? Is that true? Now? The reason it
might be true is I do think that these two
teams have played on a neutral a couple of times.
I think this game has been played in that arena
in Cincinnati that's not Cincinnati's campus venue. I know Cincinnati
Dayton will play there occasionally, but that to me seems insane.
Obviously it's played every year. They typically alternate home road.
That being said, neither of these teams have inspired a
ton of confidence this year wanting to back them. Cincinnati
with the lost to Eastern Michigan, Xavier a disastrous start
to the season. Rob, we had some opinions on Xavier.
Do you think they've turned it around enough to justify
backing them at home in this spot?
Speaker 3: Well, sidewise, I won't speak on, but total wise, I
think see potential for that Adam Right now, Xavier last
three games, three straight up wins, but better than that
three game totals that have gone over five consecutive team
totals over the number four Xaviers scoring points, and unlike Cincinnati,
they've decided to go with quicker pace on the offensive
end this year. I think both of these teams are
top thirty five and as far as quickness time of
possession is concerned, so it looks like we'll get a
faster game than maybe what we're accustomed to out of Xavier, Cincinnati,
and Xavier right now, for what it's worth, seventy eight
against West Virginia. And we know we've talked all season long,
guys about West Virginia with the coaching change, being an underteam,
being a slow and like Snail's pace game, that game
hit one forty six Corpus Christy, I don't want to
make too much out of that. Saint Francis, PA, even
though you were sporting their colors the other day, Adam,
I don't want to make too much of that, but
they have on team total over five straight. If you
just backtrack, you get the Georgia game. Of course, that's
the famous game where we had fifty three in the
first half and couldn't get our team total over and
then prior to that ninety nine again, so do you
so I see something out of Richard Patino's offensive end,
and Cincinnati hasn't been a slow team, so I think
I'll get the posion. They've still been a pretty good
defensive team, still a pretty good rebounding team on the
defensive end. But when I look at team total, here
I see Xavier seventy five and a half and I
think that one might get there. That's the thing that
caught my attention the most in this game. The total,
as you guys can see, one forty three and a
half opener all the way to one forty eight. I
don't know BP is at the ass end of the line.
If I bet over one forty eight, I don't know,
but I've lost four and a half points worth of
value in that, which I haven't really lost with Xavier's
team total. So for me, guys, that's the perspective I
looked at it. Didn't really look at it from the side.
I wonder, Trig, if you decided not to go because
you just don't want to be involved in any game
ending xavior Cincinnati brawl altercation type thing.
Speaker 1: We don't want to there all you're throwing hands. There
was an all time or that's got to be like
fifteen twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was the guy. Yeah that was.
Speaker 3: There's a little bit of a bad blood there. But
for me, guys, I'm looking at I haven't bet it yet,
but I'm looking at the Xavier team total over seventy
five and a half.
Speaker 2: This will I have not decided on my leg of
the parlay yet so I may come back this one.
I like Xavier on the money line here, you know
something at this and this is true for all sports,
not just college basketball. Sometimes what we do is, you know,
first impressions mean a lot, And what we do in
any sport is we get our initial impression of a
team and we let it stick with us for too long.
In baseball, Trigg And I know you could speak to this.
We're all baseball is such a long season, like teams
could completely change over the course of one hundred and
sixty two games. And you know, you say, you're saying
things that are true about a ball club in May
that just simply aren't true anymore in August. Well, I'm
bringing this up because we were all piling on Xavier.
We were on the show. We're like, man, what else
rotten start? This is for the Musketeers. They've kind of
turned it around, you know, and they turned around. They've
hit a lot oft they've been hitting a lot of
Now what scares me is they've hit ten or more
threes in three straight games. Okay, Cam, Matt can continue,
But you said something, Trig And it is I did
a little research here while Rob was talking and it
is true Cincinnati's lost ten straight as the visitor in
this series. You would have to go back to two
thousand and one to find the last time they won
as a visitor was their first time ever visiting the
Sintas Center.
Speaker 1: So the question should I ask you a question? Does
anyone care though these days? Like? Does is that? Like
you know?
Speaker 2: I mean, you're right, I mean, I mean, it's it's
it's I mean, not only are all the players obviously changed,
the coaching stabs change obviously, but you know, and you
know it's not like a long trip. Maybe it is
an anomaly. I guess. I mean, there's two ways to
look at I actually talked. I forget what trend it was.
I was, I was going back and forth with President
Jorn Area on their show a couple mondays ago about
some trend whether, okay, do you look at the you know,
is this trend predictive or is it just an anomaly?
So I don't know. I mean, I guess there's two
sides of that particular coin trigger. You can look at it.
You're like, well, like Cincinnati's eventually got to win as
a visitor, right, But I just Exavier's playing better ball.
Right now, Cincinnati was a little better than we expected
against Tarlatan, but I would lean towards the Xavier side
for sure. I think you could still you can probably
still get a pretty decent moneyline price on this, which
is why I may throw it in our parlay of
the day.
Speaker 1: So, yes, Cincinnati gets no credit for what they did
on Tarletan. Tarlaton State was missing six players in that game.
The number moved like seven points, and Cincinnati still couldn't
cover the opener of eighteen and a half like that.
So if you don't get.
Speaker 2: They got off to a terrible start, like it's almost
like they were like, oh, well, we can just show up,
you know, roll out the basketball and winning. Oh they
played really bad in the first half of memory serves
me correct.
Speaker 1: Tried to show up against Eastern Michigan and lost, right
and a loss. You said something that I very much
agree with. Richard Patino has tweaked some things, and I've
always thought he was an underrated coach. Obviously he still
gets you know, he's obviously he's Rick Patino's son. So
I feel like sometimes he maybe doesn't get the credit
he deserves because he's he's still in Dad's shadow a
little bit, but I mean he did tremendous things at
New Mexico where he you know from from how quickly
he took because if I remember correctly, he took over
a New Mexico team that that finished near the bottom
of the Mountain West in his first year. He didn't
inherit a ton of talent and within I think he
was only there for four years and they were like
a borderline like national power at least on the you know,
below the like top top teams last year. So I'm
kind of a believer in him. And you know, with
the start that they got off to being so bad,
I feel like their market sort of rating is a
little out of whack, whereas Cincinnati they're just bad, Like
you can't play those games in succession Eastern Michigan Tarletan
and it's like, oh so now they're just gonna go
on the road and like magically get up and play
a great game against Xavier. I don't see that happening.
I like Xavier here too. VP.
Speaker 2: You talk about trends being predictive, and you know, we
mentioned that Cincinnati hasn't won as the visitor in this
rivalry in well over twenty years, closer to twenty five
at this point. Well, you know, Xavier's won five to
the last six, nine to the last twelve, thirteen, the
last eighteen. But Cincinnati did win last year, So be
cognizant of that when you're talking about the history this
rivalry and trends.
Speaker 3: So there you go, and real quick, guys, one thing
we didn't even mention, which you know probably adds I'm
gonna say it adds a little bit to the Xavier side.
It's Patino's first time in this game. I'll give you
a quote from Richard Patino, being the first time coach
in the Xavier Cincinnati rivalry. I understand the responsibility. I
understand how important it is to fans. I'll pour my
heart and soul to win that game every single year
because I know Xavier fans, this community, the alumni, former players,
coach is how important it is to them. It's just
an amazing rivalry that happens one time of year. Yeah,
it's like it's not exactly Ohio State Michigan football, but
it's important to walk in as a first time head coach.
You win this game, that buys you a lot of time.
I would say, beating since he buys you a lot
of time as a first year head coach of Xavier.
Speaker 1: It's your call, BP either either I'm doing it or
you're doing it. So if you've got other things that
you kind of like like, you.
Speaker 2: Can ask, because I'll wait. I'm not ready to commit yet,
so I'm gonna let's tease. Oh, you're gonna come to
me if you're not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're not right now, because I don't want
to talk myself into something I like less. So I'm
going to put er money line in the parlay and
then I'm gonna let you uh you know. I mean,
I suppose we get to the end of the show
and I got something I like and you are like, yeah,
I just don't like anything else, then you can, you know,
defer it back to me. But I've decided that Xavier
money line.
Speaker 2: Needs just to be it needs to be in the
par Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to lock that in. What is the
have they taken money? I did see that tick up
a tiny bit.
Speaker 2: It did?
Speaker 1: It did? What we still like? Minus one twenty five?
What are we looking at?
Speaker 2: Let me take let me take a look here, because
we're not that it really absolutely be minus minus one thirty.
You can get at a place and everyone can bet at.
Probably yeah, and it's it's limit you or not. I
don't know what we're allowed to say right now, to
be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to get into trouble. I don't want to
get this this YouTube, good self and a book that
almost everyone can bet at. Sometimes they limit you to
five cents, but yeah, they have a spice.
Speaker 1: And again it's going in a three team er, so
it's not the what.
Speaker 2: You have one exactly minus one thirty and the three
team part the world.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's go to Garth mac basketball.
He wants to talk some maction, so he's his thoughts
on a team total under seventy and a half in
Saint Peter's tonight and I'll I'll loop Rob in here
because he's our totals guy. Uh this I believe this game?
Is that the Run Baby Run Arena in Uh yeah,
they've renamed it that. It's it's the Anatilly Center, but
a couple of years back when they did the renovations,
they decided to name it the Run Baby Run Arena.
I PP will have to do a deep I don't
have the story offhand, we'll have deep dive into that one.
So Saint Peter's has I think since we've got on
this show taken quite a bit of money. Yeah, in
this in this game is at I'm now seeing because
I didn't even realize that, Yeah, this is this is
nine and a half or is that where this opened?
Did this open nine and a half? Maybe five and
a half is the Yeah, okay, I'm not okay that
that's fine. I'm not like completely crazy. I thought this
was six, which was which I didn't think much of
because it was right in line with my number. And
that's what I'm kind of looking at. Here's still very
old schools, still write a lot of stuff out. Yeah
I made the number six, it opened six, this being
bet up. I guess here's my thing with Canisius though,
Like let's say someone's out. There's no one really that's
good enough on that roster to justify like the next
guy up being like a three point move. So someone
decided they liked Saint Peter's. I can't really disagree. This
is still a even though the Canisius maybe isn't as
bad as they were last year. This is still a
very bad team. Even though Saint Peter's doesn't have uh
Shaheen Holloway as their head coach anymore, they still play slow.
But Sheer Mason will will you know, exhibit some of
those same qualities. So I guess let's specifically, I don't
have much of an opinion on the side. I think
that move is is a little bit much. If you
had to bet the side, I think I would punch
back a little bit and just take a nine and
a half.
Speaker 2: Is no one been kidnapped? I mean that is that
is kind of a large line move on a game
like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless unless like like this is a thing though
they have no one on the roster that's worth three points,
So I was just based on that, I'd have to
take Keniesius plus nine and a half. But we're going
to focus on the total for garth Rob. These teams
don't inspire a ton of confidence offensively. Do you think
his under team total seventy and a half gets there
one way or the other?
Speaker 3: I mean for the last decade, maybe longer. If I'm
even involved in a Saint Peter's game, it's with an
under in some way shape or for it. They're just
the same version of Saint Pete almost every year, except
for the kind of the miracle run in the tournament
a few years back. But you know, when you just
start adding up handicapping angles that you use to play
totals the pace, like you mentioned that the opponent isn't
even going to push. The opponent really isn't even defensively
bad enough by results so far this season against slow
paced teams to indicate that Saint Pete could expose that,
exploit that and get to over seventy. Right, So even
if they're the favorite in the game by nine and
a half, they want to go slow, the other side
wants to go so it just has all the makings
of like a sixty seven fifty two something like that.
Sixty seven typical Saint Pete. So I'm not betting the game,
but there's no way I'm going to argue garth off.
But seventy is seventy and a half is a large
number for Saint Pete in any year from I don't know,
two thousand and six. It's been a long time since
they were any good offensively, so I could see it.
I just didn't bet it when he said mac Ack,
I was praying that he was going to go to Fairfield, Manhattan,
where I could give him a little bit.
Speaker 1: Of a people. Oh, we're going to go there because
I want to talk. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Bright.
Speaker 2: I have two things. Number One, Canisius is a bottom
fifteen the team in the country according to my Power ratings.
It's not good obviously, And I have answers did not
The incredible source stns Wikipedia dot com has answered our
questions why this is called the Run Baby Run Arena.
So the nineteen sixty seven nineteen Rob mentioned it's been
a while since Saint Peter's was known for offense. Well,
the nineteen sixty seven nineteen sixty eight team, their motto
was run, Baby Run. They were a Apparently I don't
I don't don't think Ken Palm has adjusted tempo going
back to sixty eight, But apparently Saint Peter's might have
ranked kind of high in that particular metric back then.
So that is why it is called the Run Baby
Run Arena. Parrel somebody from that team is on the
board of trustees and he said, by god, we're calling
this the run Baby Run Arena. And you know, who
are you to doubt a member of the nineteen sixty
seven sixty eight Saint Peter's Peacocks.
Speaker 3: You just shouldn't be able to change the name of
the arena to something like that unless you've just hired
like an if you've hired a NATO's assistant or somebody
or Reggie or somebody who's gonna come in and actually
make that name a real thing.
Speaker 1: Game by game, it's still the Anatilly Center. But like,
I think they did one of those things where they're
like they just wanted a second name, so they're like
gonna call the arena portion that. I don't know. Well,
I'll tell you what's gonna happen first, so too, I
have two things before we move on. One. I actually
had to look up to see if that was like
a fictional number, because the more the more we talk
about this game, the more I can't believe that, like
Saint Peter's is going to have to score seventy one
points to hit a team total over right here too,
this is gonna be this is gonna look like a
pickup game at the Y. It is going to be
atrocious basketball. Neither team can rebound two terrible offenses. The
only way that I think that Saint Peter sits their
team total over this this game goes over or they
cover that insane number nine and a half is if
this is such a foulfest that they're allowed to live
at the free throw line, because that's one thing they
do well second in the country this year shooting free
throws as a team. Saint Peter's eighty one point six
percent as a team. That would if unless it's a
complete foul fest. Uh, it's it would be shocking that
this game gets out of the sixties one way or
the other, which which would have all your unders cashing
pretty much.
Speaker 3: Check the record, Shrew Garth, make sure you don't have
one of those whistle blowers on the court tonight.
Speaker 1: Great, great question right there. We You know I loved
one that the conversation takes a turn into a deep
dive into macbasketball. That's I'm all about that. That's of
course you're really not. And you know what I'm gonna
I'm gonna hijack the middle portion of the show. You
can keep firing in the chapel. Listen, it's Mac Friday.
I actually prepared for this already it's okay, I want
to talk about.
Speaker 2: It was well prepared for this.
Speaker 1: Rob Ving otzed one. So we're gonna go to rob
first Fairfield. That Dratty gym. That's another great little uh.
They think they believe they still have the indoor track
around the around the court. Dratty Gymnasium probably one hundred
years old at this point. Uh. Manhattan hosting Fairfield. Very
interesting game. I want to get Rob's take first here
on this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and real quick. I could not get to the
gym last week. And remember I was going to be
in Connecticut and you were offering me a heck of
the fifty dollars meal that I was going to get
over there.
Speaker 1: It was outsta Fairfield that I just spread out. Yeah
they yeah great.
Speaker 3: And I watched the you know, I was in Stratford,
which is a stone's throw from Fairfield. But Columbia couldn't
miss that night. Wow, Columbia racked up one hundred and
six points. I actually had a play client play on
the total over it was almost too easy. I like
when they go that way, but I like the Fairfield
side here in this game. We've seen a little bit
of a switch of favorites pick if you can even
call pick, I mean, but the Fairfield's now the universal
favorite of a point and a half. I guess Manhattan
did open one as I look here on the live
on screen. A few reasons here, guys, Manhattan, and I
know that they've played some teams where numbers can get skewed,
right when you play usc, when you play Hawaii, when
you play A and M, sometimes your stats can get skewed.
But they played enough garbage on this schedule for me
to actually put some bit of credence into their numbers.
Dead last in the NCAA Division one in three point
percentage allowed, three hundred and fifty two in defensive rebounding.
Take that a step further, because generally when you don't
defensive rebound, it leads to second chance points for the
other side. They get the rebound, they get a chance
at a stick back or whatever. Manhattan's allowed the tenth
most per game second chance points of Division one teams.
Fairfield's got an opportunity there. They're number three, fifty eight
in points allowed per one hundred possessions. Manhattan is just
a hideous, hideous defensive basketball team at this point in time,
double hideous, right, not just one, but we'll double up
on that. It's a bad basketball team on the defensive end. Now,
they do shoot threes pretty well on the offensive end,
and maybe they'll light up Fairfield that direction. But I
don't think they can do enough here. Fairfield, actually, guys,
schedule wise, you know, haven't been bad. They lost to
who they're supposed to lose to, but they've beaten who
they're supposed to be. And all these teams, let's use
our favorite phrase here again, weight class. All the teams
that are in Manhattan's weight class that Field has played,
and there's been a half a dozen of them. Beat
them all, beat in j T, beat Stonehill, beat Loyal
and Maryland beat Lemoine, beat New Hampshire, you know, and
then of course Columbia with that offense whack them. Seaton
Hall defended them to death eighty two fifty nine, and
Penn State they only lost by eight in that game.
To me, the body of work right here for Fairfield
has been far better. I just you know, the Columbia game, guys,
was such a mirage. I think Columbia overall in that
game was forty for sixty four from the field. Real
hard to do forty of sixty four. Sometimes in practice
you can't hit that. I don't think Manhattan hits that here.
They're really a one trick pony, a three point shooting team.
They've lost the bad teams here this year. I'd like
at this price tag, Adam, I mean, this could be
my leg of the parlor. I'll think it through and
maybe we throw them money line in here too. But
Fairfield minus one and a half. I agree with the
line move.
Speaker 2: I kind of like the under here. I rob's points
while taken about Manhattan being a hideous, hideous double, hideous
defensive team. But I mean, I believe they're last in
the country in three point percentage allowed. The teams are
hitting over I think close to forty three percent from
behind the arc. That can't can it. I mean, like,
even if you're just leaving your opponent wide open, like you're,
they're not gonna hit forty three percent against you for
and you're at home. Now, this is kind of a
It looks like the Unders taking some money too. I
don't know, this is a high total. We've talked about
how it's you know, it's hard for teams to get
to like one it's harder than you think for teams
to get to one forty one forty five. We're we're
talking about one fifty cent. I mean, are both these
teams gonna score eighty points? I guess it could happen, But.
Speaker 1: I got here that I want to get out that
I'm trying. I'm going to try to do it in
a very short period of time, because I know people
want to talk about other games. But you talked about
under Army hit like fifteen threes against Manhattan over the
week and it cost me. It was another on a
string of just inexplicable results. Army is one of the
worst shooting teams in the country. They were getting roles
like like you read about. I mean, it was just
I didn't even think the defense was like like insanely bad.
I think Manhattan's just had some really, really terrible three
point luck go against them this year. Another game I'll
point to that they played was Wagner, like another bad
team just hitting Prayer's kid was kid pulled up from
the parking lot. I mean, it was just like to
tie the game, They've they've run into some really bad luck.
Now I'm actually would be against rob in the respect that, Like,
I really want to make a case for Manhattan, but
I have to at least acknowledge the fact that I
don't truly know. I haven't really truly figured out how
to price this team without Will sid Nor. Okay, so
Manhattan has missed Manhattan's not only is he their best player,
he is one of the best players in the conference.
He's on a very short list to be MAC Player
of the Year this year, and he is was deemed
ineligible like right before the season for something that they're
looking into investigating, so on and so forth. So it's
gonna be one of those things where like one day
he's just gonna pop up and they're gonna be like, yeah,
you know how the NCAA works, Like by the time
Linda in the front office gets around to it three
months later figuring out if you were eligible or not,
then they're like, yeah, okay, yeah, by the way, he
can play. And then you'll just suddenly be like you'll
see like one minute before the game, oh, Sidnor's here tonight,
like right and then and then the line should move
six points based off that. So it's like kind of
been frustrating because Manhattan was a team I was so
high on coming into the season. With him, they're a
team that can contend in the MAC. Without him, they
can still score the basketball. I mean, they have Winston Dinkins.
They have a trio of guys that can really put
the ball in the hoop. Devin Dinkins, Jaden Winston can
both fill it up. And you know, you you if
you had put Signore on this team. They're blowing teams
like Fairfield out of the water. The problem is we
still don't know if he's playing. He hasn't played yet
this year, so he'd have to assume he's out. And
with him out, I mean, he really does lower the
profile of this team significantly. So it's like, I kind
of I want to come back with Manhattan here because
I feel like they were the better team against Army
and kind of got screwed screwed in that game. I just,
I just I haven't done it yet. And to Rob's point,
Fairfield has has played well in these types of games.
But as I see Fairfield take money, I think if
this hit like two and I was going to catch
a bucket here at home with Manhattan, I'd have to
go the other way and take Manhattan. So that is
a by you, says Army has went from three fifty
four to two sixty seven and three point shooting since
that Manhattan game. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I haven't
wanted to trash my house in a long time. I
almost did after that one. BP.
Speaker 2: You know the feeling, No, I know the feeling. Yeah,
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You have to take his chat privileges away. But that's
neither here or there. Yeah, Manhattan, Fairfield, the Max crazy Man.
There's gonna be some wild results in this league. There
always is. I want to I want to get Rob
back in here, and I want to appease the folks
in the chat who are like, we need to talk
about a real game for a second. There's one that
I want to hit, uh that that we haven't talked
about yet, and it looks like the folks in the
chat want to see as well. It's TCU.
Speaker 2: We did thirteen minutes on Kenzaga Kentucky Open the Yeah,
and we.
Speaker 1: Did Xavier Cincy, So you know, we we and then
we still have nineteen minutes of the show left, so
we'll probably get to some others. Roby, Uh, TCU, Nordre Dame.
What do you make of TCU? They lose to New Orleans,
they come out, they beat Florida. Like, this team's all
over the place. Now they're a favorite. I don't know
if they should be this big of a favorite. But
talk to me, talk to me about horn Broggs, the Irish.
Do you have a play in this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, go back even further, Adam, And now that's sixty
seven sixty three lost to Michigan.
Speaker 1: Looks really really good.
Speaker 2: The way Michigans play.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I forget which game it was.
It may have been the Florida game, and or maybe
it was the Mischigan. It probably was the Michigan game
where I texted you and said, Jamie Dixon had a
game plan to stop these guys, and they executed it defensively.
They were outstanding that night around the perimeter. Michigan's got
bigs that can hurt you, TCU. It handled that. I
would love to get the TCU in this.
Speaker 1: Game, but the price drives me away. I just don't know.
Speaker 3: If I want to trust them to cover seven points,
I still might, but it's a pretty sizable number here.
Notre Dame's been through a couple of pretty pretty good
battles as well. I mean, when you play Houston the
way they played them, and they snuck in under the
number at the end of that game, I think Houston
was like ten and a half. They went by ten,
or maybe Houston was a eleven. But Notre Dame actually
played them really, really well. That's a probably as good
a defensive team as you'll find in the nation. So
TCUs defense might not bother them. Played Kansas pretty well,
played Ohio State really well, so I kind of find
Notre Dame a tough team to give seven and a
half points too. So I diverted my attention to the total,
thinking maybe we can find our way to one hundred
and forty points here. And I still believe that maybe
we can in this game. As much as I talk
about TCU and how impressed I was with the defense
against Michigan, I still think that there's upside to this offense,
to tell you the truth. Now, they just come off
of a win against Wisconsin. They get the seventy four
points Wisconsin is not your dad's Wisconsin that plays fifty
eight to fifty six games, but they're also not greyhound pace,
and so to get to seventy four in that ands
to get to one thirty seven with Wisconsin. I think
it's doable to get to one forty here with Notre
Dame Micah Shrewsbury. You know, it doesn't like to use
a lot of pace either, more efficiency over pace, let's
put it that way. And they played Missouri really well
the other night, right, they get to one forty seven
with Missouri. So for me, I'm still looking at it.
I think I might get to a place where I
played the over in this game, but there's not a
lot of wiggle room. I'll say that too. It's not
like I feel like this game is going to get
to one fifty. But they pay me the same for
one forty as they do for one fifty, So whether
I think it's gonna get there by half a point
or ten and a half points doesn't really matter. I
just think this one thirty nine and a half number
is attackable here, and maybe we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I well go go ahead, BP, if you.
Speaker 2: Know I actually don't have anything on this game. I
but I am ready to lock in my parlay. Leg
all right, we go with this game.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll say a few words about tc and
Notre Dame and then we'll go to you for the parlay.
I felt like the number was big. I you know,
Notre game is like, I think I'm a little bit
higher on them than maybe the market. I saw this
and I just want to make sure that I'm look yeah, yeah,
I mean I saw this hit seven and a half.
Let me just pull up my believe my number was
quite a bit off of this and to the point
where I almost felt like I had to sort of
jump in just from a just from a numbers perspective. Yeah,
I made this one four and a half, and I
think that that's probably where it should be. Now I
haven't played it yet, but again, Notre Dame they have
scrappy guards. They can make a few shots. The thing
with TCU that they've really had that that's really sort
of propelled them in these games when they play up
is their guards are just they just harass your other
the guards right Like Florida, we've talked about their backcourt
and the struggles that their back court has had well,
you know, TCU just was in their shorts the whole game,
and they couldn't handle the ball and they couldn't actually
couldn't get into their offense, and that's probably why TCU
won that game. I think Notre Dame maybe handles that
a little bit better and at least the point where
they'll handle it enough where TCU can't run away in
this game. So that's sort of what puts me toward
the Notre Dame side. It is on my seven and
a half, I think is a decent bet from a
numbers perspective. I'm gonna have to like sort of think
about that one throughout the day see if it continues
to move. But I wouldn't lay said I think seven
and a half you're laying way too much of a
premium on TCU. I think that would be a bad
bet from a numbers standpoint. So it's gonna be irish
or pass for me. Okay, VP, the floor is yours.
What are we putting in the parlor?
Speaker 2: Let's go late night degenerate special. Let's take the points
with San Diego against San Jose State. San Jose State
profiles as a terrible favorite. Wellh I the San Jose
State profile is a terrible favorite. You mask, well, there's
two reasons I'm gonna give you. Number one. They stick defensively,
teams are making and teams are shooting inside the arc.
And if you if you have a bad two point
percentage defense, guys, I think you would agree that tends
to be less fixable than three point. Three point defense
can be very variable game to game two point. If
you're bad at defending inside the arc, it means you're
a bad defensive team. Okay, San Jose State bad defensive team.
They also don't play very fast ad justin tempo. San
Jose State three hundred and forty fifth in the country.
That's bottom twenty one. You're not good defensively, you don't
play fast. How are you gonna win by margin this
number against the San Diego Torero's it's gotten up to
seven and a half. Let go with the Torero's plus
seven and a half here to stay with them, tom As,
this is a five point game. I would concur with that.
Speaker 1: I was on San Diego last week at some one
point and they so on paper. They ended up losing
to cal Baptist by fifteen. They had a generational scoring
drought in the second half of that game, where like
that was a for for twenty eight minutes. That was
a very very competitive basketball game. You would not have
been able to decide for who is the better.
Speaker 2: Team And cow Baptist isn't bad.
Speaker 1: Well that's the thing. Like we talked about cal Baptist
a bunch on this show, like and then they went
literally I'm telling you, they didn't make a shot for
for nine minutes, Like it was just like out of nowhere,
could not buy a shot and turned what was and
I think they were And the reason I bring it
up for two reasons. One, they were right in this
price range, like I think they were plus eight and
a half here, you're getting plus seven and a half.
That was the line, right VP seven and a half
for San Diego.
Speaker 2: Let me just double check there against Well, yeah, I
just got to keep keep going, keep going. I'll just
hold on one second. San Diego closed plus eight against
cal Baptist.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, so, and that's basically what you're you're catching here,
you know with San Diego in this game. Point is
like I mean, if you take that nine minutes out,
which to me was was very much an aberration. Also,
these MTES they were in, like they were somewhere in
California playing on a neutral Courts Springs probably. Yeah, Like
I don't like these MTE type tournaments for like true
evaluations of of what a team is or like these
neutral court games. So even though they didn't have to
play back to back games in that in that one
it was just like a one off on a neutral
I still like, you know, it is what it is, right, Like,
this is a team that beat an Idaho team that
I think is a lot better than than people are
giving them credit for. Uh, last time out they went
to Long Beach State, you know, lost but lost a
competitive game VP. I don't think it's out of the
out of the realm of possibility that uh San Diego
Steve Lavin I believe still their head coach is competitive
here and that's all you need. Competitive got inside seven
and a half.
Speaker 2: Glad they got them out of the booth. Yeah. San
Diego was up by nine in the second half of
that game against cal Baptist and then they they went
I've got the play by play. They were at fifty
one at fourteen nineteen left in the game. They were
still at fifty one at eleven eighteen, and they were
at fifty three at ninety under nine minutes they were
they scored three points in a six minute stretch. They
scored sit Oh my god, have me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, please please don't re I don't want to
relive that. So yeah, yeah, it was it was Herri.
It was they did.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, how long were they stuck on fifty seven?
What is this?
Speaker 1: Nine minutes? One of the what I et i ate sixteen?
Speaker 2: They got to fifty seven. They didn't get to fifty
eight until one thirty one left in the game, and
they were so so fourteen percent from three in that
game as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, So when you talk about a deceit box score,
a nine point lead on cal bap just turned into
a fifteen point loss. It was just like, how do
you even write? Like, how do you even do that?
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: Yeah's with the with the screen trader, I'll put it back.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that's okay. Well, let's we're gonna move out.
So what we'll do? We got ten minutes left. Jose
Perez asked a question about Brown Bryant. So let's talk
about this game and then we'll go to Rob for
his parlay leg. I'll give him a little bit of
a heads up so he kind of get it, gets
his thoughts together. But I do want to bring him
in on Brown Bryant because I have a sort of
total spin on this one, and I always like to
get his opinion on total. So BP, you'll remember I
went to this game two years ago, this exact game,
this exact weekend, and then I came and met you
at the sports book in Boston after the game. So
this is so, this is Bryant and Brown. This is
a rivalry they played this.
Speaker 2: We're a very perplexed why you were going to this game.
Speaker 1: I got I had to get listen. I can't justify
leaving the house and coming all the way to Boston
if I'm not getting a game or two. And I
went to Northeastern next day. If you remember, I missed dinner,
miss dinner to go watch Northeastern. But anyway, yeah, it
is a So this is a rivalry game they played
every year. It's typically a battle. It's been close the
last couple of years. The reason I want to bring
Robin here is this is getting bet up on the
total and a half. Yet I've watched a lot of
these two teams play so far this year, and none
of it has been esthetically pleasing. Now you can talk
about Brown and say, well they've been without lesbert Land
and Lewis just came back. They were really down two
starters for like three or four games to start the season.
Bryant is a year one for Jamie on Christian. I
remember Jamie on Christian because he came in one year
at Sienna, had a good year, and then took off
went to George Washington for a couple of years. But
to Jamie on Christian's credit, I got to always have
a warm spot in the heart for Jamie Christian because
he gave us Jalen Pickett and let him stay for
a couple of years. So that was a Jamian Christian recruit.
He is a good recruiter, and I do think he's
like gonna put together team at Bryant at some point.
But this team has no clue how to function yet,
Like they really just don't know how to like function offensively.
It's a it's a total mess, very similar to like
the year he was at Sienna. It took him a
while to sort of figure out, hey, let's just play
super slow. Let's let let let j Let's let Jalen
Picket walk the ball up the court and then just
iso him and kind of make a play. The reason
I reason I say that is one seven up to
one thirty and a half is the wrong move in
my opinion, that should be moving the other way. These
two teams are both horrific offensively right now, and Brown
is still arguably missing their their best offensive player or
one of their best offensive players. So Rob, like, what
do you make of that move? Any reason that it
should be going toward the over?
Speaker 3: Well, I had thought that Lewis was gonna play tonight,
and that's.
Speaker 1: Probably Lewis is playing. They've been without Lesberg. Lesbert's the
guy that hasn't stopped on the floor yet this year.
Lewis is bad.
Speaker 3: And so let me just describe it to you from
the way I would think it out, Adam. The first
problem with Bryant for me is you go from Phil
Martelli to Jamie on Christians. So right away you're putting
square peg in a round hole. You're taking all the
people that all the players that were there and either
running them off and bringing new guys in. But you're
changing the entire system, right, Christian is just known for
being slow paced. Martelli the exact opposite. You're not picking
people up three quarter court, you're not putting, applying any pressure,
et cetera, et cetera. You're not run grabbing a defensive
rebound of running the other way. So from that perspective,
the first year is going to be bad offensively in
my mind right away, and it shows out in Bryant's results.
Actually they just haven't been there. You described how ineffective
their offense has been. On the other side, the Brown side,
unlike some previous versions that were high scoring, it's not
the same with Brown either. They're kind of slow tempo
as well. Combine those two slow tempo Bryant extreme three
hundred and sixty degree change of systems, and then add
to it rivalry intensity, which in my mind usually is
on the defensive end in rivalry games. Defensive intensity, I
can't see I could see a case for Bryant team
total under tell you the truth sixty two and a
half and I can't really see a case to buy
into over again, the line moves are crazy based on
a lot of you know, just play a personnel on
or off the floor. I don't know, Adam, I would
be with you. I would play under. I also think you.
Speaker 1: Could get the Bryant under in that game. Tell you
the truth. Yeah, to Jose's actual question, like he's like, no,
one's really betting Brown. I kind of like Brown. There
was a point in time where Brown actually dipped to
minus four and a half and I said that might
be a reasonable bet. Now it's up to six and
a half, which I do agree with the move because
I think Brown is a little bit undervalued from like
a statistical profile, because they have they they were without
a couple of their their top players. But then the
other side of the argument is this was a team
that heavily relied on Keno Lilly last year for a
lot of what they did offensively. It was one of
the best players in the IVY. He's obviously now gone.
So I just don't know if you could get you
could if I could comfortably lay six and a half
in a game that, like the local fans do care
about that. That was an awesome environment at Brown two
years ago for that game when I when I went,
and I'm sure it will be again tonight. So I
think I would just have to lean like punch back
against the market on the total, because nothing I've seen
from these two teams suggests that this is going to
be a high scoring game. So so a lean toward
lean toward Brown, lean toward under for me and Rob,
I'll kick it back to you to close this parlay out.
What are you looking at?
Speaker 3: Well, let's close it out with a total, because that's
generally how we up here on this show. I'll close
things out with a total the Samford VCU game, guys
sitting at one fifty one fifty and a half. Two
options here for me. We're either to play VCU team
total over eighty four and a half or play this
full game over one fifty and a half. And I
think I'll go with the full game over one fifty
and a half. Ay Martelli's not a guy to let
off the gas at the end of a game today.
That truth, they'll keep scoring. So I like that from
that perspective. But six of the eight VCU games this
season have all gotten to one fifty one or better.
Six of the nine Samford games have all gotten to
one fifty one or better, So combined, that's twelve of
seventeen real high percentage of these teams playing into the
one fifties VCU. When given a team like this can
push the gas and get into the eighties. The reason
why I didn't play them to get to eighty five
is that there's been some instances here where Samford has
not a loud a real good opponent to get to
eighty five, mostly based on tempo guys. You know Lenny
Acuff real quick, I'll just go back to having been
you know, I'm a Belmont guy. Belmont Lipscomb is a
big rivalry, but with Lipscomb it was way more offensive
efficiency than it was tempo. They could in conference place
sometimes they would up to tempo, but they're really usually
good offensive efficiency team hasn't quite happened in the numbers
yet this season. I think that's due to non conference scheduling.
But here they're off a really, really bad offensive performance
against Utah Valley. Utah Valley crushed them. I think they
only scored. They didn't even get the fifty. So I'm
a big bounce back guy. If you're a decent offensive team,
you probably get into the mid sixties here because there's
going to be enough opportunity. One last thing is that
they don't turn the ball over very much. But I
when going through their schedule and the opposing defenses, there's
not a lot of pressure style teams like you on
their schedule yet, So I think VC is going to
get some cheap points here. To me, it all adds
up to a game that Lands won fifty four better.
So give me over one fifty and a half in
the Stamford VCU game.
Speaker 1: Up. He's muted. He's muted over one fifty and a
half in that game. That's a full game total. That'll
close out our parlay. We still, I'm gonna just I
got to bring this up real quick. So a couple
of people asking about Sianna Niagara. Terrible tragedy for Sianna
this week with the Liam Gleeson, who's been the lacrosse coach.
That's well, I believe his first year as an assistant
was my senior year back in two thousand and eight.
He went over to coach Albany for a couple of years.
He's been back and he's totally turning the Sana lacrosse
team around. Passed away earlier this week, h terrible fell
at his home, forty one years old, three daughters like
all accounts, the nicest guy. It's just been like an
awful week because of that. So macnamara shared, like his
office is right next door, but like listen, like we
you know, it's it's partinent information. Sienna plays at home tonight.
They're a They opened fourteen against Niagara, which is my number.
Who was right on the number. It's possible that people's
minds are elsewhere then on basketball for Sienna now could
go one of two ways. They could show up and
want to light up Niagara, who's got as bad of
a team as they've had in my opinion in the
Greg Paulis era. But one thing about Paulus is he's
a game planner. He's a scrapper and if like you're
not totally ready to play, he's gonna hang around. He
always does that. So terrible situation by all accounts. Liam
Gleeson was a great person and just a tragic thing
to happen there, But we got a game to play.
That game is being played and it's it's info. You
come here for info. So I don't have an opinion
on the game. Like I said, my number came out
right on there, but it was worth pointing out on
the show. All right, we're going to close it right
there and just gonna put in. So I'll throw minus
one thirty for the parlay for Xavier. I think that's fair.
I don't know why this this calculator is not working VP. Oh,
let's see presto. Okay, there we go. It's going to
be plus five forty four. So your your three team
parlay today is going to be Xavier on the money line,
which bp CO signed on. So I'm excited about that.
He's Xavier on the money line minus one thirty. Brian
Power is going with the San Diego Torrero's plus seven
and a half out West tonight at San Jose State,
and Rob's gonna go with a full game over Samford
BCU over one fifty and a half. We are back
ahead on the parlay plus three point two to two units,
or up three dollars and twenty two cents for every
dollar if you were playing these equally. We hope to
add some more tonight, but at worst, boys, we're ending
the week positive no matter what happens here. But I
really would like to get another one. So we show
up Monday morning with a nice cushion going into next week.
If you're looking for more plays, we really should point
this out. We have a great weekend special. You get
all three of us for one price. And I saw
people in there asking about Saturday games. I mean, between
the three of us on a slate like tomorrow, you're
probably going to get more opinions than you would get
on the show. You know, between the three of us
all playing different games on tomorrow's slate, Tonight's are really
free that that package was always supposed to be a
Saturday Sunday thing because obviously we do the show on
Friday and BP we're just we're so generous, we're like
throwing Friday as well, Yes, throwing Friday as well.
Speaker 2: And that's three days. Trig self rob seventy nine dollars
all of our college basketball players for the next three days.
Speaker 3: And I'll just add real quick, guys, I don't know
about you, Brian, but with them with the college football
season this weekend being dwindled down to nine conference championship
games other than the sixty five to sixty eight game schedule,
more college basketball will be on my Saturday card. Obviously,
with the lack of CFB being played this week, and
so you get a little more time you could dive
into that huge Saturday card.
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