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30* Indiana
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Northeastern OV 124.5
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VEGAS EXPERTS
New York Knicks at Boston Celtics
Knicks remember those two losses including the one here in Boston by a 104-59 score. Boston not in an easy spot here after last night's win in Indiana. That was the club's sixth win and cover in its last seven games but the Knicks have not been point spread slouches going 11-5 ATS over their last 16. New York is 13-4 ATS in road games after 2 straight games giving up 10 or less offensive rebounds over the last 2 seasons while Boston is 43-71 ATS in home games when playing their 3rd game in 4 days since 1996 and 69-98 ATS off a road win.
Play on: New York
WILL SYKES FREE PLAY
DENVER vs ORLANDO
SYKE-O-ANALYSIS: Today we catch the Nuggets sleeping, and as they are still on the road heading to Orlando after a tough game in Miami playing in OT. The Nuggets are 5-7 with no days rest, and got 2-1 SU after playing in OT. The home team in this match up has won the last 10 games. The Nuggets have been struggling all season to get that 4th win. The Nuggets are 0-2 after a 3 game winning streak then playing their 4th game on the road, the Nuggets are also 0-4 ATS after a 3 game winning streak (not including their 6 game winning streak in the beginning of the season) as you can see they've been struggling as of late trying to get a streak going. As for the Magic, they've also hit a bump losing two straight, but when the Magic lose two straight and their next game is at home, they've gone 2-0 ATS this season. And they've only allowed 2, three game losing streaks this season, they basically get it done after two losses. Let me break it down to you, this will be the biggest little trend you won't see from any handicapper but Sykes...the Nuggets haven't won in Orlando since March 10th 1992, meaning the Nuggets went 1-13 ATS/0-14 SU covering their only game in March of 2000, Now that's DIAMOND. The Nuggets are way tired from last nights game, so we find the perfect spot for the Magic to cash in our DIAMOND. Don't get psyched here by the Nuggets 10 point win a month ago at Denver, because the Magic are now at home and ready for a KO punch. Just stick with Sykes as we deliver a KO blow to Vegas, and once again.....Sykes becomes Victorious.
KO DIAMOND PLAY: ORLANDO - 5.5
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Chairman 15 units Nebraska -4 v. Missou
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Denver Nuggets + 5.5
Boston Celtics - 8.5
New Orleans Hornets - 6.5
Los Angeles Lakers - 8.5
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3* Southern Illinois -3 1/2
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Lock Of The Day
Wisconsin +4
Wisconsin -4 is a nice bet. Wisconsin +4 is very nice bet. The reason why? Indiana is the most overrated team in America. Indiana will get bounced in the big dance. Wisconsin is too big and plays terrific defense. Wisconsin +4 is today's pick.
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1* Toledo +4.5
1* Nc-Charlotte +5.5
1* Oklahoma State -1
1/2* WisconsinIindiana Over 126
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1/2* Sacramento Kings +9.5
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Denver Nuggets @ Orlando Magic over 219
Golden State Warriors -2.0
Memphis Grizzlies @ Philadelphia 76ers over 196
Washington Wizards +3.0
Utah Jazz -6.0
Gina
Sacramento Kings (23-27) at Houston Rockets (31-20)
The surging Houston Rockets have won seven straight and have been a tough team to beat in their house, winning four straight and six of its last seven, while the Kings have struggle on the road, ugly 7-17 this season. Go with the Rockets at the Toyota Center. The Kings are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games and have lost two of its last three at Houston. The total has gone over in the last 4 meetings, a combined average of 216 points per game.Over is 6-2-1 in the last 9 meetings in Houston.
Houston Rockets
8:30 p.m. Sacramento (23-27) at Houston (31-20) Houston Rockets - 9½
8:30 p.m. Sacramento (23-27) at Houston (31-20) Over - 199
8:30 p.m. Portland (28-23) at Dallas (34-17) Dallas Mavericks - 5½
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Teddy Covers Big Ticket
Big Ticket: Game of the Week (last week 2-0)
REASON FOR PICK: Oklahoma State is a disaster area right now, but the betting marketplace has been very slow to catch up to how bad this team really is. The Cowboys reached the Final Four as recently as 2004, but the program has declined precipitously since that time. We’ve seen other programs go through a tremendous revival when the son takes over for the father as head coach, most notably at Washington State last year and at Drake this year. At Oklahoma State, where Sean Sutton took over for his dad at the start of last season, the reverse is true – this team has gotten worse, much worse.
After a 24 turnover, ten assist performance in their 21 point loss at Kansas State over the weekend, the Cowboys currently sport a woeful 80 assist-to-129-turnover ratio since the start of Big 12 play. Combine that with a #11 ranking among the 12 teams in the conference in rebounding margin and we can expect the Cowboys to continue their free fall. After all, Okie State has exactly one win in their last eight games; that lone win coming by a single point against the worst team in the conference (Colorado).
Baylor is 9-1 ATS in their last ten road games. We’ve seen them hang tough at Big 12 elites Kansas and Texas, while winning outright at Texas A+M, Nebraska and South Carolina. The Bears deep, veteran backcourt is a horrific matchup for the Cowboys bad ball handlers, with Baylor holding foes to an 0.76 assist-to-turnover ratio for the season. The Bears are the better shooting team, the better defensive team, the better rebounding team, the better free throw shooting team, the better three point shooting team – heck, let’s make this simple. Baylor is the better team. In a pointspread range where a win equals a cover, this game has ‘Big Ticket’ written all over it. Big Ticket (#585) Take Baylor.
Bryan Leanords Gold Club Selection
4* College Hoops Gold Club Selection
REASON FOR PICK:San Diego State (-) over New Mexico
One of the largest home/road dichotomies in college basketball is owned by the New Mexico Lobos. They are dominant at home in “The Pit” but at times putrid on the road. Just using the last week or so as an example New Mexico beat Colorado State at home by 40 before pounding Wyoming by 45. Before that they lost at BYU by 17 and at UNLV by 19 in a game that was never that close. Sure we know that the road games were against the leagues best while the home games were against bottom feeders. But the fact remains that New Mexico lost to the spread by a combined 24 points on the road and won by a combined 55 points at home. On the season the Lobos are 14-1 straight up at home but just 4-5 outright on the road. Two of those road wins came in overtime at Wyoming and UTEP.
The lone home loss this season for New Mexico came at the hands of these Aztecs. San Diego State beat them on the road 72-67 in a game in which they pounded the host on the boards 40-30. New Mexico wins with athletic ability but no team in this league has the athletes the Aztecs do. Even without suspended Kyle Spain San Diego State is deep with all-around quality players. The Aztecs have won the last five meetings in this series including an amazing 3 straight at “The Pit”. This is a team that matches up incredibly well with New Mexico.
The Aztecs are the one team in this league who can out-athlete the Lobos. That along with New Mexico’s struggles on the road against quality opposition place us firmly on the host at a cheap price.
PLAY SAN DIEGO STATE
MAlinsky 6*
6* Top of the Ticket - Side
REASON FOR PICK: 6* TENNESSEE over ARKANSAS
Knoxville is absolutely not the place to play this season if your basketball team needs to run and press to be successful. Bruce Pearl’s Volunteers are not just playing uptempo better than anyone in the nation this season, but in some categories they are setting standards we have not seen in a long time. So what does that make this trip for John Pelphrey and Arkansas? Russian roulette. In other words, it is just a matter of time.
Tennessee has reeled off 85, 90, 85 and 104 points in going 4-0 SU and 3-1 ATS at home in SEC play, and for the season the Pearl system has put up some rather frightening numbers. It is one thing to force the opposition into 164 more turnovers than assists, but it is another to be +145 in that category on the other end of the court. Rarely have we ever seen a team that plays at such a frenetic pace take care of the ball so well. So when you can guard all over the court for the full 40 minutes, and also run a smooth attack, it means a lot more opportunities to score than your opponent. For Tennessee it is indeed a lot more – through 23 games the Vols have 180 more field goal attempts and 69 more free throw attempts than their opponents. That is a most rare level.
Now Pelphrey not only has the coaching disadvantage of going up against this opponent for the first time, which means serious matchup issues, but also the problem of the style of his team playing right into the hands of the superior opponent. But we believe him when he says that he is not going to change his stripes - "I don't want to change our pace. I don't want to play slower, don't want to play cautious, but we've got to be smart. If you don't convert some two-on-ones and three-on-twos and they are able to get stops, it makes for two-on-ones and three-on-twos back the other way where they are outstanding, especially at home."
So what happens at this pace? A team that committed 24 turnovers in an 83-72 home loss to Tennessee LY, and is -29 in assist to turnover ratio this season, is prone to falling into some ugly traps. The schedule has not prepared them well at all for what they are going to face, with an 0-2 ATS tally in their only road dog appearances so far, losing to the spread by 19 in those games. And because of some fatigue issues, the Razorbacks could become even more dry kindling for the Volunteer fire. Key cogs Patrick Beverly (36 minutes) and Sonny Weems (35) have been on the court way too much in SEC play, but Pelphrey’s assessment of those minute counts helps to push this over the top - "It's too high. But there's nothing I can do about it right now. As we evolve as a program, it's going to be about 28 minutes a game. If you are really, really good we'll let you play 30. But the makeup of the team, that's the way it's got to be for now. We don't have great depth there."
Pearl has no such issues. Now that Duke Crews is back to full health he has 10 players in his prime rotation, and only Chris Lofton goes more than 28 minutes. And this is a team more than motivated to deliver a knockout punch, When you have won 28 straight home games, which they have, previous losses on this court linger in the memory. Yes, they whipped Arkansas on the road LY, but that did not erase in their minds what happened here two seasons ago, with a 14-point lead with 8:30 remaining turned into a defeat. First, from senior Jordan Howell -
"But that Arkansas game, man, I remember us leading the whole game, and then at the end we just collapsed. It was so distraught in the locker room. It was like, 'How did we just lose that game?' It was the worst feeling.'' And from JaJuan Smith - "Our seniors and Coach Pearl have a nasty taste in our mouths. We don't want to leave here after our senior year saying there was a team we couldn't beat in our gym. We're going to take a lot of pride in this one.''
The fact that Arkansas will play at the expected suicide pace should lead to a few Tennessee explosions over the course of this evening, and eventually the game breaks wide open, with the passion of the Volunteers and their crowd firmly locking the back door.
Tony Karpinski
LSU vs. Florida
Pick: Florida
Pick on FLORIDA> The Tigers played solid in their first game without John Brady as coach, as they nearly stunned Tennessee in a 47-45 defensive contest. We don't see a reprise tonight against the Gators, as Florida can light up the scoreboard on you in a hurry. The Gators stand at 15-1 straight up at home, and they have gone 5-2 against the spread in games played at the O-Dome. Billy D's team is also a solid 7-3 against the spread their last 10 games, and will run and gun at home and they should easily dispose of an undermanned LSU squad. LSU had a new coach start on Saturday and they came out strong and fell behind by 10 in the 2nd half. TENN shot 31% for the game and was 4-15 from the FT line with 15 turnovers. Florida will not do that at home and I smell a BLOWOUT!. FLORIDA by 21
New Mexico vs. San Diego State
Pick:San Diego State
Pick on SD STATE. The Lobos are just a one of the worst road teams you're going to find in college basketball and while San Diego State isn't the greatest team in the Mountain West Conference, they will deliver us a winning ticket in this one. New Mexico has just gotten drilled the last two times they've hit the road, losing at New Mexico 79-60 as a 5 1/2-point 'dog and at BYU 83-66 as a 6 1/2-point pup. The Lobos are 4-5 overall on the road but the wins came early in the season and not against conference competition. The Aztecs have been getting the job done at home, winning four of their five conference games in front of the home fans (3-2 ATS). Last time out at home was Feb. 6 when they played an ugly one against the Air Force, winning 49-38 as 10-point favorites. San Diego State has won three of the last four at home over the Lobos and they are 6-1 ATS in their last 7 Wednesday tip-offs. New Mexico State is just not a good team and the Aztecs have to get this one to remain in the top three in the league. Play San Diego State tonight and watch as they deliver a good 7-10 point over a over-confident New Mexico team who is coming off a 45 point win.
Syracuse vs. South Florida
Pick: Syracuse
Pick on SYRACUSE. Syracuse -4.5 over SOUTH FLORIDA as my BIG EAST GAME OF THE YEAR Life looked good early in the season for S Florida first year HC Heath had made some defensive changes following his 0-3 SU start. They were playing with great confidence following a Big East opening day win vs. Rutgers. Wednesday Night South Florida enters this rematch on a 0-10 SU, 2-8 ATS run. Along the way has been a 0-4 SU ATS home log which has seen them lose every game by 14 or more points. This past Saturday S Florida blew a 16 pt lead at DePaul in an eventual 69-61 loss which was very emotional for the team. With little chance to even play in the Big east tourney these Bulls may have tossed the towel. For Syracuse it's been a different story. Despite the loss of starting guards Rautins and Devendorf to injury, Jim Boeheim has done a masterful job in creating cohesion and chemistry in his young athletic team. Biggest improvement has been on the defensive end where they have allowed 4 of their last 5 opponents to score 64 points or less. With a full week to prepare following a narrow 2 point loss to UConn on Feb 6th, look for full focus from the Orange as they more the better talent and far better coaching.
Rhode Island vs. Temple
Pick:Temple
Temple = We are going to lay the 2.5 points to R.I. tonight. Even though they are 12-10 they are playing great. They are 6-4 their last 10, with the 4 losses by an average of 5 points a game, with one of those losses being to Duke. I think they will slow R.I. down and get the win and move up in the A-10.
George Washington vs. Saint Louis
Pick:Saint Louis
TCU vs. Wyoming
Pick: Wyoming
Montreal Canadiens vs. Florida Panthers
Pick:Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens Most teams have trouble with the Canadiens' speed and skill on the Ice. Floria is 6-4 last ten head-to-head meetings (four of the six by 1 goal), but have been out-shot in 7 of the 10 games. Montreal comes off a poor effort last night in Tampa Bay while Florida returns home from a long road trip. The Panthers are suffering through injuries to say the least. They will have at least 5 starters OUT for this game. The Canadiens love playing on the road, evident by a 17-9-4 record. Montreal should be the favorite in this game and you'll see why tonight!