Re: November 27th - December 3rd NCAA Hoops Thread!
 

Just some counter points from a guy who very closely follows basketball in Virginia and the CAA. W&M is definitely not good, but Richmond is young and wildly inconsistent. In addition, I think that UofR is able to stay in some of these games because of their unorthodox style. W&M plays them regularly and should be prepared for this. Alex Smith is probably not playing for William and Mary again, so this is a benefit to UofR.

That said, W&M will be way up for this game and the Spiders will not have much of a home court advantage. This is not a slam dunk at all in my opinion, could easily go either way.

Re: November 27th - December 3rd NCAA Hoops Thread!
 

Thanks for both sides of the argument, guys.

Re: November 27th - December 3rd NCAA Hoops Thread!
 

Tonight I like:

UNC -5.5 UNC owned OSU last year in the Smith Center. And that was one of the best OSU teams of all time. This year UNC returns everybody except Reyshawn Terry, Brandan Wright and Wes Miller. OSU practically lost their whole team outside of one player. UNC loves to run the ball and OSU likes to push it at times too. I think ultimately OSU will get carried away at times at playing UNC's game and will wear down at about the 10 min mark of the second half because they don't have the depth that UNC has, or the starters to match UNC to begin with. This is the same OSU team that lost to a 1-AA school at an exhibition. I'm a UNC fan so a lot of this is my knowledge of my team and our style vs how I know OSU likes to play, but I love the spread they've given this game.

Also like NCST +9.
Wolfpack are playing some good ball under Sidney Lowe. They run a real slowed down offense. Unless Nietzel and company starts lighting it up from beyond the arc I like NCST to cover in this game. Nobody has blown them out all year and I don't expect MSU to tonight.

Re: November 27th - December 3rd NCAA Hoops Thread!
 

Maryland -2 v Illinois bet 2.16u to win 2u

3-2 ytd
up 2.22units

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Everyone and their mother is on UNC tonight

It's a chalk fiesta

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Everyone and their mother is on UNC tonight

It's a chalk fiesta


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yeah...I placed a decent sized wager on Duke yesterday and I felt worse and worse as the day went on as everyone and their mom in the sportsbooks were on the Duke. Nothing worse than hearing every Vegas loser loves your pick of the day. Oh well, sometimes they are right.

Re: November 27th - December 3rd NCAA Hoops Thread!
 

Opening totals 11/28:

2 units:
u143-110 (WESTERN MICH vrs VALPARAISO)
u139½-110 (SETON HALL vrs PRINCETON)
o150½-110 (CS NORTHRIDGE vrs CLEVELAND ST)

1 unit:
u125½-110 (DAYTON vrs MIAMI OHIO)
o147-110 (MISSOURI vrs ARKANSAS)
o139½-110 (BRADLEY vrs LOYOLA CHICAGO)
u150-110 (ALABAMA vrs TEXAS A&M)
o135-110 (SAN DIEGO ST vrs LOYOLA MARYMOUNT)
o140-110 (CALIFORNIA vrs NEVADA)
u138-110 (JAMES MADISON vrs EASTERN KENTUCKY)

Note: the Cleve St/CSNU should only be 1 unit by my system, but I put two units by mistake. It opened at 148.5, which would have been a 2 unit play and when the line changed, I didn't want to miss my window so I didn't go back and change the amount to 1 unit.

The openenrs are so frustrating at Bookmaker. They never come out at the same time and they move so fast you inevitably miss some good numbers, and when you place a bet, you have to navigate back to the right page to catch the next one. Very stressful.

My YTD record:

Game totals:
46-32 + 17.5u

Sides and halftimes:
3-7 -5.8u [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Pretty much in line with the way it went last year. The writing is on the wall to give up with everything but game totals, and the opening totals are the much better subset of those.

Re: November 27th - December 3rd NCAA Hoops Thread!
 

They should love UNC tonight. I honestly feel by the end of the game UNC will win by about 9 pts. OSU is not great. The Syracuse win did not impress me at all. That was a team that was just as young as OSU. UNC is a Junior and Sophomore led team. The Juniors have been thrust into the fire from day one so they have more experience than their age level would suggest. OSU is too young and lacks the depth to compete with UNC.

Re: November 27th - December 3rd NCAA Hoops Thread!
 

Georgetown -8
Michigan State -9
Boston College +3
Syracuse -7.5
Texas A & M -13

1u each. YTD 9-6-1 +2.4u

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