Saturday, January 10, 2009

Picks 1/10/08

Huge card today. 90 games had lines. I have narrowed the list to 30 and I am focusing in on those. Not sure how many plays I will end up with so keep checking back. Here is what I have so far:

Marquette -2 : West Virginia is coming off of a physical / emotional game with UCONN. Marquette can play both a quick pace and slow pace game so even if WVU is able to dictate the pace Marquette should still be able to pull this out at home.

Michigan St -6.5 : Kansas is a young road team who does not shoot that great and has to work inside out which they will not be able to do here. They have not been stellar on the road and MSU has really impressed me as they both rebound well and can shoot from outside the arch. I think MSU wins by at least 10 here.

East Carolina +7 : EC has played a tough schedule and Marshall has an inflated record with their only respectable win being Old Dominion (a 4 pts win @ home). Marshall just played San Diego and Memphis on the road and could have a bit of a hangover from those tough games.

BYU -9.5 : BYU is a much better team that has played well on the road and neutral sites.

UCONN -8.5 : UCONN will own the glass in this one. Cincy is going in the wrong direction and when they lose the rebounding ("RB") battle they lose the game. They are 16th in nation in RB margin and get a lot of second chance points from O Boards. UCONN, however, is 1st in RB margin and will take this away from them.

Delaware -6.5 : NC-Wilmington is real bad and beat up and Delaware likes to play fast so they will have no problem with the tempo of this game. The line has moved to -5.5 since a put the bet in but I still see a 10 - 15 pt win for the Blue Hens.

That is it for now many more to follow.

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