#718 Nebraska -1 -110
Rhode Island at 6-3 and 3-4 ats scoring 68.6 ppg and giving up 59.4 ppg for a diff of 9.1
Nebraska at 6-4 and 4-2 ats scoring at 74.9 ppg and agiving up 66.6 ppg for a diff of 8.3
I don't think there giving Neb enough credit for home court. I do understand that it's a early Sunday afternoon game and most of the students have gone home for semester break so you lose some edge with home court.
RI shooting 44.7% fg and 60.2 %ft and 32.2% from 3 pt land 35 rebs a game.
Neb shooting 43.7% fg and 72.3%ft and 35.4 from 3 pt land and 40 rebs a game.
Stats are really not that far away but I lie the ft% and rebs with the home team and could make all the diff in a close game.
I also like the chance that it is Rhode Island's first true game on the road.
Neb coming off a ugly loss at Creighton (lot's of teams come off a big loss at Creighton) and that helps fire decent teams up for their next game.
Neb has played some decent teams in Creighton, Miami F, Nova, and Cincy, and like a lot of teams also have played their fair share of cupcakes.
Going to take a chance on then home team, although it wouldn't be a upset if they lost.
#722 Temple -4 -110
St. Joes at 6-2 and 4-4 ats scoring at 73.4 ppg and giving up 70.3 ppg for a diff of 3.1
Temple at 4-4 and 4-3 ats scoring at 70.5 ppg and giving up 72.3 ppg for a diff of -1.8
Temple has played the tougher schedule and has owned St Joes at home. Saint Joseph's is 1-7 ATS in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Temple.
Temple losses are to NC, Wiscy, Utah, Butler, now onder they are a -1.8 on their diff.
Temple is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games at home
Temple is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games when playing Saint Joseph's
Now the big one: Have they been covering the spread in this series at home? I see that Temple has covered 4 out of the last 5 game at home in this series.
I just think that the Temple does have the better team, but once again it's college hoops and this is always a game where they really go at each other and strange things happen.
#754 Northwestern -22 -110
Chicago St at 3-7 and 2-0 ats scoring 77.8 ppg and giving up 76.2 ppg for a diff of 1.6
NW at 7-1 and 1-3-2 ats scoring 78.6 ppg and giving up 68.6 ppg for a diff of 10.0
Obviously the diff is not indicative of what is going to happen in this game.
CS w's over Illinois Tech, Indiana NW, and Trinity.
CS losses at Iowa St (42), at DePaul (26), at N. Illinois (23)
I'm hoping NW will be added to this list.
NW hasn't played since 12-5. That is a long layoff. Could be rusty or they could have so much energy that it could be bad for Chicago St, regardless, coach should want to see a lot of things from his starters, more important, with big 10 conf season approaching these players need to be in top shape. I'm hoping the starters play a lot.
NW hasn't has a really big cruncher win and that does sort of worry me, but it's gambling and I'm on them.
Still looking at a couple of underdogs that I think have a shot at hanging in there today.
