NCAA Hoops Wed 3/7

[Stifler's Mom]

You're telling me, lol....I was just happy that I was probably going to push on St Johns until that bunghole fouled at the end.

I guess he was hoping for 2 misses, and that the coach had an 7 point play drawn up for the last 3 seconds :toss:

[CuseFan10]

OH MY GOD

St Johns has to be kidding. Why do these teams foul? Unbelievable. Down with 12 seconds and foul, then foul on defensive rebound with 3.4 seconds left when the guy is 9 feet from the basket and has no intention of doing anything.

:puke:

[CuseFan10]

Vegas must have gotten ANNIHILATED today. Every mush and John Q Public should have a fat wallet after today. In every 'big' game today that the public would be on, the favorite covered (St Johns pending). Marquette will probably covered by nailing free throws now too, watch...

Just a horrific day for oddsmakers IMO as every game I thought was about 2 point too low. Maybe they are setting us all up for a debacle tomorrow???

We shall see....

[Stifler's Mom]

Well add St Joes to the list of bull**** covers by faves who trailed for 39:30 of the game and managed to cover somehow making a late run and shooting free throws out the ass. I'm quite frankly getting sick of making the right calls and losing....and then when i'm wrong, i can't buy a break.

Maybe in football they could put a rule in where if the defense commits three consecutive offsides, the opposing team gets a free attempt at a FG, and then must kick off. That way they could try to trade TD's for FG's and extend games WAY longer than necessary, plus then all the bull**** lines could cover because of teams giving away tons of free points at the end. That would really improve football....much like it does basketball.

I still say there needs to be a rule to completely eliminate it. It's stupid, pointless, and NOT basketball

[Stifler's Mom]

Arizona St +6.5

2 units

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

GL :thumbs:

[NittanyLions94]

Yeah, I'd love to play but I'll be out of town and without guarenteed access to a computer. There's about a 70% chance I'd be able to post in time, but I don't want to take a spot and then end up not being able to get it in and taking away from someone else who really wanted to play. We all know I would've taken it anyway so it's no worry LOL. :beerbang:

[Stifler's Mom]

Oh by the way, thanks for letting me know. I didn't see the post in your thread. Normally I read alot of the threads (at least from the guys i recognize, lol) but really didn't have much of a chance the last few days.

[Stifler's Mom]

OK, actually I closed the thread after 65 sign ups because we all (mods) decided it would be the best, and easiest thing to do. Yomonte wants to play too....so that makes 66. After I closed the thread, I was still considering what I was going to do as far as getting everyone in, so I hadn't posted in there or paid much attention to it the last few days till I came up with a good idea.

I'll take you out though and put one of those guys in, so that leaves only one excess sign up. Would have definitely liked to see you play, but if you can't it's cool....and actually makes life one step easier for me, lol

[NittanyLions94]

GL Stif. And I'm not sure if you saw my thread but I'm not positive I'll be able to post during the first few days of the NCAA tourney so I'm politely bowing out of the Predictem Madness tourney. I would love to play, but I can't make a firm commitment so I'd like to give my spot to someone who can definitely make it.

[Stifler's Mom]

Temple +3
Oregon St +5
St Johns +7

2 units each

I decided to scrap my theory of playing on every mega anti-public dog. I did it with Marshall, and so far so good, but just playing on a bunch of games I don't know anything about doesn't sound like a good idea to me, lol.

[CuseFan10]

St Johns is generally a live dog at home, but with Hamilton out it's gonna be even tougher for them to score. I assume the public is pounding them hard(er) because of the Hamilton injury.

[Stifler's Mom]

Nova closed at 62%. It was much higher before the line shot from -4 to -5

Dayton 71%
Syracuse 76%
Ohio 83%
Southern Miss 91%

The only game the public was strongly on and lost was Fordham at 81%

All of the other games were in the 50/50 range.

Interestingly, all of them (except UNC Charlotte vs Dayton) had a decent chance for the dog to cover. It just didn't happen.

If Depaul wouldn't have started intentionally fouling one of the best free throw shooting teams in the country with nearly 2 mins to go, and only down about 6....and played some defense instead, they might have gotten a stop and could have changed things completely for example....but for some reason they thought it would be a good idea to just give Nova 2 free points, and then counter it with 2 of their own. They didn't even try any 3's. Good thinking, lol

I played the earlier games because I actually liked them to cover, and same goes for Providence. Most of the card is lopsided tonight....and I'll probably play on every dog that is taking no action until I come up with a few winners, lol. I started with Marshall at 16% of the action, yet no line move...and next up would be Northern Illinois at 21% action, and a 1/2 pt move in their favor and Temple with 19% and a 1/2 pt move in St Joes favor.

St Johns/Marquette is also really lopsided, but I actually like St Johns in that one, and I like it more with the public pounding Marquette. Both teams have a key injury, so I don't attribute the line move to that.

Anyway, yes, the public is on fire in NCAA hoops today, LOL. It happens.

[CuseFan10]

Would a dog please stand up??

Ha, Vegas must be getting hammered so far today. It's easy to say now I guess, but most of those lines this afternoon were brutal. I didn't look at public percentages at all today, but I thought Nova should have been -5.5/6, Syracuse -4.5/5, Southern Miss -6/6.5, Dayton -2.5/3, etc etc... They all still would have covered but would have made people think twice at least. But like I said, I didn't look at public percentages (though knowing how you play, and going off you you picked, I think I have the answer to my questions).

Good luck tonight, Stiff! :thumbs:

[Stifler's Mom]

Would a dog please stand up??

Providence +3.5 (-105)
Marshall +5 (-105)

2 units each