12/23 College Hoops (76-59-4 YTD; 8-2 last night)

HoosierDaddy · Dec 23, 2003

2 early plays (more later):

Virginia Tech (-8')
W&M has won starter back this year and VT has won 3 in row and lost 2 tough ones to ODU in OT and at Ohio State. The Hokies may not be great, but are much better under Seth Greenberg this year.

Rhode Island (-3')
Charlotte has been off for 10 days and I feel they will be rusty against a good URI club.

HoosierDaddy · Dec 23, 2003

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Colorado (-8)
I know it's a big #, but the Utes have been losing by an average of 13.5 ppg (including a 3-point road win at Stony Brook, or it would have been higher). Colorado already blew out a better Cal team by 18. CU is very tough at home and cannot win on the road.

Indiana (-11)
Mike Davis got in their a$$es after the UK game. I think they will come out fired up for this. He's starting a scrub walk-on at PG (Ryan Tapak). I think that will motivate the other guards off the bench.

Xavier (+3)
A little concerned that I seem to be alone here, but Iowa State is a paper tiger. They have beaten no one, while Xavier has been one of the nation's most disappointing teams at
5-3.

Eastern Kentucky (+29)
Sandwich game. UK blew out one archrival (Indiana) and has another one (Louisville and Pitino) coming in on Sat. EKU is coached by former Wildcat Travis Ford. Even though Ford was a Pitino guy, I don't think Tubby wants to run it up on him and the fans will be all over him if he does.

Illinois-Chicago (+2)
UWM has been off 10 days. UIC is 6-2 away from UIC Pavillion this year while UWM comes off a 4-game road trip.

UIC has the better guards and will force the tempo like the Badgers did.

Louisiana Tech (+14)
UAB has a showdown at LSU this weekend. Lookahead.

May add the Illinois-Mizzou game in a while.