Darius Rice out for Miami,FL tonight at UCONN

[Kojak]

Miami's best player Rice is out for tonight's game. I liked UCONN already but will raise the stakes on this one.

 

[jaypaw]

thats a lot of points with him in


and with him out its still a lot


uconn has been biting the big one lately


they are "due" though

 

[Kojak]

jaypaw,

Look at Uconn at home vs the road. Something like 1-7 ats on road but at home have beaten Syracuse by about 30 less than 2 weeks ago who just beat Miami by 17 at their place. They have blown out OU at home which is not easy either. In fact, Jaypaw, here is Uconn at home so far:

Yale -won by 10
Nevada-won by 14
Sacred Heart- won by 47
Lehigh-won by 20
Army-won by 28
Quinnipiac-won by 33
Iona-won by 50
Ball State-won by 39
UMAss-won by 24
Oklahoma-won by 27
Georgetown-won by 24
Pitt-won by 3 *
Providence-lost by 10
Syracuse-won by 28
West Virginia-won by 30

Utah was neutral but won by 32. *

All games with *'s were wins after losses. They have lost 5 games and are on 2 game losing streak. Only game not listed was at Virginia Tech after loss and they won by 36.

I would say this is some overwhelming proof of what UConn does at home vs inferior competion. What about a below avg team without leading scorer?

Miami on road this year have won 2 at St. John's and Va Tech and have been somewhat competitive in losses. With Rice out, it doesn't look good and the only game they played top competion was at Pitt lost by 4 and No.Carolina lost by 23. Hope this helps.

 

[jaypaw]

Great points

I respond being a uconn fan - I'm not betting on them here


I wonder though if yale, lehigh, and Nevada are better than miami without rice


Should be a drubbing I admit and hope - but I hate big numbers

 

[Kojak]

I would take Yale,Lehigh,or Nevada spreads to be low as early season growing pains. One thing I saw from this was how good is Providence? Very underrated. Sleeper for final four? Best of luck.

 

[bigal19]

First person I've seen here who has mentioned the P word. As I said in Action's thread a few days ago, I played PC at 50-1 last week. I like those odds.

 

[Kojak]

bigal19,

This is the only team to beat UCONN at home who has been smacking people around at home. When there is smoke there is usually fire. Best of luck.