jeff benton monday
2-9 last week........
he started off this week with another L..losing in jeff bentonf fashion..so 0-1 to start off the week. he mentions, in his own words, the last 16 days have been terrible. i would like to inform him the past two years he has been terrible.
Jeff Benton Saturday's College Hoops Action
5 Dime college basketball selection on Texas in a virtual pick-em situation at Texas A&M. This line opened with the Longhorns as a three-point faviorite, but money has poured in on Texas A&M pushing the odds down to Texas minus-1 both here in Vegas and offshore. We’re getting tremenddus value here so I would move to lock in that minus-1 now, as I expect this number to jump up as the day progresses.
ANALYSIS
Well aware that the Longhorns haven’t won in College Station since 2004, dropping six in a row at Texas A&M, and haven’t covared in eight straight visits to the Aggies’ gym. Also well aware that the home team has owned this series (while Texas A&M has won six in a row at home, Texas has won nine straight meetings in Austin), and that last year’s 74-58 home win over the Longhorns started the Aggies’ current 14-game winning streak
But here’s the thing: Those facts are the ONLY positives for Texas A&M coming into this game. Consider this:
Texas, ranked 7th in the country, is 18-3 overall and an unbelievable 13-3 against the number (tops in the country). On Jan. 8, the Longhorns wrapped up the non-conference season with a heartbreiaking 82-81 home loss to Texas as an 8½-point favorite, and all they’ve done since then is rip off six straight Big 12 wins and covers, posting victories by point margins of 21, 20, 11, 15, 13 and 21. The latter 21-point win? That came back on Jan. 19, when Texas spanked the Aggies 81-60 and easily cashed as a 6½-point underdog.
So what’s been the key to Texas jumping out to its best Big 12 start in history, crushing league rivals by an average of 18.5 ppg? Defense. The Longhorns are holding opponents to a league-best 54.2 ppg; only Kansas (63) has scored more than 60 on Texas. So even though the Aggies have lit up the home scoreboard against Texas the last six years (75.8 ppg), they haven’t faced a defense quite like this one!
Besides, only once in the last eight games (a 71-48 home win over Oklahoma State) has A&M cracked 70 points in regulation. And over the last three games, the Aggies have scored 60 (loss at Texas), 64 and 48 points. Not this, too: Through six Big 12 contests, Texas A&M has been outrebounded just twice. Once was in a 91-89 overtime win over Missouri, which had just a scant 33-32 edge on the glass. The other time? At Texas, where the Aggies got out-boarded 31-23!
The Longhorns have been a big-time moneymaker in these Big Monday showdowns (28-12 ATS last 40), and they’ve cashed in five straight road games and four straight against winning teams. And, to repeat, among the 300 Division I college basketball teams, none has a better poindspread record than Texas’ 13-3 ATS mark.
Bottom line: Texas hasn’t won a conference game by fewer than 11 points all season, and even though they’re going into hostile territory where they’ve had a lengthy history of problems, to get the Longhorns at a pick-em price is a bargain I can’t pass up. After all, if they can end Kansas’ 69-game home-court winning streak with a 74-63 win, they can snap A&M’s 14-game home-court winning streak.
2-9 last week........
he started off this week with another L..losing in jeff bentonf fashion..so 0-1 to start off the week. he mentions, in his own words, the last 16 days have been terrible. i would like to inform him the past two years he has been terrible.
Jeff Benton Saturday's College Hoops Action
5 Dime college basketball selection on Texas in a virtual pick-em situation at Texas A&M. This line opened with the Longhorns as a three-point faviorite, but money has poured in on Texas A&M pushing the odds down to Texas minus-1 both here in Vegas and offshore. We’re getting tremenddus value here so I would move to lock in that minus-1 now, as I expect this number to jump up as the day progresses.
ANALYSIS
Well aware that the Longhorns haven’t won in College Station since 2004, dropping six in a row at Texas A&M, and haven’t covared in eight straight visits to the Aggies’ gym. Also well aware that the home team has owned this series (while Texas A&M has won six in a row at home, Texas has won nine straight meetings in Austin), and that last year’s 74-58 home win over the Longhorns started the Aggies’ current 14-game winning streak
But here’s the thing: Those facts are the ONLY positives for Texas A&M coming into this game. Consider this:
Texas, ranked 7th in the country, is 18-3 overall and an unbelievable 13-3 against the number (tops in the country). On Jan. 8, the Longhorns wrapped up the non-conference season with a heartbreiaking 82-81 home loss to Texas as an 8½-point favorite, and all they’ve done since then is rip off six straight Big 12 wins and covers, posting victories by point margins of 21, 20, 11, 15, 13 and 21. The latter 21-point win? That came back on Jan. 19, when Texas spanked the Aggies 81-60 and easily cashed as a 6½-point underdog.
So what’s been the key to Texas jumping out to its best Big 12 start in history, crushing league rivals by an average of 18.5 ppg? Defense. The Longhorns are holding opponents to a league-best 54.2 ppg; only Kansas (63) has scored more than 60 on Texas. So even though the Aggies have lit up the home scoreboard against Texas the last six years (75.8 ppg), they haven’t faced a defense quite like this one!
Besides, only once in the last eight games (a 71-48 home win over Oklahoma State) has A&M cracked 70 points in regulation. And over the last three games, the Aggies have scored 60 (loss at Texas), 64 and 48 points. Not this, too: Through six Big 12 contests, Texas A&M has been outrebounded just twice. Once was in a 91-89 overtime win over Missouri, which had just a scant 33-32 edge on the glass. The other time? At Texas, where the Aggies got out-boarded 31-23!
The Longhorns have been a big-time moneymaker in these Big Monday showdowns (28-12 ATS last 40), and they’ve cashed in five straight road games and four straight against winning teams. And, to repeat, among the 300 Division I college basketball teams, none has a better poindspread record than Texas’ 13-3 ATS mark.
Bottom line: Texas hasn’t won a conference game by fewer than 11 points all season, and even though they’re going into hostile territory where they’ve had a lengthy history of problems, to get the Longhorns at a pick-em price is a bargain I can’t pass up. After all, if they can end Kansas’ 69-game home-court winning streak with a 74-63 win, they can snap A&M’s 14-game home-court winning streak.
