Good luck tonight!
My apologies to anyone who read one of my earlier posts and accidentally got down on Xavier yesterday, I am truly sorry. How will you ever forgive me?
This word just in! fade2bet is doing the writeups for the Lang organization.
Compare yesterdays writeup with fade2bet's work today:
Yesterday:
Xavier gets upgraded today.
On Friday Xavier was my free pick and I sat back and watched them just handle their business against the Gophers, a team that shouldn't even have been in the tournament.
Now they are my top play today because simply put, they are the better tournament team. Every year Xavier makes noise in this tourney because they can shoot the basketball and in this format, if you can make shots you can be successful.
You need a reference? See Northern Iowa!
Let me also point out the implosion of the Big East conference, as Villanova loses to a team from the West Coast conference, Georgetown from the MAC, Louisville from the supposedly soft Pac-10, and Notre Dame from the Colonial.
Now I will sit back and watch Pitt lose to a team from the Atlantic-10.
Truth be told I haven't been impressed by Pitt all year long after watching Notre Dame tear them apart 68-53 back on February 24th and then again in the Big East tourney.
Early warnings signs for me were the loss to Indiana 74-64 the 3rd game of the year, at Seton Hall by 3 and at South Florida 70-61.
This is not the team from last year we all remember. This is a team over-hyped and overvalued all year long.
As for the Musketeers, they have paid nicely at the ticket window all year at 18-8 ATS and over their last 20 games they are 17-3 SU and 14-6 ATS.
They lost to Baylor by 4 on a neutral floor, Marquette, went into Kansas State, Butler, Wake Forest, Temple twice and won at Florida.
Folks, that is 7 teams they played who made the tourney so now you know what I mean by tourney tough.
The numbers show Pitt 1-5 ATS last 6 tourney games and 3-8 ATS last 11 neutral site games.
As for Xavier, how about 4-1 ATS last 5 versus the Big east, 13-3-1 ATS last 17 NCAA tourney games and the river card is 14-5 ATS last 19 non conference games.
Xavier is currently a 1 point favorite for a reason, because they are supposed to win today and quite frankly they will.
Put the Musketeers in the Sweet Sixteen as another Big East team goes down.
Today by fade2bet:
5 DIME - NORTHERN COLORADO BEARS With Northern Colorado being favorite by about a 1 point home favorite, it's hard not to like the Bears considering they're 13-1 Butler-Hancok Sports Pavilion this season where they've won 6 straight and 18 of their last 19 games overall.$$$ Plus, this marks the fifth straight road game for Pacific since its regular season finale back on February 27. I was really mpressed with Northern Colorado's first-round win against visiting Portland. The Pilots were impressed with Northern Colorado's first-round win against visiting Portland. The Pilots were a bigger team, but the Bears outrebounded them 34-26 and outscored them in the pain 35- 20. And Pacific isn't as big as Portland so that means UNC should be able to run. And this is a team that averaged 74 points a game this season. <!-- / message -->