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3/19/09 CBB Oklahoma Over 134.5 -110 (728)
ANALYSIS: The Sooner’s were a great offensive team in their non-conference portion of the schedule scoring at least 70 points in every game. It’s not like they played all cupcakes either in games against the weaker competition they put up an average offensive efficiency of 1.22 averaging 88 ppg. The Bears have shown a willingness to play up-tempo, as their bracket buster game against Towson was fast pace as well as several non-conference games against up-tempo teams. The Bears did play some tough teams (Mississippi, Washington and Maryland) earlier in the season and they did manage to put up at least 65 points in each of these games. I think this game is going to be played to a pretty good pace and the Sooner’s should have no issues scoring here and Morgan State looks to have enough offense to get this one up and over the total.
3/19/09 CBB Notre Dame Over 146.5 -110 (740)
ANALYSIS: I realize that the Irish have now played 9 out of the last 10 under the total but this one looks much too low. The first thing that stands out to me is that I think we will get a really fast pace to this game. The Lobo’s are just coming off a game against Nebraska that played to 152 total possessions. Most of the Lobo games in the non-conference schedule against up-tempo opponents were really fast paced games and no reason to think this game against the Irish will not be as well considering the teams have very little time to prepare a defensive game plan and are both really solid offensive teams. With a 150+ possession game one of these teams is really going to have an off shooting night for this to stay under the total.