Bowls

[Rick22]

OK- Here we go.
St Peters -4
Niagra +3
Utah -5
Knick-6
1H Utah/Wash O97
1H Knicks?Suns O114
Bet so small that if I lose them all I'm still not done for the day, LOL

[Rick22]

Grabbed 2H Jazz -4 and 2H Bulls/Grizz O91 1/2.

[BiffTFinancial]

crap, i knew that i waited too late to check in. oh well. i don't have very strong leans with Nova/UConn nor K State/Missou. i lean dogs and over in both, but the only side i like enough to consider playing is K State +5, but they have a bad history in Missou and are simply too shaky to back at the moment. will start working on later games. BOL with your plays, Rick.

[Rick22]

Thanks Biff. Yup, I have a very hard time trusting K State. I do lean Nova.
OK - 2 more then back to reality. 1H Raptors/Hornets O98, 1H Bucks/Rockets U97 1/2

[BiffTFinancial]

here's one i definitely like for later, booking now

4* Kansas/Baylor over 140'

[BiffTFinancial]

missed playing both of those, too, Rick, but thanks for posting your plays. oh well. back in a few hours.

[Rick22]

Lucky you missed them all - I'm just wasting some time and losing like a degen. - My final nonsense bets are the 1H overs of the 3:30 games - then I promise I will return to normal. Thanks for putting up with me - lol

[Rick22]

Hey Biff - just wanted you to know that you are a great teacher. After all my degen bets today - I'm up cause I took Ucon/Vill over (reg bet) in the 2nd half after that 43 point 1st half. Thanks Prof Biff.

[BiffTFinancial]

Hey Biff - just wanted you to know that you are a great teacher. After all my degen bets today - I'm up cause I took Ucon/Vill over (reg bet) in the 2nd half after that 43 point 1st half. Thanks Prof Biff.

heh heh, nice, thanks for the props. i had to do some family stuff this afternoon and saw the halftime score and wished i could extricate myself to look at possible 2H play since i'd leaned over for the game. nice work.

[BiffTFinancial]

3* UAB -3'

should've played this earlier at -2 but let the day get away from me.

like the under for game and 1H in Canisius/Siena but passing.

[BiffTFinancial]

like Pitt but line now up to 6' a lot of places. that's a lot of chalk to give an undefeated team even if Joseph is out.

[Rick22]

I like Pitt even if Joeseph was playing. Took them half and total.
Also took Kansas. Not a fan of theirs, actually I'm a Baylor fan, but they have just not done what I was hoping for this year. And I like the Baylor coach - good BB family.
And I jumped on that over with you. (hope I didn't "mush" it. GL
Tailed TPowell with App St, Rider, and E. Carolina. Proably too many plays.

[BiffTFinancial]

passing on Pitt, just going to watch. going to play some NBA tails, Magic 3u and Portland/Minn over 1.5u. other than that, will look for some potential 2H plays.

[Rick22]

Hindsight is 20/20, but should have gone with Mizz. K State is just not that good.

[BiffTFinancial]

I like Pitt even if Joeseph was playing. Took them half and total. Also took Kansas. Not a fan of theirs, actually I'm a Baylor fan, but they have just not done what I was hoping for this year. And I like the Baylor coach - good BB family. And I jumped on that over with you. (hope I didn't "mush" it. GL Tailed TPowell with App St, Rider, and E. Carolina. Proably too many plays.

no worries on mushing. i just hate when i tell someone that i tailed a play after the game has started, then things go south after my announcement. that Kansas/Baylor game falls into my "keep up" theory that i'm working on with a buddy of mine, where we try to find solid home dogs against elite teams in-conference (similar to Butler/Wright State and UW/Cal last night). the thought is that the dog will try to "keep up" from the outset. they circle the game on the calendar and have an attacking mindset on offense from the tip. most of the time, the road chalk team will have a PomOff number of 113+ and a PomDef number of 90 or less, the kinds of numbers that would seem to indicate a blow-out, but against a home dog that will be hard to blow out. basically, i'm looking for home dogs that can blow the road chalk's PomDef tendency and make the game cruise over with extra possessions, extra FTs, etc.

[BiffTFinancial]

Hindsight is 20/20, but should have gone with Mizz. K State is just not that good.

i thought about 2H under on that one, but was busy. that number would've been around 80 or so and KSU didn't look capable of making it a game, and Missou is good at slowing down with a lead 2H. at least i didn't play KSU. they look like absolute garbage.

[Rick22]

Gotcha - I think

[Rick22]

Then why wouldn't you give the 1st half O66 a try?

[BiffTFinancial]

Gotcha - I think

made a couple of revisions, i was rambling, makes (a little) more sense now. bottomline: it's not true of all teams/match-ups, but i generally think that medium home dogs (4-10 points) have the potential to play higher-scoring games that usual.

Pitt is going bananas. not betting them was the greatest favor i could've done you, heh heh.

[Rick22]

I didn't mean because you were confusing. I just don't always understand. I do now though. Thanks for another lesson. Be careful or you just might make a capper out of this old man.

[Rick22]

As I have said many times - I don't like it when my team jumps out big early in the game.

[BiffTFinancial]

Then why wouldn't you give the 1st half O66 a try?

i did with Butler/Wright State last night (looking at their prior games, they skewed towards more high-scoring in the 1H). i certainly like the 1H over in Kansas/Baylor tonight. that said, i just generally prefer unders 1H and overs game and 2H for the obvious FTs/OT reasons. KU/Baylor 1H over isn't as strong as Butler/Wright State (check out their prior meetings, almost every 1H went over or came within a point or two), Baylor has laid some eggs against KU 1H. but even if Baylor starts slow, i still think that the game will be open from the start, buckets and opportunities relatively easy to come by. of course, now watch it be like Badgers/Sparty, 64-55.

Pitt 19-0 run to start game, Cuse 13-0 run now. holy cow. 1H under was butter in this game.

[BiffTFinancial]

I didn't mean because you were confusing. I just don't always understand. I do now though. Thanks for another lesson. Be careful or you just might make a capper out of this old man.

sure thing, i'm learning just like you.

As I have said many times - I don't like it when my team jumps out big early in the game.

agree 100%.

[Rick22]

Unbelievable - 19-0 and you have to hit a prayer to cover. But I'll take it

[BiffTFinancial]

nice! forgot you had the 1H, nice hit. i'm not touching the 2H. i'm watching UAB, they look really bad.

[Rick22]

Went pretty good on the 1st half over. GL to me.

[zuluhead1``1]

I had a terrible B-ball day. I don't think I've ever gone winless on the day in NBA picks, even with so few. I still have a chance at the Boston -3, though.


Rick or Biff feel free to jump in here. Does Kentucky at only -4 vs Alabama seem like a stupidly errant line to you guys too?

[Rick22]

Not to me, but I haven't looked at it yet. Kentucky can play very well at times.

[Rick22]

What do you think of the Blazers tonite?

[Rick22]

Oh No - I have to listen to Bret Mussberger for this game...................................

[Rick22]

Oh well - through a little on the Blazers over 1H - Go baylor and Kansas over 1H

[Rick22]

That 1st Half Over was huge for me. Now go Kansas and keep it up for the game total.

[BiffTFinancial]

That 1st Half Over was huge for me. Now go Kansas and keep it up for the game total.

i played the 1H over 1.5u last minute, nice call. i could play 2H under 75' and have a fat 19 point middle, but i don't see any reason to back Baylor's defense at this point. 79% shooting 1H, whoa.

[BiffTFinancial]

zulu, i haven't looked at UK/Bama yet, but -4 sounds about right to me.

[Rick22]

I was out shoveling snow - so missed 2nd half plays - probably a good thing. Looking good right now.