Air Force @ Nevada
Recommendation: Air Force +2
As an Alumni at the University of Nevada, I remain very close to the basketball program. Today’s team is much different than the teams that we saw just a few years back. Trent Johnson (now at TCU) built this program up from recruiting and execution, and took them to the sweet 16. He departed and along came Mark Fox, who continued to win with Johnson’s players and brought in some talent of his own, such as Deonte Burton. Well Fox departed for Georgia and we now have seen the talent level drop off immensely. Coach David Carter is a nice guy, maybe even too nice. He has done a terrible job recruiting and thus the Wolf Pack are in for a dismal season. They struggle mightily on offense and have no business laying any kind of chalk against an Air Force team with this much power offensively. This line couldn’t be more off.
The Falcons are led by Max Young and Trevor Lyons, but they have many more weapons than those two. Air Force has 5 players averaging at least 5 points and they’re shooting 38.3% from beyond the arc. Their defense is average but it doesn’t take much to stop a Nevada offense that can’t do much at all. Nevada has one solid player, A.J. West. He’ll do his best to crash the boards and work inside. Other than that I can easily see this game getting out of hand by halftime. Nevada also doesn’t have any home court advantage so I’ll gladly take the points with Air Force here.
Recommendation: Air Force +2
As an Alumni at the University of Nevada, I remain very close to the basketball program. Today’s team is much different than the teams that we saw just a few years back. Trent Johnson (now at TCU) built this program up from recruiting and execution, and took them to the sweet 16. He departed and along came Mark Fox, who continued to win with Johnson’s players and brought in some talent of his own, such as Deonte Burton. Well Fox departed for Georgia and we now have seen the talent level drop off immensely. Coach David Carter is a nice guy, maybe even too nice. He has done a terrible job recruiting and thus the Wolf Pack are in for a dismal season. They struggle mightily on offense and have no business laying any kind of chalk against an Air Force team with this much power offensively. This line couldn’t be more off.
The Falcons are led by Max Young and Trevor Lyons, but they have many more weapons than those two. Air Force has 5 players averaging at least 5 points and they’re shooting 38.3% from beyond the arc. Their defense is average but it doesn’t take much to stop a Nevada offense that can’t do much at all. Nevada has one solid player, A.J. West. He’ll do his best to crash the boards and work inside. Other than that I can easily see this game getting out of hand by halftime. Nevada also doesn’t have any home court advantage so I’ll gladly take the points with Air Force here.