Hi It's VR again, after taking a night off from college hoops it's great to have a full card for Tuesday. With coming off a nice little win with Auburn in the BCS Championship game lets keep it going.
Were heading to "Big Ten Country" Illinois @ Penn State, it's awful for Penn St that there schedule has them facing the Illi after a huge win VS. Michigan St.
Illinois which has opened the Big Ten Conference with 3 straight wins, I believe Illinois is playing there best basketball of the season right now. There one of the top teams in the country I believe.
The Illinois offense goes thru Demetri McCamey the senior point guard who's playing out-of his mind right now. McCamey is shooting 54% from 3, Illi is shooting 43% overall as a team from 3. There past 3 conference games has Illinois shooting 64.7% from the field and 63% from 3. Breaking down Penn States defense has me seeing a big win tonight for Illinois. The one glaring issue for PSU is there inability to defend the perimeter where opponents are knocking down 40% of their attempts ranking PSU 317 ont of 346 D1 teams. There overall team defense numbers are just bad, in my opinion Michigan State played really bad a few days ago to lose to this team.
As for Illinois, with all their seniors and there talent this is there year, The schedule is set-up perfect for them playing all the Big Boys at home, so road games like this they must take care of. The battle between McCamey and Penn States Talor Battle will be fun to watch, but the reason Illinois wins big on the road is McCameys supporting cast which is better, more consistent and there deeper.
Illinois 76-62
Illinois -4.5
Good luck to all, Wager with your head not over !