the people that create the lines are smarter than the average person, smarter than anyone on this forum that is for sure, and they use a combination of intelligence and computer power to generate accurate lines for sports events using mathematics and statistics

those lines are as accurate as can be, it is most likely that the total will land near that number than not, the fact that it got middled was a coincidence

every day there are dozens of basketball games in nba and ncaab and thousands of games in a whole season, there is bound to be a game total every now and then that lands between the opening and closing line and some douchebag is going to start crying because he lost $10 on a bet


and here its the law of averages at work, if two teams statistically score 188 points total when they face each other, that doesnt mean that 94 points will be scored in each half or that 47 points will be scored in each quarter, it is possible to get a 74 point first half and a 113 point second half

a low scoring first half usually means a high scoring second half and vice versa, people that have not yet realized that should definately not be giving there money away to the books