ACC/Big Ten Challenge

[t-wizzle]

Technically it tipped off tonight with a couple shit games no one really cared about.

Some good action on Tuesday night. Featured games include Cuse @ Michigan, Ohio State @ L-ville, Virginia @ Maryland, and culminating with Duke @ Wisconsin on Wednesday.


I'm leaning Ohio State +8 tomorrow night. That game should be pretty good.


Let's get some discussion going on these games.

[JMUplayer]

Maryland without their leading scorer.... be surprised if UVA isn't a double digit favorite even on the road

[GT21Megatron]

Illinois +5

[t-wizzle]

Lville up to 9.

[TPowell]

Pittsburgh looks good to me. Indiana is god awful. Pitt not awful but def hurting without two important players

[DOM_Toretto]

Pitt has no defense, they let shitty ass SDSU put up 70 or so on them. Indiana has good shooters and are at home, IU should win. IU deep now too after their suspended players are back. Blackmon kid can shoooot.

[Big Bear]

Ohio state and Miami look pretty inviting.

soo fukkin pissed at Illinois for costing me money against Baylor that i will fade them everytime until i get my revenge.

[LT Profits]

You left out the best play of all, Pittsburgh +3 is the best bet of the night for me. Besides my real life bet, put my entire 706 Beat the Prick winning on them at +3.5.

[meader99]

What's the line on UW/Duke? Gonna be a hell of a game and hell of an atmosphere. To bad I'm to cheap to fork over the bucks to go see it.

[LT Profits]

Pitt has no defense, they let shitty ass SDSU put up 70 or so on them. Indiana has good shooters and are at home, IU should win. IU deep now too after their suspended players are back. Blackmon kid can shoooot.

Indiana is trash and hasn't beaten anyone. Their best win is vs. an SMU team that is it turns out is nothing special and that was few days after SMU played at Gonzaga and took cross country flight. I think the home loss to Eastern Washington was most telling. Pittsburgh's blowout of Kansas State in Maui last game was the best win for either team so far. Oh and Indiana grades out worse defensively than Pitt does.

[TPowell]

Pitt has no defense, they let shitty ass SDSU put up 70 or so on them. Indiana has good shooters and are at home, IU should win. IU deep now too after their suspended players are back. Blackmon kid can shoooot.

SDSU is better than anyone IU has faced by far outside of possibly SMU

[Big Bear]

if Game is in Wiscosnin i'm guessing Wisky -4.5

if game is at Duke i would guess Duke -2.5


Home Court means everything in this matchup.

[LT Profits]

What's the line on UW/Duke? Gonna be a hell of a game and hell of an atmosphere. To bad I'm to cheap to fork over the bucks to go see it.

Maybe Wiscy -3.5?

[badgerguy]

Minnesota -5 tonight boys.

[RavensFan2k3]

if Game is in Wiscosnin i'm guessing Wisky -4.5

if game is at Duke i would guess Duke -2.5


Home Court means everything in this matchup.

You say it as if we dont know where the game will be played...

[meader99]

A couple years back Duke was -4 at UW and lost outright. Duke is also one of those teams that get slanted lines.....to much of a favorite/not enough of a dog. As a Duke fan, this will be a tough test with the young kids getting their first true road test in one of the toughest places to play against a far more experienced UW team.

[RavensFan2k3]

Minnesota -5 tonight boys.

I agree

[Big Bear]

You say it as if we dont know where the game will be played...

i dont know where and i didnt feel like looking it up

[BIGDAY]

Wake Forest blows.. Pound the gophers

[DOM_Toretto]

Think you're all wrong on IU. I doubted them preseason but now have changed my mind.

Duke likely the better team come March, but wiscy likely the better team at home in early December.

[jjgold]

Take the points in every match up and you will come out ahead

[KRIT]

I went to bed last night and Wake was +6, now +4.....what gives?

[RavensFan2k3]

You left out the best play of all, Pittsburgh +3 is the best bet of the night for me. Besides my real life bet, put my entire 706 Beat the Prick winning on them at +3.5.

Indiana is trash and hasn't beaten anyone. Their best win is vs. an SMU team that is it turns out is nothing special and that was few days after SMU played at Gonzaga and took cross country flight. I think the home loss to Eastern Washington was most telling. Pittsburgh's blowout of Kansas State in Maui last game was the best win for either team so far. Oh and Indiana grades out worse defensively than Pitt does.

Hmm...I dont think Pitt is a good bet today sir. To say Indiana is trash because they havent played anyone? Really? Pitt has lost to anyone who is decent. Oh they beat KSU so that automatically makes them better than Indiana? If you're going to put that asterisk next to Indiana's win vs. SMU, then put an asterisk next to Pitt's win vs an average KSU team that literally the night before gave the #3 team in the country in Arizona all they had, fell short, and then the next night was emotionally drained vs a Pitt team.

[You mad bro]

wizzle is a winner

he managed to bet $0.00 during his gambling career and win a total of $0.00 during it as well

such a winner

[THam12]

LT has good points. .. but you left out the fact that this is a TRUE road game in a very hostile environment. Pitt is young... it's hard to get kids out of their own heads.

[LT Profits]

Hmm...I dont think Pitt is a good bet today sir. To say Indiana is trash because they havent played anyone? Really? Pitt has lost to anyone who is decent. Oh they beat KSU so that automatically makes them better than Indiana? If you're going to put that asterisk next to Indiana's win vs. SMU, then put an asterisk next to Pitt's win vs an average KSU team that literally the night before gave the #3 team in the country in Arizona all they had, fell short, and then the next night was emotionally drained vs a Pitt team.

Just look at the efficiency ratings, Pitt is clearly the better team. And Indiana's one major strength is shooting threes, an area where they should face resistance from Pitt three-point defense ranked 20th in the county allowing just 24.7 percent.

[LT Profits]

LT has good points. .. but you left out the fact that this is a TRUE road game in a very hostile environment. Pitt is young... it's hard to get kids out of their own heads.

Bloomington is not what it used to be, if Eastern Washington can win there, so can Pitt.

[THam12]

Bloomington is not what it used to be, if Eastern Washington can win there, so can Pitt.

And hawaii is a booming place to play?...

[TheMetsSuck]

wisky over duke will be a big play. a back up the brinks truck type play. They rarely lose at the Kohl Center and will put on a show vs a big name team like Duke. Tonight I think Michigan is an auto play at home only -4. Parlaying Purdue ml and Louisville ml should hit also

[meader99]

How about the travel back to the mainland for some of these teams?

[KRIT]

Hard not to like Wisky over duke. This early in the year I'll take a veteran team like Wisky all day over a young Duke team.

[LT Profits]

And hawaii is a booming place to play?...

Hardly the point, Pitt won two games in Hawaii. I just think better talent trumps home court here, I think you'd have more of a case if Panthers had no wins outside of Pittsburgh yet.

Speaking of traveling (or lack of), this is Indiana's seventh straight home game to start the season. Combine that with ranking 343rd out of 351 DI teams in SOS and yet they are only 2-4 ATS and ranked 269th in effective field goal percentage allowed. Sounds pretty trashy to me.

[LT Profits]

How about the travel back to the mainland for some of these teams?

It's been a week since Maui ended, I think they'll be fine.

[THam12]

Hardly the point, Pitt won two games in Hawaii. I just think better talent trumps home court here, I think you'd have more of a case if Panthers had no wins outside of Pittsburgh yet.

Speaking of traveling (or lack of), this is Indiana's seventh straight home game to start the season. Combine that with ranking 343rd out of 351 DI teams in SOS and yet they are only 2-4 ATS and ranked 269th in effective field goal percentage allowed. Sounds pretty trashy to me.

I wasn't talking maui, I was talking pitt losing at hawaii...

You have great points. Not trying to argue those. But just think a young team in a hostile true road game is really tough to back.

[LT Profits]

I wasn't talking maui, I was talking pitt losing at hawaii...

You have great points. Not trying to argue those. But just think a young team in a hostile true road game is really tough to back.

I thought neither of these teams had a true road game yet? Pomeroy is showing Hawaii loss as "Semi-Away" so I mistakenly thought it was part of Maui.