Bankers ncaa hoops season long thread

[frankieunits2685]

xavier sucks lol

[2daBank]

xavier sucks lol

Dude, guess shoulda just bet mizzou. It insane these dudes scoring 2 points in 10 min!!

[frankieunits2685]

Dude, guess shoulda just bet mizzou. It insane these dudes scoring 2 points in 10 min!!

i took mizzou +3 and the over, worst case cancels out pretty much... cant believe how bad X's offense looks! mizzou is nobody to look past though, they can push the ball, too

[2daBank]

i took mizzou +3 and the over, worst case cancels out pretty much... cant believe how bad X's offense looks! mizzou is nobody to look past though, they can push the ball, too

Sucks they lost the kid who came back., just like his brother never played here, gonzo can’t catch a break w any his big time recruits, he a very good coach tho.

[2daBank]

Well we got totally fukked in that mizzou gm. X doesn’t score shit for 10 min stretches to start both halves and lose over by 1.5.. gotta cash the rest and think we will.

[2daBank]

Our Bradley under went to stinking ot. Still should be good cause we way under after 40, just please finish it in one damn ot!!

[Jaswave125]

The North dakota game does not look good as well oh well sometimes you win sometimes you lose

[pilebuck13]

Lines tough really wish I fired on ark state oh well managed to cash that morehead... over...pushed on Bradley under...that was sick though....looks better to get totals as early as possible

[KDF500]

Great play on the Sooners! Good work buddy

[Wrongside]

There were way too many points in that Bradley OT

[2daBank]

2-3 yesterday but man that mizzou total had no business going under.

[2daBank]

Ncst +1.5.. 2 really good teams here but auburn has yet to play a road game, I tend to fade teams who have went this deep into the season before going on the road, Auburn also takes 47% of their shots from behind the arc which not something I love for a road team. Ncst the more physical team and think they will have a big edge on the boards. Ncst is actually a better shooting team overall than auburn and they play the much stingier perimeter defense holding teams to 27% from 3.. the one issue I have w the Wolfpack is they do commit a lot of fouls on d but that shouldn’t be a big problem here as auburn rather take jumpers than attack the rim, even tigers bigs are more jump shooters than inside players on offense so don’t see the ft discrepancy being nearly the factor that rebounding will be in wolfpacks favor..

[GPrime19]

Also played Pack today, the first true road game angle is also why. I still don’t understand how coaches can schedule without having one until so late.

Huge edge on boards and FT Shooting

Let’s cash this one.

[2daBank]

Also played Pack today, the first true road game angle is also why. I still don’t understand how coaches can schedule without having one until so late.

Huge edge on boards and FT Shooting

Let’s cash this one.

Jamie Dixon tcu squad been so pathetic bout this over the years. I don’t understand at all these coward teams who schedule so soft out of conf just to pad their record.. pretty much everyone gets in the dance, I would much rather take some potential losses and get my team battle tested than being afraid to lose early just so you can get bounced when it counts because you were too chicken shit to play real teams early on. These clowns are tied to educators so they outta be trying to improve these kids!!

The one thing that sucks is while this auburn 1st road game, this time of year HFA isn’t as big a deal as the students all away from campus for holidays so atmosphere isn’t what we will see in January.

[2daBank]

Ncst +1.5.. 2 really good teams here but auburn has yet to play a road game, I tend to fade teams who have went this deep into the season before going on the road, Auburn also takes 47% of their shots from behind the arc which not something I love for a road team. Ncst the more physical team and think they will have a big edge on the boards. Ncst is actually a better shooting team overall than auburn and they play the much stingier perimeter defense holding teams to 27% from 3.. the one issue I have w the Wolfpack is they do commit a lot of fouls on d but that shouldn’t be a big problem here as auburn rather take jumpers than attack the rim, even tigers bigs are more jump shooters than inside players on offense so don’t see the ft discrepancy being nearly the factor that rebounding will be in wolfpacks favor..

Uva/scary over 126.. very similar to the mizzou over we lost by a point yesterday in fact we again gonna fade huge steam to the under. It not that I am looking to fade steam cause that isn’t the case at all. Fact is often times that steam simply creates enough value off my number I have to play it.. this might be the 1st over I ever played in a uva game!! They are so capable of locking teams down to under 50 with combination of their incredible pack line d and their offense taking the air out of the ball it just a tough deal to play a over..
that said here why we playing it despite all that.

Imo uva should have no problem getting well into the 70s against this scary team. Frank martins squad been abysmal defending the 3, allowing opponents to take 40% their shots from deep and hitting them at a 38.5% clip which ranks 318th in nation!! Those numbers line up almost identically to what uva does on offense, shooting them 40% of the time and hitting 39%! Sc also has a tough time defending without fouling so when uva not draining 3s they will be scoring w the clock stopped from the charity stripe. So uva offensive strengths line up exactly with Carolinas defensive weaknesses and scary also plays quick so uva should have more possessions than typical for them. All that should lead to uva having no problem putting up 70+.

So the question becomes can scary get themselves into the 50s? Normally a silly question but not against uva. I went back the last 3 seasons and found 2 instances SC was held below 50, a game at Clemson last season they were held to 48 but that was on the road, then there was a home game against gators they somehow only scored 41? Pretty sure Silva was out for that game and that just a wtf game. Fair to say them not scoring 50+ is incredibly rare, granted they dont see many teams that play the defense and style of uva.

SC best plan of attack here is gonna be to get shots up as quickly as possible before uva gets that pack line set up, this is the one thing SC has going for them, they are among the fastest teams in nation when it comes to shooting early in the clock averaging only 15 seconds per possession. 10 days ago they went to Michigan who one of the few teams who plays defense at a level close to uva and they got mich to play faster by taking shots early and often. Now this a tougher task against uva because the cavs are incredibly stubborn and rarely don’t slow game back down, but SC scored 78 in that game and we not asking for anywhere close to that number here. What I do think they can do is have spurts where they get game moving a little, I have no doubt Bennett will use timeouts if he has to and get his team back at pace he wants. I believe those little burst will allow scary to get us the 50 something it will take for this to go over.

[Regul8er]

Any thoughts on Grand Canyon/Northern Iowa? I was shocked to see this a Pick Em. Had Northern Iowa at -4 myself.

Grand Canyon hasn't done anything special, and just got slaughtered at Texas. I know they have a pretty crazy home court advantage, but they arent at home. Northern Iowa has struggled out of the gate, but is still well coached and has a few pieces from last year.

[2daBank]

Any thoughts on Grand Canyon/Northern Iowa? I was shocked to see this a Pick Em. Had Northern Iowa at -4 myself.

Grand Canyon hasn't done anything special, and just got slaughtered at Texas. I know they have a pretty crazy home court advantage, but they arent at home. Northern Iowa has struggled out of the gate, but is still well coached and has a few pieces from last year.

I was just looking at this one and agree, I think there still a little shiny newness w gc that might have them little overvalued. You know how ppl love New shiny toys., uni has played a brutal schedule and are also just getting Goldman playing which I think will get them playing more inside which they need to do as they have taken way too many treys for a team who doesn’t shoot the particularly well. I am playing uni.

[2daBank]

Ncst +1.5.. 2 really good teams here but auburn has yet to play a road game, I tend to fade teams who have went this deep into the season before going on the road, Auburn also takes 47% of their shots from behind the arc which not something I love for a road team. Ncst the more physical team and think they will have a big edge on the boards. Ncst is actually a better shooting team overall than auburn and they play the much stingier perimeter defense holding teams to 27% from 3.. the one issue I have w the Wolfpack is they do commit a lot of fouls on d but that shouldn’t be a big problem here as auburn rather take jumpers than attack the rim, even tigers bigs are more jump shooters than inside players on offense so don’t see the ft discrepancy being nearly the factor that rebounding will be in wolfpacks favor..

Uva/scary over 126.. very similar to the mizzou over we lost by a point yesterday in fact we again gonna fade huge steam to the under. It not that I am looking to fade steam cause that isn’t the case at all. Fact is often times that steam simply creates enough value off my number I have to play it.. this might be the 1st over I ever played in a uva game!! They are so capable of locking teams down to under 50 with combination of their incredible pack line d and their offense taking the air out of the ball it just a tough deal to play a over..
that said here why we playing it despite all that.

Imo uva should have no problem getting well into the 70s against this scary team. Frank martins squad been abysmal defending the 3, allowing opponents to take 40% their shots from deep and hitting them at a 38.5% clip which ranks 318th in nation!! Those numbers line up almost identically to what uva does on offense, shooting them 40% of the time and hitting 39%! Sc also has a tough time defending without fouling so when uva not draining 3s they will be scoring w the clock stopped from the charity stripe. So uva offensive strengths line up exactly with Carolinas defensive weaknesses and scary also plays quick so uva should have more possessions than typical for them. All that should lead to uva having no problem putting up 70+.

So the question becomes can scary get themselves into the 50s? Normally a silly question but not against uva. I went back the last 3 seasons and found 2 instances SC was held below 50, a game at Clemson last season they were held to 48 but that was on the road, then there was a home game against gators they somehow only scored 41? Pretty sure Silva was out for that game and that just a wtf game. Fair to say them not scoring 50+ is incredibly rare, granted they dont see many teams that play the defense and style of uva.

SC best plan of attack here is gonna be to get shots up as quickly as possible before uva gets that pack line set up, this is the one thing SC has going for them, they are among the fastest teams in nation when it comes to shooting early in the clock averaging only 15 seconds per possession. 10 days ago they went to Michigan who one of the few teams who plays defense at a level close to uva and they got mich to play faster by taking shots early and often. Now this a tougher task against uva because the cavs are incredibly stubborn and rarely don’t slow game back down, but SC scored 78 in that game and we not asking for anywhere close to that number here. What I do think they can do is have spurts where they get game moving a little, I have no doubt Bennett will use timeouts if he has to and get his team back at pace he wants. I believe those little burst will allow scary to get us the 50 something it will take for this to go over.

Northern Iowa pk.., see above talk w reg for why.

[Superama]

I think Northern Iowa will have a hard time defending Lever inside. He has a favourable match up tonight. Based on stats Grand Canyon also has better bench players.

[2daBank]

Uc Irvine -3.. we been on the anteaters plenty of times this year and going back once again. Should be no surprise to anyone who knows me why I like this team, they play defense and they willing to go on road and challenge themselves vs tough teams!! Defense travels and anteaters play it much better than their opponent tonight. Irvine has handled their business every time they have stepped down in class this season only losing 2 games vs very solid teams much better than who they facing tonight. Emu only real strength is good rebounding size, anteaters are little undersized here but they work hard to keep teams off the offensive glass. I don’t think emu edge in this category is great enough to offset all the other advantages Irvine holds in this one.

[pilebuck13]

I actually liked sc w the points

[2daBank]

I think Northern Iowa will have a hard time defending Lever inside. He has a favourable match up tonight. Based on stats Grand Canyon also has better bench players.

I’d have agreed w that earlier in the season but now that uni has Goldman getting his legs that gives them 2 legit bigs to defend the paint, not scared of lever stepping out to shoot, his shot not that good.

[2daBank]

I actually liked sc w the points

Them staying within the number would greatly help get this over imo so certainly lean that way. Was just a situation where I feel like if they cover most likely goes over, if they don’t could still get there. Kinda a staple for me taking total opposed to dog in a game like this but don’t disagree w you at all., gl buddy

[2daBank]

S.miss/k-st under 128.. southern miss is a bit of a poor mans k-st which should make for a real slugfest here!! Defense is absolutely the strength of both and both teams deliberate on offense and not very efficient either which a good recipe for a real grinder.,

something I really love about this is one of the ways k-st generates offense is by forcing turnovers but the golden eagles are among the best in the country at valuing the rock so don’t expect k-st offense to be as efficient without those opportunities they typically get in transition due to opponents sloppy play.. these are also a couple of the worst ft shooting teams in the country, neither team gets to stripe often either so kinda a perfect storm where we shouldn’t see many points going in without the clock running.

Simply due to way these teams match up and how s.miss dictates a slow tempo by holding the ball and valuing possessions I don’t see k-st getting out of the 60s and think it will be a real struggle for the golden eagles to get into the mid 50s..

[2daBank]

S.miss +12.5., not huge fan of playing side and total in same game (hard enough to win 1 bet let alone 2!) but think they go hand and hand in this one (kinda like Bradley w under yesterday, although I forgot to post Bradley and when I realized it was right before tip so left off my posted card). Think the thoughts on under pretty much sum this one up. Golden eagles are very good at shortening games by valuing possessions and taking their time on offense. Imo getting this many points is always more valuable in games we project to be low scoring (common sense, fewer possessions = less chances for superior team to pull away!).. I have k-st right around 65-67 and golden eagles scoring bout 10 less.

[Bcatswin]

Any feel on the UCLA UC total. Im leaning under. Don't like the way the spread keeps shooting up.

[2daBank]

Any feel on the UCLA UC total. Im leaning under. Don't like the way the spread keeps shooting up.

That my 1st reaction on surface but havnf capped it yet, I’ll look now.. starting to run out of time as going to a early dinner w some friends and fam.

[Hman]

GL tonight

[Charlies_Hustle2]

YTD record please?

[2daBank]

NC central/slu under 129.. this has all kinds of ugly written all over this one!! The eagles play at one of the slowest tempos in the country and if slu has it their way Travis fords bunch likes to keep games ugly!

Central hasn’t played any legit teams since their 1st 2 games of season vs Clemson and cincy which ended in practically identical scores of 71-51 and 73-51 respectively. Slu doesn’t sport the offensive efficiency of either those squads but their defense is right their and pace of play pretty similar. It will take everything the eagles of nc central have to muster 50 points in this one and they could very well end up in the 40s.. for arguments sake let’s go ahead and give them 53. That would mean slu has to score 76 to achieve this number, something they Havnt don’t get this season and achieved a total of maybe 3x all of last year.., I’ll take my chances.

[2daBank]

YTD record please?

53-39., sorry didn’t get around to updating after last night, just slipped my mind..

[2daBank]

Gtech/Arkansas under 147.5... this just seems high. Almost scares me but can’t help but play it. Tech w the points a option as well but like this way better as I have it just a tic over 140.

[frankieunits2685]

Gtech/Arkansas under 147.5... this just seems high. Almost scares me but can’t help but play it. Tech w the points a option as well but like this way better as I have it just a tic over 140.

like this gonna add + tail

[t-wizzle]

Banker do you post from your phone or computer?

[t-wizzle]

The reason I ask is your threads get a ton of traffic and your posts are lengthy. By no means am I saying change your posting style, but I just don’t have the time to read through your thread.

If you post from computer, you should highlight your plays in bold or something. I’d like to talk about the games but I just don’t have time to weed through everything.

Appreciate you popping in my threads though. You clearly watch a lot of college ball.