Cashing In

Your "Bad Beat" for Wednesday is on:

Missouri (minus 1 1/2, first half) vs. Texas.

This is not your average bad beat in terms of the way it went down. There is no true wow factor to this guy but in the end it was pretty bad.

The Tigers jumped out to the 8-0 lead right off the bat. They never trailed at all in the entire first half. Mike Anderson's squad had a 32-28 lead with about a minute and a half to go in the first half and missed a three which would have put them up seven. Texas came down and nailed a three on the other end to get within one.

With 12 seconds to go the Tigers grabbed a rebound and had a man streaking down court but the pass was well overthrown into the crowd and then the Longhorns were able to get the last shot which was missed and this thing went into the break 32-31 Missouri and a loser laying that 1 1/2.

Also note that the Tigers did not score in the final two plus minutes and made only one hoop in about the final four minutes.

The bottom line is that one team did not lead the entire half and still covered only 1 1/2. That is pretty freakin' crazy!



Your winners for Thursday are on:

5* Georgetown (minus 2) vs. Syracuse.

2* Oregon (minus 3 1/2) vs. Stanford.

Just a phenomenal roll right now as I have literally nailed nine straight plays now profiting 27* in the past four days!



I will without a doubt back the home Georgetown Hoyas today. Jim Boeheim's Orangemen have been awesome and have studs in Rautins, Onuaku and Joseph but this team is still a bit overvalued if you ask me. To ask them to go on the road and beat Georgetown is a bit much.

For one the Hoyas have a matter of revenge after losing at the Carrier Dome about a month ago. Also Greg Monroe is impossible to defend and will be here as well. We have seen the Hoyas look great when they want to play. This team bashed Duke in the nation's capital and just seem to have a great team at times. I believe they will prove this good side once again here as this spot is huge.

The Hoyas also can shrivel up at times as we saw against South Florida a few weeks back and in that last game at Rutgers but there are no motivation problems today as this is Syracuse in town today.

Look for Monroe to be a beast down low and for Chris Wright to do his thing and create.

There is just no way that the Orange are going to sweep this season series and to only lay about two? Ok!



Both Stanford and Oregon are going nowhere this season. The Cardinal and Ducks are lower end Pac-10 teams and one is really no better than the other. But to get Ernie Kent's squad at home in Eugene and lay a small number is the right side.

Stanford has been alright at home this season, save that last game here they were drilled against Washington, but have been brutally bad on the road. I do like Fields and Green but all in all there is no reason to believe that Johnny Dawkins' squad can travel like this and win in the house of the green. They haven't done it yet so why today?

The Cardinal have yet to win a true road game and have dropped nine in a row including the last seven in the Pac-10.

Oregon has lost three straight and eight of ten which is obviously not good at all. The Ducks though did win their last two games at home against USC and UCLA and on their cozy floor and should down a Stanford team that has done less than nothing on the road.