Cashing In

Your "Bad Beat" for Monday is on

North Carolina A&T (plus 13 1/2) at Morgan State.

These MEAC games do not have a number on them most of the time but they did last night. Morgan State opened up laying 14 and that went down as low as 13. It didn't look like that would matter as the underdogs from A&T shockingly led outright 37-32 at the half.

The game was 56-55 Morgan with only seven to go which more than likely was looking like an underdog easy cover. But then Reggie Holmes went crazy as he nailed eight threes in the game and poured in a game high 32 points. In the end Morgan State outscored A&T 49-30 in the second half and won 81-67.

Yikes!



Your winners for Tuesday are on:

4* Georgia Tech (plus 7) at Clemson.

2* North Carolina (minus 4) vs. Miami, Fl.

One play on Monday, a fairly easy 3* winner on Oklahoma who led most of the game in Austin and then cashed the ticket in the loss.



The season can not be deemed great as the wins have not been there of late the way Paul Hewitt would like but the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have been competing very hard and the fruits to their merit could produce an outright here.

Tech has played pretty tough on the road of late most recently in that tough buzzer beating loss at Maryland. A few weeks earlier the Jackets fell also at the buzzer in South Beach against Miami.

At some point things will even up and to get a handful of points plus with a rising star in Derrick Favors along with Gani Lawal and other talented young athletes makes me fine with this takeback. It's not going to be easy as Clemson is good and Littljohn Coliseum is not an easy place to play at all.

Trevor Booker and Demontez Stitt are quality players for the Tigers who are coming off of that hard fought victory at Florida State. 53 points was all it took for Clemson in that thing but that will not be the case here as Tech is going to put up points and enough to at the very worst cover this contest!



The season has been a debacle for North Carolina and that is quite possibly the understatement of all understatements. Nothing at all has gone right for this perennial powerhouse but I do believe they are too cheap to pass up today.

The Tar Heels are still a very talented team even if Ed Davis is out. These guys were top 5 earlier in the season and if they play like they could then they could prove that once again.

Miami is ok, nothing better nothing worse. The Hurricanes at home can rise up and beat some superior teams but I'm not so sure that they can do this on the road and at the Dean Dome.

The Heels are still not a good basketball team but they did at least compete and lose late in Boston College a week or so ago and then just won at Wake Forest and should be feeling a tad more confident than before.

Look for UNC to end the season a little better than that dreadful middle part and for this to be an 8-12 point victory.