2-20-16

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Pick: Your pick will be graded at sbgglobal @ -1 -110 Oklahoma St.
Expert:Steve Merril
Evaluation:Feb 20 - 9:30 PM
Star Rating:9.0
Reason For Pick:
Texas Tech has been a major surprise this season as the Red Raiders come into tonight’s game at Oklahoma State with a 16-9 record. Texas Tech is on a 3-game winning streak, but those three wins set the team up in an awful spot for tonight’s game. The Red Raiders are in a terrible situational spot because they come in off three consecutive SU wins as underdogs with their last being a 65-63 home win over Oklahoma. The Red Raiders beat Oklahoma State 63-61 in overtime on their home court earlier this season. Texas Tech actually trailed that game by 7 points with six minutes left to play before rallying back and winning in overtime. Texas Tech’s defense is giving up 75.6 points per game on 45.6% shooting from the field and 41.5% shooting from three-point land on the road this season.
Oklahoma State returns home off a 27-point blowout loss at Kansas on Monday night. That game can be easily dismissed as Kansas was focused on revenge after getting embarrassed 86-67 by Oklahoma State earlier in the season. Oklahoma State is now back at home, and we expect a strong bounce back performance tonight. The Cowboys play outstanding defense, especially on their home court where they only give up 62.1 points per game on 40.3% shooting from the field and 33.6% shooting from three-point land. Oklahoma State’s offense has been much better at home where they are averaging 70.6 points per game. Oklahoma State is catching Texas Tech at the perfect time, so we’ll back the Cowboys in this game on Saturday night.
9* Play OKLAHOMA STATE (-).

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Pick: Your pick will be graded at 5dimes @ -5.5 -105 UNLV
Expert:Steve Merril
Evaluation:Feb 20 - 10:00 PM
Star Rating:9.0
Reason For Pick:
Nevada has been a surprise this season; the Wolfpack come into tonight’s game at UNLV with a a 16-9 record. But they’ve played much better basketball at home. Nevada is just 5-7 in true road games where they’ve allowed 76.4 points per game. The Wolfpack will be playing a back-to-back road set here, and it will be the second time this season in which they come in off a previous road win. The last time they were in this situation, Nevada played poorly in the second road game. They lost by 9 points at Colorado State after shooting just 38.7% (24-62) from the field and 33.3% (7-21) from three-point land. The Wolfpack beat UNLV 65-63 on their home court earlier this season, but that’s unimpressive considering the Rebels have won just one game all season when held to less than 70 points. UNLV led that game by 9 points with 10 minutes left to play, so they were in control of that game on Nevada’s home court.
UNLV returns home off a 79-74 loss at Air Force on Tuesday night. That game can be easily dismissed as Air Force was hell bent on revenge after getting embarrassed 100-64 by UNLV earlier in the season. UNLV is now back at home, and we expect a strong bounce back performance tonight. The Rebels are averaging 78.2 points per game at home this season, and they will get their preferred fast pace against a poor Nevada defense. UNLV’s defense is only allowing 68.7 points per game on 41.7% shooting from the field and 32.5% shooting from three-point land at home. We expect a peak performance by UNLV here, so we’ll lay the points with the Rebels in this game on Saturday night.
9* Play UNLV (-).

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Dwayne Bryant

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Vegas Sharp

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CBB Game of the Year

642 Indiana U. -3.5 over Purdue
I follow both of these teams close and this has blowout written all over it! When I told my Uncle the line who is a 20+ year Purdue season ticket holder he said, "Sounds to me like the Las Vegas Odds makers are drunk! That's crazy. I can't see Purdue coming within 10 points." Indiana THRIVES at home while Purdue has dropped three of their last four road games and are averaging just 58.5 points in their last two defeats away from home. I see this one like is 2013 when the Hoosiers beat them 83-55! We'll blow them out of Assembly Hall again tonight!!