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Larry's CBB 10* Signature 35-club (3-0 Ty W/ Signature Plays)
This better be good, I paid $59 for this pick
My 10* 35-Club Play is on Creighton at 8:30 ET. Expectations were high coming into the current CBB season for St. John's. The Red Storm opened with12 consecutive victories and by winning 14 of their first 15. However, as St John's gets set to open a challenging three-game road trip (No. 2 Duke and No. 10 Marquette follow), the Red Storm have lost FOUR of their last five (now 15-5 / 3-5 in Big East). The school's lone win in its last five was an 81-66 victory at home over Creighton, which is the team St John's opens its three-game road trip against on Wednesday. Creighton improved to 7-4 at home after easing to a 75-61 win over Butler this past Friday. The Bluejays welcome the Red Storm to CenturyLink Center 12-8 overall, including 3-4 in the Big East. Junior PG Shamorie Ponds has scored at least 20 points in six straight games, including a team-high 21 against Georgetown in Saturday's 89-78 loss to the Hoyas. He leads the team in scoring (20.6) and assists (5.6). Backcourt partner Mustapha Heron is averaging 18.7 points over the last three games to boost his season average to 15.4 PPG (also 5.0 RPG). Three more players average in double digits, the 6-6 Figueroa (14.6 & 6.8), the 6-7 Clark (12.4 & 5.8) and guard Simon (10.8 & 5.2). Sophomore guard Ty-Shon Alexander has been instrumental in Creighton's B2B two victories last week, making six 3-pointers and scoring 26 points in the 91-87 win at Georgetown, before adding 19 points against Butler to earn Big East player of the week honors. Alexander leads the team in scoring (17.6), after averaging only 5.7 as a freshman. The Bluejays own a deep perimeter, as Ballock (11.0 & 3.6 APG), Zegarowski (10.6) and Mintz (10.4) join Alexander at the guard position. The 6-9 Krampelj (11.3 & 6.4) and SF Jefferson (9.4 & 5,4) have been the best frontcourt contributors but Jefferson will be out with an ankle injury. St John's Jan 16 win over Creighton halted a string of six straight losses in the series but also note that the Bluejays have won all SEVEN matchups in Omaha against the Red Storm. Creighton averages 83.4 PPG (20th) on 50.5% shooting (4th), including 42.5% on threes (2nd). That's TOO much 'firepower' for the slumping Red Storm. Lay the modest impost. Good luck...Larry
CBB(809) Memphis at (810) Tulsa8:00pm EST - Jan 30/2019
THE PLAY: Tulsa 2.0 (-117)
#810 4* Tulsa +2 Memphis 8 PM EspnN
We’re 1-1 playing on Tulsa as a HD as we had them vs Houston but this Memphis team is no way near the Houston as far as talent. Tulsa is another team that has played the toughest conference schedule, by far, as all 6 losses came against Houston (2x), Cincy (2x), UCF & SMU. This is only Memphis’ 5th true road games and they are 1-3 with the win at Tulane, the worst team in the conference. Including N games, the Tigers are 2-6 SU shooting on 42.1%. In today’s paper HC Haith talked about how LY they went 2-5 in January and won 8 of their last 9 and this team has the same attitude as even down 21 to Houston on Sunday they went on a 13-1 run to fight back.
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