Bellarmine +5 over Pepperdine **
You gotta love this D-2 powerhouse that is playing in its 1st yr or 2nd yr in D-1. These guys are always in the final 4 of the D-2 championships and a few yr ago won the whole thing. Their coach Davenport coached HS in Louisville and then became an asst under Pitino. He has been at Bel for 8 or 9 years and has established the best run motion offense in the country. They just beat Army in the 1st round of the CBI and Army is still trying to figure out who was guarding who ..They rank 3rd in the country in scoring and FG%. They shoot over 50% in FG.. Thats almost impossible. But with there back door cuts and motion inside that are shooting maybe 3 feet from the basket getting 2 ft shots or layups. There can hit from the 3 but they aren't a team shooting over 50% .. Not sure if they keep a stat on layups from back door cuts or post entry and players cutting to the basket when the post almost hands off for a running layup to a cutter.. When they played Duke there were down 28-23 and I swear every basket they made was from 3 feet .. Duke front line size finally took over. They have a 6'7 inside -outside scorer in Bradshaw, Penn,Fleming all avg in double digits. Cut,screen,cut screen cut fake cut outside dump inside, back door .. bounce pass lay up.. Wave has way more talent and 4 of there 12 losses were to the Zaga's and BYU's . Both teams records vs the spread are good. Not sure wave have the discipline on defense.. Wave can out run,out rebound,out shoot,out jump and are much more athletic. But think the wave breaks when some one fakes the pass and the other guy goes back door for a layup. Love coaches like Davenport who has been around for a long time and has no ambition to move up . Because he knows basketball A little worried Pepper coach watched this team and has a game strategy to slow the Knights down.
If I was Davenport I would get a copy the Blue Ribbon book and show how this book is the bible of college hoops and they omitted our school We aren't even mentioned.. Then I would get a copy of Lindy'sSports College Preseason Magazine and show the Atlantic Sun predictions. Liberty was picked 4th and we all know what they did, But the Bellarmine Knights were predicted dead last 8 th place. And a guy named Ken Pom who is considered a god among college handicappers didn't even know our nickname was the Knights.{ I made that up}
But some guy named box and one is not only predicting we keep this game under the 5 pts but we might upset this left coast team.
Coastal -7 over Stetson *
I love Coastal and Devonte But 7 is a lot. Going with my Sun Conf buddy and the coach Cliff Ellis looks older then Loyola nun in her wheelchair . Not sure if Devonte can carry Coastal .. so a small small play Ellis - over to make the 40 minutes coaching.. the under is 3000 to 1 . But I don't wish anyone harm.
You gotta love this D-2 powerhouse that is playing in its 1st yr or 2nd yr in D-1. These guys are always in the final 4 of the D-2 championships and a few yr ago won the whole thing. Their coach Davenport coached HS in Louisville and then became an asst under Pitino. He has been at Bel for 8 or 9 years and has established the best run motion offense in the country. They just beat Army in the 1st round of the CBI and Army is still trying to figure out who was guarding who ..They rank 3rd in the country in scoring and FG%. They shoot over 50% in FG.. Thats almost impossible. But with there back door cuts and motion inside that are shooting maybe 3 feet from the basket getting 2 ft shots or layups. There can hit from the 3 but they aren't a team shooting over 50% .. Not sure if they keep a stat on layups from back door cuts or post entry and players cutting to the basket when the post almost hands off for a running layup to a cutter.. When they played Duke there were down 28-23 and I swear every basket they made was from 3 feet .. Duke front line size finally took over. They have a 6'7 inside -outside scorer in Bradshaw, Penn,Fleming all avg in double digits. Cut,screen,cut screen cut fake cut outside dump inside, back door .. bounce pass lay up.. Wave has way more talent and 4 of there 12 losses were to the Zaga's and BYU's . Both teams records vs the spread are good. Not sure wave have the discipline on defense.. Wave can out run,out rebound,out shoot,out jump and are much more athletic. But think the wave breaks when some one fakes the pass and the other guy goes back door for a layup. Love coaches like Davenport who has been around for a long time and has no ambition to move up . Because he knows basketball A little worried Pepper coach watched this team and has a game strategy to slow the Knights down.
If I was Davenport I would get a copy the Blue Ribbon book and show how this book is the bible of college hoops and they omitted our school We aren't even mentioned.. Then I would get a copy of Lindy'sSports College Preseason Magazine and show the Atlantic Sun predictions. Liberty was picked 4th and we all know what they did, But the Bellarmine Knights were predicted dead last 8 th place. And a guy named Ken Pom who is considered a god among college handicappers didn't even know our nickname was the Knights.{ I made that up}
But some guy named box and one is not only predicting we keep this game under the 5 pts but we might upset this left coast team.
Coastal -7 over Stetson *
I love Coastal and Devonte But 7 is a lot. Going with my Sun Conf buddy and the coach Cliff Ellis looks older then Loyola nun in her wheelchair . Not sure if Devonte can carry Coastal .. so a small small play Ellis - over to make the 40 minutes coaching.. the under is 3000 to 1 . But I don't wish anyone harm.
