Hey Nickel-
Looked at that game last night...and a few things stuck out to me. First, schedules....MTST has played about 1/3 the strenth of the schedule as tennessee, you arent gonna see the getting blown out much, minus the 20plus point loss at Ntexas, but that shouldn't surprise anyone becasue they really havent played anyone.
On the other hand, Tennssee has not really blown anyone out either but their last four home games have been Syracuse, Ole mIss, Florida, and West Virginia....going 2-2 isnt all that bad, and you wouldn't expect a blow out in any of those games...maybe WV, who beat them.....
The thing that sticks out in my mind is that Tennessee seems to play like the Native American teams from this area....very athletic, very undisciplined, very inconsistent....I think they have the talent to blow anyone of the court on any given night, but they also can be beat by teams like WV on their own court, and also barely win against Radford... I am not playing it, I think the likelyhood of this being a single digit win, is the same as the likely hood of Tennessee winning by 30. The defeat of Syracuse could get this team rolling....If anything, I would lean to Tennessee. I think that play would be the contrarian one as well, as demonstrated by the 1.5 point downward line movement so far....
Is there anything I am missing here....
