a little sportsbetting 101 from last night's games. flush from my recent success, i managed to take a winning night based on three solidly handicapped home dogs (ga tech, lsu, louisville) and turn the evening into a push by betting two dd home favorites playing inferior archrivals. as to be commonly expected in such situations, both teams won but did not cover and ate up the profits from the good picks. i shall attempt to learn from this foolishness. foulathon in the louisville game caused the total to go over so i don't feel so bad about that one.
southern conference is one of my favorites and i spent a lot of time last night studying these tourney games. saw the first game as too close to call and it looks like the game played out that way. interesting matchups for the two no. 3 seeds - unc-g and c of c. a pair of three-way ties in both divisions of the so conf resulted in these two co-leaders getting royally screwed and having to play first round games today. as both teams have their sights set on winning the tournament despite having to play four games in four days, should be some interesting strategy today by both coaches if they want their teams to last through the weekend against the rested teams. with that thought in mind i decided to pass their games today with the thought of possibly playing against them later in the tourney. will wait and see what develops. did however see one of today's tourney games i consider worthy of a play---
furman -4: decided to play the paladins today as the fact that the top six seeds were taken by the division leaders has caused a bit of a stagger in the lower seedings. furman finished fifth in the stronger southern division with a 7-9 conf record while w car finished fourth in the northern division at 6-10. w car is the weaker of these two teams despite a win over furman in cullowhee in january. in that game furman was playing their second road game in 48 hours and was without key man kenny ziegler, whose absence contributed to a furman four-game losing streak. w car has faded badly at the end of the season losing seven of their last eight. also, someone needs to have a chat with whoever was responsible for scheduling this year as they come to the conference tourney playing their fourth road game in the last twelve days. now there's a nice lead into the culmination of the season. and it's no short haul from cullowhee to charleston. all things considered, paladins look to be in the better spot and should cover this modest number.
back later tonight with the rest. i'm looking at some real zingers.
southern conference is one of my favorites and i spent a lot of time last night studying these tourney games. saw the first game as too close to call and it looks like the game played out that way. interesting matchups for the two no. 3 seeds - unc-g and c of c. a pair of three-way ties in both divisions of the so conf resulted in these two co-leaders getting royally screwed and having to play first round games today. as both teams have their sights set on winning the tournament despite having to play four games in four days, should be some interesting strategy today by both coaches if they want their teams to last through the weekend against the rested teams. with that thought in mind i decided to pass their games today with the thought of possibly playing against them later in the tourney. will wait and see what develops. did however see one of today's tourney games i consider worthy of a play---
furman -4: decided to play the paladins today as the fact that the top six seeds were taken by the division leaders has caused a bit of a stagger in the lower seedings. furman finished fifth in the stronger southern division with a 7-9 conf record while w car finished fourth in the northern division at 6-10. w car is the weaker of these two teams despite a win over furman in cullowhee in january. in that game furman was playing their second road game in 48 hours and was without key man kenny ziegler, whose absence contributed to a furman four-game losing streak. w car has faded badly at the end of the season losing seven of their last eight. also, someone needs to have a chat with whoever was responsible for scheduling this year as they come to the conference tourney playing their fourth road game in the last twelve days. now there's a nice lead into the culmination of the season. and it's no short haul from cullowhee to charleston. all things considered, paladins look to be in the better spot and should cover this modest number.
back later tonight with the rest. i'm looking at some real zingers.
