Ultra Sports Bet

There’s not much basketball action tonight, and even less that is interesting. Taking a day off is bad for karma, though, so there’s one game I think is worth a look tonight.
Harvard (+7) at Columbia – I like Columbia here for several reasons:

They beat Harvard by nine on the road two weeks ago.
They are an impressive 10-4 ATS, and 6-2 ATS in the last eight.
John Baumann, the Columbia forward who is the only real scoring threat on either team, is in fine form recently and he will be able to feast on the truly pathetic Harvard D.
I hate Tommy Amaker, …read more

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Today is one of those days where I have a lot of research I am doing, and as a result I am reading a lot of sports websites and news articles. In other words, I have the best job in the world. As I have been reading around, these are 10 things have have stuck in my mind for further reference in my sports betting journeys:
1. Yao Ming’s season ending injury. My first reaction – wow, that sucks. My second reaction – with Rick Adelman at the helm, the team isn’t going to struggle as much as people think. That …read more

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The action on Friday night is a slim as we would expect, but there is one game that is interesting and which provides a decent amount of value in my mind.
Davidson (-3) at Winthrop – Off the top I’ll say that I like Davidson here. The Wildcats are playing well, especially on the road, and they match up well. Winthrop is at the top of the Big South, but that doesn’t mean too much. Of course, Davidson has faced only marginally better competition in the Southern conference. It comes down, then, to three things;
1) Non-conference competition – Winthrop has played …read more

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I normally don’t write about a college basketball game three days in advance, but then again I’m normally not this excited about one regular season college basketball game. I have had the Memphis-Tennessee game circled on my calendar for months. I was pretty sure that it was going to be a good one when I first saw the schedule, but I had no idea that it would be anywhere near this good. Number one and number two don’t play very often, and in-state rivals in the top two seeds virtually never play. This is one to remember.
The other way that …read more

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The fun thing about sports betting is that you never know what is going to happen. Coincidentally, that is also the frustrating thing. Indiana is a perfect and truly fascinating example.
For those that missed it, Indiana has been in turmoil for more than a week now. It basically boils down to this – head coach Kelvin Sampson is a total moron. He left Oklahoma before he got fired, but not before he caused that school to have to suffer sanctions for his recruiting violations. He somehow managed to get the job at Indiana despite being a total slime bucket. Proving …read more

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There are four games in tonight’s holiday college basketball action that stand out for me as providing some value:
Xavier (+2.5) at Rhode Island – Xavier has struggled a bit lately, but they have still won seven in a row even if the margin hasn’t been as big as it could be. This is a battle for A-10 supremacy, and I truly believe that Xavier is the better squad. That makes them attractive here.

Austin Peay (+1) at Tennessee State – Austin Peay is the better team by a wide margin, and they are playing reasonably well. The edge isn’t huge …read more

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As is usual, there are a million college games this weekend. Here are the five that stick out as the best values on Saturday:
Louisville (-5.5) at Providence -  I love how Louisville is laying, I think that they match up well here, and I think that Rick Pitino gets a little more fired up than usual(which is saying something) when he goes back to Providence. The Cardinals seem attractive.
Drake (-1.5) at Northern Iowa – Drake had a long winning streak snapped last time out. If they are going to bounce back then this is a great spot for them to …read more

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As I was writing about NBA Championship futures for a client this morning I found myself thinking that NCAA Futures were way more interesting. Maybe that’s because the tournament is much closer than the NBA playoffs, or maybe that’s because college basketball is about a million times more interesting than the NBA. Either way, there are some interesting values and some terrible prices on the board for the road to the Final Four.
Bargains
I’m not saying that these teams are a lock to win or anything, but I think that their chances are better than their price:
Stanford (35/1) – The Cardinal …read more

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Key Saturday games. As I write this it is Friday afternoon, so there are no lines out for Saturday’s games. There are, however, several games of interest that I will be keeping a close eye on when the lines come out. Here’s the cream of them:

Boston College at Duke – If the price is right I’ll be looking for a post-UNC letdown for the Blue Devils that could allow Boston College to stay close enough to cover what should be a pretty big spread.
USC at Washington State – The Cougs are in a freefall, and USC has covered six …read more

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Now that football is over here, our focus here will shift in other directions. We’ll hit lots of sports along the way, but college basketball will likely get the most attention over the next six weeks or so.
Which brings me to an announcement of great sadness – coach John Brady has been fired by LSU. As a sports bettor that is perhaps the saddest news of the year (And I mean the whole year, even if it is only February). Brady was probably the worst recruiter on the planet, and he was only barely better as a coach. His team …read more

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