Indiana proves you can rarely guess motivation
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 that a snake is always a snake, he did the exact same things at Indiana that he was doing at Oklahoma, got caught, and will now lose his job as well as probably bringing sanctions to another proud and undeserving program. Or I suppose that the programs are deserving, because they were both dumb enough to hire Sampson in the first place.
Anyway, Indiana has been playing great, but they have shown some betting vulnerability recently. It would make sense given the distractions of the implosion of their program that they may not be at there best. This was an especially tempting train of thought because they had two straight rough games - Michigan State and Purdue, and because they were coming off a loss to a Wisconsin team that seems to be a step behind both the Spartans and the Boilermakers. A bet against Indiana in those games would have been too tempting to avoid.
Hopefully you did avoid the temptation. Indiana won both games easily, and covered in both cases. The Michigan State game was ridiculous - they won by 19 as four point favorites. The lesson? It is almost impossible to determine the motivation level of college athletes, and trying too hard to do so is a quick road to poverty.
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