CNOTES COLLEGE BASKETBALL BEST BETS/ NOTES/NEWS/GOSSIP !

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Monday, March 9​

Game	Time(ET)	Pick	Units
CAMP at MONM	06:00 PM	CAMP +1.5***** U 152.5	+500 +500
GASO at TROY	07:00 PM	GASO +5.5***** O 151.5*****	+500 +500
FUR at ETSU	07:00 PM	FUR +1.5*****	+500
NKU at WRST	07:00 PM	NKU +1.5 U 157.5*****	+500 +500
UNCO at MONT	07:30 PM	UNCO -4.5	+500
MVSU at GRAM	08:30 PM	MVSU +12.5*****	+500
TOWS at HOF	08:30 PM	TOWS +3.5***** O 132.5*****	+500 +500
NICH at UTRGV	08:30 PM	NICH +5.5	+500
ORST at GONZ	09:00 PM	ORST +20.5***** U 143.5*****	+500 +500
DET at RMU	09:30 PM	RMU -4.5*****	+500
WEB at EWU	10:00 PM	WEB +3.5*****	+500
SCU at SMC	11:30 PM	SMC -4.5 U 148.5*****	+500 +500

 

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CNOTES COLLEGE HOOPS BEST BETS THRU MARCH !

03/09/2026................6 - 7 - 0....................46.15%.............- 8.50
03/08/2026..............12 - 10 - 0.................54.54%.............+ 5.00
03/07/2026..............26 - 19 - 0.................57.77%.............+ 25.50
03/06/2026..............12 - 13 - 0.................48.00%............- 11.50
03/05/2026................11 - 8 - 0..................57.89%............+ 11.00
03/04/2026................10 - 18 - 0................35.71%............- 49.00
03/03/2026...............12 - 12 - 0.................50.00%............- 6.00
03/02/2026...................8 - 5 - 0.................61.53%............+ 12.50
03/01/2026.................10 - 8 - 0.................55.55%............+ 6.00

TOTALS....................107 -100 - 0.................51.69%.............- 15.00

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JANUARY BEST BETS RECORD:

TOTALS................314- 265- 0..................54.23%................ +109.50

FEBRUARY'S

TOTALS...............375 - 352 - 0.................51.58%.................- 56.00

 

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Tuesday’s 6-pack
Odds to win the SEC basketball tournament:
-185— Florida
+600— Arkansas
+850— Alabama
+950— Tennessee
+1200— Vanderbilt
+3500— Georgia, Texas A&M

Quote of the Day
“My spring training start days were scripted out in January with the original plan being starting and then being done. And obviously when I got here my emotions kind of changed a little bit, my thought process changed a little bit and tried to make it work but just couldn’t. And I hate it, but it’s all right.”
Tarik Skubal

Tuesday’s quiz
Where did Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade play his college basketball?

Monday’s quiz
2008 was the last time a WCC team other than Gonzaga/Saint Mary’s won the conference tournament- it was San Diego that won the tournament that year.

Sunday’s quiz
In the movie A Few Good Men, Kevin Bacon played the losing lawyer in the climactic courtroom scene.

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Tuesday’s Den: Nobody asked me, but…….​

Very busy time of the year……..

— Southern Conference tournament
Furman 76, East Tennessee State 61
Furman wins tournament as the #6-seed.
Furman shot 63% inside arc, scored 1.23 ppp.
Paladins make NCAA’s for second time in four years.

— Sun Belt tournament
Troy 77, Georgia Southern 61
Trojans shot 73.5% inside the arc.
Troy wins Sun Belt tourney for second year in a row.
Trojans had 35-18 edge on the boards.
Georgia Southern was playing for the sixth night in a row

— CAA tournament
Monmouth 74, Campbell 64
Hawks win fifth game in a row, after 14-14 start.
Monmouth played four starters 34:00+.
Monmouth plays xxxx in CAA final Tuesday.

—Horizon tournament
Wright State 103, Northern Kentucky 90
Northern Kentucky led by 6 early in second half.
Raiders shot 63.2% inside arc, scored 1.31 ppp.
Wright State starts a freshman, three sophomores.

Detroit 70, Robert Morris 64
Detroit trailed by six early in second half.
Robert Morris was only 5-22 on arc, 9-16 on foul line.
Loss snaps Robert Morris’ eight-game winning streak.

— Big Sky tournament
Montana 95, Northern Colorado 89
Montana led 49-32 at halftime.
Money Williams scored 40 points (18-19 on foul line)
Northern Colorado’s whole team was 17-23 on the line.
Grizzlies play Portland State in semi-finals Tuesday.

— WCC tournament
Gonzaga 65, Oregon State 56
Gonzaga led 38-24 at halftime.
Teams combined to shoot 9-39 on the arc.
Tuesday is Gonzaga’s last-ever game in the WCC

— Famous birthdays, March 10th:
Chuck Norris, 86
Austin Carr, 78
Sharon Stone, 68
Rod Woodson, 61
Jon Hamm, 55
Olivia Wilde, 42
Luis Castillo, 31
Zach LaVine, 31
Justin Herbert, 28
Cole Kmet, 27

— USA 5, Mexico 3
Aaron Judge, Roman Anthony homered in third inning.
Paul Skenes allowed one hit in his four IP (60 PT)

— Venezuela 4, Nicaragua 0
Ronald Acuna went 3-3, homered, had two RBI
Venezuela is 3-0 in WBC, plays 3-0 Dominican Republic Wednesday.

— Puerto Rico 4, Cuba 1
9th-place hitter Maldonado had three RBI
Cuba had only two hits.

— Dominican Republic 10, Israel 1
Fernando Tatis Jr hit a grand slam, drove in six runs.
Oneil CruZ also homered.
Brayan Bello allowed only one hit in five IP.

— Phillies signed P Jesus Luzardo to a five-year contract worth $27M/year; last year, he was 15-7, 3.92 in 32 starts, despite an ugly two-start stretch in June where he gave up 20 runs in 5.2 IP. Word is he was tipping his pitches, but he did way better after that.

NFL happenings……..(there are a lot of them)

— Dolphins let QB Tua Tagovailoa walk, taking on a $99.2M salary cap hit, the biggest one ever. Tagovailoa is moving to Atlanta- they’ll pay him $1.3M in 2026.

— Dolphins signed QB Malik Willis for three years, $67.5M; Willis has started six NFL games, going 3-3. He was in Green Bay with new Dolphins’ coach Jeff Hafley the last two years.

— Raiders signed C Tyler Linderbaum for three years, $81M, with $60M of that guaranteed; he becomes the highest-paid interior lineman ever.
Last year, the Raiders averaged 0.5 yards before contact/rush, the worst mark by ANY team since 2013. Linderbaum is expected to help fix that problem.

— Patriots gave backup QB Tommy DeVito a two-year deal worth $7.4M; DeVito went 3-5 as a starter with the Giants, in 2023-24.

— Cardinals signed QB Gardner Minshew for one year, $8.25M; he is 17-30 as a starter for five different NFL teams, mostly with the Jaguars.

— Chiefs signed RB Kenneth Walker for three years, $45M, with $28.7M of that guaranteed.

— Jets added seven players for a total cost of $93.2M; six of the seven players play defense.

— Titans were very busy, adding eight players, including two offensive linemen, two corners.