illinois-chicago (-8.5) over youngstown
cleveland state vikings over 142
wright state raiders under 126
theres a reason a 4-7 uic team is laying almost double-digits on the road against a 3-8 ysu team. flames should run away with this game. youngstown is just brutal. theyve gone 3-8 against a division II schedule. 4 of uic's 7 losses have come against georgia tech, duke, bowling green, and depaul, who happen to be a combined 33-7. flames should end up being the 3rd best team in the horizon this year (although youd never know it by their inexplicable loss to parkside --- insert laughter here). banks coming off a 34 point game against detroit. if he gets any sort of help tonight, uic busts this game open early.
as ive said before, defense does not travel with cleveland state. vikings are the highest scoring team in the horizon league....and the worst defensively. garland really wants his guys to push the ball, and they DO have the athletes to play uptempo basketball successfully, but until csu makes a committment on the defensive end, theyre not gonna win any games away from the convocation center. this is an opportunity for cleveland state to break a long conference road losing streak because they are definitely better than loyola, but talent has never really been csu's issue. until the show me otherwise, i gotta figure they will lose another high scoring game on the road.
two defensive-minded teams in wright and uwgb. neither shoot FTs particularly well, and wright struggled to score points on the road last year in league play. im not sure what to make of uwgb. they were a surprise team in the conference last year, but i think theyre a .500 at best team this year even in a VERY mediocre horizon. in 4 of their 8 conference home games last year, uwgb held their opponent to 55 points or less.
cleveland state vikings over 142
wright state raiders under 126
theres a reason a 4-7 uic team is laying almost double-digits on the road against a 3-8 ysu team. flames should run away with this game. youngstown is just brutal. theyve gone 3-8 against a division II schedule. 4 of uic's 7 losses have come against georgia tech, duke, bowling green, and depaul, who happen to be a combined 33-7. flames should end up being the 3rd best team in the horizon this year (although youd never know it by their inexplicable loss to parkside --- insert laughter here). banks coming off a 34 point game against detroit. if he gets any sort of help tonight, uic busts this game open early.
as ive said before, defense does not travel with cleveland state. vikings are the highest scoring team in the horizon league....and the worst defensively. garland really wants his guys to push the ball, and they DO have the athletes to play uptempo basketball successfully, but until csu makes a committment on the defensive end, theyre not gonna win any games away from the convocation center. this is an opportunity for cleveland state to break a long conference road losing streak because they are definitely better than loyola, but talent has never really been csu's issue. until the show me otherwise, i gotta figure they will lose another high scoring game on the road.
two defensive-minded teams in wright and uwgb. neither shoot FTs particularly well, and wright struggled to score points on the road last year in league play. im not sure what to make of uwgb. they were a surprise team in the conference last year, but i think theyre a .500 at best team this year even in a VERY mediocre horizon. in 4 of their 8 conference home games last year, uwgb held their opponent to 55 points or less.
