Goodfellas
7* Michigan - 3 1/2
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Sports4cast
Top play tonite
St Louis +6
They hit all four of their top plays over the weekend.
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MASTERBETS PLAYS
Extra NBA Pick
Rockets @ T-Blazers; Rockets +7
The Vegas line for this game has already moved from 4 (the overnight line) to 7, making the Rockets big dogs. The concept of "insider information" is absolute nonsense. If you honestly believe that there are Wiseguys who know more about any NBA game than you can, if you do the homework, then you deserve to pay bogus handicapping services thousands of dollars a year. When a line moves like this it is based purely on opinion and speculation, and more often than not it pays to go the other way. Houston played very well against the Kings where poor officiating hurt them, and ultimately cost them the game. Portland have been playing very well, but they are certainly no value to cover a spread of this magnitude. We like to play the percentages, and taking the points and the Rockets is the right play right now!
Tournament Picks
Fantastic March Madness Picks
NBA Picks
Bulls @ Pacers; Pacers -12
Monday's best bet is in the game between Indiana and Chicago, where the Pacers will cover. The Bulls have a pitiful road record. They're 7-27 overall, and the majority of those wins were earlier in the season. They're 2-16 going into this game and they have a tendency to lose by large margins. The last three defeats were by 24, 12, and 33 points respectively. Now they have to face Indiana who have a polar opposite record at home: 26-7. The Pacers have lost 3 of their last 4 and will be ready for this one. That's bad news for the linesmakers. Expect Indiana to cover, and lay the 12 points as your best bet of the day.
NIT Picks: St Louis @ Notre Dame; Notre Dame -5.5
It takes national tournaments to judge the true merits of regular season performances, and one school whose stock has risen as a result is Notre Dame. We've liked this team all season long, and they were a trifle unlucky not to make it to the Big Dance. They certainly have the ability, and now we know that the Big East was tougher than it may have looked with Pitt, UConn, and Syracuse showing that they are upper-echelon teams. By contrast Conference USA has had its shortcomings exposed, as we suspected it would. Cincinnati, Memphis, De Paul, and Louisville were all beaten badly, and only a miraculous effort from UAB has prevented a Tournament whitewash.
The bottom line is that this line needs to be attacked. A 5.5 point spread is not enough distance between a very good team and a very average one, and we think the Fighting Irish will cover it with ease.
NIT Picks: Oklahoma @ Michigan; Oklahoma +4
If you didn't know how good the Big 12 Conference was before March Madness started chances are you do now. And all that talk about how below-average the Big 10 was turned out to be fact. The Sooners are underdogs for this game, but they look like great value to us when you consider how undervalued their 8-8 conference record is. Michigan's 8-8 Big 10 record was mediocre at best, and even though they managed to defeat Missouri in the first round by a single point, they will struggle to deal with Oklahoma and their chances of winning ATS seem slim. We'll take the points and the underdog victory here.
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Sebastian: Notre Dame, Okla OVER, Hawaii
Brian Gabrielle: Notre Dame, Rutgers, Michigan
Tom Stryker: Hawaii
Foote: Rutgers
