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How sweet it is!

After running through way too much of our college hoops betting bankroll thanks to a slew of ill-advised picks back in December and January, we took some time off from Pick of the Day. The time off served us well, as we were able to refine our top secret methodology — [...]

Cleveland State (10-4), vanquishers of Syracuse, has been one of the best Mid-Major sides so far this season (they’re ranked 8th in the latest Mid-Major Top 25), with their four losses coming to the likes of Butler, Kansas State, Washington, and West Virginia. Despite their 50-48 loss to Butler, Gary Waters’ squad has to [...]

Ever since nailing the Buffalo +14.5 pick in the MAC football championship game, we’ve been staying away from testing our winning streak by getting back in the action on Mid-Major college hoops. That’s changing today because Ohio (4-5), one of the most detested teams around these parts, are six points ‘dogs on the [...]

This may be primarily a basketball blog, and Pick of the Day may be a category of posts in which I routinely expose myself as knowing shit about college basketball, but that’s about to change today. Why? Because today’s Pick of the Day is all about college football.
Tonight’s MAC championship finds [...]

On a Tuesday rife with intriguing mid-major matchups, it’s Creighton’s visit to Arkansas to take on the Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans that’s piqued our attention. In this battle of unbeaten squads that are both preseason faves to win their leagues, the Missouri Valley and Sun Belt, respectively, it’s Creighton and high-scoring junior guard Cavel [...]

The start of the 2008-09 season has been notable because of the amount of compelling scraps between solid mid-major sides that have taken place. Tonight brings another match-up of potential Big Dance squads, with defending Ivy League champs Cornell visiting Siena to take on the defending MAAC champs and March Madness darlings. The [...]

After the debacle that was taking Hawaii to cover versus Cal State-Fullerton on Sunday night — the Rainbow Warriors got shellacked, losing 94-70 to the Titans — we took a few days to reassess our methodology and, truth be told, lick the wounds from another demoralizing loss by our beloved Buffalo Bills this past Monday [...]

And three teams — Eastern Michigan, Toledo, and Miami — have a chance to make some noise, open some eyes, and notch the sort of wins that might help the MAC get a second invite to the Big Dance this season.
Of those three sides, the best team, Miami, is probably the least likely [...]

Expectations are pretty low for both the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Cal-State Fullerton Titans this season. Sure, the Titans return high-scoring Josh Akognon from last year’s Big West championship side, but otherwise the cupboard is pretty bare for Bob Burton’s Titans. A season-opening 76-66 loss to a Texas State squad that figures to [...]

Thanks to Appalachian State’s monumental second half collapse yesterday, which resulted in a 108-101 overtime loss by the Mountaineers to UNC-Wilmington, we’re sitting it a not so impressive 1-2 this season on Picks of the Day. But that’s okay because thanks to the San Diego Toreros, we’re about to get our mojo back. [...]

Appalachian State is picked to contend in the vastly underrated Southern Conference this season. Houston Francher’s squad hosts the UNC-Wilmington Seahawks, perennial contenders in the always tough Colonial Athletic Association, tonight. Normally, we’d take the Seahawks just about any time they are getting points, but not tonight and probably not at all this [...]

We don’t like picking against MAC teams when it comes to the Pick of the Day, but with Miami spotting Weber State 13.5 points in their 2KSports Coaches vs. Cancer opening round scrap from Pauley Pavilion tonight, we don’t have much choice. Especially since Miami was supposedly brutal in their exhibition game against last [...]

From our perspective at least.
Let’s start by saying that I’ve never been happier that I went to work on the opening day of the NCAA Tourney. With the exception of Duke barely surviving Belmont’s upset bid, this had to be one of the worst opening days of the Big Dance in history. And [...]

As promised, we’re picking every game tomorrow. Here goes!
(all lines from Bet US.Com as of 1:45 AM EST)
Early Games
Georgia +8.5 over Xavier
Kansas -22 over Portland State
Temple +7.5 over Michigan State
Marquette -6 over Kentucky
Purdue -3 over Baylor
Kent State -2 over UNLV
Pittsburgh -8.5 over Oral Roberts
Cornell +14.5 over Cornell
Late Games
Duke -20 over Belmont
USC -3.5 over Kansas [...]

Is something Fang Mitchell’s Coppin State Eagles quad won’t do in tonight’s dreaded Big Dance play-in game with the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers.
Which is why The Mount -7 over Fang’s gang is our pick of the day.

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Actually, I don’t think the Cleveland State Vikings (20-11) will pillage, maraud, or destroy the Valpo Crusaders (21-12) in their Horizon League semifinals scrap today but I couldn’t stay from that slug. However, I’m pretty certain that Clevo State, who have already beaten Valpo twice this season, will win to advance to the Horizon [...]

One steadfast rule that I typically have when it comes to betting on college hoops is that I don’t like risking cash on losing teams, especially when those teams are 3-10 and staggering into a scrap with four-game losing streaks like the UC-Riverside Highlanders are in their match-up with CSU-Fullerton tonight. Fact is the [...]