Posts Tagged ‘Gonzaga’

Gonzaga’s doing a demo job on St. Mary’s, as they’re up 68-45 on the Gaels with a bit more than seven minutes left to play in Vegas. The Gaels have shot so poorly, I doubt that could throw the rock into a casino. It’s too bad since this was a game that lots [...]

Tomorrow night at 9:00PM EST. St. Mary’s vs Gonzaga for all the marbles in the West Coast Conference. If you haven’t gotten your March Madness on yet, then I highly recommend you get it on Monday night.
Gonzaga demolished Santa Clara 94-59 tonight while St. Mary’s put Portland away with a game-ending [...]

Patty Mills looks pretty good in his first action since breaking a couple wrist bones while having one of the best first halves of the entire season against Gonzaga on January 29th. While he’s come up short on a couple of a threes, he’s been attacking the Portland goal at warp speed, and has [...]

At the risk of sounding like ESPN’s Stephen Bardo, who actually is my favorite ESPN-employed announcer since he actually knows and respects Mid-Major teams, St. Mary’s was tougher than a hockey goalie from the pre-facemask-era playing without injured star point guard Patty Mills in the second half of their showdown with Gonzaga, but toughness alone [...]

St. Mary’s has a 39-33 lead over the Bulldogs in this scrap between nationally-ranked West Coast Conference and college hoops heavyweights. Simply put, this has been one of the best halves of college hoops played this season. Between the frenzied Kennel crowd, and the superstars from both teams having great games — The [...]

People may scoff at the Toreros’ chances of winning a game in the NCAA Tourney but they do so at their own peril. San Diego may have a handful of bad losses — an 80-72 loss at the JC to a terrible Cal-State Bakersfield being chief among them — but that’s to be expected with a young team and a new coach. Their uneven start behind them, the Toreros have won 13 of their last 15, the two losses being to Gonzaga and St. Mary’s and avenged in the WCC tourney and will roll into the Big Dance with a heap of confidence.

Should the Toreros draw a BCS side that has trouble defending deep into the shot clock and can be pushed around on the boards then Brandon Johnson & Co. have a better than average shot at the upset.

I’ve only bet on Mid-Major college hoops this season so I can’t speak to how the oddsmakers have done setting lines when it comes to the BCS leagues or the NBA. Based on my experience this season, it seems like when it comes to the Mid-Majors, the lines are totally random. Just take our record of 13-6 in POTD this season.

We’re new to this whole betting on college hoops things and, while we are trying to build a system that increases one’s chances of getting it right when it comes to betting on Mid-Major hoops, the fact is don’t do any quantitative analytics when we make our picks. We just look at the lines, wonder what the fuck is up, and place the bet. And it works.