Tonight:
Pitt -12.5
Pitt is loaded.They should win the BE.Everyone back from last yr.The best gd tandem with Gibbs and Wanamaker.McGhee,Brown,etc. They have so much depth with guys like Woodall,Taylor,Patterson....they play they "lock down defense".
URI loses its top 2 scorers in Ulmer and Cothran.Plus top rebounder 7'0 Martell is nursing an injury and might not play.James is a stud at 6'8 and one of the best players in the A-10.But Rams have lost a few players to injuries,transfers,etc...their down to 8 scholarship players....W/o Martell inside it will be hard to stop Pitts inside game let alone their outside game.Think this game is a bad match for the Rams.Pitt D can shut them down.URI defense is so loose with their run and gun uptempo game...think Pitt wins this by 15-18 pts...can't see Rams stopping Gibbs.....this is a team that should of gone to the final 4 but lost on a last second shot..thats the last time these guys played together except scrimmages....home opener...
Navy +27.5
Midshipman get a small play in the " we don't want to run the score up on our armed forces." If you look at the past 3 yrs no one has beaten Navy by 26 pts or more except one team.Navy plays in the Pat conf and only plays a few upper tier teams each year.They played Nova a few times,Georgetown,Va Tech and lost by 10-15 pts.The only team to beat them up was Seton Hall and they lost by 38.. but Bobby G was the coach and he has no class.
Barnes on the other hand will beat the hell out of weak teams...Last yr he beat the UC-Irvines,Western Carolina's,Long beachs by 30 or 40.But he lost a lot of players and finds himself ranked about 5th or 6th just in the Big-12.
There is no question Texas has the better team.Navy does have a good pt gd in Avwozo and one of the best players in the Pat in Sugars.Inside Texas will dominate...but Texas is one of the worst ATS teams....at home they were a decent 6-7 but on the road if you went against them they were "money in the bank". They went 1-10 on the road...small play here in the " who wants to beat up an academy team."
