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12pm- Georgetown at Syracuse, ESPN - Dave O'Brien, Jay Bilas
Line: Syracuse -8

12pm- Wagner at Providence, FS1- Alex Faust, Vin Parise
Line: Providence -14.5

2pm- Chicago State at DePaul, FS1- Jeff Levering, Dickey Simpkins
Line: DePaul -13.5

5pm- 18 Butler vs 9 Indiana, BTN - Brian Anderson, Shon Morris
Line: Indiana -4

6pm- Delaware at Seton Hall, FS2 - Rich Ackerman, Tom Pecora
Line: Seton Hall -18

8pm- Wake Forest at 17 Xavier, FS1- Gus Johnson, Tarik Turner
Line: Xavier -9

8pm- Oral Roberts at 10 Creighton, FS2- Steve Physioc, Nick Bahe
Line: Creighton -26

So 5 cupcakes and 2 reasonably challenging games. Obviously hoping for 7-0, but I'll be satisfied with 6-1.

6-1 would be awesome.

Hall2012 wrote:So 5 cupcakes and 2 reasonably challenging games. Obviously hoping for 7-0, but I'll be satisfied with 6-1.

Georgetown is an 8 point underdog while Xavier is a 9 point favorite. If you consider the Xavier game a cupcake game then the Syracuse game is too (for Syracuse of course).

We should go 5-2, which would be great. 6-1 would be awesome. 7-0 would be incredible but very unlikely.

it's really 4 cupcakes and 3 challenging games. Wake Forest is no cupcake.

And really with how things are going it may be 3 cupcakes and 4 challenging games. Any game for DePaul being a challenging game!

Go Dawgs!

adoraz wrote:

Hall2012 wrote:So 5 cupcakes and 2 reasonably challenging games. Obviously hoping for 7-0, but I'll be satisfied with 6-1.

Georgetown is an 8 point underdog while Xavier is a 9 point favorite. If you consider the Xavier game a cupcake game then the Syracuse game is too (for Syracuse of course).

We should go 5-2, which would be great. 6-1 would be awesome. 7-0 would be incredible but very unlikely.

Throw out the record books for rivalry games. Also line has narrowed to -6.5 so smart money has been on Georgetown. While the Xavier Spread has increased to -10.

But I would agree that Wake Forest isn't a cupcake game only loses are to Nova (no shame there) and @ NWestern.

The Georgetown run starts today and they never look back!

A Syracuse guy walks into a store in New York. He tells the clerk, “I want an orange hat and an orange short and orange sweatpants and an orange jacket and an orange scarf, and I want in now!” The clerk asks the guy, “Are you a Syracuse fan?” The Syracuse guy was shocked. “How could you tell? Is it because of all the orange?” The clerk responds, “No. It’s because this is a hardware store.”

I know it's only Wagner, but Providence is looking really good. I think their ceiling is #3 in the conference this season, possibly higher next.