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Those people expected the total dropped in that game, and it's definitely on an over pace right now. Final minute of the first half. Duke 39, St. John's 37. Will Hill, Matt Uman's here on V7 Primetime for two more hours. Thanks to Chris Masero, the circuit of Friday Football Invitational champ. During this in the first hour tonight, he's part of the Circuit College Hoops Challenge. We have a bunch of plays in action tonight in that contest. And Will Hill, you and I are both on St. John's. How do we feel here? We're catching plus seven. How do we feel down to in the final minute of the first half? The Johnny's are eight for 17 from three. Yeah. If you would have told me an hour ago when we started the show, you're going to be down to 40 or 50 seconds up and a half. It's a great sign me up. I mean, what more can you ask for getting a bunch of points down to? It's just the way we've gotten here feels a little bit unsustainable. The fact that they've made eight threes. Now, maybe you can make the case. St. John's eventually steps up on defense and Duke is not going to shoot this well. But I can't imagine St. John's continues to shoot this well
in the second half here. So feel okay. All things considered, I mean, we were talking about this a few minutes ago. When it was a seven point game, I said, don't let this get any further. Get this down to three or four and you'll feel all right. So the first half spread, very much in play here, three and a half. We're in a timeout right now where Duke will have a chance here. They'll need to score and get a stop in order to cover the number. If you're St. John's, I think you just need one stop and you can hold for the last shot and cover that number. So we'll see here. All things considered, I feel okay. I just don't know how long St. John's can keep up this shooting. Yeah, I did not bet St. John's first tap, but I'm going to pull for those who did bet to Johnny's because you and I have him for the game plus seven here. So St. John's got to get a stop. And that's one thing he's been surprising in this game will. The lack of stops by St. John's. We've talked about this team's defensive intensity, defensive toughness. How well they harass guards. How well they rebound? Well, Duke is winning the rebounding battle, 17 to 11. Duke is 14 for 26 from the field.
That's 54%. I'm really surprised blue devils are having this much success against the St. John's defense. Me too. And again, when you're St. John's, you don't expect to be winning the three-point line here by 18 points. You got 24 points from threes with eight makes and Duke has six points from threes with two makes. So we'll see here. I guess the hope for St. John's is you go in a half time, Patino is obviously a great tactician. He's a great motivator and you figure out a way to get some stops here, whether it's through X's and O's motivation, a combination of the two. And we can get this game down to the wire here. But like you said, St. John's going to figure out a way to get some stops now. That being said, Duke has not made a field goal in the last pretty much four minutes. All their points have come from the line here, Matt. Yeah, it's been a four minute drought for Duke was out of made field goal and that field goal attempt right there got swatted. And then Duke's going to inbound the ball under its own basket here. Isaiah Evans puts up a three, no good. St. John's get to rebound with 35 seconds ago.
So about seven second difference here. It looks like on the shot clock and the game clock, you think Red Storm's going to run this clock down and take the shot as late as possible. Rick Patino looks like he's not going to call time out. And St. John's going to hit a three. How about that, Will Hill? 40, 39 Johnny's take the lead here. So another three pointer, a three point barrage for St. John's. That one drops with a seven seconds go. Duke's going to drive down and get the last shot. Looks like it's going to be Caden Booser who's going to be off the mark. St. John's rebounds at a one point lead at half time. Will, how do you feel now? We were talking about this when St. John's fell behind by about six. We didn't like the way things are going. Nice rally there in the first half. Yeah, St. John's led by six. Duke led by seven. The Duke leading by seven was more recent. And boy, if you threw Duke first half money line into a parlay, you're up seven points. You're the favorite. You're feeling pretty good.
Just think about what that next leg is and you figure you got that one home. But if you bet long enough, nothing is ever saved. And St. John's no pun intended. Storming back here, a great finish to the half. And I don't know that they continue to basically shoot like they've got five staff curries on the court there at all times. But we'll see here they play a little better defense. They've shut the water off with Duke in terms of the field goals. And they take a one point lead into the second half. So they cover the first half. They win the first half on the money line, which I'd imagine was a little north of two to one or so right right around there. But a big finish here for for St. John's and company. All right, we have two games going on right now. It's not all about Duke and St. John's. Again, the St. John's lead is 40, 39 and a half time. And that is flying over the pregame total of 140 and a half. The live total of draft Kings 152 and a half. Duke's still the favorite in the game. Three and a half point favorite. Live lines are up at draft Kings and Alabama Michigan now tied at 11. Derek Stevens, owner here at Circuit Resort and Casino is out here in his box.
Will. He's got a big crowd out here watching the Michigan game. He's a Michigan man. Wolverines a little shell shocked. I think to start this game, they were down 11 to two. Tide came out hot from three right away. But Michigan has rebounded to tie the score. And Alabama looks like it's now up 13 to 11 here. But we're very early in this game. Seven minutes into it. A little bit of hot start for the Crimson Tide. Yeah, I haven't watched a lot of this 13 11. Bama leads eight and a half to live line 173 and a half in terms of the total. So despite the early lead for Bama, not much movement in terms of the side of the total. The side is ticked down a point. The totals ticked up a point. Bama plus 290 on the money line here at draft King. So I have to get eyes on this game and get a feel for the pace things like that. But for the most part, this is, you know, expected a lot of points. We're getting that. I'm looking to see my one bet in here is the team total over for Michigan at 91 and a half. The live number is now 92 and a half. As Michigan hits a three and goes up by a point. So expecting plenty of offense here in this one now.
I'm just looking with the half time or the first half team total is. I might go for a little action here now. I feel like I got some found money with St. John's. The team totals in the first half Michigan over 44 and a half. I'm going to make that a bet here. I'm going to add a little Michigan first half team total over 44 and a half. I like the way the pace looks in this one. Yeah, off that slow start of 11 to two, but they rebounded. They got 14 13 lead with that three that drops right there and will help playing over 44 and a half live on Michigan team total in the first half. Live number is of nine and a half back to where we started for the game. The total 176 and a half and that's a little bit above where we started circuit closed Michigan minus nine and a half at a total of 172 and a half again. A half time in St. John's and Duke 40 39 red storm got the lead over the blue doubles with a late rally and that half and much higher scoring half than we anticipated there with a sharp money pushing that total down from one forty three to one 40 and a half and a lot like the Nebraska Iowa game last
night up and down high level of shot making and away over the first half total in the St. John's and Duke. Let's talk about two other games that will tip tonight. How about Michigan State Yukon Connecticut a two point favorite here at Circa one and a half at Draft Kings total of one thirty six and a half. Will you and I are on the same side here with the Yukon laid one point with Huskies this line opened on the Sunday night and what's the best case you could make here for betting the Yukon side. Hurley in a tournament game where he's one 15 out of 16 and covered 15 out of a six out of 16. Hurley out of conference where he tends to do very well. Even though it was an up and down year for Yukon they beat Illinois in Florida and that Kansas you know they they had wins all in non-conference BYU on a neutral court and I just think the three points shooting will come around. Mullins ball these guys have not shot the three well. The last few games three of 20 against St. John's they shot from three five of 25 against Ferman and eight of 24 against UCLA a lot of thirty three percent
twenty twenty five percent at some point here these good Yukon shooters and they are good shooters are going to knock some of these down Michigan State on the other hand not a great three point shooting team and they actually made a bunch of threes recently so Hurley in a tournament setting some three point regression just it you can't really go wrong betting Yukon in these tournament games doesn't mean it's going to win tonight but it's amazing I don't know if you've seen some of these stats man I'm sure you have I didn't realize how much Yukon and this goes back to Calhoun when they get to the sweet 16 they do really really well and they can both the stats in a minute but their their problem has been getting to the sweet 16 once they get to the sweet 16 they do very well in these later rounds of the tournament so betting on Hurley betting on a little better three point shooting here from Huskies how about you I guess it's great coaching I mean if you if you look at Yukon in the success the Huskies have had this tournament over the past twenty five years or so it's remarkable I don't think enough has talked about it because you know a lot of times you talked about these teams trying to get over the hump to get to their first final four in so many years right we're talking about Iowa State trying to
get to the final four for the first time since 1944 I believe and Tennessee trying to get to the final four for the first time ever Yukon's been doing this for 25 years routinely and winning the national championship and almost every time to get this deep into the tournament Danny Hurley went back to back 12 and 0 straight up 12 and 0 against the spread 15 to one ATS the past few years in this tournament I don't want to bet against Danny Hurley and I know Tom is those got March Magic but Alex Keriban and Terris Reed playing at a really high level in this tournament so far Keriban 49 points he's got 27 and 22 in the first two games Terris Reed 41 points and 40 rebounds like you said well the key tonight to beat Michigan State is going to be Braggland Mullins and solo ball stepping up and knocking down some threes and if they can do that I feel pretty confident that Yukon's going to win that game and I think they're due to make some threes those guys are better shooters and they've shown solo ball was one of the top three point shooters in college basketball coming into the season well Hurley had to bench him last week because he missed
five in her own he was missing wide open looks yeah it's a good point not sure what's going on with him and you could tell it's something mental because I don't know if you remember I think it was the UCLA game where ball finally hit a shot and Hurley made it a point to run out to half court during a timeout and give him a high five can graduate him and try to boost them up as hard as Hurley is on the players the refs these coaches are all you know amateur psychologists and they know sometimes when a player needs a little confidence boost and it seems like something ball is going through right now with his lack of shooting all right we'll talk about Tennessee I was state on the other side again St. John's up 40 39 on Duke that games at the half draft Kings got a live number of three and a half Blue Devils still the favorites 153 and a half the total that's up about 13 points from pre-game Alabama 18 Michigan 17 Wolverines seven and a half point favorites now total of 172 and a half Michigan State Yukon later as well as Tennessee Iowa State we'll preview that game and take a look at the circa college who challenge standings and best
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against your friends and other fans on basically anything new users get a 15% deposit bonus on their first deposit with promo code vs i n download cut that's k-u-t-t today i think i look at the uh... circuit college suits challenge standings here and paul stone is a cut above the rest right now 21 15 against spread he did go one and two last night and he lost his best bet so brings the rest of the field back into it a little bit here paul with 22 total points get a point and a half if you have a best bet winner uh... i've got re-in-one on the best bet record so far and i got st johns plus seven tonight so hopefully can get there you need every half points you can get here will help because we have a traffic jam on the leaderboard paul stone at twenty two points followed by tim Murray and christmas sarah one point back chip terimbus and jonathan vontoba a point and a half back and uh... aron mor ken tomson me and you right there
uh... in the hunt as well and david denine right there as well david denine the uh... champ in this uh... contest two years ago will hill you were the champ in this contest the inaugural year we had it three years ago paul stoned a defending champ and the current leader ryan kramer jose rallo dunkels area in dust and sweetle something great Peterson uh... round out the uh... fifteen handicaps in the contest and ryan kramer was he's been busy partying in kabo he's been down to mexico and he missed the deadline so he went o and o he did not get his picks in and uh... this round uh... but that's happened before the football contest and uh... we will have more will have four more pictures of the next round in the elite eight on saturday uh... will you are eighteen seventeen and one you said you're one of four of the best bet you're very disappointed in your best bet record and uh... what do you have live tonight in the contest you can what was the number i think one and a half we got you come on a some point in half and i can see plus four and a half
thinking that they can hang in there don't expect much from gefferson if he goes don't expect you know i would think the shoot free throws well in a tight game and i like the athleticism of tenancy so i just keep trading punches win a couple lose a couple i just i'd like to get on a little streak here where you put together four five six in a row and then see where things stand but uh... just got to take them one at a time as they say and uh... hope to string some wins wins together and maybe the uh... the board comes back to me here you had an iowa Nebraska best bet on the under last night that was a loser but you had two winners yet Arizona minus eight twenty one point win for Arizona and the Illinois plus three and a half ten point win for the alina last night two and one for you last night you've got Connecticut minus one and a half and tenancy plus four and a half i had a two and a one night on uh... thursday i had texas plus seven and uh... Illinois plus three and a half so you and i were both on the alina so two and a last night my best bet tonight st johns plus seven st johns duke under which uh... i do not like and might as well just put an l next to that one right now
and you can minus one and a half so be uh... thrilled to get two and one tonight if uh... if it goes that way that would be great uh... but the st johns duke under does not look good all right so will you get a play pending let's talk about this game now you have a play pending tonight on uh... iowa state and tenancy and a numbers down to three and a half i was stated three and a half play favor total one thirty nine i've not seen any definitive news on josh wad jefferson for the cyclones but i expect that he's not going to play tonight with this number dipping in the market what's your take on this game i agree he's not going to play i thought the wine would be closer to two two and a half and i like this i was state team i like their coach i i bet i'm last week against Kentucky but this tenancy team is really good in terms of rebounding offensive rebounding they're very athletic they are they did some stupid things against virginia throwing the ball away on in bounce passes that almost cost them the game and they got i thought the uh... the fortunate so some fortunate uh... luck there in terms of the reviews at the end
but they were able to hang on they were able to win that game i just think if this game plays according to spread three and a half four and a half and i was they is nursing a small lead late keep in mind they shoot free throws terribly sixty seven percent from the line one of the worst free throw shooting teams in the country one of the foot worse in the tournament and that could be their undoing again i just thought this line would be closer like to maybe two and a half i was shocked to see four and a half so doesn't mean you'll get home here but i i'm grabbing the points here with the balls i haven't heard your take on this game i don't i don't think it's one of your plays but if you had to take it or lay it what where do you stand with this game like i was states better team definitely the better uh... three point shooting team uh... but yet you're right to free throws in the close game or a concern and josh would Jefferson probably the most versatile player on the team being out is a big deal now it was not a big deal against Kentucky but it should be a big deal in this game i don't have a strong opinion on this one either way i'd completely state away from this game uh... i was state and i've got action on every other sweet sixteen game but this one so
uh... nothing for me right now maybe i'll play something live on this game tonight if i see something uh... worth a shot but Tennessee i was state uh... no play for me looks like uh... no goes for josh would Jefferson update here in alabama michigan thirty three thirty one tied on top uh... live line michigan minus five and a half total one eighty four and a half well you need uh... you bet michigan team total over forty four and a half correct over forty four and a half for the first half and over ninety one and a half for the game thirty six thirty one so looks like we're getting a made three here from michigan those live numbers uh... michigan team totals ninety five and a half and the half-time projection here the half-time team total for michigan right around right around the number forty four and a half here so forty four and a half ninety five and a half for the numbers for michigan but bama looks pretty comfortable on offense you knew they jack up a million threes i think there's seven of seventeen is they get another one to fall so eight of eighteen thirty six points here for the crimson tide so uh... michigan's got some second chance opportunities but but bama's laying up the scoreboard here
map well if you look at kim palm dot com and a lot of people look at the kim palm rate numbers uh... defensive rating how about this defense rating dupe number one michigan two Arizona three Houston four uh... this number two rated michigan defense right now getting shredded by uh... alabama we we thought there was going to be probably some shooting regression for the tide after uh... they were red hot against text attack on sunday night but that's not the case so far and they're really uh... kind of have an array with the michigan defense with thirty six points five and a half minutes ago in the first half you'll see this too often thirty six thirty three is a score right now after that y'all in the board bucket but look at this alabama goes right back down against two thirty eight thirty three tied i need michigan to win this game i've got a future of michigan twenty to one couple money line parles tied into it we cannot have the wolverines getting upset uh... tonight uh... but man they're not playing well here in the first half in the live numbers all the way down to michigan minus three and a half
uh... will it be seen enough here to be concerned about michigan just winning this game out right yeah there's enough concern uh... and you're always especially uh... i don't have the future but if i had the future you know how that goes you're always concerned with everything you you we've all seen plenty of sports to realize nothing is ever safe and it wouldn't be the craziest thing in the history of sports that uh... pretty good band a team a pretty talented band a team you know outscores michigan here figures out figures out a way to pull off the upset that uh... upsets happen i mean think about having a florida ticket last week in taking out iowa no big deal you get past iowa i mean it's the tournament it's single elimination crazy things happen i do think michigan will probably pull through here but uh... would cause for concern caused to uh... to be nervous to have a michigan ticket sure i think there is a cause for concern the michigan guards are not as uh... talented as the album regards looked at the crimson tide guards playing with a ton of confidence right now off the way they played last week and it looks like no aid in the hallway no problem uh... for alabama we talked about this will before the game against Hofstra last week
aid in the hallway average at about seventeen points a game top three points here by percentage for alabama at about forty four percent he's out doesn't make a difference looks like alabama does not even you might they might be better offense we are not in the form without aid in the hallway can you imagine that no it's a good point and we are at a time out now here so i believe say john's into about to get started in the second half and then bama and michigan will come back here will be five minutes to go michigan right now plus one bama right now plus one seventy on the money line one eighty four and a half so we knew this is gonna be a fun Friday night but if you get both underdogs here hanging around you're gonna be in for a very dramatic evening here and then uh... great games later you come to michigan state in Tennessee Iowa state so didn't get a lot of upsets in the first few rounds but boy it sets up really really good matchups here the sweet sixteen and going forward nickbar dot of it to boomer sportsmen are going to join us uh... on the other side here after a quick break but i tell you right now this segment of the some prime time is brought to you by cut
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prime time will hill mat humans back in a couple minutes with nick bond out of its will find out what's going on behind the book the boomers sports book and and and and this is v sin prime time on v sin the sports betting network will hill mat humans back here v sin prime time we've got uh... two great games going on right now how about st johns forty six forty four when the second half started here state duke scored the first five points to the forty four thirty nine leonus uh... great here we go again about st johns is rattled off eight and a row forty eight forty four johnies back on top you like the resiliency you see here from st johns by the way you and i talked about this in the first half didn't love the fact that st johns had a one point half time lead it was so
hot from three you realize the nine made threes in the first half by st johns were the most in a half this season i don't think that's probably a big shock for a poor three point shooting team like that but how do you feel right now after st johns reeled off eight points in a road taking four point lead feel pretty good they've answered a couple of punches here from duke you'd expect that from a patino team to be not only tough physically on the glass and defensively but tough mentally you know you know he's hard on them in practice and during the games and if you're playing for patino i don't want to say it's like working with you where you're going to develop a fixed skin and you're going to develop some toughness but there is some truth to that you play for patino you're going to be tough mentally and st johns right now we're down seven early they answered that we're down coming out of the locker room here after the duke run and they've answered that here with a pick six and they are now up by four and a long way to go here but looking good plus the points and boy i know you've got st johns futures i've got you con futures uh this this would be you know again thinking ahead here are you con st johns elite a game would be would be very good i think for both of us so
hopefully we can get there even though obviously a long long way to go yeah we got a long way to go uh to get to that point now i'm still sweating out st johns plus seven i feel like we're going to be sweating that out tonight but uh you're right i've got you con i think 15 or 16 to one to win the whole thing st johns at 90 to one so at all big east uh east regional final would be a great thing if we get it but first things first let's cover the seven and a half with the red storm tonight looks like that total is going to be a loser will it's just uh these teams are not defending and playing uh half court basketball like i thought they would i expected this to be a half court grinder where execution was going to be difficult against these defenses that's not the case at all right now 48 44 games so you got 92 points on the board duke how about this 16 for 33 from the field st johns 18 for 38 these teams shooting about 48 percent from the field and they've combined for 12 made threes 12 made free throws at this point
that's why you have 92 points on the board of 17 minutes uh to go so it looks like this is going to fly over the total and uh if you bet the under that's going to be a loser uh total betdown from uh right around 143 to 140 and a half miss you can knocks down a three miss you can now up 46 41 how about that well it's amazing how quickly these games can change you know basketball it's a game of runs obviously but man these runs come fast and furious 46 41 Wolverines on top by five they are back to being 10 and a half point favorites for the game after the number just dipped as low i believe the three and a half not too long ago so now it's back to 10 and a half and the total will all the way up to 188 and a half and i believe you have your first half over yep uh michigan team total over 44 and a half gave that out i don't know it's 15 20 minutes ago they are now at 46 points with still a couple minutes to spare so just like the way they were playing like the pace and it's funny uh i don't do well on these totals before the game but once the game starts and you
can get a feel for the pace things like that i feel like i do a lot better once you could just see and that's so much dependent on these totals i mean you can sit here and say oh that team will shoot well or this team won't but so much of it if you get a game where they're not shooting well but the pace is frenzied you can go over without shooting well which and vice versa so it was nice to get michigan team total over home and like you said they went from uh oh are they in trouble they're behind and next thing you know you blink and they're up by five points so uh a fury of a run here for uh for michigan and just uh lighting up the scoreboard here and boy i wouldn't be surprised if they got to a hundred points the way this game is going about seeing johns with the steal and layup 50 44 johnnie's over the blue doubles right now was 16 and a half minutes ago michigan 47 41 over alabama after uh michigan trailed the game by five not too long ago now up six just like that uh so these games can change quickly uh let's take a look at the prime time game of the night and uh the picks we have on this game following st johns duke and washington dc it's going to be
eucon michigan state and uh we've got plenty of plays here on both sides of this game let's take a look at the michigan state side first you're a v7 pro subscriber these are all the plays on uh michigan state you see up there bin stevens plus two and a half poly Howard Tyler shoemaker Greg Peterson Bruce Marshall Chris Miserro Eric Cassilius and Colby dant all on michigan state plus uh one and a half or two so you've got let's see it looks like eight handicappers on michigan state let's say strong two-way action game we've also got eight handicappers on eucon jose rallo david denine myself will hill dark azirian uh wills got two bets on eucons we got seven handicappers are tannerkern and isak trotter also on eucon will looks like you laid one and a half with eucon you also bet the money line did you play the total in the game? no i would lean towards the under and i think the one and a half there is from the contest in terms of my personal bets i just took the money line because
maybe it lands on one and uh you know what if it landed on one with my eucon futures and i got him home and i had to sacrifice the one and a half in the contest i'd probably make that trade at this point to get them to the elite eight uh because it's funny that and i think you you mentioned you got the same ticket i bet eucon it was my only preseason future got him 15 to one to win the whole thing and here they are all you need to six wins the win the the whole thing or you need six wins they got two of the six and you can get like damn near double the number they're in like the 25 to one range at least they were entering the round so you don't feel great about that at least i don't feel great about that you know in terms of the number i got but i would like to certainly get them to advance the next round and who knows see what happens from there well when uh people ask me about my futures i always uh the first time i mentioned is Michigan right you got 20 to one we got team fully capable winning it eucon you know even though you and i have this bet on eucon you win it the past few weeks it has not felt like this is a team capable winning the championship right so you know you're not that excited about the 15 to one and i can understand why the market number is
25 to one the huskies just have not played like the typical uh Dan Hurley team here late in the season that's peaking in March and shows uh championship form but you know what they can grind out wins it doesn't have to be beautiful it can uh they can be ugly wins and that's what's been for eucon so far i'd be very happy with an ugly win against um Michigan state tonight if eucon grinds out one out about saying john's here big run i think this is a 13-0 run 53 to 44 uh but it wasn't duke up 44 to 40 they were so uh yeah that's that looks like a 13-0 run do you ever does it approach your mindset here i'm sure saying john's at this point will be favored on the live line when i pulled up does it enter your mind here with your st john's futures to just take duke plus a couple of points as a little insurance as a little bit of a hedge or are you not there yet? no i'm probably going to play some sort of hedge on duke here i want more than two and a half points if we get this up to like three and a half i'm gonna i'm actually
going to take that with duke because i look this is going to be a game of runs right we've already seen runs big runs both ways there's going to be another one coming duke's way i'm sure at some point soon you know we've talked about scoring droughts for st john's didn't take much if uh the red storm goes through uh three or four minutes without scoring a point this could be you know a two or three point game uh pretty quickly here so i would like to get duke plus three and a half on a live number if i could get it right now draft king's showing two and a half do you see a three and a half out there anywhere? now i'm with you draft king's two and a half minus one twenty uh it could pull up some of these other ones but that's the one i'm seeing so far. i'll have a three and a half a fandal minus one twenty two. no i don't have access to uh fandal right now but uh alabama michigan now tied up forty seven so the tie to brolly after uh falling behind by five there uh michigan that live number has gone from uh three and a half to eleven and a half now it's back to five and a half uh michigan now laying five and a half total
one eighty eight and a half in that game uh dan hurley comm iso going ahead to head is a uh a big time coaching matchup tonight uh iso the last coach to lead a big ten team to the national championship in two thousand that was as early years of michigan state big ten teams are o and eight in the nca tidal game since michigan state won it about twenty five years ago uh the last big ten team to reach the tidal game was Purdue in 2024 lost to Yukon uh that year so big ten trying to get a couple of the teams into the final four and uh stop that long dry spell michigan state could be a team to get there uh the winner of illinois iowa is certainly going to get to the final four and uh produced got a chance to uh maybe upset Arizona on Saturday night michigan right now in a big time struggle with alabama game tied up forty seven in the final minute of the first half we got a time out on the four and uh we'll update that when we come back by the way
talking about totals plays best bets on uh the prime time game of the night which is michigan state Yukon we got five totals plays on the game follow or fade who you want here Eric Cohen over one thirty four and a half the professor Aaron Moore over Adam Drake Paul Stone and Dustin sweetlestone all playing this under one thirty six and a half so you've got three handicapers on the under including the circuit college hoops challenge leader Paul Stone and you've got two handicapers uh playing it over oh opinion for me on that total looks like i was dead wrong about this uh saint john stoop totals i just uh packing in as far as uh playing totals uh or tonight hopefully saint johns can get there johnny's up nine fifty three forty four on dupe quick break here will hill and i come back in a minute with more saint john stoop and alabama michigan closing out the first half
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sharp money for st johns at plus seven uh we close six and a half but they're all in all it's a very very small decision but the sharp were definitely on the johnies about the total seemed like sharp money was under the total in this game close 140 and a half and that's uh that's not going to get there it's going to fly over that number yeah we open 42 and a half uh got bet all the way down to 40 and a half and i could see why the under did look like the play but uh when i left the office in the first half but it was going at a toward over pace they were making shot after shot and the game was flowing pretty good instead of a ugly half court game so yeah if you bet the under in this when you might have a problem 57 52 long way to go 109 points on the board and uh 142 or so was the total most of the week 140 and a half the closer uh half time now alabama michigan tied up 49 47 live numbers down to four and a half 187 and a half the total because it's just that easy to bet these alabama games over the total
yeah it is in michigan uh the superior team likes to go and go and go so you knew there would be plenty of pace you just got to make a few shots and it sailed over the first half total 82 and a half so you've seen that all year long with the Arkansas's and alabama's of the world they're just playing at that NBA pace and where they just shoot a massive amount of threes and they they just go up and down and i don't want to see say defense is optional uh but it's pretty darn close Nick how was that game bet alabama michigan with uh Wolverine's closing i think nine and a half point favorites pretty much across the board and down two and a half do you think the wolverines gonna have to sweat this one out just to get the win uh yeah no doubt i mean alabama's always dangerous obviously in good form uh they beat their first two games were impressive and i thought michigan would handle them rather easily but alabama's gonna be in this one for the long haul uh yeah there was money for the wolverines too got bet up from eight and a half up to nine and a half so
i didn't watch the first half but i'm definitely gonna watch the second nick the game tonight uh let's start you con michigan state on one hand it's very scary to bet again thoroughly in the tournament one and covered 15 out of 16 the other hand iso is no slouch either how are people betting this and what's your take on this game tonight yeah good two way game uh we open two and down a one and a half and now back to two so as long as it doesn't fall or earn something but yeah no it's a battle of excellent coaches for sure i like sparty a little bit uh not a lot but if you had a gun to my head i i'd take the team in green uh should be a hell of a game uh but yeah i like iso in this situation how about the other one here tenisee and i was state not sure what what we're going to get out of josh with jefferson the i was state forward to me it looks a touch high i don't love trusting rick barns in march but i was state doesn't shoot the free throws great tenisee a very good rebounding team very athletic team uh what's your take here with the i was state cyclones laying a short number
we opened four boomers uh got that up to four and a half and then it was all tenisee sharp money then it took plus four and a half and four uh we're currently at three and a half so yeah now that's a very interesting game uh it's it's a shame jefferson is a hundred percent i wanted to see the cyclones make a deep run to the final floor i i i like coach oh uh i like the way they play like lepsky the port the point guard i just you know but but barge's team is not too it's pretty fun uh another team with a stud freshman and i i do think i always think we'll win this game but i do think it'll be an absolute war and numbers come down to three and a half tonight cyclones over the and a total one thirty nine and uh that one that's the last tip tonight in chicago that comes after the alabema michigan game nick bodon of its sports gambling holo famer and uh boomer sportsbook director with us nick what was wagering handle like at a boomer since he it's a young sportsbooks you
don't have any previous year numbers to compare it to but what was the handle like in the first week of the tournament and this week yeah it's it's well it's really really hard for me because i've been it's you know i came from uh william mill slash seasors where we had sixty percent of the state's handles so i'm used to seeing large volumes of bets uh also vignans and mandalay so obviously we're very very we're an input company uh so you know the action was you know rather small obviously compared to years past but it was still fun and fun and we're growing we'll be up to i think like sixteen or seventeen joints by the starter next football season so we've come a long way and in the seven months we've been open but yeah i know this i would i would say the action was steady but not overwhelming but i the circus sportsbook is jam packed man it's standing room only this feels like the first two days of the tournament here an overflow crowd and we have some marquee games obviously with st john's duke and alabema michigan going on right
now but i'm really impressed by the crowd here tonight you got a lot of bettors uh firing away by the way live updates on what's happening here right now sixty fifty six st john's lead is shrinking a little bit down to four live number the favor to slip st john's now one and a half point favorite for the game total up to one fifty nine and a half and again a half time alabema forty nine forty seven over michigan nick bugdown of it's a boomer sports coach with us nick uh how about your takeaways from last night iowa takes down the braska illinois knocks out houston produce survives against texas and arizona runs all over arkansas uh what were the major takeaways from you in the thursday night games uh i guess you know i've been high on illinois all year long but i was surprised that they did it so easily in houston uh but there are a serious threat to win it all arizona is who we thought they were i think they're the best team in the country uh and they had little trouble dispensing arkansas and i'm shocked the braska blew the early ten-point lead they built i
just you know i just thought they knew those teams know each other so well and i was so i want to say offensively challenged but super deliberate i didn't think the braska would blow a ten-point lead that game that's for sure yeah the corn huskers uh collapsed late and the hawk guys are the cinderella story in this tournament now a nine seed that finished um ninth in the big ten at ten and ten they were three and seven in their last ten games before the ncw tournament but here they are in the elite eight winner goes to the final four so nick you said you've been a fan of the alina uh most of the season there's seven and a half point favorites against iowa one thirty seven and a half the total uh how do you anticipate that game being batten who do you like if you like a side there i haven't pulled the trigger on anything uh you know i think it's uh i made it sick so if it goes up i might take a shot on iowa i was so well-coached and the kids are so disciplined and they can slow this game down this i think will be a low-square in total i think i i think the
total is one like one thirty eight one thirty seven i have i can see actually this one finally getting under but uh you know huge search fan he's incredible to watch uh but illinois is just so talented my lord they they they they have uh no weaknesses uh guard play and the front court is incredible and uh underwards not a bad coat so uh yeah i i think the numbers right but i'm not involved but i would like like to see alinois go to the final four just because uh i think they can cut the next two but a long time since the alina i had been there and uh all big ten final in that regional between iowa and elinois how about prune and arizona big ten tournament champs against a big twelve tournament champs and uh arizona six and a half point favorite one fifty three and a half the total i'm curious so what what do you make the number in this game and do you like a side i made it seven and a half but i've been real high in arizona all year i think arizona will
take care of this one uh the two big kids who had really good tournaments for Purdue they're going i think they're really going to struggle offensively tomorrow against arizona's front line so that puts a lot of pressure on smith and and we're in the back court to make a lot of threes because i don't think they'll be getting those inside points that they've been getting for the first three or four games so i think arizona's just got too much depth too much talent and at some point they'll pull away in this game nick park down of it's boomer sportsbooks and uh nick appreciate time tonight man we let you get back to handicapping the w n i t my pleasure guy tap fun tonight enjoy these games thanks man thanks nick will hill i know you're you're probably firing on the w n i t right the women's tournament women's NCAA tournament you betting that i don't i didn't realize it was going on so i've uh i've recorded all the games don't spoil it for me you know what uh dukes getting back into this game with uh st johns i knew we were gonna have to sweat this out down the stretch you
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