Kansas State Wildcats Gears Up For New Basketball Season
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00:02 In elite 18 in Kansas State, although Jerome Tang has a new
00:07 squad entering this year and on the other side, we expect,
00:11 well we'll see I guess about the college debut of Brody James as
00:15 he recovers from that cardiac event earlier in the offseason.
00:18 But USC the second best place to win the Pac-12,
00:22 a game out in Las Vegas, Donny, between Kansas State and
00:25 Southern Cal, how excited are you for a new college basketball season?
00:30 >> So excited I will be fast, actually I won't be fast asleep as I'll be actually
00:34 driving home at 10 o'clock.
00:35 So maybe I'm more excited about the college basketball season than I even know
00:38 here.
00:39 Look, it's a learning curve here over the next month to month and a half,
00:42 finding out who the new players on these teams are,
00:44 which teams look quality and also remind ourselves.
00:47 You wanna be playing your basketball best at the end of the season,
00:51 not at the beginning.
00:52 We're gonna get wild upsets in the first couple weeks.
00:54 Marquette just falls to Northern Illinois tonight.
00:57 Don't worry about it.
00:57 These teams will settle into form as they go.
00:59 And also keep in mind, just as a handicapping perspective,
01:03 check where these basketball games are being played.
01:06 Because if you think you're gonna go out and say, hey,
01:07 man, Kansas State in the octagon of doom tonight.
01:10 No, as Benji said, they're in Las Vegas tonight.
01:12 So it does make a major difference with home court advantage here, people.
01:16 >> A renewal of your Kent Palm subscriptions are needed.
01:21 According to Kenneth Pomeroy, Donny, this is the best basketball game of the evening.
01:27 Again, a three point spread in favor of the Trojans.
01:30 Donny, as you well know, a handicapper who as we go through this year,
01:34 analyzes the numbers in college basketball with the best of them.
01:38 I think the odds makers and the algorithm that Ken Palm utilizes
01:42 are very, very similar ratings.
01:44 He has USC winning this game by one point.
01:47 You can often look at the predicted outcome as Ken Palm sees it and
01:51 correlate it to a spread and a total.
01:55 7271, he has USC winning tonight by one.
01:59 That's right around 142 and a half with 143 combined points.
02:04 I guess if you were looking for the edge as Kenneth Pomeroy details it,
02:07 a three and a half point spread in favor of USC would not lead to a cover.
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