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00:00live right here on the early line on sports grid. I am back
00:07and so is Donnie right side and today officially starts Feast
00:12Week in college basketball starting today on this Thursday
00:17for the next week through Thanksgiving and beyond some of
00:20those great non conference early season basketball
00:24tournaments around the holidays that we love like the Baja
00:28Mar Basketball Classic next week the Maui Invitational back
00:33on the island of Maui out in the islands and off the mainland.
00:39It is going to be sensational and some games of course, not
00:43just in ballrooms, but inside the Barclays Center tonight as
00:47well a lot to get to here DRS that does feature a top 25 tilt
00:52in the Baja Mar Classic between Baylor and Saint Johns. You
00:58look at the spread for tonight's basketball game. The
01:01Johnnies and the Bears dueling tonight two and a half point
01:04spread in favor of Baylor 152 and a half is that total Baylor
01:11has already played a power conference program in Gonzaga
01:15or at least a team that is ranked Gonzaga number three. It
01:19did not go well on the opening night of the college basketball
01:22season up in Spokane. How will they handle this test against
01:26Saint Johns? Yeah, these are always tough games to try to
01:29gauge because certainly you see that 152 and a half in
01:32college basketball. That's a good amount of points just
01:33being simple to yourself here and adding it up 80 to 70 puts
01:36you in that range, but also as been pointed out this game is
01:39not being played on the mainland. It's being played in
01:41the Bahamas and I understand the thought process behind
01:44basketball teams. It's supposed to be a business trip. Your
01:47coach is going to preach that, but is it really a business
01:49trip where you're going to the Bahamas where you know you
01:51want to sneak a little sun and fun out there hit the ocean and
01:54also playing in a gym slash convention center that you're
01:57not used to. So for me those early indicators, I look at
02:00that 152 and a half and regardless of how good both of
02:02these teams can be on offense, Ben, that's where my eyes go
02:05immediately here until now hear me out on this one because I
02:08don't know how this is playing out. Is this a tournament where
02:11you're going to play like two games there? Maybe three games
02:13there. Is this just a simple one off between Baylor and Saint
02:16Johns? No, no, this is going to be a couple of games in the
02:20Bahamas. I am pretty sure no odds out for it yet, but coming
02:26up. I can look up the field in this spot as well. There are
02:31some tournaments like the battle for Atlantis that
02:33features Gonzaga, Arizona, Indiana, Louisville, Providence,
02:36Oklahoma, all of those teams. They have odds out to win the
02:39actual tournament. Of course, that is the case for the Maui
02:42Invitational and the players era tournament as well, which is
02:47a loaded field this year in 2024 that begins on Tuesday.
02:53This upcoming Tuesday battle for Atlantis begins on Wednesday.
02:57All of those things the RS that will play into it, but I
03:00believe this is a tournament out in Baja Mar. I will just
03:05these four teams, Virginia and Tennessee. They will play each
03:09other. This is us talking to Joe Frizzo live. Thank you very
03:13much. Joe Frizzo by the way Baylor after the last two
03:16Gonzaga has responded with three consecutive victories,
03:19including in a match up in their second game of the year
03:23against Arkansas as a single digit favorite. They have won
03:26and covered in three straight Saint John's is perfect. Their
03:29only game in that is featured a spread in the single digits was
03:34on Sunday at the garden in the battle of father versus son.
03:38The battle of the Patino Saint John's handling New Mexico by
03:42covering as a seven point favorite. Alright, DRS next up
03:47as we look at Baja Mar today, we go to a match up between
03:50Tennessee and Virginia. Now the ball is a top 15 team in the
03:54country. Twelve and a half point favorite against UVA. Of
03:58course, Virginia and the news around Tony Bennett shocked the
04:01college basketball landscape about two and a half weeks prior
04:05to the season beginning, but UVA is perfect to start off this
04:09year and catching twelve and a half points total
04:12representative of a really good volunteers defense in Virginia
04:16Pack line basketball 125 and a hook. Yeah, another interesting
04:20one too and the reason why I brought up how many games are
04:21going to be played. Sometimes you play that first game here
04:23you get used to your surroundings. The shooting eye
04:25here you're practicing a couple days there and then you play
04:27again, but if we're looking at both of these teams, Tennessee's
04:29offense 22nd in the country, how about this 41.6% from three
04:34point range and then you look at Virginia. How about this
04:36improves the top ten in the country at close to 45% from
04:40three point range. It's one of those where 125 and a half is a
04:43low number. These two teams shoot very good three from
04:45three point range. The question is are they used to shooting
04:47from three point range here in a convention center as opposed
04:50to their home arena because as we know also Tennessee and
04:53Virginia probably not playing too many road games here to
04:56start the season. A lot of these numbers against inferior
04:58opponents in their home building. Maybe that struggle
05:00so in the two games here tonight Baylor St. John's is
05:03152 and a half. That's a lot higher lean under same thing
05:06for me, even though it's 125 and a half. I still lean under
05:09here as they try to get used to the surroundings. I don't
05:11think both of these teams are going to shoot 40 plus percent
05:14from three point range against each other. I'll lean on the
05:17under as well here. It's interesting DRS because tempo
05:20dictates the pace and how quickly these two teams will
05:23play both focus on the defensive side of the four both
05:27have played one power conference opponent Virginia
05:30last Friday night neutral site in Baltimore against Villanova.
05:34The Cavaliers were a four and a half point underdog. They won
05:37that game outright by 10 Tennessee traveled to Louisville
05:41on the first full weekend of the college basketball season
05:44knocked off the cards big by 22 points and they were the
05:49underdog getting two and a half. In fact, DRS Tennessee has
05:52gone over in all three of its games against non power
05:56conference foes, but in the only game against a team in a
05:59power conference, the Louisville Cardinals, of course
06:02in the ACC well under 156 and a half state under is Tennessee
06:07177 to 55. Just things to keep in mind elsewhere around the
06:12country games start by the way in just about 40 minutes
06:15Indiana at home in Assembly Hall 16 and a half point
06:18favorite against UNC Greensboro. I almost was going
06:22to Brooklyn tonight to see my Syracuse orange take on Texas
06:26double digit favorite for the Longhorns and a freshman
06:29scorer to know for Texas. That would be Trey Johnson. It's
06:33been a very precarious start this year DRS for SU against
06:37teams like Colgate and LeMoyne not overly optimistic about the
06:40oranges showing tonight in BK, but how about the future of the
06:44orange? You know the Anthony going to be in the building
06:46here a big recruiting crew for the orange. I can look forward
06:49to in the future. It is interesting to see how these
06:51teams play in different environments here and we'll see
06:53how it goes again back to that Tennessee Virginia game. We're
06:55not expecting a lot of offense Ben, but you know me when you
06:57look at those components, both of these teams love to shoot the
07:00three-point shot. Both of these teams allow the three-point
07:03shot. I just don't think they'd go down. so we're trying to
07:05line up numbers early in the season much harder now than it
07:08will be in about a month and a half time frame. I'll tell you
07:11one of my favorite bets VCU Seton Hall under 125 and a half.
07:16The Pirates can't play in a game that features more than 100
07:19points against anybody.