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00:00Welcome back to the early line live right here on this Thursday rounding out
00:04our three hours together talking some college basketball. You just heard from
00:08Donnie Wright's side a team total that he loves Maryland under 74 and a half as
00:13the Terps travel to the State Farm Center tonight in Champaign, Illinois. One
00:18of two top 25 teams in men's college hoops in action tonight along with
00:23Memphis who plays earlier in an AAC affair. Let's talk some women's college
00:29basketball. We haven't been checking in as much as necessary but now as
00:34conference play picks up all around the country let's dive in. Fourth ranked team
00:39in the nation that would be USC now a Big Ten team and yesterday against
00:44Purdue oh boy Juju Watkins and the Trojans came through 79-37 the Trojans
00:51covering as a 26 and a half point favorite. This team is loaded this year
00:58Juju Watkins now 20 games played for USC this season yesterday scoring just 16
01:03points she has scored 20 plus in 18 of 20 games. Kiki Ariofan also for USC has
01:12been balling this year. USC a very solid team. How about Paige Beckers and
01:18Connecticut? Paige nearly had a 20-point triple-double in only three quarters
01:23yesterday in a route of Villanova but when you win a game by 43 and still hit
01:27the century mark you don't really have to play in the final 10 minutes of
01:31regulation. UConn covered as a 29 and a half point favorite again Paige was like
01:37an assist shy and a rebound shy or two rebounds shy of a triple-double still a
01:43ton of star power in women's college basketball. Juju Watkins, Paige Beckers,
01:48Haley Van Liff for TCU but an upset yesterday Oklahoma State outright as a
01:55five and a half point dog against a top 10 TCU team and the Horned Frogs big
02:01victory for the Pokes yesterday. Now as we look at a couple of games today Big
02:07Ten is loaded with a ton of top 25 teams in that AP poll including a top 15 tilt
02:13tonight in Columbus, Maryland and Ohio State. The Buckeyes at home number 12 in
02:19the country nearly a double-digit favorite nine and a half point spread
02:24and if you want to keep the number in single digits for the moment Ohio State
02:28is minus 120 in terms of the juice that you need to lay. Good SEC basketball as
02:35well on the women's side top 20 tilt in Austin, Texas 13 and a half point
02:40favorite against number 17 Tennessee. When you look at some of the numbers
02:45this year the SEC stout of course in men's college basketball same story in
02:50women's college basketball. We were supposed to get a top five tilt on this
02:55Thursday rescheduled for a blockbuster a monumental matchup in primetime between
03:01second-ranked South Carolina we'll talk about that in just a moment and number
03:06five and unbeaten a perfect 20-0 LSU. That game in Columbia tomorrow now
03:14postponed by one day because of the snow and the winter weather the South has
03:19seen this week that is going to be an incredible game. LSU again unbeaten
03:26perfect 20-0 this year no Angel Reese anymore but Anissa Morrow has been
03:32rebounding like a fiend for Kim Mulkey and the Bayou Bengals. South Carolina
03:39often undefeated at this stage of a college basketball season or any year
03:45under Don Staley who just signed a new extension by the way to become the
03:48highest paid coach ever I believe in women's college basketball still the
03:52national championship favorites at plus 200 but the Gamecocks do have a loss
03:57this year to who oh that would be the number one team in the country the UCLA
04:04Bruins a five to one price on UCLA undefeated 18-0 UCLA who you see on the
04:12road today in Piscataway against Rutgers as a 27 and a half point
04:18favorite again the Bruins are perfect they are 18 and 0 UCLA has won all 18
04:24games this year only one of them has been decided by a single digits and that
04:30was against a top 20 Louisville team over in Paris Lauren Betts one of the
04:36most dominant bigs in the sport for UCLA averaging a double-double 20 and 10
04:42nearly three blocks a game shooting it nearly a 62 percent clip from the floor
04:48I'll tell you this I was doing a little research getting inspired looking at
04:52some women's college basketball last night I bet UCLA at a 5 to 1 number to
04:57win the national championship South Carolina has the pedigree and it is
05:01proven rightfully so UConn has the star in Paige Becker's UCLA or USC excuse me
05:08and Juju Watkins are going to contend Hannah Hidalgo and Notre Dame but UCLA
05:13is a dominant force I'll take that five to one price and through the tournament
05:17any day football Friday tomorrow the early line