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What a night in both College Basketball and the NBA. If you’re not tailing these picks, then what are you doing with your life? With the NBA all-star break upon us, we can devote all our attention to college basketball. There’s some crumbs today, but the matchups this weekend should light a fire under your ass. But first, let’s cash some mid-major tickets.

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Game of the Night: Richmond@VCU-2.5 (133)

Picks

Butler +8
Princeton -2
Northern Kentucky +1
Siena -1
Ohio +1

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Game of the Night

Richmond@VCU(-2.5) (133)

Not the greatest night for college basketball, but I don’t understand why everyone is so down on the A10. There are some great teams, and two of them are going toe to toe tonight, but they’re not on anyone’s radar to make the tourney. Davidson is 21-4 with a road win against Alabama and some bozos have them as a TWELVE SEED?! Are you fucking kidding me? I digress, this should be viewed as a true bubble matchup, but instead it’ll be on ESPN2 while the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game takes place on ESPN…what a joke–world-wide leader in sports my ass. I’m avoiding picking this game, but gun to head I’ll take VCU at home.

Picks

Butler+8@St. Johns (141.5)

Every game in the Big East is a cage match, and there’s way too many points for a frisky Butler team who has beaten the likes of Creighton and Marquette.

Princeton-2@Brown (143.5)

Princeton was the class of the Ivy league for the first couple weeks, but slipped up a bit to Yale and Cornell. They’ve been shit pumping teams the last two matchups. This isn’t your daddy’s Princeton offense where everyone touches the ball before you can shoot, they put up a ton of points (81/game). Brown is reeling a bit, losing two of their last three at home and needing a buzzer beater to sneak past Cornell. Hammer the Tigers.

Northern Kentucky+1@Detroit Mercy (136)

Sometimes when you’re rolling, you just gotta feed the hot hand. That’s how I feel about the Norse. They’ve won 9 of their last 10, their only loss coming to this Detroit Mercy squad, coincidentally. Don’t let it scare you off…Hammer the Norse moneyline.

Marist@Siena(-1) (131.5)

This line makes absolutely no sense. You mean to tell me at a neutral site Marist would be favored?! I’m treading lightly because Marist just bit me in the ass twice against Monmouth and Niagra, but Siena just upset the number one team in the conference, Iona and has won 6 of their last 7. So help me God if the Red Foxes screw me over again…I will take a trip to Poughkeepsie, NY and enroll my future son/daughter there now.

Ohio+1@Kent State (137.5)

Ohio is absolutely dogwalking every team in the MAC not named Toledo. They should be getting more Bubble talk, but their shitty conference is anchoring them down. Feel confident taking the Bobcats moneyline.

I’m telling you there are some marquee games throughout the weekend. Maybe get some brownie points tonight with your significant other while you cash these tickets before sitting in front of a tv for 3 days straight. Happy Friday, love you, bye.