2023 NIT Semifinals Game Predictions | College Basketball Odds [Tuesday, Mar 28th]

Matty Cox:

Yup, it’s what my bracket had. My secret bracket right here on my table, which no one will ever see. TJ like you, I am rooting for the All South Florida final. Whether it comes to fruition or not, we will see, but I am rooting for my Owls and I guess the others, Canes. Funny thing over the weekend, everyone was most excited about the UConn versus Gonzaga tilt and ironically that ended up being the biggest snoozer of the four Elite 8 matchups, Connecticut waxing Gonzaga by 30. We’ve already crowned them, it seems like, with all the narratives I’ve been seeing on Twitter and on the internet. Not so fast, as Lee Corso might say. So we’ll talk about that matchup I assume throughout the day, or tomorrow, or Thursday. But yeah, I think people are jumping the gun on UConn and already dubbing them the National Title.

TJ Rives:

Well and clearly they still have to do this for two more games. It’s another different location. It’s a football stadium with being able to shoot well. We’ll see. But they are the prohibitive favorite, there is no doubt. Corby Craig, you had a lap yesterday on the program. We’ve got some NIT coming up, including somebody’s Blazers that are in action so we got plenty on that. Anything else since last we talked yesterday. Texas did go ahead and elevate Rodney Terry and gave him the five-year deal to be the permanent head coach or as permanent as it gets in college sports, big time college sports. That’s the right move from where I sit. Thoughts on that and anything else since we talked to you last, Corby Craig?

Corby Craig:

Yeah, no, that’s been a pretty boring 24 hours in college basketball, so not a ton’s happened. Texas got that signing. Well deserved and then I’d be excited to talk the Miami matchup a little bit more. I hope that Matt’s right there and it’s an all South Florida, because UConn can go… Listen, UConn can go down under after what they did to my Zags, so that’ll be cool. And then finally get to the Blazers matchup. I think I tried to talk about it on Friday’s show, wasn’t allowed to. It got pushed off yesterday and so now we’re finally here.

TJ Rives:

Yes, the NIT semi-finals in Las Vegas will be discussed momentarily. Again, a couple of other things. Interesting guys that Caleb Love, who a year ago at this time was the shooting star of North Carolina, getting them all the way into the Final Four and then the national title game, has announced he’s in the transfer portal, not going to the NBA but looking to go to another school. Now he could rescind and could elect to come back to Carolina, doubtful. That’s interesting too. News since last we were on here on the BetUS College Basketball show, but in any event, we’ve got lots to get to, lots to discuss. Why don’t we get it underway with taking a look at the records. All right, so here’s the interesting thing. The records are the same since yesterday because there were no games. The handicap on Monday.

So you see the show is still remaining the same as we get ready to embark on the NIT and then eventually the men’s Final Four that will be this weekend in Houston, Texas, cannot wait for all of that. And with that, guys, I think we’re ready to go. Let’s get into it. An NIT semi-final, Tuesday night that will begin with North Texas and Wisconsin. This one again in Las Vegas, Wisconsin, arguably out of the Final Four teams in the NIT had the most impressive win going all the way out to Oregon to get their NIT win late last week. North Texas in here, out of conference USA, neutral floor. North Texas favored by a point and a half. The total is 114 and a half. All right, Matty Cox, give us a thought or two to start the discussion as the NIT will resume action tonight with the Mean Green and the Badgers coming up this evening.

Matty Cox:

Well, the total certainly jumps out. 115, pretty obvious to see what kind of game we’re going to probably be in store for tonight. I think we’ve talked about how even when these low totals pop on the show so far this year it’s actually typically a pretty good look to look toward the under. However, in this case I actually kind of like the over, I like the over in both matchups tonight here at the Orleans, which has historically been a very good over venue, tend to have looser rims. It’s been around for a while. It’s good shooting backdrop and the fact that both teams have been off for over a week, or just under a week I should say. I think you come with a little more pace and energy potentially leading to a little bit faster tempo and obviously not an up and down track meet with Wisconsin, North Texas, but maybe a mid-sixties as opposed to a low, low sixties type of tempo game. So I do lean toward over and as I’ll get to in a minute, I like the over and the other match up a lot more.

TJ Rives:

All right, Corby Craig a thought on this one with a North Texas team that did win at Oklahoma State late last week. So both of these teams, again Wisconsin winning at Oregon had to go win a road game after winning the first two games at home. Now they play each other on the neutral floor. It is a low total. Thoughts, Corby?

Corby Craig:

Yeah. First off, I hope North Texas wins Conference USA. If we could get Florida Atlantic UAB and then Charlotte, we’d take all three crowns so that would be a good measure.

TJ Rives:

Like we said yesterday, mid-major, Matt pointed this out, CUSA has yet to lose a march post-season game beyond their tournament here. Florida Atlantic has won all four. Charlotte won all of their games and these two teams that we’re talking about here have won three each. That says something for that league. I realize the NIT and the CBI, they’re not the same thing as the NCA tournament, but post-season wins and head-to-head matchups, especially road wins, we’re on a neutral floor, give them credit for that. Continue, Corby.

Corby Craig:

Yeah, I think this number hit 114 earlier this morning and it’s starting to get bought up. I see 115 pretty, pretty available at this point. Doesn’t seem like a big buy but as low of a number. This is, it seems like it could be pretty important, so people were buying in on the idea that this is going to be over 114. To Matt’s point, Orleans is a place that’s played over and these teams got there a day early. Usually they’re 48 hours’ notice and they’ve been there for three days at this point, so a little bit more acclimation just due to the fact that they’re in Vegas and give them one day to enjoy themselves and then two days to get settled in, practice and get ready for these games.

TJ Rives:

Again for North Texas 65, 49 or 65. 59 was the Oklahoma State game. They held Sam Houston to 55 points, Alcorn State to 53 points. This is the way they play in Wisconsin. Seems to be a team that might want to be low scoring. I see some comments going in the chat as well about this one for tonight. There’s a lot of talk that Grant McCasland is going to be the Texas Tech coach when this is all over with, whether they lose tonight or whatever happens in the NIT championship game on Thursday night, et cetera. Let’s see if the North Texas coach does leave. Does that have any effect on what’s going on here? But you got some good handicap discussion on North Texas, Wisconsin, the first of two in Las Vegas coming up on a Tuesday night. A reminder as you see on the screen, we only have a couple of games here.

We’ve got some time for Q & A for you guys. We’re going to get into more of the handicapping of the actual Final Four games later on in the week. San Diego State, Florida, Atlantic, Miami and UConn. But that doesn’t mean our guys won’t have some thoughts right now on what the spread is like. I’ll query them some, but if you guys have got a couple of questions that you want to fire in, do that in the live chat. Do us a favor as well. Hit the like button. Make sure you are subscribed on this channel. We have crossed the 5,000 subscriber threshold with your help. We did an outstanding job from February to March to get a thousand new subscribers. Can we get a couple of hundred more this week? We can do that with your help. Everybody that’s watching, hit subscribe, do it.

We’re here at 11:00 AM all the way through Friday. Friday I will be live guys from Houston on the show. The site of the 2023 Final Four. I look forward to being there Friday, being with you on Monday for the national championship here on BetUS TV. Let’s get the subscribers up between now and then. All right, we’ve waited long enough here it is. UAB in action in the NIT tournament against Utah Valley, the Blazers, Corby Craig’s Blazers. Thank you. Laying four on the neutral floor. Total is 151 and a half. All right, Corby Craig, you’ve been waiting. You’ve been waiting as you said for days to handicap this one. Handicap it, brother.

Corby Craig:

Yeah, so this opened one, one and a half, grabbed the ones, grabbed the one and a half, grabbed some two, grabbed the two and a half, hit three yesterday, three and a half and I think for the show we have the number four and that’s my peak, but I still think that four… I shade towards the Blazers, so I’m starting to get close to my number. I had a six, so opening in one and a half was pretty goofy. The main thing here is Utah Valley is a really tall team, really scrappy team and we’ve seen it all year. They’re a really good basketball team, but the issue is they’ve kind of just out-height everybody. They’re what, 37th in the nation in average height, they have a seven-footer. We’ve seen all year, them being able to grab the rebounds that other teams can’t, then put pressure on teams.

They’re fourth in the nation in defensive efficiency or effective field goal percentage. Utah Valley that is, and this just isn’t going to work for this is UAB team who is all tall. Trey, Jamison, down low seven foot. The two small forward and power forward are going to be 6’8″, 6’7″ and then Jelly, the shortest man on the court but he’s been dealing with that for quite some time. So you just see an average that’s so much higher than Utah Valley’s played all year. I was way off on this number also, I mean I’m always going to be off on a UAB number, but I do think that there is something to be said. Jelly’s played miserable as of late and yet they’ve still been winning games. So a really good Vanderbilt team looking good. So if Jelly can find his own by any means, then I think UAB kind of cruises here.

TJ Rives:

Interesting again for Utah Valley, Matty Cox. They played their first two games of the NIT on the road and won at the pit and Albuquerque against New Mexico. Then they won against Colorado and won impressively by double figures. Then they got the home game with Cincinnati and won that one to advance here to the semi-finals, give them credit for winning two road games out of the box. So Corby is laying points with UAB, you’ve got an official play on this game. I’m curious what it is for tonight in Vegas.

Matty Cox:

Yeah, I mean just crazy to see that UAB’s taken so much money at this point in the season, but I think as we saw earlier in the NIT, it’s very much related to the coaching rumors of Mark Madsen being linked to Cal. But I think that what works in Corby’s favor is that he’s been away from the team now for I believe a few days because his wife is expecting a baby, which could be due within the next 24 to 48 hours. So their assistant coach, Utah Valley, I forget his name, Todd Phillips. So he’s been coaching with the team for I think the last few days. I think that actually does help Utah Valley, but from a closing line value perspective, obviously I think that that interest in fading UAB, I’m sorry, fading Utah Valley with the coach who’s intervening for a prospective job could work in your favor.

Now my favorite bet here is on the total. I think as I tease with the first game, overs at the Orleans has been a pretty profitable bet the last six, seven years. Again, I think it’s an over venue and UAB can play very fast or very slow. They’re kind of a pace acceptor, pace taker as opposed to a pace dictator and I think Utah Valley’s a team that wants to get up and down and run and UAB’s defense, when you see these games turn into more helter-skelter types of bouts, they tend to be very matador, right?

They give up a lot of layups, a lot of dicey open looks, which despite all their athleticism and all their size and talent, it doesn’t always translate consistently on the defensive and I think that helps the over in terms of Utah Valley scoring and UAB can get buckets and bunches going the other way and transition too, especially if they’re gambling for seals and they’re able to get easy turnovers to turn into fast points the other way. A little bit of money coming here on the under. I love the over though, 151 and a half and over for me.

TJ Rives:

Love the insight on this game. I see the Savages are going back and forth about this game, but some people are also giving me food advice about Houston because I’m bringing up Houston and being there for later on in the weekend. We love you, we thank you for all of that. Back to UAB and their scoring in the opening game with Southern Miss, 88 points and a blowout win over Southern Miss that was at home, also at home with Morehead State. They scored 77 in that game. The road game at Vanderbilt late last week, 67. So the output is decreased in each of the three games, but now it’s been a few days. It’s a neutral floor and Matty Cox, we’re going to lock him in says points, points, points in this one. Corby Craig is on the side, which we expected that was a given.

Corby says lay the four. Matty Cox says points, points, points and give me the over, 151 and a half on the BetUS line here on this. Look at Gabe putting that out there that if UAB loses this semi-final that you have to go bald. I’m the one going bald on the show, but I don’t want you to shave the head. We don’t want to do that. It’s not a shave the head situation. So anyway, Blazers tonight against Utah Valley. Very interesting nuggets there, Matty Cox, on Mark Madsen already distracted maybe because he’s taking the Cal job, which again, this has been a strange circumstance previously for Cal and Stanford as rivals because Mike Montgomery was the previous coach that got Stanford in the Final Four in the late nineties and he took the Cal job later in his coaching career of the arch rival.

Madsen’s a former player on that Final Four team for Montgomery, for Stanford. So to take the Cal job, that’s like… In that world, that’s like defecting to North Korea. I mean, that’s usually not good and he’s away from the team because as you mentioned, maternity situation here where the wife could be giving birth at any time. Very interesting on how this may or may not work out coming up here in terms of tonight. All right, so there you go. Some official handicapping on Utah Valley and UAB this evening. The second game of two in the NIT. All right, again, thank you for finding us. We’re here at 11:00 AM all the way through the rest of the week. Guys, after today, there are only four more shows. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday and that’s it. We have been here since the 1st of November and we have rocked all the way into the end of March.

It’s about to be April, but we’re going to be here for you peeps, live from Houston. I will be live in Houston on Friday morning, 10:00 AM Central, 11:00 AM Eastern Time. Adjust your time zone accordingly. I will be live from Houston on National Championship Monday. We’re right here on BetUS TV, but we’ve got some NIT conversation to go on. We’ve got some look ahead right now to the Final Four to go on. Let’s get to your questions and answers as well. Fire those in here as we’re live on a Tuesday and see what some of you have to say. Not only on these NIT games but maybe some futures plays. Matty, we didn’t get feelings from you yet. Thoughts from you on futures plays. We’ll do that coming up in a little bit. Let’s see, gas station sushi checks in. I love that that handle, says “Thoughts on the North Texas team total in game number one tonight with Wisconsin?” That team total is 57 and a half. Anything on that Corby Craig? Thought on the team total for the Mean Green?

Corby Craig:

Man, that game’s going to be so ugly. I plan to not try my hardest not to watch that game, not to bet on that game. 57 to give me nothing with it. Overtime wouldn’t surprise me. Struggling to get past 58 in overtime wouldn’t surprise me. So I really want nothing to do in this game by any means.

TJ Rives:

Matty Cox, any thought on team total for North Texas or leave it alone?

Matty Cox:

Yeah, you mentioned the overtime riskier, Corby. It’s obviously overtime is an unlikely outcome, but when you talk about a total that’s 115 and a spread that’s around one and a half, one close to pick. I mean the odds for overtime have never been higher, so that could be maybe a small sliver of value here on the over, as I talked about earlier. I just think it’s a little bit too low, especially with the time off and just with the general kind of favorable scoring environment that the Orleans has been historically.

TJ Rives:

All right, we shall see. One more question about the North Texas Wisconsin game. Toby is watching us. He says, “What about Wisconsin on the money line?” Thought on the value there on that one, guys. For this evening in game number one, North Texas is the short one and a half point favorite. Thought on the money line for the Badgers? Anything, Matty Cox?

Matty Cox:

Yeah, if you can find plus two, I would take the plus two, but if you just see one and a half, take the money line. Just typical rule of thumb for me, one and a half, one you’re catching one and a half one. It’s just better to take money line. I think two is a key number, especially in a game that’s totaled at 115, 114. So yeah, I think if one and a half is what you’re showing at your book, I think we got to just take the money line.

TJ Rives:

Corby Craig, any thought on a Wisconsin money line or do you want to move on?

Corby Craig:

Yeah, if you like it, take the money line, but I lean much heavier towards North Texas. I think North Texas has proven they’re 3, 4, 5 players deep of being able to score pretty consistently even though it’s slow, even though it’s miserable to watch. They do have guys that can take it over to the instants and play their style of basketball. So you’re playing right into their favor.

TJ Rives:

Good enough on those. Matty Cox, you were not with us obviously yesterday when we talked futures plays and Kevin, I think you’re going to still have this. If you do, you can put the futures odds up on the screen if you still have those. If you don’t, I’ll go from memory on what we have. UConn is obviously the decided favorite. They’re minus money, but right after that Miami’s still a decent value. San Diego state and then obviously Florida Atlantic kind of still at the bottom was something. Corby, help me with my memory, Florida Atlantic was still something like eight to one or something like that.

Corby Craig:

Six to one, I think.

TJ Rives:

Six to one or something like that. So, as far as a futures play, Matty Cox, for right now, with two games to go, if you had to play one for value and whatever else, which one would you play out of the four that remain, San Diego State, Florida Atlantic, UConn or Miami?

Matty Cox:

Just according to my power ratings and the projected spreads that you could have and the title game and then reverse engineering what the proper futures price should be. The holds are a little bit high here, so it’s playing any future is not always your best bet, but if you had to play one, I think FAU is my best bet. I calculate their true odd closer to five and a half to one. So actually I might be getting a slight bargain or at least a fair price, which is a pretty good, it’s not hard, it’s not easy to find a fairly priced futures out there, and just the fact that I love this team and how versatile they are. They can play different styles and they’ve beaten different types of teams in different ways, not just in this run to the Final Four but all season, right?

They’ve seen the extremes in Conference USA. They saw the extremes out of Conference, didn’t play anyone majorly good, but winning at Florida and then just the consistency all season. I think they’re my most trustworthy team. Obviously UConn’s the best team, but just from a pure value perspective, I think that’s been bet up too much for me to bet. So I think the best option that’s left right now is FAU at six to one.

TJ Rives:

All right, interesting. I’m trying to get the exact futures market from yesterday. Corby Craig, UConn obviously is heavily favored to win it all at this point with how they’ve looked. The fact that they’re in the Big East, they’re the only one of these programs that’s been in the Final Four previously and they have four previous national championships. Now that doesn’t mean anything in terms of Danny Hurley. He wasn’t the coach for these players, but in terms of a brand, UConn would be your brand for that. So I’m interested in a thought or two here. If not UConn, Matty Cox says the value on Florida Atlantic probably a better value obviously than San Diego State or Miami, like you guys have been talking about. If you believe more, you’re going to get better value on just taking San Diego State and Miami to win on the money line twice than what that prop is right now, right Corby?

Corby Craig:

Yeah. Matt kind of hit the same points we hit yesterday. Nail on the head, it’s FAU. If anything other than that, mechanical parlay, just take the money line each time. These numbers try to factor in the idea that either outcome can happen. So you got a UConn minus 125 yesterday, I believe it went up to 150 at one point, but that number’s just trying to imply that there’s the ability to have it be San Diego State or be FAU and if you think it’s… Let’s say it’s UConn FAU in the championship, you’re going to get a worse number than you would. Minus 125, just because they’re putting in the potential for it to be San Diego State as well. So it’s all relative to what you think. I think the holds on futures in this short of time horizon are way too high. The hold’s like what, 13, 14%, just too high. Mechanical money on parlay is something if you want to play it and room for some FAU basketball, because that’s… at the end of the day, that’s what everybody wants to see here, huh?

TJ Rives:

Yeah, I mean especially if they get a win and Miami gets a win and as unlikely a championship game as you can imagine with two South Florida teams, not exactly a basketball hotbed and again on the BetUS line. Yeah, I see that back behind you there. Florida Atlantic Owls, I see you pointing to that. On the BetUS futures line. UConn still holding it, minus 125 by the way. Miami, which was 50 to one on Thursday before the games began on Friday, Miami was 50 to one. They are now down to four and a half to one because again, they had to beat the one seed Houston and then the two seed theoretically in Texas, which they did. San Diego State remains at three and a half to one and Florida Atlantic at six to one. You could have still gotten Florida Atlantic at like plus 1250, I think 125 to one before the Sweet 16 because they had to get through Tennessee and/or either Kansas State or Michigan State.

So obviously it’s narrowed down to four. Let’s see what’s going to happen on those. All right, keep the questions coming. I’m looking to see what else is there while the live comments are still going, I see different people that are putting different things in the chat here about wanting an FAU Miami title game. Good stuff. Arthur says he just put a comment in the chat. UConn held the top scoring team in the country to 55 and they’ve blown out everybody. Why do we believe that Miami can cover and win here? As we often like to joke past performance, what is not necessarily indicative of the future, but UConn has won every game by 15 or more. I was interested in this.

It hasn’t been a real guaranteed metric on the winner of the national championship if you’ve won by 15 or more in your first four games, I think it was about a 50% clip over the last seven or eight times. It’s happened about half the time. The team has won the national title, won the final two games, but about half the time the team that won by 15 or more in the first four games didn’t win the national title. You still got to take two more steps. Corby, I see you nodding along. Any thought on UConn picking up where they left off in Las Vegas and being able to steamroll here the way that they have been winning convincingly?

Corby Craig:

Yeah. Not to go on like a philosophy tangent, but I see this type of conversation a lot. The main thing is it’s like… I know there’s a Warren Buffet quote that’s like, “Be weary when everyone else is excited and be excited when everyone else is weary.” It’s the same that it’s just like… You have to understand, this is a moving market that also watched UConn beat Gonzaga by 35. They also know that Sanogo is probably the best player left in the tournament. They know everything that you know. So just to take a 15 point win, an outlier win and say, “Okay, they’re the best because of this.” That five and a half was just… Okay, let now let’s imagine UConn beats Gonzaga by a buzzer beater. What does it open versus Miami? It doesn’t open five and a half, six at this point. It opens probably four and a half.

So these things are all taken into account and it’s not a target of anybody. I see this kind of conversation all the time, but I think value comes in the idea of the nuances of basketball. Is UConn getting lucky, and if they’re getting lucky then fatal. If they’re winning by 35 and they’re hitting impossible shots, then they didn’t actually win by 35. From a numbers standpoint, it should have been closer. But UConn is a very good team. Don’t let me take that anything away from you, but just because they’ve been winning by 15 doesn’t mean anything relative to betting on games and sides and totals.

TJ Rives:

I did see one stat, Matty Cox, while we’re just on this subject and I could not believe it. I believe San Diego State is something like 11 and two and I’ve got to double check. They’re like 11 and two in games decided by five points or less, something like that. UConn is 0 and five, kids, in a game decided by five points or less, they haven’t won a game this year that’s been that close and they lost two or three of them in the Big East, surprisingly to St. John’s and Seton Hall in close games as well. So it says something about their ability to win by margin. They have won a bunch by margin, but that’s pretty eye-opening that they haven’t won really any close games, UConn. Matty Cox, a thought here on whether UConn and the momentum they have of winning by double figures in all four games will likely continue here and maybe not?

Matty Cox:

Yeah, here are the exact records, I have them listed. Florida Atlantic 11 to one, and games decided by five points or less. San Diego State, eight and one. Miami, six and four, UConn, 0 and four. And that kind of speaks to your point, TJ is if you’re going to bet this UConn and Miami game, I think you’re either betting UConn and laying the points or you’re taking Miami money line. I think if the game’s close enough late, the Canes have a real shot to win that’s not maybe reflected in the true spread to money line adjusted price. We’ve seen how good those guards are in late game settings, how much that pressure that they turn up in the last few minutes can bother teams and UConn has had pressure or has had issue with pressure at times this season. Yeah, I think that’s a great point you bring up and I think that’s how you handicap this. If you like Miami here, you think this is a real run, I’d just go ahead and take money line. If you think UConn’s all the way legit bulletproof, then I think you lay the points.

TJ Rives:

Thank you for picking me up there on that stat. And again, Florida Atlantic, 11 and one in all the close games including beating somebody’s Blazers in an overtime game. Was that a five point or less game? I’m not sure in the overtime if it was, but Florida Atlantic beat my Memphis Tigers, Corby Craig, on a last second shot for a one point win. They beat Kansas State the other night in a three point win. There’s something to be said for one team being 11 and one. If it comes to Florida, Atlantic and UConn, and Florida Atlantic’s 11 and one in close games and UConn is 0 and four, just food for thought. Food for thought coming on Saturday, anything else? I’m looking back and forth. You guys are putting all of the chat, the typed chat answers that are in here to a lot of the different people that are asking about different stuff with the NIT or with the NCA.

I think we’re good with anything else. All right, so there we go on Q & A. Let’s go, let’s show them the brackets one more time, Kevin, before we are gone and how we got here to this point, this is what’s coming up for Saturday. There is the big board. As you can see, everything has whittled down to four teams. 64 games have been played. Here’s UConn’s route. Very good, Kevin, out of the West regional beating Arkansas in the Sweet 16 and then beating Gonzaga. Much to Corby chagrin, Kyle Hunter’s chagrin, everybody that had a futures play and put it on them. In the East bracket, Florida Atlantic emerged by beating Tennessee and a lot of people believe that win over Tennessee has prepared FAU for a matchup with San Diego State in the big physical style. And then Florida Atlantic just took it from Kansas State down the stretch.

I mean, Markquis Nowell had 30 points, had 12 assists, was making all the big plays, and Florida Atlantic made more plays, got offensive rebounds, made shots, got the stop at the end, give them credit out of the East bracket for Florida Atlantic. Out of the South bracket, San Diego State holds down Alabama and Creighton under 50 points. That makes them 25 and two, guys, holding them under 70. 25 and two, San Diego State is when they hold an opponent under 70 points like they did Alabama and Creighton in both of those games.

And finally in the Midwest bracket there is Miami, which is the only team out of the Sweet 16 that beat a one and a two seed, beating Houston and beating Texas. Beating Texas, Matty Cox without making a three point shot in the second half, came back from 13 down without making a tray. Matty Cox, that says a lot obviously for Jim Larrañaga’s team. Good stuff on that. All right, any final comments? Good stuff, Kevin, as we come back on screen here and get ready to depart for Tuesday. Any final comments as we get ready for NIT semi-finals tonight? Corby Craig, final thought?

Corby Craig:

Yeah, it’s a little off of the road, off the beaten path. We’re getting to that time of the year, but it’s a little self plug for BetUS and for myself. The MOB starts on Thursday and I believe I’ll be on the Friday show. So if you like baseball, continue to do the same thing daily. Talking about the America’s pastime, we got some new rules.

TJ Rives:

Major League baseball about, it’s hard to believe they used to start the Major League baseball season either on the Sunday night, a Final Four weekend and/or the Monday Championship day, but now it’s begun to start earlier. So you’ve got regular season games coming Thursday. The Houston Astros raising the banner and having their championship rings out on Thursday, so the baseball will be here later in a week. Good plug. Catch Corby over on the MLB Baseball channel. Matty Cox, final thought for a Tuesday before we’re done?

Matty Cox:

No, enjoy the NIT action out there in Vegas for those of you who will be live and in person, shouts to NIT too. The best coverage you’ll find for the NIT and yeah, lots of points would be great.

TJ Rives:

Let’s hope so. Again, let’s look at the best NCAA Basketball betting before we leave. Here they are. The best bets from the handicappers are both on the same game, that is the UAB Utah Valley game in Las Vegas. Corby, not surprisingly, nobody believed that Corby was going to come in here and say anything other than Go Blazers. Blazers laying four, Matty Cox is on the over, wants points, points, points at 151 and a half for that matchup tonight. So there’s the two official plays from the show tonight. Guys, great job. Matty Cox. Thank you Corby Craig, thank you. Excellent stuff for a Tuesday. Remember to check out our sportsbook website. We’re back tomorrow to recap the NIT and also continue the discussion heading towards some handicapping of the Final Four with San Diego State, Florida Atlantic, as well as UConn and Miami. Hit that light button on your way out. Be here at 11:00 AM the rest of this week. Heading into the Final Four. For Kevin and everybody at BetUS we thank you for watching the BetUS College Basketball Show.