Free Pick

The top basketball handicappers have been producing more winners than Tiger Woods has mistresses. One of the best betting experts is Matt Rivers. His free pick today is to go with Kent State getting 11.5. .
 
The Golden Flashers definitely are not fielding one of their better teams of late as losses to Green Bay, Soth Florida and Xavier would show but those teams are far from dreadful and Green Bay just actually beat Wisconsin so all of a sudden that one point defeat does not look all that bad. Now Kent State is getting a boatload of points from one of the most disappointing schools in the nation right about now.
 
Jamie Dixon's Panthers meanwhile have looked horrific all season long. It definitely appears to be a down season for Pittsburgh as losing bona fide studs in Blair, Young and Fields will do that. After some time maybe these guys will turn the corner a bit that last 10 point loss at the Garden against Indiana as the 9 point chalk about summed it up. Don't think that was just an off-night and believe that this 7-2 record is at all legit.
 
Earlier in the season the Panthers narrowly downed Wofford at home by three whole points.

They needed two overtimes against what is turning out to be a regressing Duqesne squad and scored a whole 15 first half points and 47 for the game against New Hampshire. Now that is horrific to say the least.
 
Ashton Gibbs can score but so what? The team as a whole may be the worst team in the Big East this season and I mean that literally.
 
At home Pitt can definitely squeak this thing out in the end but Kent State is a solid program that is far from being bad. They have recently had their share of sweet 16 appearances and even if this is a bit of a down cycle it is still way too good to be getting this much from this Pittsburgh team, period, end of story. The pick is Kent State plus the points at Bodog

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