Olympic news continues to flow in, but there are some great college basketball spreads out there worth exploiting.
The ACC normally doesn't schedule games on Monday nights, but Virginia is at Maryland tonight because the teams' scheduled Feb. 10 matchup was snowed out. The Terps have opened as 9-point favorites on Bodog's NCAA Basketball Odds
Both teams lost on the road Saturday, the Terrapins at Duke and the Cavaliers at Virginia Tech. Virginia (14-8, 4-2 ATS on road) was a surprising early leader of the ACC but has lost four of its past six games. Maryland has fallen to fourth in the conference but is a very good team at home (11-1 overall, 5-3 ATS).
Neither team has much depth. Sylven Landesberg leads Virginia in scoring (18.0 ppg) and assists (2.9 apg), and Mike Scott is the only other Virginia player averaging double figures in scoring at 13.4 points a game to go with a team-leading 7.7 rebounds per game. The Wahoos are last in the ACC in scoring but do lead in scoring defense. They are 5-2 in ACC games when at least three players reach double figures in points but 0-2 when fewer than three hit that mark.
Maryland has four players averaging double-digit points, led by senior guard Greivis Vasquez, who is averaging 18.0 points, 6.2 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 steals a game. When Vasquez struggles so do the Terps, who are second in the conference in scoring. Third-leading scorer Sean Mosley has failed to reach double-figure points in four straight games (averaging 5.25 ppg in that stretch).
When making your college basketball bet on this one, these teams split two meetings last year, each winning at home. The Terps have won 59 of 80 all-time meetings in College Park. But Virginia has covered in five of the past six meetings overall.
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Now Bodog takes a look at the NBA trading deadline.
The East beat the West at the All-Star Game. Now we can get back to the real fun. Dozens of NBA players will have new employers by the end of Thursday's trade deadline. Seven of them are already on the move, as the Dallas Mavericks and Washington Wizards got things started Saturday with the following deal:
To Dallas: Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood, DeShawn Stevenson
To Washington: Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, Quinton Ross, James Singleton
This trade appears to make Dallas a serious contender with Haywood filling a definite need at center. But this weekend's buzz was all about Phoenix Suns power forward Amare Stoudemire and his potential gig with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cleveland was said to have placed an offer of Zydrunas Ilgauskas and J.J. Hickson for Stoudemire; at press time, other teams were reportedly lining up to beat that offer. This could turn into one of those multi-team transactions by Thursday.
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