As you peruse the Big 12 Tournament schedule, the Big East, the ACC NCAA Basketball Odds. The all-time winning college basketball handicapper Matt Rivers has Penn State plus the points.
They are getting six-points at Minnesota. Here is why Rivers loves them:
Overall it was a very disappointing season for the Nittany Lions as the 11-19 overall record and porous 3-15 mark in the Big Ten indicate. Ed Dechellis had a squad that probably should have been better than that but the regular season ended on a bit of an upswing and this team is pretty darn competitive right now.
Talor Battle is a really solid player and a guy that can fill it up and the Nittany's come into this thing having covered three straight and five of the last six. Penn State also won outright at both Northwestern and Michigan and also swept the Wildcats with that win at home at the end of February. In the regular season finale PSU rallied late and covered at home against Purdue.
Tubby Smith's Golden Gophers also had a far from overachieving season. At times Minnesota picked up their play behind Westbrook and Hoffarber and looked like an NCAA tournament type team but a lot of other times they had head scratchingly poor results.
UM also had a ton of off the court issues this season that they really could not ever fully recover from. Like Penn State, Minnesota did improve at the end of the season in winning four of their last six and covering five of those contests. The Gophers still are on that bubble and have to have a good showing in at least a few games here in Indianapolis so there is some motivation there for sure.
But the Nittany's are a team that will be a pain in the butt by hanging around and staying close enough to get within that number. Minnesota probably will win this game as they do have too much on the line but I like DeChellis and his team and think they hang around enough to grab that cash.
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