The NCAA basketball tournament 2010 scores for the first day are in. The water coolers are concerned about the NCAA bracket update, but pro bettors' picks. Today's games are more juicy than Tiger Woods text messages with Joslyn James.
Matt Rivers, Senior Sports handicapper of OffshoreInsiders.com has a free pick on Siena over Purdue. They are getting 4.5 at BetUs
I do admit that backing the Saints and only getting about four points is not the greatest value ever. It is sort of like Murray State yesterday as you pretty much need to believe the dog is going to win the game (as the Racers did in the end) against the far bigger program but I'll still scoop up the points here with Siena.
I don't think that Purdue is a dead team even without Robbie Hummel and even with the struggles to end the season. But with that said Matt Painter's team does have offensive issues right now for sure and against a fairly high flying Siena squad could allow that 11-2 type of a run and never recover.
I do love the Boilermakers' experience as these guys are senior laden and normally play well as a team but they have literally been scoring in the 40's recently and do not come into this thing with the confidence that we saw earlier in the season when there was talk about the Boilers being a one seed.
E'twaun Moore, Jajuan Johnson and the favorites will have a chip on their shoulder and play hard as everybody is talking negatively about them but Fran McCaffrey's team is not your typical smaller MAAC type program.
Siena has been there and done that of late. They won each of the last few seasons in this spot and have been by far the best team in the MAAC for a while now. Kenny Hasbrouck is gone and therefore the team may not be as good as last season but the talent level is still high and in the end they will compete enough today to get it done.
The pick: Siena
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