There are some great games tonight all over the world of sports. In college basketball there is Syracuse vs. Cal., UNC vs. Ohio State, as wellas UK and Kansas each playing at home tonight. The Thursday night NFL game features the Ronnie Brown-less (I like to make up words) Miami Dolphins visiting a Carolina Panthers team looking for some easy prey (god i'm good). Oh and let's not forget some good puck on tonight also. A huge game between the Chicago Balckhawks and Calgary Flames goes down tonight, awhere the Flames look to erase the memory of a 5 goal Hawks comeback last time they played. But these games are not my pick tonight.
Rider +4.5 @ Virginia
The Broncs (thats right not Broncos) have some offensive firepower in their guards. Novar Gadson, a 6-7 guard leads the team in points (20.5) and rebounds (9.0) per game. Ryan Thompson and Justin Robinson are second and third respectively on the team in points per game and they really power an explosive backcourt. Rider has already beaten Mississippi State this season by 14 and Lehigh by 15.
Virginia is 1-1 this season and their loss came to South Florida by 17 points. Ouch. Sylven Landesberg leads the team with 18.5 points per game and big man Mike Scott is leading the team in rebounds with 9.0 per game. This team is not that good and besides Landesberg, and the Cavaliers do not have any other scoring threats. Virginia shot an awful 2-12 (16.7%) from three against South Florida last game and they are 10 of 34 this season (29.4%).
These numbers do not sit well with me and Rider is looking for a big win tonight against Virginia before they head to Rupp Arena to play the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday afternoon. Take the Broncs, and I would buy the extra half point if you can (road game--I like to be safe).
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