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00:00live right here on the early line on sports grid. I am back

00:07and so is Donnie right side and today officially starts Feast

00:12Week in college basketball starting today on this Thursday

00:17for the next week through Thanksgiving and beyond some of

00:20those great non conference early season basketball

00:24tournaments around the holidays that we love like the Baja

00:28Mar Basketball Classic next week the Maui Invitational back

00:33on the island of Maui out in the islands and off the mainland.

00:39It is going to be sensational and some games of course, not

00:43just in ballrooms, but inside the Barclays Center tonight as

00:47well a lot to get to here DRS that does feature a top 25 tilt

00:52in the Baja Mar Classic between Baylor and Saint Johns. You

00:58look at the spread for tonight's basketball game. The

01:01Johnnies and the Bears dueling tonight two and a half point

01:04spread in favor of Baylor 152 and a half is that total Baylor

01:11has already played a power conference program in Gonzaga

01:15or at least a team that is ranked Gonzaga number three. It

01:19did not go well on the opening night of the college basketball

01:22season up in Spokane. How will they handle this test against

01:26Saint Johns? Yeah, these are always tough games to try to

01:29gauge because certainly you see that 152 and a half in

01:32college basketball. That's a good amount of points just

01:33being simple to yourself here and adding it up 80 to 70 puts

01:36you in that range, but also as been pointed out this game is

01:39not being played on the mainland. It's being played in

01:41the Bahamas and I understand the thought process behind

01:44basketball teams. It's supposed to be a business trip. Your

01:47coach is going to preach that, but is it really a business

01:49trip where you're going to the Bahamas where you know you

01:51want to sneak a little sun and fun out there hit the ocean and

01:54also playing in a gym slash convention center that you're

01:57not used to. So for me those early indicators, I look at

02:00that 152 and a half and regardless of how good both of

02:02these teams can be on offense, Ben, that's where my eyes go

02:05immediately here until now hear me out on this one because I

02:08don't know how this is playing out. Is this a tournament where

02:11you're going to play like two games there? Maybe three games

02:13there. Is this just a simple one off between Baylor and Saint

02:16Johns? No, no, this is going to be a couple of games in the

02:20Bahamas. I am pretty sure no odds out for it yet, but coming

02:26up. I can look up the field in this spot as well. There are

02:31some tournaments like the battle for Atlantis that

02:33features Gonzaga, Arizona, Indiana, Louisville, Providence,

02:36Oklahoma, all of those teams. They have odds out to win the

02:39actual tournament. Of course, that is the case for the Maui

02:42Invitational and the players era tournament as well, which is

02:47a loaded field this year in 2024 that begins on Tuesday.

02:53This upcoming Tuesday battle for Atlantis begins on Wednesday.

02:57All of those things the RS that will play into it, but I

03:00believe this is a tournament out in Baja Mar. I will just

03:05these four teams, Virginia and Tennessee. They will play each

03:09other. This is us talking to Joe Frizzo live. Thank you very

03:13much. Joe Frizzo by the way Baylor after the last two

03:16Gonzaga has responded with three consecutive victories,

03:19including in a match up in their second game of the year

03:23against Arkansas as a single digit favorite. They have won

03:26and covered in three straight Saint John's is perfect. Their

03:29only game in that is featured a spread in the single digits was

03:34on Sunday at the garden in the battle of father versus son.

03:38The battle of the Patino Saint John's handling New Mexico by

03:42covering as a seven point favorite. Alright, DRS next up

03:47as we look at Baja Mar today, we go to a match up between

03:50Tennessee and Virginia. Now the ball is a top 15 team in the

03:54country. Twelve and a half point favorite against UVA. Of

03:58course, Virginia and the news around Tony Bennett shocked the

04:01college basketball landscape about two and a half weeks prior

04:05to the season beginning, but UVA is perfect to start off this

04:09year and catching twelve and a half points total

04:12representative of a really good volunteers defense in Virginia

04:16Pack line basketball 125 and a hook. Yeah, another interesting

04:20one too and the reason why I brought up how many games are

04:21going to be played. Sometimes you play that first game here

04:23you get used to your surroundings. The shooting eye

04:25here you're practicing a couple days there and then you play

04:27again, but if we're looking at both of these teams, Tennessee's

04:29offense 22nd in the country, how about this 41.6% from three

04:34point range and then you look at Virginia. How about this

04:36improves the top ten in the country at close to 45% from

04:40three point range. It's one of those where 125 and a half is a

04:43low number. These two teams shoot very good three from

04:45three point range. The question is are they used to shooting

04:47from three point range here in a convention center as opposed

04:50to their home arena because as we know also Tennessee and

04:53Virginia probably not playing too many road games here to

04:56start the season. A lot of these numbers against inferior

04:58opponents in their home building. Maybe that struggle

05:00so in the two games here tonight Baylor St. John's is

05:03152 and a half. That's a lot higher lean under same thing

05:06for me, even though it's 125 and a half. I still lean under

05:09here as they try to get used to the surroundings. I don't

05:11think both of these teams are going to shoot 40 plus percent

05:14from three point range against each other. I'll lean on the

05:17under as well here. It's interesting DRS because tempo

05:20dictates the pace and how quickly these two teams will

05:23play both focus on the defensive side of the four both

05:27have played one power conference opponent Virginia

05:30last Friday night neutral site in Baltimore against Villanova.

05:34The Cavaliers were a four and a half point underdog. They won

05:37that game outright by 10 Tennessee traveled to Louisville

05:41on the first full weekend of the college basketball season

05:44knocked off the cards big by 22 points and they were the

05:49underdog getting two and a half. In fact, DRS Tennessee has

05:52gone over in all three of its games against non power

05:56conference foes, but in the only game against a team in a

05:59power conference, the Louisville Cardinals, of course

06:02in the ACC well under 156 and a half state under is Tennessee

06:07177 to 55. Just things to keep in mind elsewhere around the

06:12country games start by the way in just about 40 minutes

06:15Indiana at home in Assembly Hall 16 and a half point

06:18favorite against UNC Greensboro. I almost was going

06:22to Brooklyn tonight to see my Syracuse orange take on Texas

06:26double digit favorite for the Longhorns and a freshman

06:29scorer to know for Texas. That would be Trey Johnson. It's

06:33been a very precarious start this year DRS for SU against

06:37teams like Colgate and LeMoyne not overly optimistic about the

06:40oranges showing tonight in BK, but how about the future of the

06:44orange? You know the Anthony going to be in the building

06:46here a big recruiting crew for the orange. I can look forward

06:49to in the future. It is interesting to see how these

06:51teams play in different environments here and we'll see

06:53how it goes again back to that Tennessee Virginia game. We're

06:55not expecting a lot of offense Ben, but you know me when you

06:57look at those components, both of these teams love to shoot the

07:00three-point shot. Both of these teams allow the three-point

07:03shot. I just don't think they'd go down. so we're trying to

07:05line up numbers early in the season much harder now than it

07:08will be in about a month and a half time frame. I'll tell you

07:11one of my favorite bets VCU Seton Hall under 125 and a half.

07:16The Pirates can't play in a game that features more than 100

07:19points against anybody.

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