Feast Week Showdowns: Duke vs. Arizona, Tennessee vs Baylor!

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00:00to college basketball. It is feast week, which means we get

00:06some top 25 tilts and we've got a couple of dandies on this

00:11Friday. Top 20 tilt for both Duke and Arizona. Both teams

00:17suffering a defeat last week. Zona on the road in Madison

00:21against Wisconsin. Duke, of course, in the Champions

00:24Classic in Atlanta against Kentucky. They square off

00:29tonight. Arizona, a very, very slight favorite in Tucson,

00:33laying a point and a half.

00:36Yeah, and I like Duke in this one here. I like, I like the

00:40scoring opportunities that they have. I do think this thing

00:43will fly over the total as well, Ben, as we know, the pace will

00:47certainly and the possessions will be there for both these

00:51teams. But I do think Duke when it comes down to it, will will

00:55make a few more important shots in this one. I'll take the over

00:59160 and a half, but I'll definitely take Duke on the

01:02money line.

01:03Yeah, I would agree with that as well. Joe, we've got a matchup

01:07with the two teams that won in Baja Mars Classic yesterday,

01:11Tennessee hammering Virginia by 22 and a cover, of course, Baylor

01:15out of nowhere down by five in the final 10 seconds of dope

01:19double overtime, Jeremy Roach, that game winning three as time

01:23expired. The ball's now a four and a half point favorite. Well,

01:27Rick Pitino have the Johnnies up and ready to go against UVA to

01:31bounce back I 80 rivalry, Creighton and Nebraska. Bad day

01:35to be a J skirt in the corn Husker State, Wisconsin and UCF

01:40who already has a win against power conference foes this year

01:43that be an A&M on opening night, the Joe Ranieri Bowl, Miami and

01:49home state, Ranieri. What do you like in that one?

01:53Well, yeah, they both blew yesterday and cost me nothing

01:56but money. Oklahoma State can't play defense. And Miami looked

02:01about as uninterested as I've seen them. I do think they'll

02:05turn that around. Do not be shocked at this game goes flying

02:08band and I mean flying over the total there. Oklahoma State

02:13Miami.

02:14How about those Drake Bulldogs Ben McCollum know the name

02:18Northwest Missouri State Division two four time national

02:22champ. Now a perfect four no with a great Drake team that is

02:26always a mid major to pay attention to in the Missouri

02:29Valley. I'll tell you another game. I like some points. Iowa

02:33Utah State tonight in KC over 168 and a half NBA Cup into the

02:39NFL week 12 pick six. We do it all on a Friday on the early

02:42line. Before we get back fully into a football Friday just some

02:47NBA Cup action you need to know on night number four of group

02:51play in the end season competition. We've got five

02:54games or excuse me four games out in the Eastern Conference

02:57for in the Western Conference. The oddsmakers still expecting

03:01Philadelphia to show something despite having the NBA's worst

03:05record at two and 12 and only three covers to show for it this

03:10year. The Sixers a six point favorite against a really good

03:13cover team in the Brooklyn Nets. Milwaukee is one four to five.

03:17They're a five point favorite against the Pacers. Washington

03:20also at the bottom of the Eastern Conference alongside

03:24Philadelphia, Boston, huge win in East Group C handed the Cavs

03:29their first loss of the season. On Tuesday, the C's a 15 and a

03:33half point road favorite in the nation's capital, the Atlanta

03:36Hawks and the Chicago Bulls about a point and a half spread

03:40in favor of the Hawks in the Windy City.

03:43Yeah, I forget Philadelphia, how they are even a favorite of six

03:48is great on me, Ben. This is a team that obviously doesn't like

03:54one another. They have no experience playing with one

03:56another. That was the first time the big three actually played

03:59with one another. And what did they do against the depleted

04:02Memphis team? They got absolutely boat raced here.

04:05They're one in five at home. I have no idea why they'd be

04:09laying more than two buckets against anybody. Yeah, I'm good.

04:13I'll I'll take the points with Brooklyn tonight.

04:17The Nets have been a sensational underdog this year, eight, two

04:20and one against the spread. When you look at that number as

04:25well, Joe, it is dropping, reflecting what we are saying

04:28four and a half point spread now only in favor of Philadelphia,

04:32the Hawks and the Bulls playing in an NBA Cup game, by the way,

04:36with a total of 246. Now let's head out to the Western

04:41Conference. The Rockets have been a really good team this

04:43year. 12 point favorite against the Blazers team, often an

04:47underdog who has not been bad against the number as a dog this

04:51year, Portland nine, five and one against the spread. That's

04:5515 games as a dog. I believe Portland has played all 15 games

05:00as the underdog. Indeed, the Clippers at home, they've won

05:04six straight, a couple outright as an underdog. The Pelicans

05:08are really struggling this year. It's been a disastrous season

05:11in a big easy Golden State lay in double digits on the road in

05:15NOLA. The Nuggets three point home favorite against the Mavs

05:19NBA Cup action where I believe Denver won on Tuesday without

05:24Nicola Jokic for a third consecutive game.

05:27Yeah, they did. They ended up beating Memphis who had beaten

05:31them the game prior without them as well. But they got back in a

05:35big way there. Now we've got some issues with Donchik. It

05:39appears in Dallas might be missing a few games. So boy, oh

05:44boy, that's going to be interesting. I believe the birth

05:46of his of his child is why the Joker is missed. I believe he

05:50might be back for this one here tonight.

05:53A game time decision. Great program. And that is the status

05:57for Nicola Jokic who has missed three straight games. Of course,

06:01the Joker doing what he does better than anybody that is

06:04averaging a triple double at this moment nearly 30 points 14

06:08boards and 12 dimes per game leads the NBA by the way in both

06:11rebounds and assists so far this season.

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