Alabama Downs Mississippi State: Game Recap & Insights

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00:00a top 15 tilt within the sec when you have seven teams ranked in the ap's top 15 you're going to

00:06have a lot of these situations as we did last night in starkville number 14 mississippi state

00:13hosting number four alabama in the line throughout the day donny continued to work to chris jans's

00:20bulldogs they close as a point and a half favorite minus 132 on the money line in a total at 164 and

00:28a half it is always key when you are contesting alabama to try to keep the pace just a little bit

00:34slower for the nation's fastest team in college basketball didn't work last night the tide roll

00:42as an underdog outright in stark vegas winning 88 84 alabama now this year a perfect four

00:50and oh outright in their four games booked as an underdog if we just read lines and it always

00:56worked that way ben we'd all be millionaires be no fando sportsbook no las vegas so sometimes you

01:01have to outstep that comfort zone when you're handicapping games because all those red flags

01:06were there last night wait a second here alabama's probably the better basketball team alabama was

01:10favorite now game time they're not favorite here it's a road game in the sec everything was lining

01:15up at that point so you know what let me just trust the numbers that we see here where i do

01:19have a major advantage at the three-point line and it worked out that way you're not supposed

01:23to go into an opposing team's gym with a decent defense and shoot close to 50 from three-point

01:28range and sometimes you see those numbers like i have 25 30 of course that reads right into the

01:33line but for me i just thought alabama had such a decided advantage at the three-point line that it

01:38would work towards their advantage and it did 15 of 31 from three-point range on the road shot almost

01:4350 as a team from the field on the road which helped them out and by the way didn't do themselves

01:48any favors here the way you put basketball games away is to make your free throws 11 of 20 on the

01:54road in a contested game and still escaped with a victory why that's because they made

01:59their three-point shots as we anticipated