Arkansas Razorbacks: Surprise NCAA Tournament Contenders

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00:00The big surprise of the NCAA tournament, the Arkansas Razorbacks, may not have been a surprise

00:04at the beginning of the season, but based on their performance throughout, I don't think

00:08anybody saw them making a deep run, which is fair to say at this point, Mike, they have.

00:12They're getting five and a half tonight against Texas Tech. Honestly, probably the best team left

00:16in the tournament that no one is talking about. I think that's fair to say. Total of 148 half.

00:23It seems like this is a spot everyone is taking, the Razorbacks in this spot. I'm not sure. Is

00:29that the right side or is Texas Tech just a better team in this spot?

00:33Well, Texas Tech has been a better team, but I am curious to see how well Arkansas can defend

00:40Texas Tech. I think that's where the game is won and lost because they can drag down Texas Tech

00:46to anything approximating the sort of slugfest that St. John's and Arkansas staged by necessity

00:52because neither one's an elite offensive team. Can they do that to Texas Tech, which is so good

00:57offensively? And I can't be 100% sure of that. They are so, there's so much playing on the fly

01:06in the sense of Boogie Flan's back. Okay. How do we, what do we do with him? Aduthiero might be

01:11back for this game. What do we do with him? Jonas Adu is getting better. There's just so

01:16much uncertainty there. If you wanted to take a Moneyline type flyer on Arkansas, I could see that,

01:22but I don't like this game for the reason that I don't know what Arkansas is now from day to day.

01:28They've got a shot, but I just am not convinced that this is what, that what we saw over last

01:32weekend, we're going to see against a much more superior team in Texas Tech.

01:38All right. Let's take a look at Davis's props here for the Razorbacks. 12 and a half points is his

01:43scoring total. Two plus threes is plus 108. If he makes three, you're getting three to one on that.

01:49And if he makes four plus threes, you get plus 750. And Mike Arkansas is winning that game,

01:54right? If he hits, I think he makes four, they're in great shape. He's only made,

01:59he's only made three or more three times in the last 13 games. So I don't really like that line

02:05very much. He's made, he's only made two, one, once on top of those of that collection. So

02:11he's more likely to make one or none than any of the totals that they're giving there. So

02:16I might fade that or whatever they say, but I don't think, I just don't see Janelle having that

02:23big perimeter day. Now, can he get to the rim and make things happen? I absolutely believe

02:27against this Texas Tech defense, he can do that.