Posted on:January 21, 2010
Coming into Wednesday night, there were a lot of enticing games on the board. Pittsburgh and Georgetown, Iowa State and Texas Tech, Baylor and Kansas, and in the NBA the Utah Jazz took on the San Antonio Spurs. We stayed in college basketball and first took Kent State over Buffalo, and wagered to win 25 dimes. After the first half, which was close at times but Kent built a nice 10 point lead, the Golden Flashes' offense lit the board up. Kent State put up 55 second half points, while only allowing 30 and easily cruised to an 89-54 win by 35 points. All that was left was for us to hit our highest rated release of the entire college basketball season. We issued 50 dimes on Bradley over Southern Illinois. Bradley came into this matchup with a losing record at 8-9, while the Salukis' were 10-6. The start of the game was the key for the win as Bradley opened the first half with a 15-0 lead, as Southern Illinois missed their first 8 shots. Salukis responded by outscoring Bradley 18-6 to cut the lead by 3 points. In the second half of the game, Southern Illinois took their first lead 55-54, after going on a 7-0 run, but a crucial 3 point foul on Carlton Fay, sent Sam Maniscalco to the free throw line. He hit all three shots putting Bradley back on top. Fay and Freeman both missed 3 pointers for Southern Illinois and Bradley got the outright win as a 7 point dog. We capped off the night going 2-0 with an easy 35 point win with a 4 point favorite and got the outright victory with an underdog bringing in 75 dimes for the night.
