Big 10 Match Analysis: Maryland vs. Northwestern Showdown

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00:00Big ten breakdown time here. I know some on the edge of their seat

00:06Trying to see if it is going to be a turtle club type of day

00:14the Terps

00:15Maryland up against

00:17Northwestern last week look here's it you know what you know you pull that curtain so in a last week coach definitively told you

00:24Maryland was not gonna get the job done

00:27Against Penn State some folks were none too pleased about that, but now

00:33Maryland is not laying a very short number on the road. They're laying a big number at home, and I gotta tell you Joe I

00:41Think it's all Northwestern here. I think there's a really nice number that we're finding here

00:47You're looking at a spread that is very comparable to one that Maryland laid against you know a USC and Iowa

00:53Who I think Northwestern is better than any of those teams, but this is also a spot that Maryland has struggled

01:00They are oh and three against the number after beating a ranked to Big Ten opponent

01:05They just had themselves a big win against the Michigan Wolverines

01:09I think they're in a potential upset spot here, but more so I don't think they cover the double digits against the Wildcats

01:15Yeah, I'm gonna root it in for you because if I had a bet this game

01:18I

01:19With Maryland now the numbers and and the trend does favor

01:25Northwestern they've won three of the last four they've played very well. They got victories over, Iowa, Ohio State, Minnesota

01:31they played very well against a good UCLA team lost by four and

01:37Some of their losses you look at them very close Rutgers by seven nine to Illinois

01:42Six to Wisconsin, but I just think Maryland is a more athletic team

01:47They haven't been playing well down the stretch the loss to Michigan State stung

01:51It took them a while to get back on track

01:54Eleven and a half is similar to what we saw Miss State LSU last week

01:58It was a very close first half game second half mistake pulls away and covers by a half

02:03I would lay it with Maryland, but again if you're on it

02:08Northwestern playing much better at the end of the regular season. Well, you are seeing the look I played it at ten and a half

02:14It's up to eleven and a half now. So you are seeing that a little bit of extra love kick into the market there, but

02:21Northwestern

02:22Eight of their nine road big ten games have been inside double digits. So they've been fine

02:28Relatively speaking on the road

02:30And I just think it's a it's been a sell spot for the Terps here

02:33And I think it likely will be once again, Wisconsin the other ranked big ten team in action against Penn State

02:40You like this game. No, I

02:42I'm starting to like it more and more and I'm going contrarian. I've been going after this Wisconsin team and they've been hot, right?

02:50I did take them a Oregon against Wisconsin won that matchup. They dominated, Illinois

02:55They've won seven of the last nine games Penn State 15 and 14 overall

03:00Pathetic in terms of Big Ten play, but I again, I think it's way too many points

03:06I'm not suggesting that Wisconsin loses. I just think Penn State does match up. Well, yeah against them

03:12I like them plus to put they might got run out of the gym

03:15But I'm willing to take that shot with the Nittany Lions certain teams again

03:19We talked about styles make fights certain programs just step up

03:23Wisconsin Penn State's a very underrated rivalry and and I'll take the points with Penn State here

03:29Yeah, look, I think that that is a really tricky game for me because we know Penn State can get up and down

03:35But they've had a very underwhelming season

03:38Ultimately last 11. I it's a stayaway spot. There is one game that I

03:43Don't want to say feels easy, but it for me it is it's one-sided it is, Indiana or bust when we look at their game

03:51Against Ohio State. I think these are

03:54Comparable teams Ohio State I think has had the better season. I think they're the better team metric wise

03:59But if you look right now across back brackets

04:01We can point to Mike de Corsi's who we just talked to both of these teams are playing teams

04:06Right, both of these teams would be playing in those first four games 11 verse 11, right?

04:11I'll just throw the other out there, but you know because it's obviously the most publicly known is Joe Leonardi's bracket ology

04:17And in that he has Indiana as one of the last four in with Ohio State is one of the last four buys

04:23At least at the most recent update

04:25I don't think it would be wrong to you could actually make an argument

04:30This is the biggest game on the slate today. I know that'll sound a little silly, but but

04:34Auburn and Bama are in right like that. This is a coin flip ish spread between two bubble teams

04:41Going head-to-head

04:43Indiana has surged

04:45Specifically the Purdue victory that I think really changed a lot of people's hopes and dreams of what this year could be

04:52potentially for the the Hoosiers I

04:55I'm I'm a little surprised. It's the number is what it is because we've seen how expensive

05:01home court advantage

05:03can be in

05:05College basketball I thought Indiana might be closer to four sitting now at two and a half

05:10Yeah, it is and that's on the rise a little bit. You're right, but they've won for the last six

05:14They beat Michigan last month and a half of the season Hoosiers have been playing very well. They beat Michigan State

05:217167 you mentioned the second half against Purdue. They trailed that first half by 13 points early

05:27They came on and dominated the Boilermakers in a rivalry game since that point

05:32They've been playing much more consistent couldn't get the victory on the road against a very good, Oregon team that being said

05:39They should dominate Ohio State today. Why is it less than it's right two and a half less than three?

05:46That's a fishing line to me I'd be again

05:49I don't want any part of this just because I don't have enough confidence in

05:53Indiana just because they're playing much better as a whole. They haven't lived up to expectations

05:59Woodson I don't know if I could get behind them

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