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00:00spread lines coming to you on a Wednesday radio on the sports grid network. It's the early line.
00:04It's Donnie right side and it's Joe Ranieri. The SEC, Florida versus Texas. Maybe the game of the night tonight.
00:09How about overnight, Joe? We have those seven and a halves in the marketplace today.
00:12So I see across the board, six and a half. Still is a favorite, though, for the road team, the
00:17Florida Gators.
00:18The total of this game listed at 157 and a half as the live number.
00:22Florida coming to town, Joe, in the SEC as the most efficient defense there is.
00:26Effective field goal percentage, also number one in conference play. The best defensive rebounding team in conference play.
00:31Number two and not fouling on defense and number one at defending inside the arc.
00:35Tough to score in Florida, but the question is, can Texas cover that six and a half?
00:40What is your spread line for that game tonight?
00:43Well, it's an interesting move, right? Because beyond Michigan, Duke, and you got to figure Arizona, right?
00:49Florida is that other team, Donnie, that for the most part, the public trusts.
00:54And they trust them probably more so than anybody else right now because they've been boat racing everybody.
01:00Ever since that loss to Auburn at home over a month ago, Florida has just been on a war path.
01:08But here comes Texas, who just got absolutely boat raced by Georgia, of all teams, who got crushed by Florida.
01:15But here's the thing with Texas, and I can't explain it, Donnie, but they have been actually better against top
01:2125 teams than anybody else.
01:24It's kind of crazy. They have played up to the competition that they've had, and they've actually done pretty well.
01:30So do I think Florida is going to lose this game? No.
01:34But I can tell you, the numbers tell me that, yeah, I can understand why it's not Florida by double
01:41digits here.
01:42It's a tricky spot for Florida on the road.
01:45Texas has played better against all the teams that are better than them this year, Donnie.
01:50I got to tell you, I'm flipping this over to the Big East right now.
01:52St. John's in Connecticut. Do we smell a rat in the building, Joe?
01:55The reason I say that, this line opened up at four and a half as a favorite overnight for Connecticut
01:59here.
01:59Still at four and a half at some outlets, but also now rising to fives and five and a half
02:03as a favorite.
02:04As we already know, UConn did lose to St. John's here, so we are looking for a bounce back.
02:08This time you have home court advantage for Connecticut.
02:10The number one most efficient offense in Big East play, it's Connecticut.
02:14The number one most effective defense in conference play for efficiency, that's the St. John's defense here.
02:19Look at that line, Joe. Explain it to us. What's that spread line?
02:23Well, here it is. This is for all the marbles, folks, this game here tonight.
02:29Right. Because UConn has to win this game to have a chance at winning the Big East.
02:35Because if St. John's wins and sweeps the season series here, it's over.
02:41Basically, St. John's is going to be your Big East champion there.
02:44And UConn and everybody else who, after the first two months of the season, Donnie,
02:49pretty much anointed UConn the best team in the East and one of the best teams in the country.
02:54Well, they didn't take into consideration what the Johnnies have been able to do.
02:59And let's face it, they've done a really good job of going toe-to-toe with UConn.
03:04And they got it done the first go-around.
03:06Are they going to be able to get it done the second go-around?
03:09Boy, this is going to be a fun one here tonight, Donnie.
03:12But the line is telling you, maybe, just maybe, UConn evens up the series and still has a shot at
03:18that Big East regular season title.
03:21If we've got a handicap in that game, you're just reading that line.
03:23That is a stone-cold UConn line.
03:26We'll see if it plays out that way a little bit later tonight.
03:28Let's keep it in the Big East, Joe.
03:297 p.m. here.
03:30Butler versus Villanova.
03:31With Villanova, overnight, is that double-digit spread?
03:34Minus 11.5, Joe.
03:35That's come down in the marketplace to minus 9.5 across the board in a total of 146.5.
03:40Butler, 11th out of 11 teams in defensive efficiency here.
03:44We'll see if Villanova can pick up the pace.
03:45If they're losing their last game, looking for a bounce back and expected to win by double digits.
03:50The question is, Joe, what's that spread line here for this one?
03:53Yeah, well, you know, Nova's interesting.
03:55I mean, Nova's done an amazing job here.
03:57It's actually been much better than, you know, folks that actually thought they were going to be here this year.
04:03Butler has dealt with a slew of injuries all year long.
04:07When they're healthy, Donnie, they look like a legit team that can beat anybody on any given night.
04:12But the injuries have just piled up, especially at the guard position here.
04:16It feels like this is a great spot for Nova to get back on track here.
04:21They're kind of a sleeper here.
04:22They're a team, Donnie, I think, come Big East tournament time.
04:26We're going to need to keep an eye on it.
04:27I think there's some value with Nova moving forward.
04:30Yeah, as long as they don't have Kyle Neptune there as their coach there.
04:33Looking much, much better this year.
04:34Heading towards Big East play.
04:35Which, again, what?
04:36A week and a half, two weeks, Joe?
04:37We will be playing at Madison Square Garden.
04:40College basketball news and notes.
04:41Always starts with some ridiculousness before we get to the encore play.
04:44And some of that ridiculousness, and I love the way On3 actually, you know, worded this tweet here.
04:50It says, former pro, which I think is fantastic, Charles Bediaco's request for an injunction pending appeal has been denied
04:56by Judge Daniel Pruitt per court documents here.
04:59Exactly.
04:59Stop trying to game the system.
05:01Alabama knew they were in the wrong.
05:03But find a judge that'll play ball.
05:04Exhaust all your options.
05:06Oh, well, we're already in the month of April.
05:07We'll drop this request because his college eligibility is already up and he's going to move on once again.
05:12Good to see some sanity, Joe, out there to say, you know what, Charles Bediaco?
05:16Go back and turn pro.
05:19Exactly.
05:20I mean, you know, A for effort, Donnie, right?
05:23But the reality is, like, you got no business at all playing college basketball now.
05:29You know, you played it once.
05:30You left.
05:31You turned pro.
05:32Didn't work out.
05:33And you came back to get the NIL money.
05:35And you've been trying desperately to get the courts to help you out.
05:39But, you know, his situation was more unique than some of the other guys.
05:43The fact that he was there and then left to turn pro only to come back, that's not going to
05:49cut it.
05:49Thank goodness for common sense.
05:51By the way, NIL, speaking of that, it is big money in college basketball.
05:55Maybe none bigger than how much that payroll is for the University of Kentucky.
05:58And Mark Pope is a new coach feeling a little bit of a squeeze here.
06:01The SEC has fined Kentucky's Mark Pope $25,000 for his conduct and comments about the officiating against Auburn.
06:09Quote, Mitch, if those MFers try to fine me, they can't.
06:12I didn't say a word about how they cheated this year.
06:15Stroke that check.
06:1625 G's Mark Pope can't say that.
06:18Yeah, been a rough season.
06:20Good win last night, by the way, for them.
06:22If they'd have lost to Carolina, I don't know that he'd ever been allowed back in the state of Kentucky.
06:28But kudos to him for saying what we all thought.
06:32The only problem is, Donnie, it's going to cost him.
06:35It's not going to cost the rest of us there.
06:37Let us speak for you, Mark Pope.
06:39We'll let you know when you're robbed.
06:41We know it.
06:41You don't have to save the money, my friend.
06:44We know it.
06:45Save the money.
06:46Have a GoFundMe.
06:47Have some NIL.
06:48Pick up those fines because everybody in Big Blue Nation was probably feeling the same way.
06:52Another Big Blue Nation here, BYU.
06:53You're going to get some uneven performances.
06:55Hey, they can't win this game.
06:56Oh, no, they did.
06:57Oh, those should be able to win this game easily.
06:58Oh, no, they didn't.
07:0097 points they gave up on their home court yesterday, which included 52 in the first half by UCF as
07:06they pull off the 97-84 victory over BYU in Provo.
07:11Yeah, and they were a 12-point favorite, Donnie, at home in Provo against a UCF team who, by the
07:17way, I mean, has been terrible against the better teams that they have faced, especially on the road this year.
07:24And what happens?
07:25They made 14 three-pointers, Donnie.
07:28They could play that game 99 more times.
07:31UCF is never making 14 three-pointers in that game again.
07:35So, unfortunate there for the BYU Cougars.
07:39Three-point line, Joe, always the ultimate equalizer.
07:42I'll tell you what else is the ultimate equalizer.
07:44Go on the road and take the away crowd or out of it immediately.
07:47Miami of Ohio versus Eastern Michigan, Joe.
07:50First half score, 43-22 Miami.
07:52Miami cruising to a 74-64 victory, which I believe out there, Joe, there was some 10-1⁄2, some 10s,
07:58some 9-1⁄2, some 9s, some 8-1⁄2s out there.
08:01Congratulations when you got this on time.
08:03But Miami, 28-0, which includes perfection in the MAAC as well at 15-0.
08:09Well, we always say, right, always get the best of the number.
08:12And, you know, as of yet, this opened up 8-1⁄2, it was 9-1⁄2 yesterday morning when we talked
08:18about the game.
08:19Got as high as 10-1⁄2, and then it was all Eastern Michigan money coming into play yesterday, Donnie, pushing
08:26that thing all the way back down to 8-8-1⁄2.
08:29They didn't need it.
08:30A 43-22 first half was all Miami of Ohio needed to cruise to a 10-point win and remain
08:37undefeated.
08:39How about ESPN Insights tweeted out, ESPN Analytics gives Miami, Ohio, a 55% chance to finish the regular season
08:46undefeated.
08:47Three games left, Joe, two on the road at Western Michigan, home to Toledo, at Ohio on the 6th of
08:52March to end the season.
08:53How about that?
08:54And we told folks here, Donnie, what, a month and a half ago in the predictive markets, we said,
09:00boy, getting Miami of Ohio to be undefeated running the table at 19 cents felt like a really good bargain
09:07at that point.
09:09Yeah, well, it's almost 70 cents right now, Donnie.
09:14How about a bargain yesterday in the ACC?
09:16Some people thought Duke might slip up a little bit.
09:18Oh, going against a bad basketball team after beating a quality Michigan number one team on the road to the
09:22neutral site.
09:23Ah, they'll sleepwalk through this game.
09:25You know, sleptwalk through this game, the Notre Dame fighting Irish.
09:27100, Joe!
09:28Yes, to 56.
09:30A beatdown in the ACC.
09:32Well, anybody who thought Notre Dame was going to have any reason has not watched Notre Dame this year.
09:38They are awful on so many.
09:40Duke is not losing to Notre Dame ever.
09:43But kudos to them for putting up 100 points.
09:4554 in the first half alone.
09:47Woof!
09:48Yeah, and by the way, Notre Dame is 3-12 in the ACC.
09:51Here's what the ACC should do.
09:52We're going to kick out your horrible basketball team until your football team actually win a conference.
09:57Relegation, as Joe says.
09:58And he's correct.
09:59Final segment of the day.
10:00We had to bring the coach back in.
10:02There's too many good topics to talk about here.
10:04And coach, if you know anything about him, he loves himself some Big East action.
10:08We saw this already this season.
10:09St. John's and Connecticut.
10:11We got a rematch once again tonight.
10:13Revenge is on the mind of Connecticut.
10:14Coach, they're a four-and-a-half-point favorite right now in the marketplace and a 146-and-a-half.
10:19What are we thinking tonight?
10:20St. John's, Connecticut.
10:21Big time.
10:22Big time matchup here.
10:23Listen, St. John's, guys, is playing as well as anybody in the country.
10:26Zuby Attafore has been an absolute monster.
10:29Dylan Mitchell's really come on.
10:30Bryce Hopkins started to play better.
10:33It's amazing how St. John's, right before that fight happened, was losing to Providence.
10:37And now they look like a Final Four team ever since.
10:39Guys, this matchup is so razor thin.
10:42Listen, if you look at Cat Palm, number two versus number three when St. John's has the
10:46ball in offensive efficiency.
10:48Number one versus number one when Connecticut has the ball.
10:52These teams are literally like one and two defensively in every metric.
10:58I think Dan Hurley makes this a street fight.
11:01Now, the game is not on campus.
11:03It's in Hartford.
11:04So, you still should have a decent St. John's contingent getting up there.
11:08Good luck getting tickets if you're trying to get there.
11:11Guys, I think the under, and I'll say this, if St. John's finds a way to pull us off, to
11:17sweep the series, and then you have MSG hosting the Big East Tournament, guys, you start moving
11:24St. John's up seed lines.
11:26They're probably a four.
11:27They win today.
11:28They're probably beating a three.
11:29They can find a way up to the two line by the time Selection Sunday comes in about three
11:34weeks.
11:35Sounds good, Coach.
11:36Let's take you through what we do to end the show here.
11:38And we always like to reach out to the public on our fave, the public poll.
11:41Here it comes.
11:49Coach, we asked one question to the public today, and that was, should Charles Bidiaco be
11:53allowed to play college basketball this season?
11:55Three responses were given.
11:57I don't see why not.
11:58No, it's not fair.
11:59And it doesn't matter to me.
12:01One vote's getting almost 80%, Coach.
12:04That's no.
12:04It's not fair.
12:05What do you think?
12:06I mean, after Bidiaco basically had to get a University of Alabama judge to get him a
12:12temporary injection to play the first time, tells you all you need to know.
12:16At the end of the day, we know why Nate Olsen wants him, because they don't play no damn
12:19defense, and they need some kind of rim protector at the rim.
12:23Simply put, I'm 49 years old, almost 50, and you know what?
12:27If Bidiaco couldn't come back, I could come back.
12:29I got about three or four minutes in me that I could get about 5,000, maybe a bucket.
12:36Joe Ranieri's got three years up.
12:38Donnie, you were a football guy.
12:39You got four.
12:40Hey, let's all come back and play.
12:42Why don't we?
12:43What do you say, Coach?
12:45All three of us show up to Monmouth and say, you know what?
12:47You're in a new conference.
12:48Let's get after it, Joe.
12:49We could play in that conference.
12:50I don't know.
12:52I mean, my boy King Brace is a little, that's my guy, but he's a little nutty.
12:56I don't know if we can handle him.
12:57I couldn't handle enough friends with him.
12:59I don't know if we can all handle him playing for him.
13:01All right, we need some adjustments here made to the show, Coach.
13:04You know what we're going to show you next?
13:05Our best bets, and I want your feedback on these best bets.
13:07It's bye-bye-bye.
13:14Joe's going college basketball tonight, Coach.
13:16Let's see, Joe.
13:17What is it?
13:18If it ain't broke, let's not fix it, people.
13:22There's one team I trust more than the other tonight, and that is the No. 7 Florida Gators
13:27on the road against the Texas Longhorns.
13:31I mean, let's face it.
13:32Ever since that loss to Auburn at home, they have basically been going scorched earth,
13:37coming off of a 94-75 win against Ole Miss.
13:42They win on the road.
13:43They win at home.
13:45They are really starting to round into form like they did a year ago when they made the
13:50run to being a national champion.
13:53Sorry, Sean Miller.
13:54Your team fouls too much.
13:56Can't be trusted offensively.
13:58This feels like another blowout coming tonight.
14:00Six, six and a half feels like a gift.
14:03I will lay it with Florida on the road.
14:05Mm.
14:05Mm.
14:05Mm.
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