Online College Basketball Betting – Tennessee vs Pittsburgh
Saturday, December 11, 2010
by BetUS.com
With 12 games featuring teams that are ranked in the top 25 on Saturday, online college basketball betting will occupy center stage now that the college football regular season is just about done.
The marquee matchup pits No. 13 Tennessee versus No. 3 Pittsburgh, but there are other tasty items on the Saturday slate, such as the classic basketball school battle between Indiana and Kentucky.
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- Tennessee Volunteers @ Pittsburgh Panthers
Saturday, 3:15 PM ET
Tennessee’s biggest win of the season came against Pittsburgh’s Big East Conference rival, the Villanova Wildcats, at Madison Square Garden in New York back in November. Tennessee won that game by shutting down Villanova’s guards, forcing the Wildcats’ three best and most prominent backcourt players to shoot a combined 7-for-30 from the field. Tennessee used 18 points from wing Scotty Hopson in that game, plus a late surge from Melvin Goins, who starred at both ends of the floor in the final two and a half minutes of that 78-68 win over Villanova. Tennessee will now try to take down Pittsburgh in the Steel City, but the game won’t be played on the Pitt campus. It will be located at the new CONSOL Energy Center, the new home of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins and the new downtown arena in Pittsburgh. The homestanding Panthers haven’t lost a game in their native city this year; they’re 7-0, and while Tennessee is 13th in the nation in rebounding, Pittsburgh is fourth. Take the Panthersin this contest.
Online College Basketball Betting Pick: Pittsburgh
- Indiana Hoosiers @ Kentucky Wildcats
Saturday, 5:15 PM ET
After a bad loss on the road to North Carolina and a too-close-for-comfort win over Notre Dame, it’s clear that the Kentucky Wildcats are still very much a team in transition. Coach John Calipari is having to start almost from scratch, given the fact that his starting five is entirely new after last season’s mass exodus to the NBA and other professional leagues. Kentucky was a longer, stronger and more powerful team last season, so when Turkish center Enes Kanter was ruled ineligible by the NCAA before the start of this season, Kentucky lost the big, bruising body it needed on the backboards. This will put UK at a disadvantage against tall, powerful frontlines and make it hard for the Wildcats to dominate the SEC the way they did last year. However, it’s not going to matter against an Indiana program that’s still climbing out of the rubble created by wayward coach Kelvin Sampson. A program gutted by sanctions and a dip in recruiting is still trying to rebuild in an extended project being organized by coach Tom Crean. Indiana doesn’t have the depth, size or power to be able to hang with Kentucky for 40 minutes. The fact that this game is at Rupp Arena in Lexington, before more than 23,000 rabid Wildcat fans, won’t help the Hoosiers at all. Kentucky has to be the pick.
Online College Basketball Betting Pick: Kentucky
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