The Holy Land of Hoops

6:30 - South Florida @ Seton Hall, FS2 - Rich Ackerman, Jim Spanarkel
7:00 - Delaware @ #17 Villanova, FS1- Tim Brando, Bill Raftety
7:00 - Georgetown vs. Charlotte (TWC Arena), CBSSN -Brent Stover, Bob Wenzel
7:00 - #6 Xavier @ Wake Forest, ACC RSN, Wes Durham, Mike Gminski
8:30 - Southern Utah @ #9 Butler, FS2- Vince Welch, Dickey Simpkins
9:00 - St. John's vs #25 South Carolina (Mohegan Sun) CBSSN- Dave Ryan, Doug Gottlieb, Evan Washburn
9:15 - #20 George Washington @ DePaul, FS1- Steve Physioc, Stephen Bardo

Point Spreads
Seton Hall -16 South Florida O/U 136.5
Xavier -6.5 over Wake Forest O/U 154
Villanova -24.5 over Delaware O/U 136.5
Georgetown -12.5 Charlotte O/U 151
Butler -26.5 over Southern Utah O/U 155.5
South Carolina -14 St. John's O/U 139
GW -6.5 DePaul O/U 142

Regional sports network clearances:
Xavier @ Wake Forest (12/22)
CSN Mid-Atlantic, FS FL/FS Sun+ (varies by location), FS MW+, FS North, FS Ohio, FS South, FS SW+, FS West, FS Wisconsin, NESN+, Root Sports NW, Root Sports PIT, YES

Expecting X butler and ?Nova to roll. The big game is seton hall. They win that and they are entering conf play primed for the tourney.

Georgetown loses and they enter DePaul pathetic category.

St. John's win would be huge bonus. More than a thing has ever given this conference.

NovaBall wrote:Expecting X butler and ?Nova to roll. The big game is seton hall. They win that and they are entering conf play primed for the tourney.

Georgetown loses and they enter DePaul pathetic category.

St. John's win would be huge bonus. More than a thing has ever given this conference.

USF is horrible. Seton Hall should blow them out. I'm worried about Georgetown. If Depaul and SJU can somewhere muster some X-mas magic, that would be a bonus. Also, Wake Forest is improved this year, hopefully X doesn't take them lightly, they will be pumped up to play a top 10 team.

Xavier-Wake Forest is undoubtedly the premiere Big East game of the evening. Hoping the Musketeers make a statement tonight. I think a double-digit win would pretty much silence any doubters (if there any even left at this point).

Massey Ratings Chance of Victory:
Butler 99%
DePaul 27%
Georgetown 83%
Seton Hall 95%
SJU 14%
Villanova 99%
Xavier 81%

Hopefully, we go 5-2 tonight.

Call me crazy but I've got a feeling about DePaul and George Washington. Most programs have absolutely no idea how to deal with success and that #20 in front of their name is wholly new for the people in the GW program.

NovaBall does it again about DePaul while speaking about Georgetown.

Edrick...I will be at the game tonight but I do not have those same feelings about a DePaul upset.

NovaBall wrote:Expecting X butler and ?Nova to roll. The big game is seton hall. They win that and they are entering conf play primed for the tourney.

Georgetown loses and they enter DePaul pathetic category.

St. John's win would be huge bonus. More than a thing has ever given this conference.

Dude, we all appreciate your enthusiasm. But lay off DePaul a little bit. You have expressed many times you aren't pleased with their program. But we have DePaul fans here and you are making it toxic for them to even visit this board.

in Ken Pom:
X 82-74 78%
Nova 78-57 97%
Butler 91-65 98%
SH 77-60 94%
Georgetown 80-71 79%
DePaul 70-75 31%
SJ 64-77 10%

If tonight isn't 5-2, something really went wrong. Means one of X losing @ WF, SH getting caught looking ahead playing USF, or Georgetown losing @ Charlotte.

The DePaul/GW game is interesting. Only GW's 2nd road game of the season- beat USF by 6 points earlier.