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Username Post: Princeton (-4) at Penn, Harvard (-1.5) vs Yale
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03-12-17 01:39 PM - Post#226523    
    In response to Tiger84

  • Tiger84 Said:
How did taking Penn and the points work out for you?


I try to avoid lengthy handicapping discussions here as most on the board don't care. Like most folks who like to bet, I avoid teams I already have a vested interest in so no Penn bets for me, despite the fact that I thought 7 (final line) was way to much for PU to give yesterday. Reason was the intangibles, which all favored Penn. Turns out that was right despite the fact that it was a losing bet. When your dog fails to cover in OT, that's just bad luck. Nothing to be learned or done about it.

As for Harvard, I discussed this at length with my friends in Vegas. On one hand, they have superior talent and match up well with Yale, -1.5 represented good value that you look for. OTOH, their games leading up to yesterday indicated a problem closing teams out. I attribute a bit of this to a young team but most to my belief that Amaker usually gets outcoached in games. As a result, a Yale winning outright scenario had to be accounted for. We could have hedged it but decided it was not worth the trouble.

In the end, all we did was take Duke over ND based on their performance against UNC. Wouldn't you know Allen and Giles came up flat but they covered in the last seconds. Sometimes you get lucky.

I thought Yale getting 7 was a good take today at game time. Liked PU to win but 7 was too much unless PU shoots a lot better than they did yesterday. As I write this they are up 11 with 6 to play as PU's hitting 3s now so they might cover. I'm glad yesterday convinced me not to play this one.
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