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**Udog** · 11-22-2016, 09:46 AM

Armadillo: Tuesday's six-pack

Six interesting college basketball scores from Monday:

— Wisconsin 74, Tennessee 62- Badgers were up 17 early; Vols caught up early in second half, went head for a while, but the more veteran team prevailed.

— Northwestern 77, Texas 58– Could be a huge win for Wildcats, who have never been in NCAA tournament.

— Bucknell 75, Vanderbilt 72— Oy. Bryce Drew’s old team (Valparaiso) is better than his new one (Vandy). Could be a long winter in Nashville.

— Creighton 86, Ole Miss 77— High-octane Bluejays win Paradise Jam.

— Oklahoma State 98, UConn 90— Brad Underwood is a really good coach. UConn is 1-3.

— Winthrop 84, Illinois 80 OT— Losses like this get coaches fired.

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Armadillo: Tuesday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but……

13) Watching the Maui Classic Monday, got to hear Bill Walton do two games, along with Roxy Bernstein on ESPN2. Walton is a classic, a true original. Here is a partial list of the things he was discussing during the Tennessee-Wisconsin and Oregon-Georgetown games:

— Scrabble
— Grateful Dead and his love of music
— the Dakota Pipeline (Roxy got him off this subject pretty quickly)
— Banana bread
— the world record for amount of time holding your breath (24 minutes?)
— the origin of Georgetown’s mascot (Hoya)
— Davey Crockett (he is from Tennessee)

Walton does a lot of prep; I learn something new every time I listen to him, just that often it has zero to do with basketball. He is upbeat and fun to listen to.

12) Get well soon to Arizona Cardinals’ coach Bruce Arians, who was hospitalized Monday with chest pains. Original prognosis was apparently positive; hopefully he’ll be back on the sidelines very soon.

11) NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets have a player named Matt Calvert, who got 36 stitches in his face during a game with the Rangers last week. Mr Calvert got his stitches, came back into the game and wound up scoring the game-winning goal. Hockey players are tough.

10) Ryan Fitzpatrick is back at QB for the Jets this week; they play New England Sunday, in a game that was supposed to the Sunday night game until NBC flexed out of it and into the Chiefs-Broncos game.

9) LSU has to hire a football coach soon; Les Miles leaves big shoes to fill, but rumors are out there that big-name candidates are shying away from LSU, because AD Joe Alleva has a bad rap amongst coaches and administrators. People are hesitant to work for a guy who fired a coach with a record as good as Miles has.

8) Bears QB Jay Cutler may be out for the year with a shoulder issue; Matt Barkley is the backup right now— he’s played in five NFL games, but has never started one.

7) Quick basketball story: Long time ago I’m watching a high school basketball tournament with some friends; this is the first night of the tournament. Best player on the team that is losing gets his layup blocked, and he goes down in a heap, pounding the floor in pain. Three people carry him off and help him to the locker room.

One of my friends speaks up: “He isn’t hurt; his pride is hurt. He was getting his ass kicked and didn’t want to play anymore.” It was a bold statement bordering on rude, but we’re there again the next night, and the kid is out there against a lousy team, scores 30 points without a limp.

My friend was right; the kid had begged out of the game the first night. Go figure.

6) UCLA’s football team is not having a great year, in part because they had eight kids drafted by the NFL in April, the most Bruins picked in one draft since 1988.

5) Jim Grobe is the Interim football coach at Baylor this year, where one of the two best players they’ve had is Robert Griffin III. It is ironical that RGIII’s first game at Baylor was against Wake Forest, where the coach at the time was……Jim Grobe.

4) Mexico City is twice as big a city as Houston and Oakland….combined.

3) West Virginia got spanked at home by Oklahoma Saturday, but RB Justin Crawford ran ball 24 times for 330 yards, creating 11 missed tackles. He also fumbled near the goal line, which hurt West Virginia when they still had a chance to win, but 13.8 yds/carry is damn good.

2) FS1 (channel 219 on DirecTV) mainly televises just Big East basketball, which means you get to see a lot of low or mid-majors from now until Christmas, since Big East teams mostly take it easy with their pre-conference schedules.

It is fun to watch how low-major teams who are usually getting whacked use the game as an education, calling timeouts to teach certain situations; that’ll hopefully pay off for them when their conference play starts in January. But there are other reasons these games are played, too……

1) Speaking of which, I may not have these numbers exactly right, but if not I’m close; I got into a Twitter dialogue about this with ESPN’s Seth Greenberg last year.

Long Beach State pays basketball coach Dan Molson roughly $200K a year, but he actually makes around $600K, lot of money for a guy who has taken the 49ers to one NCAA tourney in his nine years in Long Beach. Where does the extra $400K come from?

Here are Long Beach State’s first five D-I games this season, all on the road, all coming with sizable guarantee checks attached: Wichita State-North Carolina-Louisville-UCLA-Washington. The extra $400K comes out of the guarantee money Long Beach gets for playing these games.

Long Beach has lost the first four of those this month, allowing 96.8 pts per game, with 26 points the closest loss of the four. Wonder what the players think about getting their butts kicked, just so their coach can fatten his bank account?

**Udog** · 11-22-2016, 09:58 AM

NHL
Dunkel

Tuesday, November 22

NY Islanders @ Anaheim

Game 9-10
November 22, 2016 @ 10:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
NY Islanders
9.101
Anaheim
12.580
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Anaheim
by 3 1/2
4
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Anaheim
-175
5
Dunkel Pick:
Anaheim
(-175); Under

Ottawa @ Montreal

Game 7-8
November 22, 2016 @ 7:30 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Ottawa
9.788
Montreal
12.927
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Montreal
by 3
3
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Montreal
No Line
N/A
Dunkel Pick:
Montreal
N/A

Philadelphia @ Florida

Game 5-6
November 22, 2016 @ 7:30 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Philadelphia
13.257
Florida
10.396
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Philadelphia
by 3
3
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Florida
-150
5 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Philadelphia
(+130); Under

St. Louis @ Boston

Game 3-4
November 22, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
St. Louis
12.008
Boston
13.538
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Boston
by 1 1/2
3
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Boston
-145
5
Dunkel Pick:
Boston
(-145); Under

Carolina @ Toronto

Game 1-2
November 22, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Carolina
13.008
Toronto
10.549
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Carolina
by 2 1/2
6
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Toronto
-130
5 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Carolina
(+110); Over

NHL
Long Sheet

Tuesday, November 22

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CAROLINA (7-6-0-4, 18 pts.) at TORONTO (8-7-0-3, 19 pts.) - 11/22/2016, 7:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
CAROLINA is 11-24 ATS (+36.9 Units) after a non-conference game over the last 2 seasons.
TORONTO is 28-49 ATS (+94.4 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record over the last 3 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
CAROLINA is 4-2 (+1.7 Units) against the spread versus TORONTO over the last 3 seasons
CAROLINA is 4-2-0 straight up against TORONTO over the last 3 seasons
6 of 6 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+6.1 Units)

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ST LOUIS (10-6-0-3, 23 pts.) at BOSTON (11-7-0-0, 22 pts.) - 11/22/2016, 7:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
BOSTON is 140-94 ATS (-9.0 Units) in November games since 1996.
ST LOUIS is 30-21 ATS (+8.2 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5 or less over the last 2 seasons.
ST LOUIS is 111-82 ATS (+28.3 Units) in road games in non-conference games since 1996.
ST LOUIS is 9-3 ATS (+5.8 Units) in road games after a win by 2 goals or more over the last 2 seasons.
BOSTON is 3-9 ATS (-11.1 Units) in home games on Tuesday nights over the last 2 seasons.
BOSTON is 5-11 ATS (-13.3 Units) in home games in non-conference games over the last 2 seasons.
BOSTON is 6-11 ATS (-15.8 Units) in home games after a win by 2 goals or more over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
BOSTON is 2-2-0 straight up against ST LOUIS over the last 3 seasons
2 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=-0.2 Units, Under=-0.3 Units)

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PHILADELPHIA (8-8-0-3, 19 pts.) at FLORIDA (10-8-0-1, 21 pts.) - 11/22/2016, 7:35 PM
Top Trends for this game.
PHILADELPHIA is 3-14 ATS (+20.8 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5.5 over the last 2 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 7-17 ATS (-10.6 Units) when playing with 2 days rest over the last 2 seasons.
FLORIDA is 15-6 ATS (+21.3 Units) on Tuesday nights over the last 2 seasons.
FLORIDA is 14-3 ATS (+9.4 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a losing record in the first half of the season over the last 3 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 29-25 ATS (+60.4 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 80-71 ATS (+166.5 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record in the first half of the season since 1996.
FLORIDA is 162-181 ATS (+364.4 Units) in a home game where where the total is 5.5 since 1996.
FLORIDA is 52-76 ATS (-40.7 Units) in home games in November games since 1996.
FLORIDA is 172-164 ATS (-29.4 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a losing record since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
FLORIDA is 4-2 (+2.1 Units) against the spread versus PHILADELPHIA over the last 3 seasons
FLORIDA is 4-2-0 straight up against PHILADELPHIA over the last 3 seasons
4 of 6 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+1.4 Units)

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OTTAWA (10-7-0-1, 21 pts.) at MONTREAL (14-3-0-2, 30 pts.) - 11/22/2016, 7:35 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
OTTAWA is 8-7 (+1.9 Units) against the spread versus MONTREAL over the last 3 seasons
OTTAWA is 8-7-0 straight up against MONTREAL over the last 3 seasons
9 of 14 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+2.8 Units)

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NY ISLANDERS (5-8-0-4, 14 pts.) at ANAHEIM (9-7-0-3, 21 pts.) - 11/22/2016, 10:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
NY ISLANDERS are 5-12 ATS (-8.3 Units) in all games this season.
NY ISLANDERS are 1-7 ATS (-6.2 Units) in November games this season.
NY ISLANDERS are 5-12 ATS (-8.3 Units) first half of the season this season.
NY ISLANDERS are 8-1 ATS (+7.0 Units) in road games on Tuesday nights over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
NY ISLANDERS is 4-1 (+3.2 Units) against the spread versus ANAHEIM over the last 3 seasons
NY ISLANDERS is 4-1-0 straight up against ANAHEIM over the last 3 seasons
4 of 5 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+3.0 Units)

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NHL
Armadillo's Write-Up

Tuesday, November 22

Carolina won five of last seven games with Toronto; last six series games stayed under total. Hurricanes won three of last five visits here. Carolina won its last four games, outscoring foes 12-4; this is their first road game in two weeks (1-4 in last five road games. Maple Leafs won last three home games, scoring 6 goals in all three; five of their last seven games went over the total.

St Louis won four of its last six games with Boston; under is 3-0-1 in last four series games played here. Blues won four of last five visits to Beantown, in series where road team won 7 of last 10 series games. St Louis won its last three games, outscoring opponents 11-4, but they lost last four road games. Under is 3-1-2 in their last six games. Bruins won four of last five games; under is 3-0-1 in their last four games.

Florida won three of last four games with Philly; under is 6-3 in last nine series games. Flyers lost last three visits to Miami by combined score of 14-6. Philly lost five of its last seven games; three of their last four road games went over- they lost 5-4/6-3 in last two road games. Florida won four of its last five games; over is 5-2-2 in their last nine games- they won three of last four at home.

Ottawa won three of last four games with Montreal; seven of last nine series games stayed under. Senators won three of last five visits to Montreal. Ottawa lost three of last four games- they scored 15 goals in their last ten games (under 8-1-1). Canadiens lost three of last four games; under is 1-1-5 in their last seven. Montreal won six of its last seven home games.

Islanders won four of last five games with Anaheim (under 4-1). New York won 4-1/3-2 in its last two visits to Orange County. Islanders lost four games in row and seven of last eight; they lost last thee road games, outscored 11-5. Under is 3-0-1 in their last four games. Ducks are 53 in last eight games; they won four of their last five home games- their last four games overall pushed the total.

NHL

Tuesday, November 22

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Trend Report
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8:00 PM
CAROLINA vs. TORONTO
Carolina is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Carolina's last 5 games when playing Toronto
Toronto is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing Carolina
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto's last 5 games when playing at home against Carolina

8:00 PM
ST. LOUIS vs. BOSTON
St. Louis is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games on the road
St. Louis is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Boston
Boston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Boston is 6-17-2 SU in its last 25 games ,when playing St. Louis

8:30 PM
OTTAWA vs. MONTREAL
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Ottawa's last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Ottawa's last 11 games
Montreal is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games at home
Montreal is 13-4 SU in its last 17 games

8:30 PM
PHILADELPHIA vs. FLORIDA
Philadelphia is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Philadelphia is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
Florida is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Philadelphia
The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Florida's last 17 games when playing Philadelphia

11:00 PM
NY ISLANDERS vs. ANAHEIM
NY Islanders are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing Anaheim
NY Islanders are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing on the road against Anaheim
Anaheim is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
Anaheim is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing NY Islanders

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**Udog** · 11-22-2016, 02:59 PM

NHL
Short Sheet

Tuesday, November 22

Carolina at Toronto, 7:05 PM ET
Carolina: 1-10 SU after having won 4 or 5 of their last 6 games
Toronto: 6-0 SU as a favorite

St Louis at Boston, 7:05 PM ET
St Louis: 20-13 SU as an underdog
Boston: 2-8 SU in home games off a home win

Philadelphia at Florida, 7:35 PM ET
Philadelphia: 15-11 SU in road games after playing a home game
Florida: 1-8 SU after playing 4 consecutive road games

Ottawa at Montreal, 7:35 PM ET
Ottawa: 15-6 SU off a home loss by 2 goals or more
Montreal:17-30 SU after scoring 2 goals or less in 2 straight games

NY Islanders at Anaheim, 10:05 PM ET
New York: 0-7 SU as an underdog
Anaheim:5-2 SU as a home favorite

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