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**Udog** · 01-17-2021, 08:49 AM

Armadillo: Sunday's six-pack

— Alabama 90, Arkansas 59— Crimson Tide is 6-0 in SEC
— Auburn 66, Kentucky 59— Wildcats slip to 4-8 this year.
— Baylor 68, Texas Tech 60— Gonzaga-Baylor is what people want to see.
— Virginia 85, Clemson 50— Game was 18-2 after the first 10:00.
— Utah St 64, San Diego St 59— Aggies are now 8-0 in Mountain West.
— Minnesota 75, Michigan 57— Wolverines’ first loss this season.

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Armadillo: Sunday's Den: Wrapping up a sports Saturday

13) Apparently someone in the NCAA has gotten a copyright on the phrase ”Mask Madness” for this year’s NCAA tournament, which will be held entirely in Indiana. Sounds like there will be t-shirts sold.

12) Jets hired Robert Saleh as their new head coach; he is expected to bring Mike LaFleur with him from San Francisco to be the Jets’ new offensive coordinator.

Because Saleh is a minority, 49ers get a 3rd round draft pick this year, and one next year. That is part of the NFL’s new minority hiring initiative.

11) UCLA swept their Arizona road trip this season; last seven times UCLA swept their Arizona trip, here is how they made out in the NCAA tournament that year:

— won NCAA tournament once
— lost in championship game once
— made two other Final Fours
— made two other Elite 8’s
— made Sweet 16 the other year

So they’ve won 2+ NCAA tournament games the last seven times they swept in Arizona.

By the way, this is the first time since 1994 that UCLA started out 6-0 in Pac-12 play.

10) Florida State 82, North Carolina 75:
— Tar Heels are 8-5, 3-3 in ACC games.
— Carolina is turning ball over 21.5% of time (#265).
— UNC is #284 in eFG%; they were #309 last year; in the five years before that, their average ranking in that category was 88.8.

9) It is January 17 and Saint Louis hasn’t played a conference game yet, and they’re an NCAA-level team. Billikens are 7-1, with wins over LSU/NC State, but they haven’t played since two days before Christmas. They may wind up playing a lot of games in a short period of time.

8) Auburn has a 6-1 freshman G Sharife Cooper who became eligible three games ago; Auburn won two of the three games he’s played, scoring 83.7 ppg. Much more dynamic team with him in there; even when he went 3-13 from floor like he did Saturday, he also had eight assists.

7) There were 1,039 transfers in college basketball last year; there are 357 Division I hoop teams, so that works out to 2.91 transfers for EVERY team last year. College hoop is turning into baseball, with big $$$ schools pillaging the schools with fewer resources.

6) The founder of Jersey Mike’s sub shops is a guy named Peter; go figure.

5) Steph Curry is a very famous alumnus of Davidson College, but because he never graduated from the school, they’ve never retired his number. Wonder if that affects how much of a donation he gives them every year?

4) Portland Trailblazers’ C Jusuf Nurkic broke his wrist, is out eight weeks.

3) We posted these blind resumes yesterday:
One of these QB’s is in the Hall of Fame, one is not.

Player A: 62-63-4 career regular season record, 2-1 in playoffs. 173 TD passes, 220 INT’s
Player B: 72-72 career regular season record, 8-2 in playoffs. 164 TD passes, 198 INT’s.

Player A is Joe Namath, who is in the Hall of Fame; Player B is Jim Plunkett, who is not.

2) Green Bay 32, LA Rams 18:
— Packers scored the first five times they had the ball.
— Green Bay outgained LA, 484-244, converting 8-12 third down plays.
— Packers host NFC title game in first game next Sunday

1) Buffalo 17, Baltimore 3:
— Taron Jackson had a 101-yard pick-6 for the Bills.
— Lamar Jackson was KO’d from this game with a concussion.
— Buffalo hosts next week if Cleveland wins Sunday; otherwise, they go to Arrowhead.

**Udog** · 01-17-2021, 08:56 AM

33WASHINGTON -34 PITTSBURGH
WASHINGTON is 28-15 ATS (11.5 Units) in road games after playing a road game in the last 3 seasons.

37CHICAGO -38 FLORIDA
CHICAGO is 213-228 ATS (-37.8 Units) in road games after one or more consecutive overs since 1996.

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WASHINGTON (2-0-0-0, 4 pts.) at PITTSBURGH (0-2-0-0, 0 pts.) - 1/17/2021, 12:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
WASHINGTON is 14-19 ATS (-14.3 Units) vs. division opponents over the last 2 seasons.
PITTSBURGH is 21-28 ATS (-19.6 Units) after a division game over the last 3 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
PITTSBURGH is 4-3 (+1.1 Units) against the spread versus WASHINGTON over the last 3 seasons
PITTSBURGH is 4-3-0 straight up against WASHINGTON over the last 3 seasons
5 of 7 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+2.7 Units)

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CHICAGO (0-2-0-0, 0 pts.) at FLORIDA (0-0-0-0, 0 pts.) - 1/17/2021, 7:05 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
CHICAGO is 2-2 (+0.6 Units) against the spread versus FLORIDA over the last 3 seasons
FLORIDA is 2-2-0 straight up against CHICAGO over the last 3 seasons
3 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+1.7 Units)

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Trend Report
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Washington @ Pittsburgh
Washington
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington's last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
Washington is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh's last 5 games when playing Washington
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh's last 7 games at home

Chicago @ Florida
Chicago
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Chicago's last 11 games when playing on the road against Florida
Chicago is 13-4 SU in its last 17 games when playing Florida
Florida
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Florida's last 11 games when playing at home against Chicago
Florida is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games

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