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5-6-1 yesterday. there goes the 8-day win streak. but the 8-0 teaser streak since Saturday continues, hitting my biggest teaser or 2012 on xavier/tulsa.
bunch of leans, only one i'm officially adding whenever 1h lines are added:
valpo -whatever 1h
Take a look at these numbers. Below I have Illinois-CH's 1h point total for each game, followed by their 2h point total for each game, followed by the average deficit/lead at half.
so if i say:
25/26 -5
that means they scored 25 points in the first half, 26 in the 2nd half, and were down 5 points at halftime. Here are all of their games this season in reverse-chronological order:
25/26 -5
17/31 -15
22/36 -7
24/30 -3
18/30 -10
20/39 +2
31/33 +5
25/32 -8
17/41 -30
12/35 -20
18/23 -4
34/30 +9
23/28 -5
32/29 -3
23/38 -5
18/31 -10
I said this earlier in the season: Loyola's a perennial "slow-starter" They average 22.4 points in the first half of all D1 games this year. There have only be 3 games this entire season when they havent been down by at least 3 at half: #304 Canisius; #340 Chicago State; #233 Fordham.
So we'll likely be getting a -3 for Valpo tomorrow in the first half. Potential let-down MAYBE in the first half as this is the conference home opener and the first home game after a 3 game road trip, but I'm not buying it. Valpo just upset Cleveland State, sure...but they're still a relatively up-tempo team and I'm not expecting a hangover to Loyola.
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