Two of the most skewed lines I've seen on this card are Kansas st. laying 9 to Loyola Chicago whose 8-3 but that is deceiving. The opponents that they've beaten... yeah, their combined record is 24-47 and all have losing records except for E. Kentucky at 5-4. Their two losses are to Butler and to Valpo and lost to Valpo at home by 10.... call me crazy, but I think Kansas st. is better than Valpo and has played some tough games on the road (or neutral).
The second one is Portland laying 5.5 to Denver. Portland is a pretty damn decent team with their only losses to Wash st and Washington on the road and Kentucky at home. That's a pretty fair SOS if you ask me and they actually would have covered against Washington if they hadn't imploded and the foul monster went crazy at the end of the game. Denver on the other hand, has two big wins against a 0-8 and a 3-6 squad. Not exactly killin em. Stats don't match up at all either... Denver lives by the 3 pointer and their rank is actually pretty good (46) but Portland's is better (5). Both are pretty bad at 3pt defense (Portland at 230 and Denver much worse at 331) and at FG defense (Portland at 226 and Denver again lower at 319). You have to take into account that Portland has played a WAY tougher schedule when looking at those defensive numbers though. To make matters worse... Portland is ranked 62 in FG% while Denver is ranked at 211. Finally, second chance points or keeping the other team from getting them... rebounding. Denver ranks 320 and Portland 96. Honestly, this stinks of a blowout and surprised by only a 5.5 point line on a pretty decent Portland team vs a BAD Denver team. I don't know... maybe I'm crazy but what do you think??
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