We have another team here in Manhattan with a very low perception due to the firing of their head coach right before the start of the season. Manhattan then subsequently lost their best player and starting PG to the transfer portal. No one has wanted to bet on the Jaspers, which is certainly understandable for the most part, and the market has reflected that.
But I actually watched both of their main games thus far - at VCU and at FDU - and what I noticed is that they still play their same brand of ball - chaos press and hard nosed on defense plus always crashing the boards hard on both ends. In general, they just enjoy making life difficult on their opponents. So that's carried over with their interim coach who is both a former Jasper player and assistant under their old head coach. In the end, this is still a blue collar program who takes a lot of pride in their style of play and that's key in the underdog role.
Thus this represents way too much value to pass up in a matchup against a very young Northeastern team who still doesn't have their rotations set and is doing a lot of experimenting before conference play starts. They do have a young stud in the making who will need to be double teamed or picked up high so he can't dominate the action, but I trust that the Manhattan staff is aware of that. This game is being held in London, thus no homecourt for either side. Give me those handful of points and extra 70 cents on the money line too.
GL to all and GO JASPERS!!!
ML would have been a nice bonus, but nice call on the spread...congrats! Thanks for posting 
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