Kentucky vs Vanderbilt CBB Picks
The Wildcats are feeling good entering SEC play using that win against Louisville as a springboard to conference play.
The Wildcats are feeling good entering SEC play using that win against Louisville as a springboard to conference play.
The Vanderbilt Commodores look to make school history by winning in back-to-back bowl games for the first time in school history. While the Houston Cougars will look to cap off the year with an SEC scalp.
The injury-plagued Florida Gators lost another piece overnight on Tuesday, offensive tackle Tyler Moore, leaving them with just two offensive tackles on the roster. That’s the kind of year it has been in Gainesville.
The 16th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies were one of the SEC’s many casualties in Week 8, and begin their trek to get back inside the AP top 10 on Saturday when they take on another SEC foe, the Vanderbilt Commodores.
Georgia had very high expectations coming into the season but with two losses already most of those are already out the window. Last week they lost to Mizzou and it will be interesting to see the kind of effort they put forth on the road this week with the emotional drainage of their season being a disappointment as well as a host of injuries still to deal with.
Arkansas is at 19 wins and at 10-8 there were in the middle of the pack in SEC play. They are on the bubble and if they lose this game they may be headed to the NIT and not the Big Dance. Vanderbilt is under .500 on the season and their only chance to make it to the NCAA tournament would be to win the conference tourney.
The Vanderbilt Commodores breathed a sigh of relief after beating Harvard in the round of 64.
It feels like a bit of a setup having two schools better known for academics than hoops meeting in the first round.
This is a game that Tennessee absolutely has to have if they are to have any chance at getting into the field of 68. Even with a win here, they will have a lot of work left in the SEC tournament, but this would give them yet another quality win if they are able to pull it out.
The Florida Gators are looking to finish strong but it wont be easy. To finish their SEC regular season they will be visiting Vanderbilt and following that with a visit from Kentucky to the Swamp.
Kentucky (27-1) is heading for a #1 seed in the Big Dance, but snagging a top seed will not be easy, as they host a hot Vanderbilt (20-8) team that has won 3 straight as well as facing 11th ranked Florida on the road in their season finale.
Date/Time: Friday, Dec 2 9 p.m. (ET)
Venue: KFC Yum Center, Louisville, KT.
Broadcast: ESPN
Commodores at Cardinals lines by BetOnline.com
Point spread: Cardinals
Over/Under: OFF
The Vanderbilt Commodores will look to knock the Louisville Cardinals from the ranks of the unbeaten this Friday night when the two teams clash at the KFC Yum Center in this SEC/Big East tilt. This game is set to tip-off at 9 p.m. and it will be broadcast on ESPN.
Vanderbilt is coming off a tough 82-70 overtime loss to No.11 Xavier this past Monday as a four-point home favorite that dropped its record to 5-2 straight-up and 2-3 ATS. The total has stayed ‘under’ in three of the five games with lines.
John Jenkins has been a force for the Commodores with 20.2 point scoring average while logging 34 minutes a game. Lance Goulbourne and Jeffery Taylor have done a good job under the boards with a combined 13.7 rebounds a game. As a whole, Vandy is averaging 75.9 points a game and shooting 45.7 percent from the field. [soliloquy id=”82219″]
Louisville has worked its way up the rankings with a solid 6-0 start SU including a 69-53 win over Butler as a four-point road favorite on Nov.19. The Cardinals have covered the spread in four of their first five games with a posted line and the total has stayed ‘under’ in four of the five games.
Kyle Kuric is averaging 12 points a game and Chris Smith is adding another 10.5, but the real strength of this season’s Cardinals is a smothering defense that is holding its opponents to an average of just 48.3 points a game and 33.2 percent from the field.
Louisville should have its hands full with Jenkins in this one, but stick with the Cardinals’ defense to keep the clamps on him just enough to grind out the win at home.
The Pick: Louisville 66 vs. Vanderbilt 63
Alabama joins its bitter divisional rival LSU in adeptly clear-cutting through the SEC so far in 2011. By all conventional logic, the Vanderbilt Commodores should be the next tree to be felled. The Commodores have definitely exceeded expectations to so far; they are assumed by many to be a perennial SEC bottom-dweller.
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BetUS NCAA Basketball Betting Odds: KENTUCKY -2
Here are some of the NCAA basketball sports betting trends as they relate to this matchup:
* KY has covered one of its last five games
* KY has played five of its last eight games UNDER the total