Tuesday's games

[PocketAces]

Here are the trends with opening numbers. Home team in CAPS. 9-4 so far with ATS winners here on the board.

DRAKE (-4) vs. Illinois State (down to 3 in many spots)

Drake is 4-4 ATS at home and 3-2 ATS as a favorite while the Redbirds are 2-2 ATS in true road games and 3-3 ATS as a dog. No real play here. PREDICTION: Drake 66-62


SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (-4) vs. Evansville (up to 4.5 in many spots)

The Salukis are only 3-6 ATS at home and only 1-5 ATS as a favorite, but Evansville doesn't give us a chance for a play being that they are only 3-4 ATS on the road and only 3-6 ATS as an underdog.
PREDICTION: Southern Illinois 64-60.

...Hopefully Wednesday's action will give us some better plays.

[Unsmooth Moment]

I'll take the home teams to cover

[sixth ace]

apparently the gamblers believe in SIU


MATCHUP
Evansville at Southern Illinois
Live Odds | All Odds
Home O/U
Opening line -4.5 -110 125.5 -110
betED.com -6.5 -110 135 -110
5Dimes.com -6.5 -110 135 -110
SPORTSBETTING.com -6.5 -110 OFF
Logans.com -6.5 -110 135 -110
SBGGLOBAL.com -6.5 -110 OFF

GO ACES

[Aces1982]

apparently the gamblers believe in SIU


MATCHUP
Evansville at Southern Illinois
Live Odds | All Odds
Home O/U
Opening line -4.5 -110 125.5 -110
betED.com -6.5 -110 135 -110
5Dimes.com -6.5 -110 135 -110
SPORTSBETTING.com -6.5 -110 OFF
Logans.com -6.5 -110 135 -110
SBGGLOBAL.com -6.5 -110 OFF

GO ACES

All the Vegas books have it at 4 to 4.5

[MVCfans]

SIU and Drake both lead by double digits early in the 2nd half.

[MVCfans]

SIU wins easily.

Illinois St has cut the Drake lead to 7 with 2 mins to play.

[MVCfans]

SIU wins 67-55

Drake leads 73-68 with 43 secs to play.

[MVCfans]

Drake wins 76-68.

[DUBulldog]

Bulldogs almost blow a 21 point lead, but hang on. Drake was playing without two injured starters (Van Deest and Wiseler). Two other Bulldogs also in street clothes with injuries. Only 9 scholarship players available for DU, and one of them (Jordan Clarke) is real banged up. Not a lot of healthy guys on DU's roster right now. I'm not sure what all that says about Illinois State.

Ryan Wedel led Drake with 22, and Rayvonte Rice added 17 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocked shots.

Much needed win for DU, but the schedule gets a lot tougher now.