UConn -16.5 vs. Providence

[Mr. French]

Yeah, I don't agree with this one bit. "Knowing your team" does not beat a Vegas algorithm.

3 of the last 7 UConn games have been decided by a bucket. You knowing your team does nothing there.

They were double digit favorites and many UConn fans who follow the team realized it would be tough to cover…so I don’t get your point

 

[Storrs South]

My desire to start betting against UConn and the spread is overwhelming... I just know the second I do, I lose the $. But, I mean, have the odds makers actually watched us? I feel like we never cover.

I predict a victory - again, higher scoring that is close throughout. I'm feeling 83-75 with free throws widening the margin. Key will be getting Oswin in foul trouble. If we do, we blow them out. But with Mullins out, I anticipate PC overplaying everything, and Tarris ends up standing awkwardly with the ball at the 3-point line, trying to take people off the dribble.

Been betting against UConn covering the spread since Seton Hall and it has been a profitable venture. I want this team to make me lose money so badly but they won't do it.

 

[UCLJ0211]

In 2023 we lost at PC by 12 and then beat them a few weeks later at home by 18. Doesn’t seem too far fetched to think we could do the same this year.

 

[Deepster]

They were double digit favorites and many UConn fans who follow the team realized it would be tough to cover…so I don’t get your point

Regardless of the spread, if you know your team you’re implying you have an edge. A when a random bucket decides you win or lose a bet, there is no “edge”.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Regardless of the spread, if you know your team you’re implying you have an edge. A when a random bucket decides you win or lose a bet, there is no “edge”.

The point isn't that you never lose. The point is that you win in the long run.

If I can bet on an outcome that occurs 60% of the time, but I get even odds on it, I have an edge, even though I lose 40% of the time.

 

[superjohn]

The point isn't that you never lose. The point is that you win in the long run.

If I can bet on an outcome that occurs 60% of the time, but I get even odds on it, I have an edge, even though I lose 40% of the time.

You're one of the 3% who beats Vegas? Everyone else I know who bets on sports is in that 3%, it's strange.

 

[Mr. French]

Regardless of the spread, if you know your team you’re implying you have an edge. A when a random bucket decides you win or lose a bet, there is no “edge”.

Not to belabor a point, but this still doesn't make any sense. If the game was decided by a bucket and you thought, because you know your team well, that they won't cover 10+ point spreads, then indeed your knowledge of your team helped you win a bet by betting the other team would cover the 10 points.

That's your Nova example, that can be your first Providence game example, that can be the Georgetown game example.

 

[auror]

Been betting against UConn covering the spread since Seton Hall and it has been a profitable venture. I want this team to make me lose money so badly but they won't do it.

Same but taking the opponent moneylines and it has been a very unprofitable venture, which is for the best.

 

[FreeDogs]

I...have a hard time seeing this, even if Mullins is playing (which I haven't heard one way or another).

Dang, I don't bet, but I might on the under.

 

[August_West]

Hurley should use this game as a showcase for Jamier Jones and Vaaks, maybe take them around campus and through the practice facility after the game..

Vaaks Maybe. Jamier Jones no thank you. Kid is talented but allergic to coaching.

 

[TheHorde]

Two. Dollar. Beer. Night.

 

[REB1094]

UConn goes up by 20, cruises to an easy win, PC cuts it down to 13 in garbage time against the bench, we miss the cover and the BY melts down

Book it

in my defense I didn’t expect 10 missed FTs

 

[HooperScooper]

Been betting against UConn covering the spread since Seton Hall and it has been a profitable venture. I want this team to make me lose money so badly but they won't do it.

Easy money tonight with that kind of spread.

 

[aceboon]

At this point Vegas is trolling with these point spreads, they make zero sense

 

[3rdbass]

At this point Vegas is trolling with these point spreads, they make zero sense

Yeah we don't have the offensive firepower to win big right now.

 

[Mots010]

Yeah we don't have the offensive firepower to win big right now.

We scored 87 points. Oddly enough, it was our defense that was weak today.

 

[3rdbass]

We scored 87 points. Oddly enough, it was our defense that was weak today.

Providence is one of the best teams in the Big East in scoring. No surprise there.

 

[superjohn]

Vaaks Maybe. Jamier Jones no thank you. Kid is talented but allergic to coaching.

None of them are getting any coaching. I would gladly take Vaaks, Jones, and Oswin.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Welp, that was easy.

 

[uconngb]

Easy money tonight with that kind of spread.

So easy

 

[uconngb]

At this point Vegas is trolling with these point spreads, they make zero sense

Yeah, cuz Vegas makes point spreads only for UConn fans.

They have to be losing their shirts on UConn. We are now 2-10 at home ATS. It’s the closest thing to an auto bet you can find.