>Posting on Friday afternoon for Saturday spot for early Saturday game...
Saturday, January 18, 2020 A.D.—631 Cal State Bakersfield -16 -110 (BetOnline)
1:05 pm EST/10:05 am PST—Hey, rise and shine
yous guys, as the early bird gets the proverbial Worm and this Cal State Bakersfield pick against Chicago State (4-14 SU, 6-9 ATS,
L10 SU) on Saturday may be a bassaball blowout served up by the visitors and a pick Railbird may like. [The upcoming Cal-Baptist-Chicago State game on Jan. 22 will be a BE$T BET$ pick the real
olde fashioned way, and not that newfangled daily,
Daily Wager (ESPN2, 6 pm EST/3 pm PST) way with “BE$T” coming every day and with parameters. Since I’ve never offered up a Chicago State Pick
taking points, you know.] The Truth-Truth smells like (Creamy)
Peanut Butter.
I’ve never heard my so fade-worthy boys Chicago State (19-31 ATS since 2017) mentioned on
Daily Wager nor FOX’s
Lock It In, although I hear the weird one in the latter show’s middle box—who asked if he could parlay a Point Spread and a Moneyline
for the same team—bash (betting) Soccer, NHL and lower-level NCAAB schools like a
bittersweet drunk parrot with obligatory facial hair. Money doesn’t care where you wager it, but the amount of Pain from some Sports will evolve you through years of Stress. Soccer and Hockey are cool. Winky and Dink know.
KenPom.com ranks Bakersfield #226 and the Cougars #353, still dead last of Division I teams with perennial WAC champs New Mexico State (13-6 SU, 7-10 ATS) top Aggies at #94. So now you know. Don't
forget to remember to bet the First Half in this game.
Chicago State hosted fellow WAC-sters Grand Canyon
on Thursday and the Antelopes ran past the Cougars, 78-64, easily covering the First Half ATS (GCU -9½) but giving up the Green Ghost for the Full Game as the last-place team in the conference outscored the Lopes in the 2H after closing 16½- to 17-point Favorites in Chicago, a great city with
elite Pizza named after the Indian word for “wild Garlic” or “wild Onion” in its Miami-Illinois language/dialect. The Cougars scored the game’s L5 points at the Jones Convocation Center and went from 19 down to a (basically) game-low 14 with the Final Score, the only thing that really matters. That last fucking
Soul-sucking minute is why betting on Hoops is the worst, even when/if you should win.
Don’t cry for me Argentina.
The series Trends show CSUB—who have played both Notre Dame de Namur and top-ranked Gonzaga—has
beaten Chicago State 12 straight SU, winning by an average of 16 points with the Cougars last Win in the series on Feb 22, 2014 (CSU 73 CSUB 68). The
Roadrunners have improved much on O, averaging 87.2 ppg after scoring 66.2 ppg last year with G’s Taze Moore (11.6 ppg), De’Monte Buckingham (11.0 ppg) and Czar Perry (8.8 ppg) leading the way in a balanced a pacey attack. This should go Over the Total (141½ open,
BetOnline) as should the Southland Conference game between Sam Houston State and Houston Baptist (3-10-1 ATS,
Overs 12-2) on Saturday (8 pm ET/5 pm PT, #131) here in 2020 A.D., Chinese
Year of the Rat.
Chicago State has L5 SU at Home, being outscored by an average of 25 ppg over that span and with
CSUB the #4 team in Offensive Rebounding (38.4%) and the Cougars
#290 (24.6%), there’s no doubt who’ll win the battle in the Paint and Chicago State, who have seen 26% of their scoring come from Freshmen (Ke’Sean Davis, Rajeir Jones, Amir Gholizadeh), will have to be dead on from the
outside, something they seldom are. Hybrids demand Art and Science. When Xavier Johnson (17.3 ppg), Andrew Lewis (11.3 ppg) and the Cougars score 74 points or more they’re 4-1 SU, but
when Chicago State puts up less than 74 points, they mushroom to 0-15 SU.
Despite playing an impressive 2H on Thursday vs GCU,
Chicago State is 0-6 ATS in its L6 games in the First Half market and should be overmatched here vs CSUB (8-10 SU, 5-10-0 ATS) who will be heading in off of an OT Win at UMKC on Thursday, 74-64 as Justin Edler-Davis popped three 3-pointers and scored 13 points in OT to lead the Roadrunners (3-0 WAC) to the win vs the Kangaroos.
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives...
Cal-State Bakersfield 93 Chicago State 65