October 16, 2024

Best Bets: Previewing Purdue-Virginia and Ohio State-North Carolina

© Getty ImagesNo. 7 VIRGINIA at PURDUE, 7:15 p.m. SPREAD: Purdue (-2) TOTAL: 102.5 IMPLIED SCORE: Purdue 52.25, Virginia 50.25 KENPOM: Purdue 50, Virginia 48 TICKETS: Click here I mean, I don’t even know where to start here. The total is just laughable. 102.5? That’s lower than just about every single team total that you are going to see betting NBA games on a nightly basis. And here is the craziest part: I am legitimately considering taking the under here. Virginia, as you can probably imagine, ranks dead last in America in tempo. Purdue is right there with them. There are 353 teams in the Division I ranks. Purdue ranks 348th in tempo. There are going to be somewhere around 52-55 possessions in this game, which means that if each team can average one point per possession, which is not all that difficult in theory, this game is going over. But I…

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