Odds re: Big East & other Conference Tournaments

[otis]

http://www.syracuse.com/poliquin/index.ssf/2014/03/post_5.html#incart_flyout_sports

[Note: I did not insert the "smiley faces" in the ACC and AAC listings]

Big East Conference Tournament Favorites:
Villanova (28-3): 3-2
Creighton (24-6): 7-1
St. John's (20-11): 6-1
Xavier (20-11): 9-1
Georgetown (17-13): 12-1
Marquette (17-14): 12-1
Providence (20-11): 15-1
Butler (14-16): 66-1
Seton Hall (15-16): 100-1
DePaul (11-20): 500-1

Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Favorites:
Duke (24-7): 2-1
Virginia (25-6): 2-1
Syracuse (27-4): 3-1
North Carolina (23-8): 7-1
Pittsburgh (23-8): 12-1
Clemson (19-11): 40-1
Florida State (18-12): 40-1
Maryland (17-14): 40-1
North Carolina State (19-12): 50-1
Miami (16-15): 66-1
Notre Dame (15-16): 100-1
Georgia Tech (15-16): 250-1
Boston College (8-23): 500-1
Virginia Tech (9-21): 500-1
Wake Forest (16-15): 500-1

American Conference Tournament Favorites:
Louisville (26-5): 2-3
Cincinnati (26-5): 13-4
Memphis (23-8): 5-1
Southern Methodist (23-8): 6-1
Connecticut (24-7): 10-1
Houston (16-15): 100-1
Rutgers (11-20): 500-1
Temple (9-21): 500-1
Central Florida (12-17): 1,000-1
South Florida (12-19): 1,000-1

 

[tom in salem]

This clown has Creighton @ longer odds than SJU??
He should stick to syracuse.

 

[ccnobz]

Creighton , Butler, and Xaxier should pack light- all will lost their 1st game of the tourney.

 

[sirvoo]

I love us to win this tournament. Unfortunately our biggest hurdle is that first game. We play our best when everyone is loose. Think if the kids were going to be tight it will be tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Moose]

I love us to win this tournament. Unfortunately our biggest hurdle is that first game. We play our best when everyone is loose. Think if the kids were going to be tight it will be tomorrow afternoon.

Agree.
We win tomorrow I think we definitely beat Nova.

 

[MJDinkins]

I love us to win this tournament. Unfortunately our biggest hurdle is that first game. We play our best when everyone is loose. Think if the kids were going to be tight it will be tomorrow afternoon.

Agree.
We win tomorrow I think we definitely beat Nova.

Likewise.

 

[sirvoo]

I love us to win this tournament. Unfortunately our biggest hurdle is that first game. We play our best when everyone is loose. Think if the kids were going to be tight it will be tomorrow afternoon.

Agree.
We win tomorrow I think we definitely beat Nova.

Yes I do too. Tomorrow's game can't come soon enough

 

[Marillac]

I love us to win this tournament. Unfortunately our biggest hurdle is that first game. We play our best when everyone is loose. Think if the kids were going to be tight it will be tomorrow afternoon.

Agree.
We win tomorrow I think we definitely beat Nova.

Yes I do too. Tomorrow's game can't come soon enough

I am having trouble waitinf ro the game. I can't take it...time is standing still.
If we make it to the NCAA tournament...I will be there.

 

[sirvoo]

I love us to win this tournament. Unfortunately our biggest hurdle is that first game. We play our best when everyone is loose. Think if the kids were going to be tight it will be tomorrow afternoon.

Agree.
We win tomorrow I think we definitely beat Nova.

Yes I do too. Tomorrow's game can't come soon enough

I am having trouble waitinf ro the game. I can't take it...time is standing still.
If we make it to the NCAA tournament...I will be there.

I have an interesting dilemma on my hands...hopefully a good one. I will be at tomorrow's game. Friday night my girlfriend bought us 2 tickets to Florida without my consent...will potentially be watching the game on Jetblue which sucks, especially cause a U.S. marshall will likely subdue me for unruly behavior 30,000 feet in the air.

 

[Moose]

Could have put this in a few threads but put it here for now.

Talk about things that infuriate me.

The 61st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament begins today in Greensboro for the 26th time, but "not everyone is ... thrilled about playing" there, according to Kevin Gorman of the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW. Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said he is "looking forward to the challenge of the tournament." But he "wasn't as enthused about the location of the venue or sharing the ACC tourney's storied history with his team." The ACC "has the second-oldest continuous conference tournament in the country, behind only the Southern, which has played every year" since '22 (PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 3/11). In Pittsburgh, Paul Zeise reports Notre Dame coach Mike Brey "spent the early part of this week educating his players" about how the ACC Tournament, "not the Big East tournament, set the standard." Some coaches "would like to see the tournament moved out of North Carolina because they believe it gives the state's schools -- Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest and North Carolina State -- an unfair advantage." Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said that now that the conference footprint "has changed ... moving it around probably makes the most sense." Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said that North Carolina-based schools "get a bad rap for wanting to keep the tournament in Greensboro." But he conceded that the "best thing for the conference now that it has stretched out would be to take the tournament on the road." He added, "We have new members and they have had their tournament in other places, in New York, and so you have to listen to those people and figure out what it is the best for our conference" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 3/12).