We are 13.5 point favorites on the road against a team that is 5-4 in the conference. After following the MAC for 20+ years...That seems absolutely crazy to me.

This reminded me about a serious gambler I knew who ran his own book at one point. He was convinced someone could do really well if they closely followed mid major and smaller conferences.

The second we take out our top 3 our guys out big leads tend to evaporate. So beating CMU by that much on the road seems a stretch….

If you seriously follow the MAC in football and basketball, and do not bet with your heart, you can clean up on some out of whack lines.

I feel the line is inflated as well. The Western Michigan line of -21 was crazy. I know there is no such thing as easy money, but WMU +21 was easy money for those who follow Ohio basketball closely.

I believe we learn a ton about our team tonight. This is not a good spot for Ohio. Week long road trip...5th game in 12 days...coming off a disappointing loss at Toledo and now going to play an improved CMU team in an empty gym.

Don't care what the final is....just need to come out with a win. But if I were a betting man...I'd tell all my friends to take CMU and the +13 1/2 in a heartbeat.

It looked pretty sparse....

As discussed on other threads, having OUr upcoming Akron game in the Convo moved from a Saturday to Friday sucks. But we should still have thousands vs hundreds in attendance...

Don't expect much from CMU the rest of the way. They play Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday every week this month; 12 games in 26 days. They're at WMU tomorrow, then home to EMU next Tuesday before at Toledo, at Ohio and at MOFO, and wrapping up February at home vs Kent. I think we saw their fatigue hitting in the second half last night. They just didn't have the energy to press like they did in the first half. I think our fatigue showed up at the FT line; we were something like three for our first ten.