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CBB: OVC Conference Tournament Preview
Favorites (odds below +500) Morehead State Eagles (+115): Morehead State is consistently at the top of this conference each year. This year has been no different. They maintained a clean non-conference performance only losing to Big 10/SEC teams (including a close heartbreaker to Indiana) and mostly dominated through OVC play. The downside is they had…
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CBB: NEC Conference Tournament Preview
Favorites (odds below +500) Merrimack Warriors (+110): Merrimack has been one of the top programs in this conference since moving up. They were at/near the top of the conference standings all season long finishing 13-3 in conference play and 19-11 overall. The Warriors are hot at the right time, they just lost on Saturday but…
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CBB: Horizon League Conference Tournament Preview
Favorite(s) (odds below +500) Youngstown State Penguins (+200): Could this be the year? Youngstown State has never made the NCAA tournament. Last year the Penguins had so much promise to make it but the Horizon tournament got the best of them. The Penguins are once again having one of their best seasons ever, winning 22…
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CBB: Patriot League Conference Tournament Preview
Favorite(s) (odds below +500) Colgate Raiders (-230): Colgate is once again the favorite to win the Patriot League. They’ve been in command of this conference since 2019, and of those years only failed to win the conference tournament in 2020. This year is no different, Colgate won all but 2 conference games this year. Both…
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CBB: Sun Belt Conference Tournament Preview
Favorites (odds below +500) James Madison Dukes (+140): James Madison is well known for getting this season started off with a bang when they went to East Lansing and beat Michigan State. The Dukes spent a lot of time in the Top 25 and only lost 3 games all season one upset to Southern Miss…
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College Basketball: Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Preview
Favorites (odds below +500) Eastern Kentucky Colonels (+145): EKU was one of the favorites to win the ASUN entering the season but didn’t seem like they would be able to live up to it with a bad start to the season, however they turned it around in conference play winning their first 7. The Colonels…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Nevada
Nevada Wolfpack: Jeff Choate Why the job was open: Nevada is known for the pistol offense, Colin Kaepernick and the man who orchestrated it, former HC Chris Ault. Ault’s success in recent history made a lot of folks forget that this is a tough job, but it’s starting to become more apparent in recent years…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Middle Tennessee State
Mid Tenn State Blue Raiders: Derek Mason Why the job was open: Rick Stockstill had been one of the longest tenured coaches in all of College Football, he coached the Blue Raiders for 18 seasons! You just don’t see that at a CUSA program this day and age. Stockstill made it this long by leading…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Wyoming
Wyoming Cowboys: Jay Sawvel Why the job was open: A decade ago Craig Bohl was hired to take over Wyoming after building a FCS Powerhouse at North Dakota State. He won 3 titles in a row for the Bison and took on the new challenge of getting Wyoming football back to being competitive. A decade…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Oregon State
Oregon State Beavers: Trent Bray Why the job was open: As you know, this one is complicated. Jonathan Smith did an excellent job with this program, it was in a bad spot in 2018 when he took over but they finished with 10 wins in 2022, finishing ranked in the top 25 the last 2…
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