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Jack’s Free Sports Picks: 12/31

Written December 31, 2008 by Jack Jones

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LA Lafayette +17
The real reason I like this game is that if you look at the records the spread looks pretty accurate, but if you dig deeper into the schedule you will find that LSU’s has been pretty soft while Lafayette has been beaten by teams like Tennessee. Plus, the Ragin Cajuns have had to deal with their leading scorer Travis Bureau being out with a groin injury. You have to wonder just how serious the Tigers are going to take this game since it’s New Year’s Even and they will most likely be looking past the weaker team. Lafayette will have more to prove since they are taking on an in-state rival.

Wyoming +12.5
The Cowboys are an impressive 11-2 on the year, but have one big hickey on their resume when they were throttled by 113-62 by UCLA. This team has bounced back though with a couple of wins over some weaker teams so I don’t think they are suffering any lingering effects. utah State has been solid this year, but laying double digits to a team as good as Wyoming seems like a stretch to me. Brandon Ewing has looked pretty impressive this year with an 18.5 ppg average and 74 assists. He also gets help from Afam Muojeke and Sean Ogirri for 16.1 and 15.2 ppg. If you through in Tyson Johnson’s 14.6 points per game you can see why Wyoming is averaging 82 ppg as a team, which should be good enough to keep them in this game against Utah State.

NC Greensboro +10
This is one of those games that if you look into you are going to hate. UNC Greensboro has been pretty awful this year in going 1-8 while Akron hasn’t been playing too bad in putting up a 7-4 record. Are the Zips really that good though? I don’t think so as they don’t shoot that well from the floor and don’t score a lot of points. Akron does play good defense and should hold the Spartans to a fairly low point total, but covering a double digit spread is going to be a stretch. I see this game ending up somewhere in the 56-50 type of range.