WAC Saturday

[WACed]

UTAH ST. +5.5 @ New Mexico St. ..........3*
UTAH ST. (15-5, 5-0WAC) travels to NEW MEXICO ST.(10-11, 4-2WAC) to put their undefeated conference record on the line. I am most likely getting trapped once again here as I did in the San Jose St. game the other night, but if you're going to give me the best team in the WAC w/ points I'm gonna have to take a stab at it. These two teams faced off in Utah 14days ago, a game that Utah St won 74-62. In that game Utah St. shot 45% from the field to NMst.'s 35.5%, while New Mexico St. did have a poor shooting day, so did Utah St. In it's past three games since this match up Utah St. has shot 54%, 60.4%, and 64.3%...and their season average is right around 51%. The turnovers where nearly even w/ Utah St. committing 11 and NMst. committing 12. Utah St. has been playing extremely good basketball lately and have won 10straight games while NMst. just got handed a double digit home loss by Nevada. NMst. will have plenty working for them coming into this game, home court/revenge factor/Utah St. is coming off a win @la. tech where they struggled w/ a full court press, and I think they will be able to keep this game much closer than the two teams previous meeting, but in the end I don't see this being Utah St.'s first conference loss, and I really have a hard time believing they lose this game by more than 5points.

LOUISIANA TECH +11.5 vs Nevada.........1*
LOUISIANA TECH (3-14, 0-5WAC) hosts NEVADA (11-7, 3-2WAC). Louisiana Tech is coming off of a home loss to Utah St. by 10pts, and now they face a slight drop off in competition as a young and much more inexperienced Nevada team comes to play. Louisiana Tech played some very good D against Utah St. in their last game, causing 24 turnovers and I look for them to use that same pressing style D against Nevada and this should cause problems for the Wolfpack just as it did to Utah St. Despite Louisiana Tech's averaging only 57.5pts a game, I think they will be able to come up w/ enough offense to keep this one close, as they have shown they are able to score points as they have just recently put up 78pts on Idaho and 66pts on Boise St. Nevada's D allows 70.8pts a game and they score 73.6 a game, but only 68.8pts on the road. I think this is just a case of Louisiana Tech getting to many points at home.

FRESNO ST. -9.5 vs San Jose St. ............2*
FRESNO ST. (9-10, 2-3WAC) will be seeking some revenge on SAN JOSE ST. (9-9, 2-4WAC) after SJS was able to beat them by 4pts earlier in the season. In that game SJS shot 51.1% from the field, nearly 10% higher than their season average, while Fresno was held right around their season average 41.5%. SJS also grabbed 30rebounds in that game, nearly 10 more rebounds than they average a game, while Fresno only snagged 21rebounds. I think these where 2 factors to SJS win that they will not be able to repeat again. Fresno comes into this game having not played a game since last Saturday while SJS just played @ Idaho on Thursday night. I think this game could turn into a blow out as Fresno St. gets its revenge over San Jose St.

no play for me in the Hawaii/Idaho game as I think that one is to unpredictable, I would lean towards Idaho at home if I was forced to make a pick, but luckily I'm not forced to make a play on it

also playing:

PURDUE +2 vs Wisconsin....1*

may be adding more, not sure yet

[grandmaster]

good luck WAC Im against you on Purdue tho.

[wdg532]

I'm on Utah St. also. That was the first game I picked to cap. They have completely owned this matchup. They are not at the level of past years but should have no problem covering this spread.

good luck

wdg532

[Studplayr]

I like the Boilers a little also WACed

GL
Stud

[WACed]

utah st had 4 players suspended before the game that i was unaware of until after the game started......