Name: Mike DeCourcy Previews Wednesday College Hoops & Team Outlooks
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We're back on Newswire and pleased to bring in our good friend Mike De Courcy, of course, covers college basketball for the sporting news. Mike, how are you? I am well, Adam. How are you? I'm good. Look, it's feast week, so everybody is happy, not only counting down until they can literally feast on their Thanksgiving meals, but as we can bet all day long and follow all things college basketball through these early season tournaments and just everything that is going on day by day, really, it feels like any time you turn on the TV there's at least a game on and so it's a great time. Let's start. With the Johnniess. Now, Saint John's, uh, you know, number 14 team in the country, handled Baylor, first loss of the year for the Bears as well. It was lopsided, 9681 in this one. Bryce Hopkins 26 points. The Johnnys great from 3, 11 out of 22. We know Rick Pitino was happy after the game, obviously. What do you think of the bounce back? Yeah, I thought it was good, but one of the interesting things that developed out of that victory to me, Adam, was the fact that they shot so well from three point range. And that I, I came out of that thinking, do they need to shoot that well from three point range to win because they're still not rebounding. Uh they got beaten pretty handily on the boards down the stretch of their loss on Monday, and then I thought that there would be improvement in that area, that there would be a focus on it. Uh, Bryce Hopkins, Ed Gor, those guys have been good rebounders in the past, but it's not happening right now. I thought it would be an emphasis against Baylor. And like I said, it was not, if it were, if it was a, a emphasis, it didn't come through. they still shot the ball well, they guarded Baylor very well, but they are not hitting the boards and getting those defensive possessions closed out, and that will cost them if they don't improve in that area. It's obviously very early in the season. Teams haven't played 10 games yet, but when we're considering the futures market for a team like Saint John's who, to me, you know, thinking back to last year in the tournament, went out a little prematurely, at least compared to my own expectations and where I had them on my bracket and all that fun stuff. The odds naturally, obviously get longer the deeper you go into the tournament as you look at it right now. For instance, to win the Big East, we have plus 160, the Final Four plus 550. To win the whole damn thing, cut down the nets 25 to 1. I don't need to ask you what their ceiling is, clearly, that's the latter. But what's most realistic to you in terms of this team's finish? Yeah, I mean, at the first of all, the Big East is not really a very deep conference in terms of contenders this year. So, uh, when you look at that number uh on the Big East championship, I think it reflects more the idea that it's probably going to be either them or UConn, uh, with a maybe an outside shot for Villanova. Uh, Georgetown will be a contender as well, but there's not a big pool of candidates. I don't think they're a great value to win the league unless they make significant gains in the area that I. I just discussed, I, I do think they're dangerous because first of all, they've got that ability to shoot now from the perimeter they didn't have a year ago. Uh, and you've got Rick on the bench who's as good in March as there's ever been a coach in terms of, uh, navigating his way through the madness. Uh, he's as good as there's ever been. So there's, there might be some value in that Final Four play, but even that number seems a little bit low, uh, for the challenge that there'll be to try to get that far. So by knocking off Baylor, that means next up Auburn, the number 21 team in the country right now, at Saint John's is a 6.5 point favorite. Total in this game, as you can see on your screen, is 167.5. Do you like the Johnnys to go out there and not only win, but cover the number? Well, I don't know about the number. It's a big one, especially, especially since Auburn is a very talented team. Uh, but what you do have, if you, if you, if you feel inclined there, you have Rick Pitino against Steven Pearl, who's coaching his 8th or 9th game as a division one head coach and Uh, gosh, uh, Rick has coached about 1000 of them and won most of them, uh, so you have that advantage and you do have a skill advantage. I, I think Taha Pettiford will be the best player on the floor for Auburn, uh, but I think if you were having a draft, so to speak, the next. 23 players you'd take would be Johnny. So they do have a talent advantage there as well, uh, but I don't like, I, I just don't like the way the Johnnys are playing right now in terms of their effort on the, on the glass. I, I just, it makes them too vulnerable for me to invest in them at this stage. Houston got the best of my Syracuse squad, my alma mater, just a couple of days ago, barely they had to work for it, but they got it and then they got their, uh, they, they're just do on the other side. It was Tennessee with a 7673 win in the last time out, sets up Tennessee against Kansas. But before we look ahead to that one, what was your big takeaway from the survival for the balls? Yeah, what I liked about the balls in that game is that down the stretch, it became sort of a basket trading game, which is not typically been the way Tennessee has won. They break your offense, uh, and then they score enough to win. That's been Tennessee basketball under Rick Barnes with the rare exception of having a Grant Williams type talent on your team. They break your offense and they make it, uh, and they find their way to get enough points to win, but they won the game on. Offense down the stretch against the Cougars. They were trading buckets. They were having a hard time stopping King Kingston Flemings and, and rightfully so, the guy's fantastic. Uh, but Jacoby Gillespie, Gillespie answered all of that. They made some really nice execution to get, uh, especially, a bucket that they got that was key from Felix Aparra. Uh, so I, I like where Tennessee is right now. Uh, I think they're in a really good position heading into this game against KU. Well, it's a much lower total than the game we were just talking about. 139.5 for this one. The 4.5 point spread with Tennessee favored the number 17 team in the country against obviously unranked Kansas. Is this gonna be a defensive showdown, do you think? Well, I think that, like I said before, that's kind of where where Tennessee starts and Kansas is going to have to do that in order to hang on. They are missing their best offensive player, Darren Peterson, who will probably be one of the, well, he'll, he'll definitely be one of the first players taken in next year's draft. He could be the first player taken, and he's, he's out with a hand. String injury right now, so they're kind of having to, to make do at point guard with Melvin counsel. He's done a very nice job, especially his first two games in Vegas. Uh, but when you go up against the defense as proficient as Tennessee's, I think that's where, uh, things, uh, break down a little bit for KU and, and why I might lean a little bit toward the balls in this game. We got about 30 seconds, one more for you, and that is Gonzaga in Michigan. This one's pretty close to a pickham. It's not quite there. You got Gonzaga as a slight favorite. Where do you go? Well, it's hard because those are the two best front lines, I think, in college basketball right now. Uh, Gonzaga's got a little less experience at point guard. Uh, so I would say, uh, if I had to pick between the two, I'm gonna like Michigan, uh, but man, it's gonna be a heck of a game to watch. Mike Decorsy once again covers college basketball for the sporting news, a regular here on Newswire on Sports Grid. Mike, thank you so much and happy holidays. Happy Thanksgiving, Adam.

Mike DeCourcy Previews Wednesday College Hoops & Team Outlooks

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