Previewing Kansas State vs. USC College Basketball Season Opener

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00:02 In elite 18 in Kansas State, although Jerome Tang has a new

00:07 squad entering this year and on the other side, we expect,

00:11 well we'll see I guess about the college debut of Brody James as

00:15 he recovers from that cardiac event earlier in the offseason.

00:18 But USC the second best place to win the Pac-12,

00:22 a game out in Las Vegas, Donny, between Kansas State and

00:25 Southern Cal, how excited are you for a new college basketball season?

00:30 >> So excited I will be fast, actually I won't be fast asleep as I'll be actually

00:34 driving home at 10 o'clock.

00:35 So maybe I'm more excited about the college basketball season than I even know

00:38 here.

00:39 Look, it's a learning curve here over the next month to month and a half,

00:42 finding out who the new players on these teams are,

00:44 which teams look quality and also remind ourselves.

00:47 You wanna be playing your basketball best at the end of the season,

00:51 not at the beginning.

00:52 We're gonna get wild upsets in the first couple weeks.

00:54 Marquette just falls to Northern Illinois tonight.

00:57 Don't worry about it.

00:57 These teams will settle into form as they go.

00:59 And also keep in mind, just as a handicapping perspective,

01:03 check where these basketball games are being played.

01:06 Because if you think you're gonna go out and say, hey,

01:07 man, Kansas State in the octagon of doom tonight.

01:10 No, as Benji said, they're in Las Vegas tonight.

01:12 So it does make a major difference with home court advantage here, people.

01:16 >> A renewal of your Kent Palm subscriptions are needed.

01:21 According to Kenneth Pomeroy, Donny, this is the best basketball game of the evening.

01:27 Again, a three point spread in favor of the Trojans.

01:30 Donny, as you well know, a handicapper who as we go through this year,

01:34 analyzes the numbers in college basketball with the best of them.

01:38 I think the odds makers and the algorithm that Ken Palm utilizes

01:42 are very, very similar ratings.

01:44 He has USC winning this game by one point.

01:47 You can often look at the predicted outcome as Ken Palm sees it and

01:51 correlate it to a spread and a total.

01:55 7271, he has USC winning tonight by one.

01:59 That's right around 142 and a half with 143 combined points.

02:04 I guess if you were looking for the edge as Kenneth Pomeroy details it,

02:07 a three and a half point spread in favor of USC would not lead to a cover.

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