Matt Fargo – Sports Handicapper

This is a play on the EDMONTON OILERS for our NHL Wednesday Breakaway. Vegas has won six straight games as it has taken advantage of a stocked home schedule. The Golden Knights are 10-3-2 over their last 15 games and they hold a two-point lead over both Vancouver and the Oilers in the Pacific Division. Vegas is 3-8 in its last 11 games after scoring four goals or more in three straight games. Edmonton will be playing the second game of a back-to-back that started with a 4-3 overtime loss at Anaheim on Tuesday. The Oilers remain on the heels of the Golden Knights and a win here gets them into a tie for first place. Edmonton is a solid 18-12-3 on the road and it is 6-0 against the money line when playing on back-to-back days this season. Here, we play against home teams against the money line that are revenging a home loss, after a road game where both teams scored three or more goals. This situation is 57-25 (69.5 percent) over the last five seasons. 10* (31) Edmonton Oilers

This is a play on the LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS for our NBA Wednesday Enforcer. The Clippers broke a three-game slide with a resounding 27-point win over Memphis on Monday. They remain in third place in the Western Conference, trailing second place Denver by a game and a half and the first place Lakers by 6.5 games. They have been an average road team but going back, the Clippers are 27-13 ATS in their last 40 games as a road favorite. Phoenix is coming off a pair of road wins against Chicago and Utah to move to 24-34 on the season and are now 4.5 games out of the final Wild Card spot in the Western Conference. The problem is that they have to pass five teams and that just will not happen. Phoenix is 2-15 ATS in its last 17 home games after scoring 120 points or more. Here, we play against home teams revenging a road loss of 20 points or more going up against an opponent after a cover as a double digit favorite. This situation is 92-54 ATS (63 percent) since 1996. 10* (515) Los Angeles Clippers

This is a play on the FLORIDA GATORS as part of our CBB Wednesday Trifecta. Florida and LSU face off for the second time this season, in a game that figures to have significant bearing on the SEC Conference Tournament seeding, what with the Tigers currently tied with Auburn for second in the standings (two games behind Kentucky) and the Gators, alone in fourth place (just one game out of second). Florida is coming off a solid effort at Kentucky but fell short as it lost by six points, snapping a three-game winning streak and a 5-1 run. The Gators have won three straight at home and are 10-3 at home on the season. Florida lost a tough one at LSU last month by a bucket and avenging that loss is priority. LSU won a big one on the road Saturday night at South Carolina, building a 19-point second-half lead and getting out of town with an 86-80 victory that stopped the bleeding of a run of four losses over the previous five SEC games. The Tigers are 5-4 on the road but only one of the conference wins was by more than six points. 10* (842) Florida Gators

This is a play on the SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SALUKIS as part of our CBB Wednesday Trifecta. Southern Illinois hosts Indiana St. on Wednesday with this being its final home game of the season making it Senior Night. The Salukis have clinched a first-round bye in the MVC Tournament and will play in the quarterfinal round on Friday. With a win here, they would clinch a top-four seed. Southern Illinois also has a chance to go 8-1 at home in MVC play, which would be the best mark for the program since going 8-1 in 2007-08. The Salukis are ranked ranks 9th nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 60.9 ppg and 51st in three-point field goal percentage defense. This is a revenge game following a 12-point loss at Indiana St. to open conference play. The Sycamores are coming off a pair of wins against Northern Iowa and Evansville both those were by just five combined points. They are now 9-7 in the MVC and bring in a 3-8 road record overall. This includes a 2-6 record in the conference but those two wins came against two of the three worst teams in the MVC. 9* (824) Southern Illinois Salukis

This is a play on the VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES as part of our CBB Wednesday Trifecta. Virginia Tech is coming off a pair of losses and has now dropped seven of eight to fall to 6-10 in the ACC. The Hokies will go up against a team that has won the last three games in the rivalry including the Cavaliers getting the best of Virginia Tech, 65-39, this past January. They are now 11-5 at home and it could be better ass the last two home losses came in overtime. After committing eight turnovers in Durham on Saturday, Tech's average a game is now 9.70, which is third in the nation behind fellow ACC foe Notre Dame (9.67) and Liberty (9.69). The Cavaliers are coming off a close three-point win at Pittsburgh this past Saturday despite having 16 turnovers, overcoming the miscues with four players scoring in double figures. Virginia is now riding a four-game winning streak and has improved to 11-5 in the conference which is good for solo fourth. The Cavaliers are just 5-4 on the road while getting outscore by 2.4 ppg. 9* (810) Virginia Tech Hokies