Matt Fargo – Sports Handicapper

This is a play on the ST. JOSEPH'S HAWKS for our Tuesday Free Play. Temple has won three straight games, covering all three as well as each of those victories came by double-digits and now the Owls are seeing their first inflated number of the season following their best stretch of play. They opened the season 2-4 with three of those losses coming as favorite which includes an overtime loss to Wagner by 16 points and are now being asked to lay double-digits for just the second time this season. Overall, Temple is just 3-2 at home and being a below average team on both sides of the floor, this is too many points to be laying. The Hawks are coming off a 97-80 home loss to Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday as 12-point favorites and that was a bad non-quality loss as the first three defeats came against Houston, Georgia and South Florida. St. Joseph's is 1-0 on the road which was a victory over Penn in the game prior to the loss against the Knights and it looks to get back on track in a game the Hawks may have been guilty looking ahead to. This is a big rivalry for both sides with the Philadelphia Big 5 Title in play every season between the city schools and St. Joseph's and Temple remain the only unbeaten teams in the Big 5 this year. St. Joseph's is 18-6 ATS in its last 24 road games off a home loss by 10 points or more. Here, we play on road underdogs of 10 to 19.5 points off an upset loss by 15 points or more as a home favorite. This situation is 119-62 ATS (65.7 percent) since 1997. Play (615) St. Joseph's Hawks

College Basketball is back on Tuesday following a pass on Monday and Matt is looking to start a new winning week tonight! He is on a 10-7 CBB Run and he is poised to continue the stretch with a solid Tuesday night card. In what is a very strong card, Matt has three games as he goes for the PERFECT 3-0 SWEEP! SWEET 6-2 NBA run the last 6 days while on a SIZZLING 14-6 run and Matt is back on Tuesday night to keep it rolling with his NBA Game of the Week and he wins this one GOING AWAY.

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This is a play on the TOLEDO ROCKETS as part of our CBB Tuesday Three Pack. The Rockets are coming off a road loss at George Mason on Saturday which snapped a two-game winning streak and dropped them to 5-3 on the season and 0-1 on the road. Toledo is coming off back-to-back conference titles and consecutive NIT berths the last two seasons and has been picked to finish second in the MAC this season so it know how to win games like this that can go a long way as while it really will not be a quality win, it would be more of a detrimental loss. They do own a solid neutral court win over UAB early in the season which set the tone for a 3-0 start before suffering a pair of poor losses as favorites. The offense remains one of the best in the country and they have a good matchup here. Northern Iowa opened MVC play last week and split its games, losing big at Bradley which was expected and it then rebounded with a 17-point win over Evansville. The Panthers are used to being at the top of the conference but not much is expected this season and they are off to a 3-4 start with the three victories coming against one non-Division I Wartburg and the other two coming as double-digit favorites. Those all came at home and are the only three home games this season so Northern Iowa has yet to be tested here. The Panthers were underdogs in all four losses as they were getting six points or less in each and lost those by an average of nine ppg. 10* (639) Toledo Rockets

This is a play on the GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS as part of our CBB Tuesday Three Pack. Georgia Tech moved to 5-3 on the season with a 81-63 victory over Northeastern on Friday. Two of its losses were on a neutral floor to teams that earned top 10 wins last week with Utah defeating Arizona and Marquette defeating Baylor. The other loss came on the road at Iowa which just missed out on the top 25 this week. The Yellow Jackets are 4-0 at home and while this will be the biggest home test, they have already built a solid overall schedule and Georgia is certainly no powerhouse. Georgia Tech is 15-5 ATS in its last 20 games after five straight games committing 14 or less turnovers. Georgia has won three straight games, all at home where it is 6-0 but all of those games came as a favorite of at least nine points. The Bulldogs lost their only true road game at Wake Forest by 10 points and overall, they are 7-0 this season when favored and 0-2 when getting points. To their credit, the Bulldogs have already surpassed their win total from all of last season so things are moving in the right direction in Athens but the schedule has helped. Georgia is the fourth lowest ranked team with seven or more wins in all of Division I, ahead of only Fordham, Towson and Duquesne as it has played a slate ranked No. 353 out of 363 teams at this level. Georgia is 7-18 ATS in its last 25 road games after allowing 60 points or less in two straight games. 10* (614) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

This is a play on the ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI as part of our CBB Tuesday Three Pack. We played against Illinois on Friday as it dropped its Big Ten opener on the road to No. 22 Maryland, which was its second loss of the season, both coming against undefeated teams, the other being against 7-0 Virginia. This game will be the fourth against a ranked opponent in nine games with the third one coming against UCLA in a nine-point win on a neutral floor so it has certainly been tested and Illinois has 10 wins over top 10 teams since 2019-20, second-most in the NCAA behind Baylor which has 12. This is a raw team that did not bring much back from last season but give head coach Brad Underwood credit for bringing in the transfers that can work together which they have accomplished. Texas has moved up to No. 2 in the country after a 6-0 start and this is not only its toughest test of the season, but it is its longest trip as well. The Longhorns do have one neutral court win but that was against Northern Arizona which took place in nearby Edinburg, Texas so it was hardly a demanding trip. They are coming off a five-point win over Creighton after blowing a double-digit second half lead and that was a game they had a great matchup in with the Bluejays being one of the worst perimeter defenses in the country but now faces a very strong perimeter defense. Texas is 4-14 ATS in its last 18 games against teams averaging 77 or more ppg. 10* (607) Illinois Fighting Illini