Why is Gonzaga such a huge favorite against Winthrop?

[MicroBob]

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they don't have any bad losses

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01/20 at USF L 73-70
02/12 at Loyola-Mary W 61-58
02/19 USF W 75-73


True...they won all the games they were supposed to win...and had some good non-conf wins as well as very respectable non-conf losses.

But beating up on the San Diego's and Northern Colorado's of the universe isn't exactly earth-shattering.


FWIW - I think they are a very good team....and obviously the WCC has a couple of good teams in there. But the bottom-feeders of that league ARE pretty terrible and didn't do much to toughen-up the Zags imo.
Will be interesting to see how they do.

[slogger]

I don't think anyone is saying that Gonzaga doesn't deserve their 3-seed. In fact, I would argue adamantly that they do. However, the 13.5 point spread seems ridiculous unless there is some information other than the teams resumes involved - an injury or suspension on the Winthrop squad or some other problem with their team???

You can go all day long about how great Gonzaga is, but don't forget to look closely at Winthrop. It's one thing to say that Gonzaga's too good of a team to pick Winthrop +13.5 points (I would disagree), but you cannot convince me that Gonzaga wouldn't be a very bad bet at this spread.

[Clarkmeister]

USF and Santa Clara are pretty dang good teams. That conference is better than people think. Watch St. Mary's against the Salukis.

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Had to bump this one too. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]