OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a Wednesday winner is on St. Bonaventure (+12.5) at Duquesne.
Reasoning: Duquesne is still the more talented team and the overall superior team on the court today but after losing five of their last six games how can one not take a stab plus the dozen or so?
The Bonnies are much improved from the past when they were absolute garbage. This team is a respectable 15-12 overall and 7-7 in the Atlantic-10. Are they good? No, but they have beaten Buffalo, St. John’s and today’s foe in the Dukes. No doubt it is a major revenge spot for Bill Clark, Damian Saunders and the Dukes but I just don’t see this team being able to lace them up right now and whack a decent enough opponent, which St. Bonaventure has become. The confidence has to be waning and maybe, just maybe, this team really isn’t nearly as good as they showed in the 11-game winning streak. After all they are still “Duquesne”.
I will give them credit as the Dukes were absolutely rolling in the middle of the season and looking as if they were going to definitely make the tournament. They were seeming like a legitimate squad in the midst of a breakthrough season but then the you know what hit the fan after losing to the Bonnies and the bleeding has yet to be stopped in losing five of the last six games. It’s also not like they have been losing to upper echelon teams, as the likes of St. Louis, Dayton and Rhode Island are not much better than mediocre this season.
We will need Andrew Nicholson to come close to the 28 points he put up in that last game against St. Joe’s. But it is possible if not probable.
The skid will more than likely not reach six of seven, as I’m hard pressed to truly believe that St. Bonaventure can actually win this game. But to get around a dozen is enough to give it a go.
Top expert pick on this game: St. Bonaventure.
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