OOC opponent North Carolina A&T (along with Eastern Michigan and Mississippi Valley State, who finally won their first D1 game the other day against Arkansas Pine Bluff) are being investigated for game-fixing.

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/three-mens-college-basketball-programs-identified-in-alleged-game-fixing-scheme

I think of GW's OOC opponents, A&T has probably underperformed the most given how they played the Revs earlier in the year. The Aggies are currently 0-10 in the CAA, which is a bit surprising to me since I thought their guards were decent.
 

Ironically, NIL has probably served one useful purpose. It has probably kept the fixers away from college athletes at the larger schools. Before, if a kid needed money and he wasn't receiving NIL, he might be much more receptive to gambling overtures. Now when you are making 6 or maybe even 7 figures legitimately, you aren't going to risk that nor do you need the money. So I would expect this issue to be pushed to the lower majors where NIL payments are non-existent or very little. Now that gambling is legal most everywhere, it doesn't matter to the fixers what games they affect because there is enough money to be made from any game now. Therefore, it is not surprising that these were the schools involved.

I do agree with Rising's premise but compare the two spreads that were mentioned in the article.  The UAB first half line against Temple jumped from - 1 1/2 points to - 8 points.  Yeah, that's an awful lot of first half betting.  The other example showed Delaware's -2 first half line against NC A&T move to - 3 1/2 while the game line stayed at -4 1/2.  A 1 1/2 point line move does not normally correlate to a ton of betting.  The first half bets must have been demonstrably more than the game bets, since the game line stayed as is.  I guess it's a bad look to have a larger spread on a first half line than an entire game line.  Then again, NC A&T trailed GW by 11 at the half but only lost the game by 5.  So maybe they are just slow starters, period.

H&R..71 wrote:

La Salle is getting 18.5 at VCU tonight.  IMO don't think VCU will cover.

As the great Warner Wolf used to say: If you had La Salle plus 29, you still lost!

Not too worried about Marquette after that performance.  Those two teams each played like Elite 8 type teams.  Decided free throw advantage for the Johnnies but that's to be expected at MSG now that Pitino has them extremely competitive once again.  Very enjoyable game to watch; played at a very high level.

Rising, it's that (he moved on) or he posts so much he's forgetting to switch his many monikers! Lol.

Um maybe we all should wear fire suits next Wednesday. VCU closed HARD at Dayton to win by the biggest 5 point margin I’ve seen in awhile.

H&R..71 wrote:

Did anyone catch the George Mason @ SLU game last night.  SLU got hosed!!! They were down 1 after a great comeback with 12 seconds to go.  Mason stepped on the inbounds line for the second time in 30 seconds but the refs missed the second one.  Replay clearly showed Mason had foot on line while inbounding but Mason kept possession, got fouled, made both FT's.  Down 3, Swope hits a 34 footer to send it to OT where Mason won.  
In this day and age where the goal of "review" is to get calls (or no calls) correct, why with 12 seconds left wasn't it reviewable.  I absolutely believe that if the announcers can get it right, the refs should.  We see it time after time in the NFL and other sports.  Just get it right!!!
I'm heading to the SLU student body comments...should be priceless.  

My belief in general is that in all sports, whoever determined what can be reviewed/overturned and what may not be had to be drunk off of their ass/asses when reaching these decisions .  That's how arbitrary this all appears to be.
 

Villanova will be a job opening in the offseason for sure.  Jeckle and Hyde team.  They have blown double digit leads several times in the final moments of games.  Show their talent in wins over the top of the Conference including Marquette last night but then lose inexplicably

They have a new AD with no connection to Jay Wright - which is how Neptune got the job.

Watching VCU brick or airball open three after open three is so frustrating.  If they shot like this, we would have blown them out.  Or even if they had an average shooting day.

They are 2-13 from three and 4-20 from the field (but only down 3 because Mason can’t score either).