It is too bad this contest is not on the gridiron because I would like to have seen that. \u00a0TCU has no real pedigree when it come to hoops and even though they have a solid record so far they haven\u2019t beaten anybody and have a loss to Norfolk State. <\/p>\n
Monday December 19 TCU<\/strong><\/p>\n The one thing they can say is that they don\u2019t get nervous down the stretch. \u00a0All of their wins except one has been by less than 10 points. \u00a0They have good point guard play and know how to close out games.<\/p>\n That good point guard is Hank Thorns, who started his career in the ACC at Virginia Tech. \u00a0He is only 5\u20199\u201d but he can control the game for TCU which is critical at times. \u00a0So far this year his scoring is up and his assists are down. \u00a0He might be trying to do too much but you can hardly blame him because he doesn\u2019t get a lot of help out there. \u00a0<\/p>\n The closest thing he has to a running mate is J.R Cadot, a 6\u20195\u201d athlete who has shown good growth to his game as a soph. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n USC<\/strong><\/p>\n You would think because they are based in L.A. that the Trojans would play a pretty brand of basketball but you couldn\u2019t be more wrong. \u00a0Ever since Kevin O\u2019Neill took over, and with limited scholarship athletes, USC has been playing a grind it out, defensive kind of game. \u00a0<\/p>\n It is all and sometimes only about defense with this club and if you are not ready for it can be quite intimidating. \u00a0Their record may not be great right now but USC is almost always in the game.<\/p>\n That is mostly because of the defense and the omni-presence of guard Maurice Jones. \u00a0The 5\u20197\u201d dynamo plays pretty much the whole game every time out. \u00a0He is their leading scorer at 14.4ppg and an important cog in their defense. \u00a0This team contests every shot and refuses to back down even though they are often outmanned. \u00a0<\/p>\n All you have to do is look at the spread to see that this is not an ordinary 4-7 club.<\/p>\n Spread Pick: \u00a0USC TCU Horned Frogs (7-3) vs USC Trojans (4-7) It is too bad this contest is not on the gridiron because I would like to have seen that. \u00a0TCU has no real pedigree when it come to hoops and even though they have a solid record so far they haven\u2019t beaten anybody and have a loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":32554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[4631,3354,775,53195,2584,6178,53196,1261,1282,1851],"class_list":["post-46650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-college-basketball-odds","tag-horned-frogs","tag-ncaa-free-picks","tag-ncaa-free-predictions","tag-tcu","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-tcu-horned-frogs-vs-usc-trojans","tag-trojans","tag-usc","tag-usc-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46659,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650\/revisions\/46659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGalen Center – Los Angeles, CA
\n10:30PM
\nMoneyline:
\nSpread: USC -7
\nO\/U: \u00a0118<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nO\/U Pick: Under
\nScore Prediction: \u00a0USC 60 – TCU 50<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"