The Jim Valvano basketball classic offers two great contests tonight, coming live from Madison Square Garden. \u00a0 <\/p>\n
West Virginia (6-1) vs Davidson (6-1) – 7 pm ET<\/h3>\n
Sportsbook.com<\/strong> has Davidson as slim 1.5-point favorites.<\/p>\n After being held scoreless against Loyola of Maryland, Stephen Curry rebounded to score 44 points and lead Davidson (3-2 ATS) to a 72-67 non-cover victory as eight-point favorites over N.C. State.<\/p>\n Curry was constantly double-teamed by Loyola-MD and never scored as his team won anyways 78-48, essentially playing four on three when Curry was on the floor.<\/p>\n Note that Davidson is a superb 10-2 ATS in all neutral court games over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n West Virginia (2-3 ATS) will present a challenge of a different sort for Davidson, with coach Bob Huggins style of physical defense and methods to have his teams take good shots.<\/p>\n The Mountaineers have shot inconsistently of late, making just 30.6% of shots in a loss to Kentucky and 34.6% in their last game (a win over Cleveland State). West Virginia has not covered their last three games, yet is 13-4 ATS versus good offensive teams scoring 77 or more points a game over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n Davidson is 9-1 ATS versus good defensive teams allowing 64 points or less per game. The Mountaineers thrive on playing defense and are 8-0 ATS after allowing 50 points or less.<\/p>\n NCAAB Prediction: Davidson by 3<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Texas is listed as three-point favorites.<\/p>\n Villanova has looked great in beating eight opponents by almost 23 points per game, all played within the confines of the Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n Now the Wildcats (3-2 ATS) have to venture out of their comfort zone and take on a hearty opponent who has faced a number of strong teams already this season in Texas (3-3 ATS).<\/p>\n Villanova\u2019s strength is its backcourt, led by Scottie Reynolds, who snapped a season-long offensive funk with a season-high 23 points against Houston Baptist.<\/p>\n All of the Wildcats numbers look fabulous, scoring 79.6 points per game, on 47.7% shooting. The problem coach Jay Wright\u2019s squad is going to have to overcome is an exceptional Longhorns frontline that is talented and big.<\/p>\n Villanova just doesn\u2019t have what it takes up front and must find other ways to compensate like they have in the past, being able to post a 16-6 ATS record after three straight games out-rebounding an opponent by six or more.<\/p>\n Texas finished third in the Maui Invitational last month, losing to then 8th-ranked Notre Dame 81-80. And they fought extremely hard to defeat UCLA last week 68-64.<\/p>\n Texas has a starting frontline of 6\u20197 Damion James, 6\u201910 Dexter Pittman and 6\u201910 Connor Atchley, going up against Villanova\u2019s lone big man in 6\u20198 Dante Cunningham, who is averaging a team high 17.3 PPG.<\/p>\n The Longhorns still have sharp-shooter A.J. Abrams, which leads to interesting choices for coach Wright in how to defend Texas. The Longhorns are just 9-19 ATS on the road after playing five consecutive games as a favorite.<\/p>\n These teams have met each of the last two years, splitting the pair with Villanova covering both and neither team shooting better than 39%.<\/p>\n NCAAB Prediction: \u2013Texas by 2<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Jim Valvano basketball classic offers two great contests tonight, coming live from Madison Square Garden….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4816,6249,6250,4452,6252,6248,4208,4213,4691,6251,66516,1178,6254,6253],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sportsbooks","tag-bet-on-college-basketball","tag-bet-on-ncaab","tag-cbb-odds","tag-college-hoops","tag-jim-valvano-basketball-classic","tag-jimmy-v-championship","tag-ncaa-basketball-betting","tag-ncaa-basketball-point-spreads","tag-ncaab-predictions","tag-online-cbb-betting","tag-point-spreads","tag-sportsbookcom","tag-texas-vs-villanova","tag-west-virginia-vs-davidson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106643,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/106643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
Texas (6-1) vs Villanova (8-0) \u2013 9:30 pm ET<\/h3>\n