Both of these teams will likely be playing in the post season, but while coming into the season Butler is pretty much assured of an NCAA bid, that is far from the case for Northwestern so, yes even in November, this is a game with Big Dance implications, and in this case it means a TON more to the homestanding Wildcats. Both teams bring back a great deal of talent from last year, but NWU has added punch with the additions of Drew Crawford and Alex Marcotuillo, the latter a pure shooter and Crawford someone that can create his own shot. With defenses focused on Kevin Coble - who dropped 31 on national runner up Michigan State last year - Crawford, Marcotuillo and the rest of the Wildcat supporting cast should do well. Finally, these two teams played last year (when NWU not as good as they are now) at Butler, and the Bulldogs came away with a four point win. However, they shot 18 and mode 14 more free throws in that game, clearly a big reason for the outcome. Now that the Wildcats have the home zebra edge, expect that aspect of the game to turn around. Finally, numbers show that Butler just 10-18 ATS as away chalk of this range. Take the home dog here to pull the outright upset and make an early impression on the Committee.
I like the NCAA play, cause the Maximus Report gave me the same thing but their reasoning was totally different than what you gave.
First,,,,what are you talking about, 1 game in and your telling me that BUTLER is already getting an NCAA FIELD OF 65 bid,,,,,In the Horizon league,,,if they don't win that conference or Conf-Tourny they are not getting in to the Dance,,,,so don't go there. I think the Triple threat sports needs to do some homework also,,,,COBLE is out for Northwestern for the season,,,,, so that could mean huge problems, Northwestern won their first game over a feisty NIU squad 77-55 without COBLE, and according to the Maximus Report they are saying that BUTLER is currently overrated they have their entire roster back from last year's horizon league championship squad and the addition of the two redshirt freshman will help them, but besides Hayward and Veasley, they have a core of solid players that score around 10 a game, I was told expect the score to be around 64-60 NWU wins.
Now I know why the Maximus Report had Northwestern as only a solid play for 1 unit. They were right, that Butler squad was solid tonight, they had the wrong side, but at least they told me how solid Butler was, and that it could mean trouble of Northwestern being without COBLE.
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First,,,,what are you talking about, 1 game in and your telling me that BUTLER is already getting an NCAA FIELD OF 65 bid,,,,,In the Horizon league,,,if they don't win that conference or Conf-Tourny they are not getting in to the Dance,,,,so don't go there. I think the Triple threat sports needs to do some homework also
,,,,COBLE is out for Northwestern for the season,,,,, so that could mean huge problems, Northwestern won their first game over a feisty NIU squad 77-55 without COBLE, and according to the Maximus Report they are saying that BUTLER is currently overrated they have their entire roster back from last year's horizon league championship squad and the addition of the two redshirt freshman will help them, but besides Hayward and Veasley, they have a core of solid players that score around 10 a game, I was told expect the score to be around 64-60 NWU wins.
