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6 Unit Play. Game of the Month. #734. Take Ohio State +2 over the University of North Carolina (Thursday @ 9:20pm est). We are 5-0 this week in college ball including 3 outright winners (8-3, 72%) and we have cashed in $2200 net profit this year. We are well on our way to our goal of +100 Units in College Basketball. This is a game that Ohio State can certainly win outright. This game being played as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer event in Madison Square Garden. It is part of the semifinals as the defending champs in UNC face off against Ohio State. But, this UNC team is much different than the one that won the national championship. For starters, this UNC team only has two individuals who played any significant minutes from last year. Ohio State on the other hand returns all five starters. Ohio State is also very familiar with Madison Square Garden (MSG) considering they won the NIT Tournament last year at this very court. Heck, this team didn't make it to the NCAA tournament as most of them were young freshman, but certainly had the goods for getting together near the end and winning the NIT. Again, this team returns all five of its starters, returns their star player in Evan Turner and runs an offense that they are very familiar with. The Tarheels are very young this year, they are inexperienced for the most part and this is their first game away from home. The Buckeyes again did their preseason games in Canada, have played in various different places including defeating ranked teams and winning on the road in Big-Ten conference games with this exact team and are very familiar with MSG. I look for the Buckeyes and in particular for Thad Motta to get the respect for his program that he feels he deserves with a big win on the national stage today. This is not a good spot at all for UNC but a great situation for Ohio State and I expect the Buckeyes to not only win outright but possibly win by double-digits. We have the experience with five starters back, a team that is very familiar with MSG, a team that won the NIT last year, is hungry for respect and facing a Tarheel team that is very young on its first road game who is searching for their identity. I like our chances this evening.
Good luck,
IC
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