2% max recommended unless otherwise noted. 1% max recommended for soccer.
These are not Sportspicks "Recommended Picks"
2/21/23 Results
6-2 ATS
5-1 ML's - Parlay Lost
0-1 "Longshots"
1-0 ATS "Game of the Night" Pick - 0-1 Straight-Up
Game of the Night
#20 Providence vs #18 Connecticut
Location: Harry A. Gampel Pavillion - Storrs, Connecticut
Tip-Off: 6:30 PM EST
Tale of the Tape
Providence / Connecticut
FGA - 59.9 pg / 60.2 pg
FG% - 46.4% / 45.2%
2P% - 51.6% / 52.4%
3P% - 34.9% / 35.2%
FTA - 22.6 pg / 19.7 pg
FT% - 74.6% / 74.6%
EFG% - 51.8% / 52.6%
DReb% - 75.0% / 74.6%
OReb% - 35.6% / 38.2%
TO's - 12.3 pg / 12.9 pg
Fouls - 15.4 pg / 18.6 pg
Adj Off Eff - 116.1 / 117.9
Adj Def Eff - 98.6 / 93.3
PPG - 78.9 pg / 78.0 pg
PAG - 69.6 pg / 64.3 pg
% FGA in Paint - 44.4% / 37.6%
Overview
Match-Up
Prediction
My Pick: Providence +7.5
Final Score: Connecticut 79 Providence 75
Crick's Picks 2/22/23
UMBC +2.5 vs UMass Lowell 6:00 PM EST
South Florida +9.5 @ UCF 7:00 PM EST
Colgate -9 @ Lafayette 7:00 PM EST
Clemson -5 vs Syracuse 7:00 PM EST
Maryland -15 vs Minnesota 7:00 PM EST
Kentucky -2.5 @ Florida 7:00 PM EST
North Alabama +3 vs Kennesaw State 7:00 PM EST
Drake -15.5 vs Illinois State 8:00 PM EST
Tulane +15 @ Houston 9:00 PM EST
Notre Dame +6.5 vs North Carolina 9:00 PM EST
Auburn -12.5 vs Ole Miss 9:00 PM EST
Favorite "Longshot" (+400 or worse) of the Night
Only 10% (or less) of "Unit Bet" Recommended for "Longshots"
For Example: If you normally bet 20$ per play, you shouldn't risk more than 2$ per play on these "Longshots"
Tonight's "Longshot" isn't quite +400, but is right on the cusp
Free ML Parlay (6 Picks)
Dayton -440
James Madison -120
Old Dominion +100
Southern Illinois -315
North Carolina State -250
Wisconsin +100
Total Odds Boost = +1560
10.00 to win 156.00
100.00 to win 1,560.00
Enjoy the Games and Good Luck Tonight!!!!
-Crickett
Betting Psychology and Risk Management
This post is partially motivated by the incoming surge in official picks we are going to have as well as the dismay here some have experienced with the downturn we've had over the past few weeks. Risk-based moneymaking is not an easy pursuit and the vast majority of people who try their hand at it fail. It is important that you arm yourselves with as may tools as possible so that you will be in the profitable minority. Most people find it difficult enough to look at their investment portfolios during a relatively mild downturn, and that's with professional hedge fund managers doing insulating them from the very real challenges of risking our money and making a profit from it. Anyone who is active here is choosing to take that risk into their own hands. There are big rewards for this but also very big risks. This post is about preventing you from being taken out by those risk.
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