i will tell you guys a story about giving out plays it is an amazing story
this was years ago in college hoops when pinnacle was still around
i will never forget it one year UVA changed their style, they started slowing down
for a few weeks all their totals were 20 points too high and you could clean up
i was punding UVA unders, game after game, the totals stayed high
i told me friend about it, he was an "addicted"-type gambler, the kind of guy who would leave a casino and want to go to a cash machine and take out money to play blackjack with
i was always like dude whats wrong with you
anyway i told him i was hitting with UVA unders he said tell me about the next one
i felt weird about it but i was so sure i was right that i was like ok fine i will tell him
next game was UVA/Maryland
sure enough the total came out in the 150s, I thought it should be in the upper 130s max.
i pounded the hell out of the opener, went down a little by the time my friend got it but i said i still love it take it anyway
i told him the line should be upper 130s, i think i even said 138
we were in in the mid or low 150s
well you can guess what happened......i nailed the score dead on 138 - 69-69
the game still went under after OT - but was tied
game went over in the second or third OT, i forgot which one
my call was dead on but my friend was buried
and to make it even worse, i broke even on the game cause i had half my bet on the 1H under which hit easily
ever since then i said i should never give out picks to friends ever
you can go back and look this game up if you want to, UVA/Maryland, I think it was 2005
double OT, score was 69-69 or 68-68 after regulation