2007 Memphis College Basketball Betting & Odds
If you have done any college basketball betting on Memphis during the 2007-08 season then you know that the offensive attack is hitting on all cylinders. John Calipari has taken this school’s offense to another level, and this year has the best NCAA basketball point guard in the country running the show in Derrick Rose. This offense is designed with four guards and a single post player with a focus on spreading the players out across the floor and attacking the gaps. If the dribbler gets past his man and the defense doesn’t help you’ll get tons of layups, or if they are forced to collapse he simply dished it out to an open teammater for a wide open look.
When this offense is ran by someone as gifted as Rose is, you are going to put up a lot of points. Memphis is doing just that by averaging over 80-points-per in the first month of the season. Chris Douglas-Roberts is the team’s leading scorer with more than twenty per contest, but the duo of Willie Kemp and Doneal Mack keep the opposition honest with their incredible 3-point shooting. This team is for real this year and there is no mistaking it at all. Joey Dorsey commands attention down low with his 260-pound frame grabbing more than nine boards per game. Dorsey also plays a big roll on the other side of the ball and is the outspoken leader who called Greg Oden over-rated before their Elite Eight matchup a year ago.
This 2007 edition has started out by winning their first seven games, and there is talk already about a perfect season. Much of that has to do with the soft schedule and the weak opponents in Conference USA, a conference in which the Tigers are 29-1 over their last 30 games including a perfect 16-0 in 2006-07. All of the tough games are at home, including visiting Georgetown, Arizona, Gonzaga, and Tennessee. That’s no easy task to take down all four of those teams, but coming into the FedEx Forum is no easy task for the opposition.
There is a little bit of concern from the pundits about where Memphis will finish the season. If you were making college basketball predictions right now, you have to look at the losses in the last two Elite Eights. This is a cause for concern for a lot of people who think the soft schedule hurts their chances for a Final Four or more. The problem for Memphis will be the night that they don’t make every shot they take, as you know this is bound to happen once during the season and for sure once during the grueling March Madness run. Will this team have enough to score when they can’t hit from outside? Maybe or maybe not, but we are sure to get a good indication with the December 22nd game against the Hoyas on the horizon. We think the blueprint for beating Memphis is a dominate post-game and a tough defense. Georgetown has both with Hibbert down low and a squad that is holding opponents to just 52.1 points per game (ppg). If Memphis can convince us there, we might just see a team make a run like the Patriots are at a perfect season.
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