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2007 Memphis College Basketball Betting
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.
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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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