PiRate Ratings College Basketball For Saturday, March 2, 2019

Today’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Games Scheduled for:			Saturday
Home	Rating	HCA	Visitor	Rating	Spread
Maine	89.9	2.5	Binghamton	88.9	3.5
Maryland Baltimore Co.	97.4	3.0	New Hampshire	85.8	14.6
Hartford	99.3	2.0	Albany	93.4	7.9
Vermont	106.3	3.0	Stony Brook	100.5	8.8
Houston	114.9	3.0	Central Florida	110.3	7.6
Cincinnati	112.1	3.0	Memphis	106.6	8.5
Florida St.	114.4	3.0	North Carolina St.	112.7	4.7
Wake Forest	99.8	2.5	Syracuse	111.5	-9.2
Virginia	122.7	3.0	Pittsburgh	105.3	20.4
Duke	123.9	3.0	Miami (Fla)	107.5	19.4
Clemson	111.9	3.0	North Carolina	120.7	-5.8
Davidson	105.9	3.0	Fordham	95.8	13.1
Duquesne	100.4	3.0	Massachusetts	97.5	5.9
Saint Louis	103.3	3.0	George Mason	101.9	4.4
George Washington	93.9	2.5	St. Bonaventure	103.1	-6.7
Richmond	99.0	1.0	VCU	110.5	-10.5
Saint Joseph’s	99.2	1.0	La Salle	97.5	2.7
Oklahoma St.	104.1	3.0	Kansas	115.3	-8.2
Texas	112.4	3.0	Iowa St.	115.4	0.0
Oklahoma	111.1	3.0	West Virginia	104.4	9.7
TCU	110.2	2.5	Texas Tech	117.1	-4.4
Kansas St.	112.4	3.0	Baylor	110.9	4.5
Villanova	113.0	3.0	Butler	108.9	7.1
Georgetown	106.6	3.0	Seton Hall	108.0	1.6
Montana St.	95.1	2.5	Northern Arizona	91.3	6.3
Eastern Washington	94.5	2.5	Portland St.	94.1	2.9
Northern Colorado	100.6	2.5	Idaho St.	91.5	11.6
Montana	103.4	3.0	Southern Utah	93.8	12.6
Idaho	84.9	2.5	Sacramento St.	94.9	-7.5
Campbell	98.8	2.5	Radford	102.6	-1.3
Gardner Webb	98.9	2.5	Longwood	92.4	9.0
Presbyterian	98.3	2.5	Charleston Southern	98.7	2.1
USC Upstate	88.2	2.5	Hampton	97.8	-7.1
UNC Asheville	84.8	2.0	High Point	96.4	-9.6
Indiana	109.6	3.0	Michigan St.	120.5	-7.9
Wisconsin	115.3	3.0	Penn St.	109.6	8.7
Purdue	116.8	3.0	Ohio St.	111.8	8.0
Iowa	111.8	3.0	Rutgers	105.5	9.3
UC Riverside	91.8	2.0	UC Irvine	104.7	-10.9
UC Davis	96.0	2.0	Cal St. Fullerton	99.8	-1.8
Long Beach St.	96.8	2.0	Cal Poly	89.0	9.8
Towson	94.8	2.5	Elon	91.1	6.2
Charleston	103.3	2.5	UNC Wilmington	94.6	11.2
Delaware	95.1	2.5	Hofstra	105.9	-8.3
Drexel	95.8	2.5	Northeastern	105.0	-6.7
James Madison	93.9	2.5	William & Mary	97.4	-1.0
Green Bay	97.8	2.5	Northern Kentucky	104.5	-4.2
Detroit	94.6	2.5	Illinois Chicago	97.0	0.1
Oakland	98.2	2.5	IUPUI	98.5	2.2
Youngstown St.	93.7	2.5	Cleveland St.	92.4	3.8
Milwaukee	92.5	2.5	Wright St.	102.8	-7.8
Brown	101.3	2.5	Cornell	96.2	7.6
Yale	106.2	3.0	Columbia	96.0	13.2
Dartmouth	98.5	2.5	Penn	103.0	-2.0
Harvard	103.5	3.0	Princeton	100.1	6.4
Akron	104	2.0	Ohio	96.7	9.3
Northern Illinois	100.8	2.5	Eastern Michigan	99.6	3.7
Western Michigan	94.7	2.5	Ball St.	103.5	-6.3
Central Michigan	102.6	2.5	Toledo	107.6	-2.5
Delaware St.	79.9	2.0	Morgan St.	88.3	-6.4
North Carolina A&T	91.0	2.5	Florida A&M	89.7	3.8
Bethune Cookman	93.2	2.0	South Carolina St.	87.4	7.8
Savannah St.	85.2	2.0	Howard	91.1	-3.9
Norfolk St.	95.2	2.5	Coppin St.	84.7	13.0
Southern Illinois	101.7	2.5	Illinois St.	98.5	5.7
Indiana St.	97.5	2.5	Northern Iowa	99.7	0.3
Valparaiso	97.7	2.5	Evansville	96.3	3.9
Missouri St.	100.1	2.5	Drake	102.2	0.4
Bradley	99.7	2.5	Loyola (Chi)	103.6	-1.4
Wyoming	89.9	2.5	Air Force	95.2	-2.8
Utah St.	109.9	3.0	Nevada	115.0	-2.1
New Mexico	99.3	3.0	Colorado St.	99.6	2.7
San Diego St.	104.1	3.0	San Jose St.	86.2	20.9
UNLV	100.8	2.5	Boise St.	102.1	1.2
Central Connecticut St.	90.6	2.5	Fairleigh Dickinson	96.1	-3.0
Sacred Heart	95.6	2.5	St. Francis (PA)	96.1	2.0
St. Francis (Bklyn)	94.4	2.5	Mount St. Mary’s	89.4	7.5
Wagner	93.6	2.5	Robert Morris	94.9	1.2
Long Island	94.6	3.0	Bryant	89.5	8.1
Eastern Illinois	92.2	2.5	Tennessee Tech	89.1	5.6
UT Martin	92.5	2.0	Tennessee St.	92.7	1.8
SIU Edwardsville	88.2	2.5	Jacksonville St.	102.8	-12.1
Eastern Kentucky	95.3	2.5	Morehead St.	94.9	2.9
Southeast Missouri	91.1	2.5	Belmont	108.6	-15.0
Murray St.	108.5	2.5	Austin Peay	103.2	7.8
Colorado	106.2	3.0	Utah	103.9	5.3
California	94.5	3.0	Washington St.	97.6	-0.1
Oregon	108.2	3.0	Arizona	106.8	4.4
Lafayette	92.6	2.5	Colgate	102.0	-6.9
Bucknell	101.7	3.0	Army	95.5	9.2
Boston	96.5	2.5	Navy	92.3	6.7
Holy Cross	96.4	2.5	American	97.8	1.1
Loyola (MD)	93.4	2.5	Lehigh	101.1	-5.2
Alabama	108.4	3.0	LSU	113.3	-1.9
Arkansas	107.4	3.0	Ole Miss	109.9	0.5
Tennessee	118.0	3.0	Kentucky	118.7	2.3
Missouri	104.9	3.0	South Carolina	105.9	2.0
Auburn	115.5	3.0	Mississippi St.	113.6	4.9
Texas A&M	105.9	3.0	Vanderbilt	103.0	5.9
Florida	112.4	2.5	Georgia	104.1	10.8
Mississippi Valley St.	83.5	2.0	Jackson St.	89.2	-3.7
Alabama St.	90.9	2.0	Texas Southern	97.5	-4.6
Southern	86.8	2.0	Alcorn St.	85.3	3.5
Alabama A&M	84.9	2.0	Prairie View	94.8	-7.9
Arkansas Pine Bluff	89.5	2.0	Grambling	93.7	-2.2
VMI	91.5	2.5	The Citadel	95.3	-1.3
Chattanooga	94.3	2.5	Furman	107.5	-10.7
Samford	100.2	2.5	Wofford	112.5	-9.8
East Tennessee St.	106.9	2.0	Western Carolina	93.0	15.9
Mercer	98.9	2.5	UNC Greensboro	104.7	-3.3
Nicholls St.	91.3	2.5	New Orleans	94.1	-0.3
Southeast Louisiana	94.5	2.5	Northwestern St.	87.3	9.7
Central Arkansas	91.1	2.5	Abilene Christian	100.1	-6.5
Lamar	97.7	2.5	Stephen F Austin	92.4	7.8
Houston Baptist	93.2	2.5	McNeese St.	90.3	5.4
Incarnate Word	84.8	2.5	Texas A&M CC	93.4	-6.1
Denver	91.3	2.5	Omaha	99.9	-6.1
South Dakota	97.1	2.5	North Dakota	94.9	4.7
Purdue Fort Wayne	99.2	3.0	North Dakota St.	97.4	4.8
South Dakota St.	106.1	3.0	Western Illinois	92.3	16.8
Georgia St.	103.3	2.5	Little Rock	96.8	9.0
Louisiana Monroe	101.2	2.5	Coastal Carolina	100.4	3.3
Troy	95.5	2.5	UT Arlington	99.1	-1.1
Georgia Southern	105.0	3.0	Arkansas St.	94.4	13.6
South Alabama	96.8	2.5	Texas St.	104.0	-4.7
Chicago St.	79.7	2.0	New Mexico St.	107.6	-25.9
Missouri Kansas City	95.1	2.5	UT Rio Grande Valley	97.7	-0.1
Grand Canyon	105.6	3.0	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.7	11.9
California Baptist	97.1	2.5	Utah Valley	103.7	-4.1
San Francisco	108.2	3.0	Loyola Marymount	101.9	9.3
Pepperdine	99.9	2.5	Pacific	97.0	5.4
BYU	105.9	3.0	San Diego	104.7	4.2
Portland	90.3	2.0	Santa Clara	97.9	-5.6
Saint Mary’s	110.6	3.0	Gonzaga	124.2	-10.6

 

Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Bracket Set

Last night, the Atlantic Sun Conference concluded regular season play with Lipscomb and Liberty sharing the conference championship.  Lipscomb won the tiebreaker, and the Bisons get the number one seed and can host every game they play in this tournament.  A secondary reward is an automatic NIT bid should they lose the conference tournament.

Florida Gulf Coast made a strong kick in the final week, winning twice to sneak into the number four slot, while NJIT fell on the final night to drop to number five.  The Highlanders finished 2-6 after starting the year at 18-5.

North Florida is the hot team in the league.  The Ospreys won their final six games to earn the three-seed.  In that run, North Florida topped Liberty to destroy the flames’ chances of winning the A-Sun regular title outright.

This tournament is played strictly on the home floors of the higher seeded teams.  Lipscomb went 11-2 at home this year in Allen Arena, with Liberty being one of those two losses.

Here are the matchups for the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament

Atlantic Sun Conference
All games at home floor of higher seeds
Quarterfinals–Monday, March 4
Seed	Home	Seed	Visitor
1	Lipscomb (23-6)	8	Kennesaw St. (6-25)
2	Liberty (25-6)	7	Jacksonville (12-19)
3	North Florida (15-16)	6	North Alabama (10-21)
4	Florida Gulf Coast (14-17)	5	NJIT (20-11)
Semifinals–Thursday, March 7
Seed	Home	Seed	Visitor
1/8	Higher Seed	4/5	Lower Seed
2/7	Higher Seed	3/6	Lower Seed
Championship Game–Sunday, March 10
Seed	Home	Seed	Visitor
1/8/4/5	Higher Seed	2/3/6/7	Lower Seed