Friday, May 18th, 2012
West Virginia is going to turn into fans of the #25 Cincinnati Bearcats (8-3) in Saturday’s game against the Connecticut Huskies (5-6).
The Mountaineers are currently in a 2-way tie atop the Big East standings with Louisville, and the Cardinals hold the head-to-head advantage that would put them into a BCS game.
With a Cincinnati win over Connecticut, the Big East would then be in a 3-way tie and the head-to-head stuff would no longer be a tiebreaker according to league rules.
The team with the highest ranking in the top 25 (IE West Virginia) would get the BCS nod, so the Mountaineers have a new favorite team this weekend.
The Saturday game between Connecticut and Cincinnati has a start time of 12:00 PM ET and will be shown live on ESPN.
The Bearcats are the home team here and they’ll be putting their 4-1 mark in their friendly confines on the line against a Husky squad that has gone just 1-3 on the road.
Cincinnati is a 9-point betting favorite currently, while the total sits at 47.
The home team has won the last 4 straight head-to-head meetings between these schools since 2007, with the Huskies winning 38-17 last year as 1.5-point favorites.
Cincinnati was a 47-45 winner at home in 2009, but they didn’t perform according to expectations since Las Vegas had them as 16.5-point favorites.
Connecticut has covered the point spread in 3 straight against the Bearcats, but Cincinnati was a 27-3 home winner in 2007 as 7-point favorites.
The over has been a winner in 2 of the last 3 games played between these teams, and Cincinnati’s 6-5 record against the point spread this season easily trumps the 4-7 mark that the Huskies have amassed.
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