(681) SAN FRANCISCO at (682) SAN DIEGO
Take: (681) SAN FRANCISCO +3.5
San Francisco is a team I rarely get involved with. The Dons can be wildly inconsistent. There are nights when they look as though they can compete with some of the better teams around. On other occasions, it seems like they ought to be thrown out of D1. I’m banking on the good Dons making an appearance tonight.
I’m not going to get into a lengthy diatribe about the San Francisco coaching. I’ll just offer the opinion that this team should be better than they are with the talent on hand, and that falls on the the staff’s failure to get whatever their message is across to the players.
Nevertheless, I can see the Dons getting a road win tonight. They’ll be out to avenge a one-point home loss to San Diego earlier this season, and road dogs in revenge from a narrow home loss are plays I like.
San Diego is really struggling on offense right now. Credit the Toreros for putting together some stellar defensive efforts that have allowed them to maintain some respectability in spite of all the issues they’re having putting the ball in the basket.
I think this about as dead even as it gets on paper. Pure power ratings justify this line, but some of the metrics I like to utilize suggest the Dons might actually be the slightly superior entry. I will be somewhat surprised if this is not close to a carbon copy of the first meeting, one that went right to the wire. If that’s the case, getting anything more than one possession with visiting San Francisco has a good chance to be enough to at least garner the cover.