881 QUINNIPIAC @ 882 MAHATTAN
Take: 881 QUINNIPIAC +2
Quinnipiac was the last place pre-season consensus pick in the MAAC, so you can make an argument that at 7-10 in league play, they’ve been perhaps a small surprise. One thing positive about the Bobcats is that in spite of their limitations, they’ve competed their heads off. They just can’t shoot the basketball, but this team hits the offensive glass with reckless abandon and they hustle like crazy. Aside from a disastrous home game against St. Peter’s a couple weeks ago, they’ve hung tough in most MAAC games and have managed to win some games.
Manhattan is a train wreck. I don’t know that Steve Masiello is on the hot seat, as he signed a lengthy extension last March. But this team has not performed at all well, and there have been too many games where the effort has been mailed in. The Jaspers are 2-8 in their last 10 games, and each of the wins was by one point. This is the home finale for Manhattan, but I don’t know why that would represent a positive at this juncture.
I’ve got the visitors as the higher rated team, and I trust them more to show up with effort, so Quinnipiac plus a basket is the play.