How to bet Tuesday’s First Four games

The victor of tonight’s game will advance to the First Round of March Madness where they will face the No. 1 overall seed and defending national champion Villanova Wildcats.

Villanova is trying to become the first repeat national champion since Florida in 2006 and 2007. The UCLA dynasty in the 1970s. Like Mount St. Mary’s, they don’t score a ton of points (73.1) and they certainly exceeded expectations this season. But Villanova will easily be the best team the Mountaineers have faced all season.

BAD START: Mount St. Mary’s lost 11 of its first 12 games but finished 18-4 while averaging 70.7 points per game. Down South, No. 11 Kansas State is a narrow 3 1/2-point underdog against No. 6 Cincinnati, while No. 12 Middle Tennessee has moved to a narrow one-point favorite over No. 5 Minnesota.

The Mount had their hands full in their NCAA Tournament play-in game against the New Orleans Privateers, prevailing 67-66 to earn a date with Villanova on Thursday night. The Mountaineers led by as many as 11 points in the first half.

It was the feel-good story of the college basketball season.

Muggsy Bogues, is that you? Mount St. Mary’s Junior Robinson is the shortest player in Division I this season at 5-foot-5.

“But if the battle between two schools with a combined student population of just over 10,000 was far from a David and Goliath matchup, the Mountaineer’s 5’5″ guard Junior Robinson would fill the role of the stone-slinging Biblical underdog perfectly. Although he won’t dunk like Spud Webb, the comparisons between Robinson and smaller well-known past National Basketball Association players like Webb and Muggsy Bogues have been made. They scored 19 points off of 14 New Orleans turnovers on Tuesday. “The penetration was so deep, we’d have to over-help and they would kick out and get the 3”. Long is quick enough to get into the paint and cause trouble, but also an efficient shooter (40.2 3PT%) and solid defender. “One more from my phone if you don’t mind”. Senior guard Christavious Gill, who scored eight points to go with two assists and a rebound, led all players with four steals.

“The difference between this year and last year is we are a little bit younger this year, so there’s still room to improve”, Hart said. Similar to Long, he is another slasher but not as good from deep.

The current line is PK in this First Four game at the March Madness 2017. Yes, Mount St. Mary’s is battle-tested after facing a tough nonconference schedule. During the last five games, Villanova has been dispatching comparable-quality opponents as they’ll see here, and they’ve been doing it with relative ease.

There’s been a lot of chatter surrounding Villanova’s limited depth, let alone its scarce front court-although the late-season development of 6-foot-10 freshman Dylan Painter is slowly changing all this. “They are an awesome team and they are a big family at their the mount so we love being a part of their family”, said restaurant manager of the Ott Hose, Lauri Harley.

The Wildcats, seeded No. 1 overall in the NCAA Tournament, arrived in Buffalo on Monday ahead of the snowstorm snarling travel throughout the Northeast.