Post by mooseguy1 on Feb 25, 2016 21:19:08 GMT -5
It’s Senior Night Friday at Oakland University and blood alcohol poisoning is in the air.
The Detroit Titans (15-13 overall, 9-8 in the Horizon League) finish off the regular season on Friday night at the Orena (voted stupidest name for a basketball arena for the fifth straight year) when they visit the Oakland Golden Grizzlies (20-10, 12-5). Game time is scheduled for 9:00 P.M. (Thank you very much, ESPN.)
The Grizzlies currently hold down 2nd Place and the attendant double bye in the League Tournament. But their final position is still up in the air. If Detroit manages to defeat them and Wright State wins their last 2, Oakland will finish 3rd. Oh, and wouldn’t that be mighty fine!
OU has been good this year, though. You have to hand it to them, they’ll play anybody anywhere. While facing a star-studded non-conference schedule and an okay-dokey-ish Horizon league slate, the Griz have put together an overall winning percentage of .667, with victories over Washington, Heidelburg, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Robert Morris. No, not THAT Robert Morris. This Robert Morris sweeps floors at the Orena and the Griz took care of him handily in a 5 on 1 competition. To his credit, though, Bob the Janitor gave them more of a fight than UIC. But as Coach Kampe is wont to say, “There are no bad wins as long as Frank Beckman interviews you regularly.” But perhaps the most impressive outing was the 1st Half against Michigan State on December 22nd at The Palace of Auburn Hills. (But that’s only because they can’t fit Tom Izzo’s head in to the Orena.) According to OU backers, that 20 minutes stamped Kampe’s Kids as frontrunners for the NCAA Championship…not!
By the way, I’ve always wanted to do that, negating a statement by saying “Not!” but felt that it would be undignified and juvenile for a middle-age man to do so. Of course, as my good friend, Sam, says, “That ship has sailed, Moose. Your body of work speaks for itself.”
Oakland, for the most part, is playing well recently. Winners of 9 of their last 11, they’re coming off a win in Chicago, defeating UIC 74-63, on Sunday. Who cares? Yawn. Just passing on the information in the most perfunctory way possible.
Though our Titans are 6-2 in their last 8, they’ll be attempting to rebound from a Sunday afternoon drubbing at the hands of regular season champs, the Valpo Crusaders, 90-74, in Valparaiso, Indiana. Nuff said on that subject. Still, Detroit can finish the regular season on a high note should they beat OU in the season finale and torpedo their run at 2nd Place. But the Titans will need to play better than they did on January 16th at Calihan Hall when they lost to Oakland 86-82.
Authorized odds makers in Nevada are not speaking to me…something to do with a rumor that I was running unregulated numbers out of Room 114 at the Best Western Inn-Las Vegas Airport and offering free spread betting advice on Titan Mike’s website. But I think it’s just that time of the month, ya know? At any rate, I’ll have to take a shot at my very own version of handicapping this game. Thinking like a Vegas sports book, I will take a Midol and say that Oakland has to be favored…dammit! How ‘bout Oakland -13 ½ points because Mac loves those half points. The Over/Under should be humongous but not Green Bay humongous. Let’s put it at 173. The OFFICIAL MOOSE PREDICTION (from the home office in Room 114 at the…err...I mean in Moosehead Lake, Maine): Detroit Titans 87 Oakland Golden Grizzlies 86. GO TITANS!!!
The Detroit Titans (15-13 overall, 9-8 in the Horizon League) finish off the regular season on Friday night at the Orena (voted stupidest name for a basketball arena for the fifth straight year) when they visit the Oakland Golden Grizzlies (20-10, 12-5). Game time is scheduled for 9:00 P.M. (Thank you very much, ESPN.)
The Grizzlies currently hold down 2nd Place and the attendant double bye in the League Tournament. But their final position is still up in the air. If Detroit manages to defeat them and Wright State wins their last 2, Oakland will finish 3rd. Oh, and wouldn’t that be mighty fine!
OU has been good this year, though. You have to hand it to them, they’ll play anybody anywhere. While facing a star-studded non-conference schedule and an okay-dokey-ish Horizon league slate, the Griz have put together an overall winning percentage of .667, with victories over Washington, Heidelburg, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Robert Morris. No, not THAT Robert Morris. This Robert Morris sweeps floors at the Orena and the Griz took care of him handily in a 5 on 1 competition. To his credit, though, Bob the Janitor gave them more of a fight than UIC. But as Coach Kampe is wont to say, “There are no bad wins as long as Frank Beckman interviews you regularly.” But perhaps the most impressive outing was the 1st Half against Michigan State on December 22nd at The Palace of Auburn Hills. (But that’s only because they can’t fit Tom Izzo’s head in to the Orena.) According to OU backers, that 20 minutes stamped Kampe’s Kids as frontrunners for the NCAA Championship…not!
By the way, I’ve always wanted to do that, negating a statement by saying “Not!” but felt that it would be undignified and juvenile for a middle-age man to do so. Of course, as my good friend, Sam, says, “That ship has sailed, Moose. Your body of work speaks for itself.”
Oakland, for the most part, is playing well recently. Winners of 9 of their last 11, they’re coming off a win in Chicago, defeating UIC 74-63, on Sunday. Who cares? Yawn. Just passing on the information in the most perfunctory way possible.
Though our Titans are 6-2 in their last 8, they’ll be attempting to rebound from a Sunday afternoon drubbing at the hands of regular season champs, the Valpo Crusaders, 90-74, in Valparaiso, Indiana. Nuff said on that subject. Still, Detroit can finish the regular season on a high note should they beat OU in the season finale and torpedo their run at 2nd Place. But the Titans will need to play better than they did on January 16th at Calihan Hall when they lost to Oakland 86-82.
Authorized odds makers in Nevada are not speaking to me…something to do with a rumor that I was running unregulated numbers out of Room 114 at the Best Western Inn-Las Vegas Airport and offering free spread betting advice on Titan Mike’s website. But I think it’s just that time of the month, ya know? At any rate, I’ll have to take a shot at my very own version of handicapping this game. Thinking like a Vegas sports book, I will take a Midol and say that Oakland has to be favored…dammit! How ‘bout Oakland -13 ½ points because Mac loves those half points. The Over/Under should be humongous but not Green Bay humongous. Let’s put it at 173. The OFFICIAL MOOSE PREDICTION (from the home office in Room 114 at the…err...I mean in Moosehead Lake, Maine): Detroit Titans 87 Oakland Golden Grizzlies 86. GO TITANS!!!