{"id":243911,"date":"2020-03-08T06:26:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/seton-halls-myles-powell-looks-to-continue-poy-campaign-at-villanova-as-2-point-underdogs"},"modified":"2020-03-08T06:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:26:20","slug":"seton-halls-myles-powell-looks-to-continue-poy-campaign-at-villanova-as-2-point-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/seton-halls-myles-powell-looks-to-continue-poy-campaign-at-villanova-as-2-point-underdogs","title":{"rendered":"Seton Hall&rsquo;s Myles Powell Looks to Continue POY Campaign at Villanova as P-Point Underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surfaced two teams in the Big East abides brawl Saturday with home unit Villanova a 3-point favorite over Seton Hall The Pirates are coming off a 78 -7 1 prevail at Georgetown, while&#8217; Nova lost to Butler on a buzzer-beater the last time out Seton Hall&#8217;s Myles Powell tallied 34 moments against the Hoyas and is a top campaigner for POY status- check our preview for a prognosi<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in the Big East platforms wrangle Saturday, Feb. 8 with the dwelling crew Villanova Wildcats( 17 -5, 10 -1  home) as a 3-point favorite over the Seton Hall Pirates( 17 -5, 6-2 away ). Tipoff is at 2:30 p.m. ET at the Wells Fargo Center and the game will be broadcasted on Fox.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates are coming off a 78 -7 1 win Wednesday at Georgetown, while&#8217; Nova went down 79 -7 6 to Butler on a buzzer-beater the last time out. Seton Hall&#8217;s Myles Powell orchestrated 34 times against the Hoyas and is a top candidate for POY honors.<\/p>\n<p> Seton Hall Pirates vs Villanova Wildcats Odds<\/p>\n<p> Team Spread Over\/ Under at BetOnline<\/p>\n<p> Seton Hall +3.0( -1 05) O 140.5( -1 10)<\/p>\n<p> Villanova -3.0( -1 15) U 140.5( -1 10)<\/p>\n<p>Odds taken Feb. 7 on( betting site) <\/p>\n<p>While neither unit is currently near the priorities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/college-basketball\/tournament-champion-odds\/\">2020 NCAA Tournament odds<\/a> tracker, it&#8217;s fair to say if Seton Hall picks up a victory this weekend, the Pirate might be there next week. So why is Jay Wright&#8217;s squad a modest favorite in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/college-basketball\/odds\/2020020807-ncaab-hall-vill\/\">Seton Hall vs Villanova odds<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because the Pirates haven&#8217;t won on the Wildcat&#8217; residence floor since 1994. But the nature Myles Powell is playing this season, that stripe might come to an end. Let&#8217;s analyze this battle of convention heavyweights and make a pick.<\/p>\n<p> Biography Not on Pirate&#8217; Side <\/p>\n<p>There was no World Series and&#8221; Ace Ventura: Pet Detective&#8221; regulated the box office the last time Seton Hall pummel&#8217; Nova in Philly. That&#8217;s some serious biography.&#8217; Nova blew out Seton Hall 80 -5 2 the last time the two played in The City of Brotherly Love.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#18 Villanova vs. Seton Hall Highlights: #BIGEASThoops\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6OXJXUQrRE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The 17 competitions over the stretch dating back to 1994 have been decided by an average margin of 16 details. Merely one came down to the wire, a two-point decision in 2008. It&#8217;s the longest winning blotch by one team against another in the Big East &#8212; by a lot.<\/p>\n<p>And Saturday&#8217;s contest is the second straight road outing for the Bucs after a solid seven-point winning against Georgetown Wednesday. While Kevin Willard&#8217;s club has proven it can win back-to-back conference road sports once this season( the Plagiarist knocked off Butler and St. John&#8217;s away from Newark last-place month ), doing so again is a tall order. Seton Hall quitted two straight roadies in December, coming to Iowa State and Rutgers in plays that weren&#8217;t close. Plus, that daunting history is looming.<\/p>\n<p> But Then Again &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yeah, I certainly do think they are a Final Four contender, &rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/sports\/2020\/01\/patrick-ewing-jay-wright-say-seton-hall-has-final-four-potential.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wright said last month<\/a>. That&#8217;s what the longtime Villanova head coach said about Seton Hall. And Wright knows a thing or two about Final Fours, after winning two of the last four NCAA Tournaments. Just look at what Raider did to the Hoyas Wednesday for a primer.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seton Hall vs Georgetown Highlights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0bg3J53N4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>This Pirates have the makings of something special. I&#8217;ve been touting them as a sleeper March Madness contender all season. Plus, they&#8217;re playing with live coin Saturday to a certain extent, with a two-game lead in the documents of the conference puts over the Wildcat. They&#8217;re 6-2 along the road, including  5-0 in the Big East.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our confidence has been high-pitched, &rdquo; Powell said. &ldquo;We want to be a championship team. We want to be one of the top squads in the country.&rdquo; It seems this could be their year.<\/p>\n<p> Advantage? <\/p>\n<p>In a what oddsmakers think will be a tight one, I&#8217;m thinking the opposite. I love Seton Hall in this smudge for a variety of reasons. Primary among them is Powell.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Myles Powell Full Highlights 2.5.20 Seton Hall vs Georgetown - 34 Points, 7 Rebs, 1st Rounder Yet?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kPDEcURw3Fk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The preseason All-American candidate has lived up to the hype this season. He put up 34 against the Hoyas and is the second extending scorer in the Big East, <\/p>\n<p>Plus, Willard knows two of&#8217; Nova&#8217;s best actors, Collin Gillespie and Jermaine Samuels, after working with them as part of USA Basketball in last summer&rsquo;s Pan American Games. That inside knowledge of their propensities should be a boon to the Pirates&#8217; programme. And Villanova could be suggestible to a pick-and-roll game, as the Wildcat rank last in the Big East in field-goal percentage defense (. 437 ). That dallies right into probable ponderous utilization of 7-foot-2 center Romaro Gill( who also happened to tie a career-high with eight blocks against the Hoyas Wednesday ). <\/p>\n<p>All these factors has me on the Pirates to snarl the streak Saturday and procession toward a high-seed in next month&#8217;s Big Dance.<\/p>\n<p>Pick: Seton Hall +3( -1 05) <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/news\/ncaab\/seton-halls-myles-powell-looks-to-continue-poy-campaign-at-villanova-as-2-point-underdogs\/\">Seton Hall&#8217;s Myles Powell Looks to Continue POY Campaign at Villanova as 2-Point Losers<\/a> saw first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\">Sports Betting Dime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/news\/ncaab\/seton-halls-myles-powell-looks-to-continue-poy-campaign-at-villanova-as-2-point-underdogs\/\">sportsbettingdime.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surfaced two teams in the Big East abides brawl Saturday with home unit Villanova a 3-point favorite over Seton Hall The Pirates are coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}