Rhode Island at Duquesne

We said it before Duquense's last game and we will say it again. The odds-makers just don't get it yet with this team. We expected this one to come out in the 180s, but instead we saw an opening number of 169. It has climbed already to 176 and we still get tremendous value here. Duquense is now playing ten players 20 minutes each, pressing full-court and taking 40+ 3-pointers a game. The coach wants them to shoot within 12 seconds of the shot clock and get up to 100 shots per game. Rhode Island is a scoring team as it is as they average 75.3 ppg. The introduction to "frenzy ball" has seen recent Duquense games score 188, 182, 188, 184, 203 and 216 points. The teams involved in those shootouts didn't average much piror to that game. Team one averaged 72.6 and scored 105. Team two averaged 68.1 and scored 92. Team three averaged 76 scored 91 Team four averaged 75.1 and scored 92. Team five averaged 67.2 and scored 89 and team six averaged 76.7 and scored 101. Those teams averaged 22 ppg more than they normally score! If we apply that 22 to URI we could expect to see 97 from them! Duquense has averaged 98.5 ppg! We wouldn't be surprised to see this one to be close to 200 and definitely exceed the 176.