Tuesday Best Bets, Monday recaps
Monday was mostly a day of catching up on some sleep in the Tuley’s Take home bedroom after a long, exciting weekend. I also had to play chauffeur for my son Maddux’s Las Vegas Youth Orchestra practice as we led up to the CFB National Championship Game.
And, boy, was that anticlimactic as we lost our Best Bet on TCU +13.5 as Georgia de-horned the Frogs early in a 65-7 rout. That dropped our record to 43-28-2 ATS (60.6%) with our daily top play the last 73 days since late October as well as 33-20 ATS (62.2%) since the start of football season and 20-11 ATS (64.5%) since the start of November with our advance plays on “The Greg Peterson Experience.” I’m proud of all three of those records with our “dog-or-pass” approach, but I’m trying to keep the first one over 60% heading into the NFL playoffs and need to go 2-0 ATS with the Dolphins +11 and Buccaneers +3 this upcoming weekend to get the last one back to 66.7%. Enough looking back, except let’s get to the recaps of the rest of Monday’s action and we have a Contest Corner update as we tie up a few loose ends from the football contest season (we’re still confirming final results from the Westgate and Golden Nugget contests). Then, we’ll turn to the hardwood and ice for Tuesday’s Best Bets as well as those early NFL plays in advance of our writeups on all six wild-card games in Wednesday morning’s column.Monday Recaps
CBB: No. 1 Georgia dominated No. 3 TCU from start to finish in 65-7 rout in CFB Playoff National Championship Game. The ViewFromVegas is the Bulldogs easily covered after closing as 13.5-point favorites. The game went Over betting total of 61.5 points as Georgia exceeded it by itself.
NBA: Faves went 4-2 SU, but dogs led 4-1-1 ATS with push in Nuggets (-13) 122-109 win vs. Lakers. The upsets were by the Pelicans (+1.5 in 132-112 win at Wizards) and Bucks (+1 in 111-107 win at Knicks). The Spurs (+11 at Grizzlies) and Bulls (+9 at Celtics) covered in SU losses. Home teams went 4-2 SU but road teams led 4-1-1 ATS. Unders led 4-2.
More NBA: On the season, favorites improved to 383-218 SU with 9 games closing pick-'em while underdogs improved to 307-276-18 ATS (52.7%). Home teams lead 370-240 SU and 315-278-17 ATS (53.1%). In totals wagering, Overs dipped to 314-289-7 (52.1%).