Strong WTF Cali/Wyoming game

But how sharp are they when the over under is 120 and the two teams score 87 total? I am telling you and I know everyone hates it but bet unders. I used to love betting overs and would watch my money disappear quick. I decided to say screw it and take unders 90 percent of the time and it's the best decision I ever made. The public eats overs up. Unders are hard to take and I get it but it seems to work well.

Nscfsu- I wasn't referring to other sports before, but from what I have seen, linesmakers of college basketball spreads seem to be much more 'on the money' than other linesmakers of spreads in other sports.     Yes somehow they f*cked that total up (that did drop 2 points or so against the public), with the spread opening at 4 and dropping to 3.5 against the public before tip. 

No this is completely a myth.  Just look at the past 2 days....on Tuesday on 1 out of 18 games stayed within 3 points (1possession) of the spread.  And yesterday, only 3 out of 24 games stayed within 3 points.  It's not even close and its like this every week.

Just look at covers scoreboard, they show how much a team covered the spread by.  It's easy to check and verify.  Linesmakers aren't trying to predict the score, they're trying to predict a line that will produce as much balance of betting on both sides as possible.  That's all they care about.

I don't think linesmakers are any better at predicting scores than we are. I mean the numbers I use missed the San Antonio-NY Knicks score by one point last night and generally are close in about 3 out of every eight or nine games. Linesmakers however as the previous poster said are good at getting us to question where the game will end. Like I said they aren't any better at predicting than most of us are, but man can they get us to question ourselves once they release a line.

Also, RE: accuracy of CBB lines.

JFen, 

If I had to venture to guess I would say people don't generally like rooting for players to miss shots. At the same time as you mentioned low scoring games are inheritently boring and because of this people tend to take overs. Here is how I figure it. A lot of people think basketball is a fixed sport. Maybe it is maybe it isn't. We as public bettors will never know that. However in college basketball say the fix was to attain the over, well you are relying on less than stellar athletes in some cases who even if you call 55 fouls won't make enough free throws to cover the over.

It is for this reason and this reason alone that I stick to unders. Overs are fun but they have let me down in bunches where as unders have yet to lead me to a losing day regardless of what sport I choose to bet on.

Just going off of this. That's not always true youbsee a line like 118 o/u they know something which means they set a line that's low and get 70% on a side they know will lose.

They try to get 50/50 most of the time but the 70/30 "rigged" games are where they make their money. Everyone please understand there is a story behind almost every betting line. Try to find it

Good discussion here.