Game in Connecticut. KenPom ranks FSU at No. 79 and UMass at 142. I'm not a huge common opponent guy unless in one of these MTEs where teams play nearly every day. The Noles played their first game in this Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament on Friday and beat Temple by nine to improve to 5-1 and got Saturday off. The Minutemen fell to 1-5 with Saturday's 7-point loss to the Owls. FSU has been terrific defensively early on, holding foes to 66.0 PPG and cumulative shooting mark of .414 percent from the field.

I think this number opened a little low at FanDuel. I make FSU -5 here. I like to go against teams playing on a back-to-back facing opponents with rest. UMass plays Temple on Saturday, while FSU last played on Friday. That's a tough turnaround for UMass, especially playing against an aggressive FSU defense that likes to pressure the ball. I think we could see UMass run out of gas in the second half. And I'm betting this before UMass-Temple is final. If UMass gets beat, this number could go up quite a bit.