Stephen Nover has found his strongest NHL play of the season on today's menu. Line value, ripe situation and a powerful angle that hasn't lost in three months makes this worthy of such lofty status. Stephen has the details - you cash a monster winner!
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Today’s Free Picks
| Sport | Game Selection | Game Time |
|---|---|---|
| CBB | (601) Baylor at (602) Arizona State | 12:30pm EDT - Mar 10/2026 |
The PLAY: Baylor -3.5 (-115)
Arizona State is one seed higher than Baylor as the two teams meet in this early start opening round Big 12 Conference Tournament game.
Despite the seeding, Baylor is the better team. The oddsmaker knows it and so does the marketplace with the Bears drawing the money.
I find the point spread low enough to back the Bears. Baylor is NCAA Tournament-tested and is off a confidence-boosting, 101-75, home win against Utah this past Saturday.
Arizona State is going through an unsettling time. The Sun Devils were hammered by Iowa State, 86-65, on the road this past Saturday. Several national outlets have reported that ASU coach Bobby Hurley will not be back for next season. That has to be a major distraction.
Baylor defeated Arizona State 73-68 at home on Feb. 21 in the only meeting between the teams this season.
Both teams give up an average of 77 points a game. But the Bears score nearly six more points per game than the Sun Devils and rank 39th in field goal percentage. ASU is 218th in field goal percentage.
(Editor's note: Stephen Nover's Tuesday card is headed by his NHL Game of the Year. Stephen is 19-6-1 on his last 26 NHL premium/free plays. He also is 17-7 on his last 24 NBA premium plays and 13-5 on his last 18 college basketball premium/free plays.)
Consultant Bio
Stephen Nover is unique among professional handicappers. A multiple award-winning sportswriter for numerous newspapers, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nover has one the best combinations of gambling and media sources in the world.
The author of two sports gambling books, "Las Vegas Sports Beat" and "Sports Gaming Beat", along with a book on fantasy football titled, "Winning Fantasy Football", Nover is a former professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas having taught a football handicapping class there. He also was the co-host of the Sunday night sports betting radio show "The Stardust Line" during the 1990's.
Parlaying nearly 50 years worth of professional gambling experience with tremendous knowledge of the players through elite deep-roster Rotisserie leagues and building on copious gaming and media sources - having worked for newspapers in the Midwest, South and West and also for legendary Hall of Fame oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough - Nover is a true Las Vegas wise guy. He helped learn his craft from such masters as Roxborough, Dave Malinsky, Lem Banker and Russ Culver.
Part of what makes Nover so special is the pride he takes in writing his deep-dive analysis, which always is unique, well-researched and sometimes entails out-of-the-box thinking.