Vermont will make the dance this year

[ZoomVT]

ok... here is the deal. University of Vermont (UVM) will make the dance this year from the America East. Actually i will go as far as to say that they will pull the upset on the first round and i give them a good chance of getting to the 3rd round; after that all bets are off.

This team will run away with the America East. So far they forced OT with George Mason, and they forced Maryland to hit a miracle 3 pt to push to OT. ended up losing both but im not too concerned.

With UVM landing Maurice Joseph from Michigan St, they should have no problem winning the America East.

Originally Posted by ESPN

Maurice Joseph is another coveted high-major prospect that returned home for a chance for game elevation. Given the choice between schools including Boston College, Ohio State, N.C. State and Wake Forest, the highly-touted perimeter threat jumped at the chance to play for Tom Izzo at Michigan State. Though Joseph delivered 5.9 ppg in 31 games in his second collegiate season, he had a hunger for more playing time. So after the 2006-07 campaign ended, he took his game to the University of Vermont.


"Being closer to my family was part of it," explained Joseph, who grew up 90 minutes north of campus in Montreal and hasn't lost his slight Quebec accent. "But I definitely wanted to be more of a focal point, play a bigger role for a team. At Vermont, I know I'll get a chance to play a lot of minutes for a team that can go to the Big Dance every year."


In Burlington, he'll join up this season with fellow junior Marqus Blakely, the America East's returning player of the year (19.0 ppg, 11.0 rpg), as the Catamounts aim for a reprise of their mid-decade NCAA glory days.


"I've learned that this is a very guard-heavy league," said Joseph, who spent his transfer season healing from surgery to repair a torn labrum in his shoulder. "In the Big Ten, if you have a talented big guy you can win a lot of games … the key difference is the physicality. But we've got a great backcourt with Marqus, myself and [senior guard] Mike Trimboli here at Vermont. We have a chance to do some real damage in this conference."

so start building your bankroll. Im taking UVM as a 15pt dog on the ML on the first round of the Dance.

[duckster]

Mercer is 2-1, wins over Alabama, Auburn, and lost to Georgia Tech in OT.

[ZoomVT]

nicely done. pretty tough schedule for them this year.

[Windy City Irish]

Boston University makes it

ty and gl

[ZoomVT]

haha windy. if you pick futures the way you pick games then i'll take it LOL

[Windy City Irish]

Originally Posted by ZoomVT

haha windy. if you pick futures the way you pick games then i'll take it LOL

[bigsportsguy2006]

Originally Posted by ZoomVT

haha windy. if you pick futures the way you pick games then i'll take it LOL

haha damnnnnnnnn, low blow!!!!

[ZoomVT]

lol. it was right down the middle i just had to hit it out of the park...

[Windy City Irish]

i dont have a comeback for any of it.

when you are right....you are right!

[SSHudder]

Zoom ... were you able to find a futures bet on Vermont? If so, I need to change books

[ZoomVT]

lol. i asked my local to get me a line. he was going to get back to me tomorrow.

[revnecro1273]

Originally Posted by ZoomVT

ok... here is the deal. University of Vermont (UVM) will make the dance this year from the America East. Actually i will go as far as to say that they will pull the upset on the first round and i give them a good chance of getting to the 3rd round; after that all bets are off.

This team will run away with the America East. So far they forced OT with George Mason, and they forced Maryland to hit a miracle 3 pt to push to OT. ended up losing both but im not too concerned.

With UVM landing Maurice Joseph from Michigan St, they should have no problem winning the America East.



so start building your bankroll. Im taking UVM as a 15pt dog on the ML on the first round of the Dance.

i watched that maryland game...made me sick that the vasquez POS lucked out and hit the tying basket...vermont should have won it..i turned the game off when it went to ot because i knew sweat box's team would prevail

[revnecro1273]

btw...why do they refer to themselves as uvm and not uvt?

[ZoomVT]

The initials UVM stand for the Latin words Universitas Viridis Montis, or University of the Green Mountains. The phrase appears on the university's official seal as Universitas V. Montis.

[Windy City Irish]

Zoom.....

avy bet...BU vs VT??

who makes it to the big dance or even who has better conf record?