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Sensational sports handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick on Minnesota in collegiate basketball. They are getting nine at BetUs Sportsbook against Purdue.

Purdue is a team that is a serious Big 10 title contender this season, if not an NCAA title contender. The Boilermakers are experienced as all heck and extremely loaded. Etwuan Moore, Chris Kramer, Robbie Hummel, JaJuan Johnson and others form a scary group as the perfect 13-0 record indicates. But Minnesota is far from chopped liver this season and this thing is going to be a game throughout.
 
Tubby Smith has his best team since coming to Minnesota. The Golden Gophers have been burying teams game in and game out and are 11-3 overall and 2-0 in Big Ten action. There was a cold streak in that three game skid when things were not going well but that was it and take that out of the equation which is fairly meaningless at this point and you have a very confident team that will be ready to compete.
 
I like Matt Painter as he has done a great job post Gene Keady but Smith still gets the edge here which can be big.
 
Ralph Sampson III is banged up and that is a concern as he is a necessary cog down low for sure so hopefully he will play but even if not the points are the way to go. Lawrence Westbrook is a baller and Blake Hoffarber is very good as well. It is going to take a phenomenal effort for the visitors to come in and be able to stay in this game but this is a statement game for the Minnesota program and I do believe they are ready to be in this thing until the bitter end.

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