VIRGINIA COMMIE RAMS +2.5 over Butler(Lose 70-62)
VIRGINIA COMMIE RAMS (+125) over Butler----------The conventional wisdom as to why VCU is still an underdog in this tournament, I think, is that Butler has some special defense that can stop 3-pointers..........and.......VCU's prowess from Area Code-3 is why they are winning. My response to that is look at how poorly teams are shooting 3's against VCU; their defense seems to be very good. Besides the fact that VCU has so much depth, with several players who can rack up 20 or more pts in a game while most of Butler's pts are scored by only 1 player, since March 15th, VCU has pretty much blown out every team they have faced except the FSU game which went to OT. Butler snuck by Old Dominion and Pitt(with the help of 12 3-ptrs, the amount that VCU's been getting----altho VCU only had 8 against Purdue and they still scored 94pts and a double-digit victory).........and then they snuck by Florida in OT. I'll go against Butler's "recent Final Four experience" because that's the only plausible reason I can think of as to why they'd be favored here.(Lose 70-62.........16 PF's called on Butler with 24 PF's called on VCU: Zebra-fix in Houston. What a shame)