William Burns Handicapper Reviews & Picks

Indiana Pacers @ Portland Trail Blazers (Over) ..

After beginning the season rather slowly, the Pacers have started to pick up the pace again in their speed of play. Not only is that helping them win more games, but it's also giving them a bunch of confidence to keep doing so. Indiana has scored 132+ in three of its past four contests and are looking like threats to score that many in every game at the moment.

On the other hand, Portland can score too. It will have to if it wants to keep up this evening. The Trail Blazers are much more competitive at home, and their record proves that. When they matched up earlier this season back in November, they combined for 235 points in a game that went "over." Expect an even higher scoring game today with similar results in it going "over" as well.

Score Prediction: 129-120 Pacers.

Burnley FC (Goal Spread) ..

Oxford United isn't a very strong European football team. As a matter of fact, even though it's coming off B2B draws, Oxford is close to the bottom having lost 11 games this season. Its -10 goal differential tells most of the story.

At the moment, Burnley are in third in the Championship. Now, the hosts have had a lot of draws this season, which is the one concern. However, Burnley is much more talented than its opponent and are placed well above them in the current standings. Allowing only nine goals in 30 games (insane defense like already mentioned,) I believe that Burley will shut Oxford United out here and that will lead to a victory.

Score Prediction: 2-0 Burnley.

Houston Cougars (ATS) ..

As far as Oklahoma State is concerned, it doesn't really stand a chance this evening. The Cowboys have had their chances against some of top teams in this conference this year and haven't done so well. In my opinion, this is their hardest game by far though as their previous one had been at home against this very Houston team. It was a bad performance by the Cougars (60-47 final) and there's going to be a much bigger margin between the two sides today.

Talking about the Cougars a bit more, they are coming off one of their worst losses of the season. One their opponents' top players was ejected very earlier in that game and they still lost in OT at home. Even though it was vs. a ranked Texas Tech team, it's a game that they should've won. Today, the Cougars should be back to normal and winning games dominantly. Houston will shut OKST's offense down and allow very few points just like in the last meeting.

Overall, Houston is much better in all facets of the game. Playing at home, the Cougars have been nearly flawless this season. Don't be shocked if Houston wins this game by 30+.

Score Prediction: 78-49 Houston.