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posted February 22, 2008 at 18:28 in NCAA B Free Picks

BetUS NCAA basketball betting matchup:

The Georgia Bulldogs (12-12 SU, 10-9-1 ATS) are less concerned about making the NCAA tournament field than they are in catapulting themselves over the .500 mark. They will try to do that on Saturday when they take the trip to Nashville to play the Vanderbilt Commodores (22-4 SU, 12-13 ATS), a team that has hops for a very high NCAA seed, in a Southeastern Conference game that will tip off at 4 PM ET at the Memorial Gymnasium.

Here are some of the NCAAB betting trends as they relate to this matchup:

* GA has lost seven of its last eight games SU

* GA has played five of its last seven games UNDER the total

* GA is 1-3-1 ATS in its last five road games

* GA has lost its last five road games SU

* VAN has won its last five games SU

* VAN has covered three of its last four games

* VAN has played six of its last seven games UNDER the total

* VAN is 18-0 SU at home this season

* VAN has won four of the last six meetings SU

* Four of the last six meetings have gone UNDER the total

* VAN is 4-1-1 ATS in the last six meetings as the home team

* VAN has won five of the last six meetings SU as the home team

* Four of the last six meetings in Nashville have gone OVER the total

In the last meeting, a 67-59 Vanderbilt win in Athens, the 'Dores were able to spread the ball around pretty good, as Alex Gordon produced 14 points, with Shan Foster and Ross Nettner scoring 13 each. But Vanderbilt was only able to make 36% of its shots from beyond the three-point arc, and if that happens again we're looking at a tightly-contested affair.

That's because Georgia has managed to do a better defensive job on its foes lately, if you consider lower-scoring games to be indicative of better defense. The Bulldogs have managed to keep things close with Tennessee (74-71 loss) and Kentucky (61-55 defeat), and would probably have been closer to Florida (ten-point loss) if they hadn't committed 20 turnovers.

It's tough to say anything disparaging about Vanderbilt, but the Commodores may be a bit distracted for this one, as they have Tennessee, and a chance to avenge a previous 20-point loss, on tap in three days.

We'll look for Georgia to slow things a bit in an attempt to stay within striking distance, resulting in a cover of the sizable impost. Go with Georgia in the BetUS NCAA college basketball betting odds.

JAY'S PREDICTION: VANDERBILT BY 4

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(Charles Jay of http://www.eBookies.com gives it the old college try as a regular contributor to the BetUS Locker Room)