#693 ASA PLAY ON 8* Georgetown +9 over Villanova, Thursday at 12 Noon ET - This is just a bad line in our opinion. Nova has been overvalued all year and now without their best player Collin Gillespie in the lineup they should not be laying nearly double digits in this game. The Cats have been terrible away from home down the stretch. They’ve lost 4 straight road games with 3 of those losses coming by double digits. Three of those losses came against teams ranked in the lower half of the Big East (Butler, St Johns, and Providence). The Hoyas played very well down the stretch. After rolling Marquette 68-49 yesterday, they’ve now won 6 of their last 8 games with their only 2 losses during that stretch coming at the hands of UConn who we have rated as the best team in the conference right now. G’Town crushed Marquette despite making only 4 of 21 from beyond the arc. Three point shooting is their strength as they are #1 in that category in conference play. Now that they have played one game here at MSG, we like their chances to improve greatly from deep facing a Villanova defense that ranks 9th in the Big East and 243rd nationally defending the arc. The Wildcats won both match ups this year by 10 and 13 points but they were at full strength (Gillespie had 30 points, 7 rebounds and 11 assists in those 2 wins) and their largest lead in either contest was 13. We like Georgetown’s confidence right now and we just don’t see Nova pulling away in this game with their recent struggles away from home. Take the points.