Dennis Macklin

DMack's Short Schedule Bonus Play is on the Iona Gaels

Both teams play brutal non-conference schedules to get them ready for conference play and in recent years it has worked. In fact Iona went 2-9 in money games and has started league play 4-1. Monmouth was 1-12 taking several money games and has won three straight. That said, these teams met a couple of weeks ago with Iona winning a 103-84 free-for-all, connecting on 17-31 treys. Leopards generally don't change their spots and don't see the Hawks playing better defense here vs. a team that is 15-9 L24 as a MAAC road favorite. Iona comfortably. 

DMack's  Sunday CBB Play of the Day is on the Southern Illinois Salukis

The Bradley Braves are a train wreck and it is easy to see why. They turn the ball over once out of every four possessions and they shoot 37% from the inside the arc .... not two recipes for success. They've lost five straight visits to Carbondale ... all by 11+ points. Southern Illinois is not all that much but the home team has won 10 of the last 11 series meetings and the Salukis favorite whipping boy is in town. If Southern can't get healthy here .......... lay it. 

Mack Attack AFC Championship Game Super Play is on the Kansas City Chiefs 

This is the eighth straight AFC championship game for the Patriots who have gone 4-3 in the last seven. New England has lost their last three championship games on the road and has not claimed an AFC title outside of Foxboro in 14 years. This year, the Pats have lost five times and the road and have been unable to run the football in those games. The Chiefs are the first team in NFL history to score at least 26 points in every game and regardless of the weather, have plenty of weapons to solve the Pats. The Kansas City defense was brilliant for the first time all year in bottling up Andrew Luck last week and have no excuse to not pressure Brady here. This is the first time in 70 games that the "Goat" enters a game as an underdog and their is not much that he'll be able to do about it. Kansas City 33-24.