College Basketball Totals: 10 Pace Shifts to Exploit

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This article is going to focus on pace and style changes — due to coaching changes or limitations in personnel — that we can expect from some teams this season.

I love betting college basketball totals, and we’re able to get a beat on some teams early in the season, which can create some value. I’ll be covering several teams that I expect to have drastically different offensive operating tempos this season, so lets dive into it.

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Pace Shift: Faster

Weber State generally allowed its opponents to control the pace against it last year, as the Wildcats played games at 59 possessions, 85 possessions and every tempo-level in between.

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New head coach Kaleb Canales comes in from the NBA, and his hiring was heavily influenced by Weber State general manager Damian Lillard. Canales is going to bring an up-tempo style with NBA-type spacing as Weber State will seek to run out in transition early and often.

Weber State welcomes in Chamberlain Burgess into the fold, and he’ll be a star in the Big Sky. Brock Felder and Augustine Ekwe provide excellent post play and a versatile set of guards will make this offense fun to watch.

With Utah, Tarleton State, Cal State Northridge, Cal State Fullerton and Southern Utah on the schedule (all willing to run up-tempo), I think there will be value in Weber State totals early in the season.

Air Force had one of the worst seasons in recent history from any Mountain West team, as the Falcons not only lost every conference game (0-20), but the team was largely non-competitive nightly against conference foes.

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A need for a change in leadership was evident, and Air Force will turn to Joe Crispin, who’s going to completely change the approach…

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Publish date : 2026-10-28 14:30:00

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