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The Golden State Warriors will tip off the season as odds-on favorites, but no team has attracted more bets to win the NBA championship at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas than the New York Knicks.The Knicks opened as 100-1 long shots to win the title at the Westgate but have been bet down to 60-1. They are all the way down to 20-1 at MGM sportsbooks.The bets on the Knicks arent very big, but there are lots of them. MGM assistant sportsbook manager Jeff Sherman said the average ticket on the Knicks is $25.New York has not made the playoffs since 2013 and finished 32-50 last season. Knicks president Phil Jackson revamped the roster in the offseason, adding veterans Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah to go along with Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis.New York opens the season tonight against the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers, who are the second most favored at 11-4. The San Antonio Spurs are next at 6-1. The Warriors are 2-3. No other team has odds in the single digits.While the Knicks are attracting the most bets, the big money is on Golden State. At William Hills Nevada sportsbook, 36 percent of the total money bet on the odds to win the NBA title is on the Warriors.Golden State went 73-9 last season, setting a record for the most wins in the regular season, but lost in the NBA Finals to the Cavaliers. The Warriors added superstar Kevin Durant in the offseason and became the first preseason odds-on favorites since the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls.The Warriors open the season tonight against the Spurs.The Boston Celtics and?Los Angeles Clippers?are each 20-1, followed by the Oklahoma City Thunder at 30-1. The Celtics have attracted the second-most bets, behind the Knicks, at the SuperBook. The Cavaliers are third in bets, followed by the Spurs and Warriors.The Brooklyn Nets are the biggest long shots on the board at 1,000-1. The Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns are each 500-1. 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(STATS) -- South Carolina State coach Buddy Pough and his players are going into their MEAC opener hoping the worst is behind them.Most of the other conference teams have similar feelings.Only one of the 11 teams has a winning record and seven of them are winless after an opening three weeks of the season in which the MEAC posted a 4-23 record in out-of-conference games.South Carolina State, a perennial title contender in the conference, has had the worst of it, losing to three FBS opponents, including shutouts against UCF and Clemson.North Carolina A&T, ranked 21st in the STATS FCS Top 25, has come out looking the best at 2-1, having beaten FBS (Kent State) and Division II (St. Augustines) opponents. Overall, the MEAC is 1-14 against FBS opponents, 0-8 versus FCS teams and 3-1 against D-II programs.I think weve scheduled in a lot of ways heavily against the teams that were probably better than us, South Carolina State coach Buddy Pough said. The league as a whole, I think is pretty representative of what they were last year. I think we have a lot of young teams.The sorting out process in the conference starts to take shape on Saturday. There are four conference matchups, including South Carolina State at Florida A&M, in addition to Delaware State playing an impossible game at Missouri -- one of only four out-of-conference games remaining for MEAC teams.FAMU is very similar to us, Pough said. Theyve played three games and hadnt gotten a win yet. I guess the big talk sounds like to me is everybody talking about the guarantee deal (against FBS teams) and theyve played a game or two that way, too. Of course, we both need a win at this point. Its imperative that we move intto our conference race now on a positive note.ddddddddddddA tough start to the season is not new to the MEAC. September is usually reserved for playing FBS opponents, and wins over them are few and far between. But the paydays with such games, which generally go into the hundreds of thousands, are viewed as necessary for the athletic budgets.All 11 MEAC programs except Norfolk State are playing at least one FBS program. South Carolina State went to the extreme with three FBS opponents (Louisiana Tech was the other). UT Martin from the Ohio Valley Conference is the only other FCS team playing three FBS opponents, but one is Hawaii, so its doing so in a 12-game schedule.I like the idea of playing some of those guys and I think our guys need the exposure to those type games, and I enjoy all that, N.C. A&T coach Rod Broadway said. But I dont like the idea of why we play em. I think thats a different story.Guarantee games that everybody is playing now, Norfolk State coach Latrell Scott said, were doing it because we have to, not necessarily because we want to. When youre given a challenge, you have to embrace those challenges.The challenge now is in the conference race. Hampton has the early jump with a victory over Howard last Saturday.N.C. A&T was installed as the favorite by a preseason vote of MEAC coaches, with Bethune-Cookman picked second and North Carolina Central third. Those three teams tied for the title last season, and A&T represented the conference in the inaugural Celebration Bowl, where the Aggies beat SWAC champion Alcorn State. ' ' '