Saturday, January 27, 2007

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and the team’s own press releases.

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Texas Tech-Missouri

Press
Notes

Texas Tech (15-5,
4-1) and Missouri (12-6, 1-4) are meeting for the fifteenth time
since the series began on December 5, 1955. Each team has won seven games. Texas Tech
holds a 5-1 edge when the teams have played in Lubbock. Missouri has a 4-2 margin in Columbia and has a 2-0 lead on neutral courts. Last
season, the Red Raiders won in Lubbock 73-55.

George Washington-Rhode Island

Press
Notes

It’s a match-up of
first- and second-place teams as second-place GW
(5-1) faces first-place URI (6-1) today in the only regular-season meeting this
season and the 25^th time in series history. GW
is coming off a 74-65 victory over Saint Joseph’s Wednesday at Smith Center for its 24^th straight home victory. The Colonials have
won 22 of their last 23 A-10 games. GW also has won 32 of its last 36 regular-season games and
its 24-game home winning streak at Charles E. Smith Athletic
Center ranks behind only three teams nationally. (We
point up their home streak as many top cappers consider home/road “splits” or
dichotomy). Rhode
Island
(13-8, 6-1) is coming off a 75-72 victory over UMass
Wednesday at home.

St.
John’s-Pittsburgh

Press
Notes

Winning eight of its
last nine games, Pitt enters the contest ranked No. 9 in both the Associated
Press and ESPN/USA Today coaches polls. The Panthers
are 12-1 at home on the season. Pitt has won 35 of its last 41 Big East home
games and is 30-6 against Big East opponents in the Petersen Events
Center. Pitt owns a 16-33 all-time record vs. St. John’s. It has won three consecutive games vs. the Red
Storm at home including a 2-0 record in the Petersen Events
Center. Pitt has limited six of seven Big East opponents,
eight of its last nine opponents and 18 of its 21 total opponents under 70
points. Under Jamie Dixon, Pitt has held opponents to 70 points or less in 99
of his 119 career games.

Temple-Duquesne

Press
Notes

Duquesne (6-11, 2-4),
which snapped a five-game home losing streak and doubled last season’s win
total with a 93-89 victory over Dayton on Wednesday, returns to action to host
Temple (7-11, 1-4). Temple leads the overall series 35-12, including a
13-7 advantage in games played at Pittsburgh. Duquesne snapped an eight-game series losing
streak with a 61-54 win over the Owls in Pittsburgh on Jan. 8, 2003. Temple has won the past three meetings. Duquesne,
which began the season with seven scholarship players, is currently competing
with eight. of the 10 total players on the current
active roster, just one is over 6-6.

Mississippi-Vanderbilt

Press
Notes

The Commodores also
recorded back-to-back road wins over ranked opponents for the first time in
school history when they topped Kentucky and LSU in the past
week. The Commodores (14-6, 4-2 Southeastern
Conference) have won three consecutive games—all against ranked opponents—to
find themselves in a three-way tie for second place in the SEC’s Eastern
Division heading into the weekend. Vanderbilt leads the overall series 68-38
overall, including a 45-7 advantage in Nashville. The Commodores won last year’s meeting 77-62
in Oxford on March 1.

Southern Miss-Memphis

Press Notes

Southern Miss looks to snap a six-game losing streak to Memphis
when they travel north to take on the No. 11-ranked Tigers. The Golden Eagles
(13-5, 3-2) enter the game having won two straight games, including an 83-72
decision at home over East Carolina, Wednesday. Southern
Miss, though, looks to snap a five-game losing streak in Memphis.
The last Golden Eagle victory in Memphis
came on Dec. 27, 2000, in
a 75-67 triumph over the Tigers. UM (16-3, 6-0), C-USA’s league leader, won
this season’s earlier meeting this season between the two teams, 75-62, in
Hattiesburg two weeks ago. The Tigers currently are riding an eight-game
winning streak, which includes a 72-59 home win over Tulsa,
Wednesday. Chris Douglas-Roberts, who led the Tigers in Hattiesburg
with 19 points, has been out with a high ankle sprain and has not played in the
last two games. Douglas-Roberts leads UM in scoring at
14.8 points per contest.

TCU-Wyoming

Press Notes

Wyoming
leads the all-time series 4 games to 3 and has won two straight meetings. The
Cowboys won the two games last year by a total of just six points. Five of the
seven contests have been decided by five points or less. TCU
is 0-2 in Laramie, as the Cowboys
have a two-point win and a three-point overtime victory over the Frogs in their
arena. TCU currently is in a season-long four-game
losing streak after matching a season best with three consecutive victories.
After holding 10 consecutive opponents to 70 points or less, three of TCU’s last four foes have surpassed the 70-point mark.
Opponents have averaged 74.0 points per game over the last five games after
scoring just 53.5 over the previous six games.
From Nov. 24 through Jan. 6, the Horned Frogs limited 10 consecutive
teams to 70 or under. It was the first time a Frog team accomplished that feat
since the 1986-87 season, when TCU held 13 opponents
in a row under that total (Jan. 7-Feb. 21, 1987). TCU shot 48.2
percent (41-of-85) from the floor during the team’s 2-0 start to league play,
but has made just 36.7 percent (79-of-215) of its shots in its four consecutive
losses.