Sunday, January 28, 2007

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Ohio-Ball State

Press Notes

The Ohio men’s
basketball squad (13-6, 4-2 MAC) will travel to take on Ball
State (6-13, 2-4 MAC). This is the
only meeting this year between Ohio
and Ball State.
All-Time: Ohio holds a 36-29 edge
in the all-time series between the two programs.

Wisconsin-Iowa

Press Notes

Iowa (11-9,
3-3) plays the first of three games in seven days when it hosts #2/3 Wisconsin
(20-1, 6-0). With the 79-63 win over Penn State,
Iowa improved its home winning streak in
Big Ten Conference games to 12 straight. Iowa
has won 28 of its last 29 home games in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Wisconsin
is ranked second by the Associated Press and third in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. This marks Wisconsin’s
highest ranking of the season. Iowa
has posted a 1-2 record while facing three ranked opponents this season. Iowa
lost to 10^th-ranked Alabama 72-60 in the semi-finals of the Paradise
Jam, defeated 24^th-ranked Michigan State 62-60 Jan. 4 in Iowa City
and lost to seventh-ranked Ohio State 82-63 Jan. 20 in Columbus. Under Steve
Alford, Iowa is 2-5 when playing
teams ranked among the top three in the nation. That includes a 1-3 mark vs.
No. 1, a 1-1 record vs. No. 2 and a 0-1 record vs. No. 3.

Tennessee-Kentucky

Press Notes

The Vols are looking to bounce
back from a 83-69 loss at Ole Miss Wednesday night. UT
held a 10-point halftime lead but the Rebels shot 59.4 percent from the field
in the second half to take the win. The Vols
finishing are a stretch where they have played five of six games on the road.
The stretch began with three consecutive road games (at Vanderbilt, at Ohio
State and at Auburn)
before UT returned home to play South Carolina
on Jan. 20. Tennessee returned to
the road Wednesday, Jan. 24, when they visited Ole Miss and now travel to Kentucky.
UT will return home Jan. 31 to host Georgia
before hitting the road again when the Vols visit
top-ranked Florida Feb. 3. UT has
dropped four of its last five games. Each of those four losses has come on the
road and three of them were decided by three points or less. Tennessee
is leading the SEC and ranks eighth in the nation with 82.4 points per game.
Chris Lofton, the SEC’s leading scorer with 21.5 points per game, is out
indefinitely after suffering an ankle injury Jan. 20 against South
Carolina. The All-America guard missed his first
career game Wednesday, Jan. 24, when he did not play against Ole Miss.

Massachusetts-Charlotte

Charlotte Observer

Maybe the comforts of home will give the 49ers some
assistance in Sunday’s showdown with the Minutemen. Charlotte
is 5-2 at home this season with losses to North Texas
and Saint Joseph’s.

Virginia-Clemson

Daily Progress

UVa fans have been getting a real
show out of the Cavaliers’ starting backcourt of senior shooting guard J.R. Reynolds and junior point guard Sean Singletary. Since
returning from a disastrous road trip to San Juan
before Christmas, Reynolds and Singletary have combined to average 46 points
per game over the last eight contests. Singletary has averaged 23.9 per game,
Reynolds 22.1 over that span. That’s what it may require for the Cavaliers to
tame the Tigers, coming off a heart-wrenching, last-second loss at Duke on
Thursday night. Clemson bounced back strong from its earlier loss to North
Carolina with an impressive home performance,
something the Cavaliers will have to contend with on Sunday afternoon at
Littlejohn Coliseum. Considering that Clemson ranks ninth in the ACC in both
field-goal percentage defense and 3-point percentage defense, it at least
leaves the notion that it could be another one of those 40-plus point nights
for the Cavalier backcourt.

DePaul-West Virginia

Scout.com

When viewing the Blue Demons schedule before this season
began it was plain to see that this week would be the toughest for the DePaul
Blue Demons. With back-to-back road games at Georgetown
and West Virginia, it was obvious
that the Blue Demons would be in for a tough challenge this week. At the WVU Coliseum, the Mountaineers are undefeated at 10-0 this
season and are 23-2 over the last two years. While WVU
has struggled on the road in Big East play, they are awfully tough to beat at
home.

LSU-Georgia

RedandBlack.com

With a win against the Wildcats, Georgia
(12-6, 4-2 SEC) has to get ready for a Sunday battle with No. 21 LSU (13-6, 2-3). The team is now in a tie with Kentucky
and Vanderbilt for second place in the SEC East. Wednesday’s home sell-out was Georgia’s
first since last February’s Tennessee
game. An SEC opponent such as LSU (the Tigers played
in last season’s Final Four) should bring the fans back in droves on Sunday.
The Tigers are coming off a 64-53 loss at home Wednesday to a resurgent
Vanderbilt squad. This is almost the same LSU team
that gave Georgia
their worst loss last season, an 81-52 drubbing in Baton
Rouge, La.