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DUKE –11 Wake Forest

Duke needs a statement before the tourney having lost two
straight before the ACC and looked shaky against Miami. Wake has used some emotion to go this far,
but faces a deeper Duke team.

It’s Wake’s third game in three days and that will show up
late.

Saturday, March 10, 2006

 

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Ohio State-Indiana

Press Notes

The seventh-ranked Buckeyes continue their push for a Big
Ten tournament title and possible top seed in the NCAA tournament Friday when
they face hometown favorite Indiana
at Conseco Field house in Indianapolis.
The top-seeded Buckeyes (24-4) struggled to put away Penn
State 63-56 in the opening game of
the quarterfinals. Ohio State
has won six straight games and 10 of its last 11. Indiana
(18-10), the fifth seed, also rallied Thursday to win its quarterfinal game.
Marco Killingsworth and Marshall Strickland combined
for 28 second-half points as the Hoosiers defeated Wisconsin
61-56 for their fifth consecutive win since coach Mike
Davis announced his resignation, effective at season’s end.

Wake Forest-Duke

Press Notes

The Blue Devils (28-3) struggled against Miami
– a team that closed the regular season by losing six of seven – but pulled out
an 80-76 victory in Friday’s quarterfinals. Duke did manage to bounce back from
consecutive losses to end the regular season, 79-74 at Florida
State on March 1 and 83-76 at home
to No. 10 North Carolina last Saturday. Duke won both
meetings with Wake this season, including a 93-70 victory in Durham on Feb. 14. The Blue Devils have won three straight in the
series since dropping three of four.

Kentucky-South Carolina

Amnews

Kentucky
beat South Carolina twice during
the season, including an 80-78 decision Jan. 21 when Rajon
Rondo hit an off-balanced 3-pointer in the final seconds.

Texas A&M-Texas

Associated Press

For what the Aggies did on
Friday in the second round of the Big 12 tournament was absolutely carve up
Ricardo Patton’s Buffaloes from Colorado, 86-53, for their eighth win in a row,
which is a run far more impressive than the 10-0 record they put together at
season’s start against, for the most part, a bunch of SWAC
teams. There aren’t many hotter teams in the country right now, which is the
most critical test period as far as the folks who hand out NCAA Tournament
invitations are concerned. If the Aggies weren’t
already on the list, they are now.

 

 

 

Saturday, March 11, 2006

In all my years of handicapping, I don’t know if I’ve seen
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Friday, March 10,
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Alabama-Kentucky UNDER 126’

Kentucky’s
defense has been much more consistent than their offense this year.   Kentucky’s
focus they admitted is slowing down Alabama’s
interior game.  Tubby Smith is one of the
top coaches in the land.  With today’s
focus on the defensive end, we look for a low scoring game.

Friday, March 10,
2006

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Miami-Duke

News Record

The Blue Devils tend to revel in this event, and after a
six-day break following back-to-back losses, they should be jacked for any
opponent. This one just happens to be Miami.
Duke has won at least one ACC Men’s Tournament game in each of the past eight
years.

Wake Forest-NC
State

News Record

State has beaten Wake the last five times the two teams
have met in the tournament. Herb Sendek is 3-0
against Wake in postseason play.

Penn State-Ohio
State

Toledo Blade

The Buckeyes enter the
fray as the league champion, the top seed in the conference tournament and the
team everyone will be gunning for. Penn State earned the right to face the No. 1 seeded
Buckeyes by beating Northwestern in yesterday’s first-round matchup here. Matta, who said there is always the temptation to look
beyond the Big Ten tournament and get distracted by next week’s start of the
NCAA Tournament, added that he still looks for improvement. He does not expect
any of the Buckeyes to give the Big Ten tournament less than their best,
despite their essentially guaranteed slot in the NCAA event.

Minnesota-Iowa

Des
Moines Register

Iowa and Minnesota
split their season series, with each team prevailing on its home court. The
Hawkeyes won 76-72 in triple overtime on Jan. 18 while Minnesota
posted a 74-61 win on Feb. 18.

Texas Tech-Texas

Press Notes

In the two previous meetings this year, Texas
has outscored Tech 145-90 in registering victories of 80-46 in Austin
and 65-44 in Lubbock. If the Raiders
pull off the shocker, they may rekindle slim hopes of receiving a berth in the
National Invitation Tournament. If Tech loses to the Longhorns, likely ending
its season, the Raiders will finish 15-17, the most losses Knight has endured
in one season in his 40-year career.

Thursday, March 9,
2006

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TEMPLE +4 George Washington

This is the time of the year
Temple peaks.  They’ve played a much tougher schedule than GW, 74.8-69.3 according to Foxsheets’ rankings.  As we’ve said, 90 percent of the game is half
mental and the players responded big time to a pre-game players-only
meeting.  As Steve Lavin,
former coach at UCLA and streaker extraordinaire
points up, there’s nothing like an underachieving team that gets some
confidence under their belt. 

Look for the upset here.

Thursday, March 9,
2006

 

Last night we hit with UCF in a
blowout as our only postseason Wise Guy play so far.  We already have two up for Thursday including
the Pac-10 Postseason Game of the Year. 
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BYU-Utah

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Press Notes

The Utes placed sixth in the Mountain West Conference
during the regular season and earned the No. 6 seed in the tournament. Utah
opens tournament play against No. 3 BYU (20-7, 12-4 MWC). The Utes have competed in 22 previous conference
tournaments-16 as a member of the Western Athletic Conference and the last six
in the Mountain West Conference-posting a 28-18 (.609) record. Utah
has never lost in the quarterfinals (5-0) and boasts an 8-5 all-time mark in
the MWC Tournament. This year’s sixth seed is the
lowest for the Utes in the MWC Tournament. The Runnin’ Utes are 13-14 overall and placed sixth in the
Mountain West Conference with a 6-10 record. Utah
has gone 5-5 over its last 10 games entering postseason play. Last week, the
Utes closed out the regular season with a 65-59 loss at TCU
on Wednesday night and a 79-70 win over Wyoming
at home on Saturday night. Before defeating Wyoming
last Saturday night at home, Utah
had lost its last four games by an average of five points, including one
overtime game. Twelve of the Runnin’ Utes’ games have
been decided by nine points or less, with Utah
going 5-7 in those games. Utah is
playing one redshirt freshman and four other newcomers. Through 27 games, 57.7
percent of the Utes’ points, 48.3 percent of their rebounds, 51.5 percent of
their assists, and 54.0 percent of their minutes played have come from
first-year players. The Utes lead the all-time series 123-118, winning 21 of
the last 26 meetings and seven of the last nine. BYU
has a 6-4 edge over Utah on
neutral courts.

Arizona-Stanford

Press Notes

Arizona
forward Hassan Adams was suspended Monday by coach
Lute Olson for the Pac-10 tournament after the senior was arrested on suspicion
of drunken driving during the weekend. Adams, the team’s leading scorer. Adams
is averaging 17.3 points per game this season, third in the Pac-10.

South Carolina-Mississippi
State

Press Notes

Mississippi State
leads the series record 10-6. USC, 15-14 and finishing 6-10 in the SEC, will travel to Nashville
to play Mississippi State,
15-14 and 5-11 in the SEC, in the first round of the SEC Tournament on Thurs.

Clemson-Miami

Press Notes

Clemson has been one of the best teams in the ACC over the
last five games of the season. Oliver Purnell’s
Tigers have a 4-1 record in those games with the only loss an overtime defeat
at Wake Forest, 74-68 on February 22. Statistically, Clemson has a +10.0
scoring margin over the last five games, second only to North
Carolina’s +22.2. In fact, only five of the 12 ACC
teams have a positive scoring margin over the last five games. Clemson has
three wins by double digits, second only to North
Carolina’s four. Clemson has averaged 85.6 points per
game over the last five thanks in part to 43.7 percent three-point shooting.

Idaho-Nevada

Press Notes

Nevada has
won the last three meetings between the two teams, including a 70-44 victory on
Jan. 12 in Reno and a 74-68
decision on Feb. 20 in Moscow. Winners of the team’s third straight WAC
regular-season championship, the Wolf Pack brings an 11-game winning
streak into this week’s conference tournament, which marks the team’s longest
winning streak in 40 years. Nevada
has also turned in a 14-1 record at Lawlor Events
Center this season, including
victories in its last six home games. Eighth-seeded Idaho
brings a 4-24 overall record into Thursday’s game, dropping its last eight
games, including an 85-80 double-overtime loss at Boise
State on Saturday. The Vandals
finished ninth in the WAC standings with a 1-15
league mark.

GA Tech-Maryland

Washington Times

Both the
sixth-seeded Terrapins (18-11, 8-8 ACC) and fifth-seeded Florida State (19-8,
9-7) head into the ACC tournament probably needing at least one more victory—and
in Maryland’s case, probably more—to lock up berths in the 65-team field.
Back-to-back victories against Miami and Virginia have vaulted Maryland back
into the postseason discussion. Yet the same problems that weighed down the
Terps for the last month—a 2-7 record both on the road and against top-50 teams
in the RPI despite the winning streak—persist. Another factor still working
against the Terps is the absence of academically ineligible guard Chris McCray.
Maryland earned seven of its top 10 wins with McCray and is 5-7 without him.

Wake Forest-Florida State

Baltimore Sun

The Seminoles have gone 6-2 in their past eight, including
a win over Duke. Ordinarily, a 9-7 record in the ACC would mean an at-large
invitation, but Florida State
could be undone by a lame nonconference schedule. It
has to beat underachieving 12^th seed Wake
Forest in the first round, which
won’t be easy in Greensboro, N.C..

Missouri-Nebraska

St. Louis Today

This will be the second consecutive season these teams
have met in the first round. Last year, MU won 70-67
and swept all three games of the season. This year, the teams split the series,
with Nebraska taking the first
game 65-52 on Jan. 28. Missouri
never has lost to Nebraska in the
Big 12 Tournament, posting a 3-0 record. But an 11^th seed has
defeated a sixth seed only once in the nine-season history of the tourney – Colorado
upset Texas.

Michigan-Minnesota

Detroit News

NCAA Tournament hopeful Michigan
is facing another in a long list of must-win games when it plays Minnesota
at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in its Big Ten
tournament opener at Conseco Fieldhouse
in Indianapolis. But the Wolverines
(18-9, 8-8) should get an emotional lift because redshirt junior guard Lester
Abram said repeatedly Monday that he expects to play against the Gophers. The
Wolverines, a seventh seed, might have to beat the 10^th-seeded
Gophers for the third time this season to get into the NCAA’s
65-team field. Coach Tommy Amaker believes his team
already has a pretty good resume. Abram has played in a total of 77 minutes in
four Big Ten games this season. He has missed 12 games. An All-Big Ten
third-team selection as a sophomore, Abram said he’s not going to hold back and
that he expects to play with the same “reckless abandonment” that he played
before he was injured. He said he doesn’t think stamina will be a concern. Michigan
defeated Minnesota, 72-50, on Feb
15 at Crisler Arena without Dion
Harris (ankle) and Abram. But senior guard Daniel Horton was huge in both games
with 32 and 21 points, respectively. Hunter responded with 13 points in his
first start of the season in the second game against the Gophers, but he’s
questionable for Thursday.

Mississippi-Kentucky

Amnews

Kentucky
beat Mississippi 80-40 Feb. 22
when the Rebels were without Dwayne Curtis, their top scorer (13.6 points per
game) and rebounder (7.6). He missed the game to
attend his brother’s funeral.  Rod Barnes
said there has no concerted effort to have his players rally around him after
it was announced last week that he would not be back as coach.

Akron-Western Michigan

Press Notes

The third-seeded University of Akron men’s basketball team
(21-8, 14-4 MAC) travels to Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena for the
quarterfinal round of the 2006 FirstEnergy
Mid-American Conference Tournament where it will match up with sixth-seeded
Western Michigan (14-16, 10-8) on Thursday at 2 p.m. EST. Akron, which clinched
a first-round bye with a second-place finish in the league’s East Division,
closed the regular season with a 75-67 home-court victory over crosstown rival and East Division champion Kent State last
Saturday. Western Michigan advanced to Cleveland
following a 60-55 first-round tournament win over Eastern Michigan
on its home floor on Monday.  The Zips
are 2-8 all-time, 0-5 in the quarterfinal round, in MAC postseason play. UA and WMU match up in the league
tournament’s quarterfinal round for the second-consecutive season. The Broncos
downed the Zips 66-60 in overtime in last year’s postseason matchup in Cleveland
(March 10). This is the third time the programs have meet in the MAC tourney,
with UA notching a 90-83 win in first-round action in
Kalamazoo on March 4, 2002.

Wednesday, March 8,
2006

Simply put over the last 26 years, at least 19 of the
greatest college hoops postseasons were here (or at our predecessor scorephone
900 number the Cadillac Club). Last year was vintage
as we finished off college hoops a remarkable 69-37. Five of the last seven years, from conference play through
the Final 4 we hit at least 64 percent. 
We are 1-0 in postseason games, so hop on now or you will be on the
outside looking in.

The first of several reports, all inclusive, has three day
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Cal Santa Barbara-Cal Riverside

Press Enterprise

The Highlanders won their last game, 94-87 in overtime,
over UC Davis. Two of their past three losses have
come in overtime, and the team seems to have regrouped since back-to-back
blowout losses to Pacific and UC Irvine.

Press Notes

Junior forward Glenn Turner will miss the Big West
Tournament but senior guard Cecil Brown will play for the Gauchos.  Brown is second team All Conference.

Xavier-Massachusetts

Press Notes

Xavier, 17-10 overall and 8-8 in the Atlantic 10
Conference, lost its regular season finale on Saturday at Massachusetts,
65-56. Xavier has compiled a 15-7 (.682) all-time record in 10 Atlantic 10
Tournament appearances. XU is 3-0 in first round games.

Washington State-Oregon

Press Notes

Washington State
is 2-6 all-time in Pac-10 Tournament games. Ducks have won 10 straight in the
series and 18 of the last 19. Oregon
has won eight of 12 meetings on a neutral floor, including an 8-2 record at the
Far West Classic in Portland, Ore.
Ducks are averaging 68.6 points on offense and give up 64.6 points on defense.
The Cougars lead the Pac-10 in scoring defense (57.4 points per game), field
goal percentage defense (39.0) and 3-point field goal percentage defense
(29.5). Washington State
has led just once at halftime in its last 13 games, 11 of which have resulted
in loss.

Central Florida-East Carolina

Press Notes

The UCF men’s basketball team has
made two-consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament, but will have a new
challenge this season as it participates in the 2006 Conference USA
Championship presented by Aeropostale. The Golden
Knights (13-14) earned the fifth seed at the league tournament and will face
No. 12 East Carolina (8-19) in the first round on Wednesday evening in Memphis,
Tenn. Dating back
to the start of the 2001-02 campaign, UCF is 10-1 in
conference championship action. The Golden Knights have won six-straight league
tournament games. UCF has a 4-0 edge in the all-time
series with East Carolina and swept the season series
with the Pirates this year. The Golden Knights closed the regular season in
strong fashion, winning three of their last four games.

Cincinnati-Syracuse

Press Notes

Cincinnati,
19-11, closed regular season play with a 78-75 win over No. 16 West Virginia to
finish eighth in the BIG EAST with an 8-8 ledger. Syracuse, also
19-11, finished in ninth place with a 7-9 record following Sunday’s 92-82 loss
to No. 4 Villanova, SU’s third straight defeat.
Though both teams have won over 70 percent of their home games this season,
neither found the home court to be an advantage when the played each other.
Syracuse beat Cincinnati, 77-58, at UC’s Fifth Third
Arena while the Bearcats retaliated with an 82-65 win over the Orange in the
Carrier Dome, the two teams’ largest margins of defeat at home in 2006. The
Bearcats were rated No. 4 in the RPI and No. 5 in the
Sagarin Index in strength of schedule rankings at the conclusion of the regular
season.

Dayton-St. Joseph’s

Press Notes

Dayton
finished the regular season 14-16 overall and 6-10 in the A-10. UD tied Richmond
for 11^th place, and is the tournament’s 12^th seed by
tiebreaker. St. Joe’s is the fifth seed with a 9-7 conference record and 15-12
overall mark. Saint Joseph’s brings
a five-game winning streak with it to Cincinnati.
Dayton leads the series 14-9, and
has won five of the last six. The Flyers won this year’s meeting 77-69 at the UD Arena on February 1. UD leads
the Atlantic 10 in 3-pt. FG% defense (.303, 167-551),
and is second in FG% defense (.403, 632-1568), 3-pt. FG% (.377, 180-478)…Included in Dayton’s
16 losses are ten that have been by nine points or less. Five of the eight
(Creighton, Vanderbilt, Richmond, Temple
and Xavier) were a two-point game, or closer, in the final minute.

Pittsburgh-Louisville

Post Gazette

After sleeping on their third loss in four games to end
the regular season, the Pitt Panthers met Saturday afternoon and aired some of
their grievances concerning the team as they get set to enter the postseason.
Gray said Pitt has to get back to playing a defense-first approach instead of
the offensive-minded play that has been the norm the past month.