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Ole Miss-Kentucky
Press Notes
Ole Miss hits the road for the second consecutive game,
traveling to Kentucky to take on
the Wildcats. Kentucky sits third
in the SEC Eastern Division standings and has taken its last two games,
including Saturday’s 79-66 road win at South Carolina.
Tubby Smith’s Wildcats have a trio of sophomores leading the team in scoring
and currently coming off the bench. After being suspended for the entire
non-conference slate, forward Randolph Morris is posting 12.8 points and 5.8
rebounds since rejoining the squad and leads the SEC in field goal percentage
in league play (.611).
Utah-UNLV
Press Notes
The Runnin’ Utes (12-12, 5-8 MWC) open a two-game road swing against the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels (14-10, 8-4 MWC). Utah,
tied for sixth place in the Mountain West Conference, dropped a pair of games
at home last week. The Utes pushed Colorado
State to overtime before falling
69-61 on Wednesday night, then lost to Air Force 52-51
on Saturday night. Utah is 3-6 on
opponents’ home courts overall this season and 2-4 in Mountain West Conference
play. Over the last seven games, Utah
has held its opponents to an average of 59.7 points per game on 39.6 percent
shooting from the field and 33.3 percent from three-point range. The Utes have
owned a 34.7 to 28.1 edge in rebounds per game, outworking all seven teams on
the glass. Utah
is playing one redshirt freshman and four other newcomers. Through 24 games,
56.9 percent of the Utes’ points, 47.2 percent of their rebounds, 51.9 percent
of their assists, and 54.1 percent of their minutes played have come from the
first-year players. UNLV is 14-10 overall and tied
for third place in the Mountain West Conference with an 8-4 record. The Rebels
are 10-4 at home overall this season and 4-2 in conference games. The Runnin’ Rebels ended a two-game losing steak with an 80-72
win at Colorado State
last Saturday afternoon. Before then, UNLV lost at BYU (75-72) on Feb. 11 and to San Diego State at home
(81-70) on Feb. 16.
TCU-Colorado
State
Press Notes
Colorado State
finishes out a two-game homestand Wednesday night
against the TCU Horned Frogs. The Rams suffered an
80-72 setback Saturday night against UNLV and are now
13-12 on the year overall. The Horned Frogs bring a 5-21 record into Moby Arena
on Wednesday with their only conference victory (1-11) coming at the Rams’ expense, 85-72 in Fort Worth
on Jan. 21. Colorado State
holds an all-time record of 414-164 (.716) in Moby Arena. The Rams hold an 9-33 record in the month of February during Dale Layer’s
tenure as head coach. The Rams have a 4-22 record in February in their last
three-plus seasons. CSU snapped a 20-game league road
losing streak with last Wednesday’s win over Utah in Salt
Lake City. After
holding opponents to a .379 field goal percentage in non-conference games, CSU
has allowed league opponents to shoot at a .493 clip after 12 MWC games. MWC foes are scoring
77.7 points per game on the Rams compared to a 67.0
points per game average in non-conference play.
Ohio State-Michigan
Press Notes
Michigan State
owns the all-time series lead with a record of 59-46 vs. the Buckeyes. Ohio
State is 13-38 in games played in East
Lansing. The Buckeyes are 32-21 in games played in Columbus.
Tennessee-Florida
Press Notes
Tennessee
will hit the road for the fourth time in its last five games. The Florida
game will mark the fourth consecutive road game the Vols
have played that has been sold out. UT also played before sold out arenas at Kentucky,
Georgia and Alabama.
UT saw its eight-game SEC winning streak come to an end with a 79-92 loss at Alabama
Saturday. Halftime bettors note that UT has rallied to overcome deficits of
nine points or more four times. South Carolina (1/8/06) led by as many as 15
points in the second half before the Vols came back
to win 76-69 in Columbia. The Vols have recorded at
least 10 steals in 15 of their 23 games. Tennessee
is getting an average of 22.6 points per game from its bench. The Vols’ bench has contributed 520 points in 23 games this
season. UT has recorded 100 more steals than its opponents. The Vols have 241 steals compared to just 141 by their
opponents.
Maryland-Florida State
Press Notes
Maryland
(16-9, 6-6 ACC) looks for its seventh conference win when it travels to Tallahassee
to take on the upstart Florida State Seminoles Wednesday. Florida
State (16-7, 6-6 ACC) enters the
game having won three of its last four contests following a 76-62 win over Virginia
Saturday in Tallahassee. Maryland
leads the all-time series with FSU, 23-7, dating back to the first meeting in
1992. The Terps have won two straight over the
Seminoles and 17 of the last 19 contests. Maryland
is 9-4 against the ‘Noles in Tallahassee
and has won six of the last seven meetings at FSU.
Rutgers-Georgetown
Press Notes
Georgetown put together its second seven-game winning streak
of the season from Jan. 17-Feb. 9, but the Hoyas then
hit a rough stretch of their schedule and suffered consecutive losses to
then-No. 9 West
Virginia, Marquette and
then-No. 4 Villanova.The Hoyas’
last three games aren’t nearly as tough, as they’ll face Rutgers
(15-11, 5-8) and Syracuse at home,
followed by South Florida on the road. With victories
over No. 1 Duke and No. 9 Pittsburgh this season, one or two more wins could be
enough to get the Hoyas into the NCAAs.
After losing six of seven games over a three-week stretch, Rutgers
has won two of its last three. The Scarlet Knights are coming off a 65-51
victory over South Florida on Saturday. On Saturday, Douby sparked a 17-4 run that put Rutgers
ahead 35-21 at halftime. The Scarlet Knights went on to deal South
Florida its school-record 14th consecutive loss. The Scarlet Knights will face a much tougher test against Georgetown, having dropped five of the last six meetings.
Fordham-St. Joseph’s
Press Notes
The Saint Joseph’s
men’s basketball team will play back-to-back games at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse for the first time this season, beginning with
Wednesday’s (Feb. 22) game with Fordham. The Hawks are 2-3 this season in the Fieldhouse and will be looking to avoid a sub-.500 record
on their homecourt, something which hasn’t happened since 1997-98. Entering
this season, the Hawks owned a 30-2 record in the building since 2002-03, and
that record is now 32-5.
NBA
Sonics-Hawks
Associated Press
Seattle has
won four straight meetings between the teams and eight of its last 10 in Atlanta.
But the seven-game skid is the Sonics‘ longest since
they lost eight in a row on the road from Nov. 24-Dec. 22, 1991. Seattle’s
Rashard Lewis is questionable.
Magic-Nets
Orlando Sentinel
Could be the final game with Orlando for G
Steve Francis, if he is traded. The trade deadline is 3 p.m. Thursday. Orlando
is looking for its first victory against the Nets this season.