Wednesday, March 1,
2006 

March is here! We
are 5-1 over the last nine days with Wise Guy plays.  We have our first three this week going
tonight—two in college and
one in the NBA.  The midnight oil has started burning and won’t stop until after
the Final Four.  I have my Café Britt
coffee and the 17-plus hour days have commenced! We added two Majors after
researching in the wee hours of the morn. 
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CBB

Wyoming-San Diego
State

Press Notes

San Diego State (19-8; 12-3 Mountain West Conference), winners of 11 of its last 13, 13 of its last 16
and 15 of its last 19 games, looks to clinch the 2006 MWC
championship outright. The Aztecs clinched at least a share of the
conference crown with its 73-66 victory over New Mexico
at The Pit. The victory also allowed SDSU to improve
to 7-5 in road/neutral games and 6-2 on the road in the MWC.
Wyoming has lost four straight
with its last win coming against TCU back on Feb. 8.
The four-game losing streak is a bit deceiving as the Cowboys’ four defeats
have come by a combined 11 points at Air Force, at New
Mexico, vs. Brigham Young and vs. Colorado
State.

Duquesne-Charlotte

Press Notes

Duquesne (3-22, 1-13), coming off a 77-76 home loss to St.
Bonaventure on Saturday, completes the road portion of the 2005-06 schedule at Charlotte
(17-10, 10-4). The Dukes, who are looking to end a seven-game losing streak,
are 1-10 on the road. This is DU’s first game at Charlotte
since December of 1993. Charlotte, the only team in the A-10 with a better
record on the road (9-3) than at home (7-6) is coming off a 77-74 Halton Arena loss to Saint Louis on Saturday.

St. John’s-Villanova

Press Notes

Villanova Men’s Basketball Game Notes for Wednesday night’s
game between No. 4/4 Villanova (22-3, 12-2 Big East) and St. John’s (12-13, 5-9
Big East). The teams will be playing on Senior Night at the Pavilion, where
Villanova will honor its five graduating seniors along with two student
assistants.

Maryland-Miami

Press Notes

Miami (15-12,
7-7 ACC) enters the contest having lost four of its last five games, but did
defeat Virginia Tech, 70-59, in its last game on Feb. 22.

Utah-TCU

Press Notes

Utah leads
the all-time series 7-1. In their last meeting, Utah
took an 80-45 win over TCU in Salt
Lake City on Jan.
28, 2006.

Georgia-Florida

Press Notes

Georgia
begins the homestretch of its regular season with a mid-week contest at Florida. 
Almost two months have passed since these two teams first met in Athens,
where Florida took a 90-72
victory. The Bulldogs arrive at this game with a 15-12 record, 5-9 in SEC
games.  Their overall mark represents a 7-game improvement from last
season, their SEC record an advancement of 3 games
from 2005.  Most recently, however, Georgia
dropped an 83-68 decision at Miss. State,
a game in which the visiting Bulldogs led at halftime. Florida
gained this advantage in the series by winning the past four meetings, going
back to the second matchup of the 2004 season. In the past 10 years, Georgia
has had virtually as much success in Gainesville
as any other SEC venue.  Over that span, Bulldog teams have posted four
wins, second only to the five recorded at Vanderbilt.

Virginia-North Carolina

Press Notes

North Carolina
understandably struggled at times in the season after losing all of its stars
from last year’s run to the national title. The young Tar Heels, though, are
playing their best basketball of 2005-06 at the right time, and can clinch the
second seed in the ACC tournament when they face Virginia
on Wednesday. The No. 13 Tar Heels (19-6, 10-4) go for their sixth straight win
and look to exact some revenge against the Cavaliers (14-11, 7-7) as the teams
meet at the Smith Center.
North Carolina’s only loss in its
last nine games was a hard-fought 87-83 home defeat to then-No. 2 Duke on Feb.
7. With players like freshman Tyler Hansbrough and
junior Reyshawn Terry starting to assert themselves,
the Heels can lock up the No. 2 seed in the conference tourney with a victory
Wednesday. Virginia has been
inconsistent of late, losing two of its last three games to fall into a
fifth-place tie in the ACC with Florida
State and Miami.
The Cavaliers followed one of their most impressive wins of the season, a 72-58
victory over then-No. 11 Boston College
last Tuesday, with one of their worst efforts in a 90-64 loss to Clemson on
Saturday.

Virginia
shot 43.8 percent from the field and committed a season-high 29 turnovers
against the Tigers, including 16 in the first half.

Wednesday, March 1,
2006

March is here! We
are 5-1 over the last nine days with Wise Guy plays.  We have our first three this week going
tonight—two in college and one in the NBA and we are
not even done. Late steam is inclusive in the price which is sent upon
completion later in the morning. AT LEAST three Wise Guy
plays up now.

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Tuesday, February 28,
2006

Our last losing play was Saturday as LA Tech comes in big
time last night.  Tonight another of our
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CLEVELAND STATE
+8 Detroit Mercy

True the chalks finished the season stronger, but
tournament time is a chance to get a new outlook and mentally regroup. These
teams are more evenly matched than the recent runs suggest and eight points is
way too much even if the chalk wins outright. 

UDM was in a five way tie for
fifth seed but got in on a tie-breaker, so they are not even as good as their
mediocre seed suggests.

Mercy advances but won’t have a cover to show for it.

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Tuesday, February 28,
2006

Our last losing play was Saturday as LA Tech comes in big
time last night.  Tonight another of our
seemingly infallible quality over quantity nights where the biggest sports
service release is on ESPN. The ENTIRE card is just $17 at www.godspicks.com.  We now
take virtually every credit card, PayPal and eCheck.  Also we now have yearly and other packages
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NBA

Timberwolves-Bulls

Chicago Sun Times

The Bulls look to snap a two-game losing streak when they
host the T-wolves, who won the last meeting 99-93 on Jan. 11 in Minneapolis.
Since then, Minnesota has gotten
quicker with the trade of Wally Szczerbiak to Boston
for Ricky Davis and Marcus Banks. Forward Malik Allen
likely will get his second start for the Bulls.

Hornets-Sonics

Seattle Times

The Sonics return to KeyArena
after playing their past six games on the road, finishing 1-5.  The Hornets are 2-0 to start their current
four-game trip. They defeated Portland
88-75 on Sunday and have won 11 of their past 14.  The Hornets, who beat the Sonics 105-99 at KeyArena in November and 109-102 in Oklahoma
City earlier this month, haven’t defeated the Sonics
in a season series since 2002-03.

CBB

Wake Forest-Boston
College

Jackson Daily News

A loss would guarantee that Wake
Forest is the No. 12 seed in the
12-team ACC Tournament next week, though numerous other combinations during the
final week of the regular season will give the Demon Deacons the same seed. Wake
Forest, making its first basketball
appearance in the greater Boston
area, needs to win tonight to avoid its first winless ACC road schedule since
the 1987-88 season. y winning
tonight, Boston College
can clinch a first-round bye for its first appearance in the ACC Tournament,
and the Eagles are still in contention for the No. 2 seed.

Illinois-Minnesota

Decatur Herald & Review

Coach Dan Monson believes the Golden Gophers are finally
playing their best basketball of the season. The NCAA Tournament is surely out
of the question, unless, of course, Minnesota
can win the Big Ten Tournament and the automatic NCAA Tournament berth that
comes with it. If not that, the NIT might come
calling. Plus tonight is “Senior Night” for starters Vince Grier, Adam Boom and
J’son Stamper. “We need to keep grinding,” Monson
said. “We’re playing against teams that beat us the first time around so we’re
trying to show we’ve improved. I think we have a little bit of an identity we
didn’t have earlier in the season.”Illinois beat Minnesota
77-53 on Jan. 25^th. The Gophers have endured injuries and lineup
shuffles and Monson has finally settled on a starting group that includes walkons Zach Puchtel and Jamal
Abu-Shamala.

Tennessee Martin-Murray
State

Press Notes

The two just wrapped up the regular season Saturday in Murray,
where the Racers won 81-63 and finished the regular season 21-6 and 17-3
winning the OVC regular-season championship.This
is the 31^st all-time meeting between the two teams. MSU leads 28-2 and has won 10 straight. The Racers have
never lost at home to the Skyhawks, winning all 15
meetings. The

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just keeps winning.  The latest
streak has hit the century mark in wins at 104-43 (pushes not counted) the last
147. You know it’s legit because you got EVERY ONE OF THEM.  

This is your
Sports-Handicapper for Tuesday, February 28, 2006

·       
George the Greek, scorephone legend going back
to the 976 number days nailed  New
Orleans and the under Sunday as the Two Team Parlay of
the Year in the NBA.  Yesterday also as released on Sports-Handicapper.com
he pops home Sacramento & over,
plus Detroit has his Three Team NBA
Parlay of the Year.  Now it’s his two-team NCAA Basketball Parlay of the Year. You
get it for half what he’s charging his own customers.

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Tuesday, February 28,
2006

Our last losing play was Saturday as LA Tech comes in big
time last night.  Tonight another of our
seemingly infallible quality over quantity nights where the biggest sports
service release is on ESPN. The ENTIRE card is just $17 at www.godspicks.com.  We now
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Monday, February 27,
2006

Fresh off another 2-1 SWEEP yesterday to finish the week
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NBA

Raptors-Heat

Sun Sentinel

The Heat is riding a season-high five-game winning streak
as it fattens up on weak opponents. Coach Pat Riley is looking for more
defensive effort.  It took the Raptors 10
games to get their first victory, and it came against the Heat. Toronto
lost five in a row after that win but has played decently since then, posting a
19-20 record.

Sixers-Mavericks

Phillyburbs.com

The Sixers begin their very own Texas
two-step tonight. They visit the Dallas Mavericks tonight and then face the
Houston Rockets on Wednesday night. The Mavericks (44-11) own the best record
in the Western Conference. They are 25-4 at home, having overcome a 24-point
third-quarter deficit to edge the Toronto Raptors in overtime Saturday to
extend their American Airline
Center winning streak to 14 games. Dallas
hasn’t lost at home since Dec. 30. The Sixers are likely to have Chris Webber,
who sat out Saturday night’s 108-102 win over the Bulls with the flu, back
tonight. Samuel Dalembert, who missed the last two
games with a sprained left ankle, didn’t travel with the team to Dallas
on Sunday and isn’t expected to play until Wednesday, at the earliest.

CBB

Pittsburgh-West Virginia

Post Gazette

Third place or sixth place. That,
in a nutshell, is what the game against West Virginia
means for Pitt. If the Panthers win, they will clinch third place in the Big
East Conference and a bye in the conference tournament next week at Madison
Square Garden
in New York, provided they beat
Seton Hall Friday at the Petersen Events
Center in the regular-season finale.  They defeated West
Virginia, 57-53, Feb. 9 at the Petersen
Events Center.
Pitt has scored 80 points or more in each of its past four games. If there is
one thing missing from Pitt’s NCAA resume this season, it’s a signature road
win. The Panthers are 3-4 away from home in Big East play. Pitt is winless
against top echelon teams on the road this season. The Panthers’ most
impressive road win? How about South
Carolina?

Boise-Fresno

Idaho Statesmen

It’s the first appearance on Big Monday for the Broncos,
who are 5-5 in 10 previous games televised by ESPN networks.

Northern Arizona-Montana

Great Falls Tribune

Coach Larry Krystkowiak’s
Grizzlies have already clinched second place in the Big Sky and an accompanying
bye into the league tournament semifinals, slated for March 7 in Flagstaff,
Ariz. Tonight’s game offers one more chance
for Grizzly seniors Kevin Criswell and Virgil Matthews to hear the cheers of
the home folks. Northern Arizona (12-1, 20-8) has taken
the Big Sky by storm this season. The Lumberjacks of coach
Mike Adras were picked to be a middle-of-the-pack
team but have prospered behind senior shootists Kelly
Golob and Steve Sir. Forward Ruben Boykin Jr., off-guard
Tyrone Bazy and freshman point guard Josh Wilson have
also had outstanding years for the Jacks. Northern
Arizona rallied from a 19-point
deficit to defeat Montana 83-80 in Flagstaff on Jan. 19.

Cal State
Sacramento-Montana State

Great Falls Tribune

Tonight in Bozeman,
the Montana State Bobcats will also celebrate Senior Night as the Sacramento
State Hornets visit Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. A
Bobcat victory, though, means coach Mick Durham’s club will earn another home
game Saturday afternoon as the league tournament gets under way. Montana
State (6-7, 14-14) will earn fourth
place with a victory tonight. The Bobcats, though, are reeling — both
physically and emotionally. Durham’s
club has dropped five straight conference games and was blown out twice on the
road last week while playing without leading scorer Ja’Ron
Jefferson (the flu) and an ineffective Marvin Moss, who was also a bit under
the weather. Jefferson, Moss, center Al Beye and reserve Taylor Pratt are MSU’s
seniors. Sacramento State
(5-8, 14-13) is also struggling, having lost four in a row, including a 92-72
drubbing by Northern Arizona on Saturday. The Cats are
11-3 at Brick Breeden this year.

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Monday, February 27,
2006

Fresh off another 2-1 SWEEP yesterday to finish the week
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quantity” days in which we have one play that stands above all others.  The
ENTIRE card is just $17 at www.godspicks.com.  We now
take virtually every credit card, PayPal and eCheck.  Updated and advance news and
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NBA

HOUSTON +2 Phoenix

In my many meetings of the mind with fellow serious
handicappers we discuss and debate how recent versus overall performance is
properly weighted.  There is both the
generic discussion or as Houston
proves sometimes it’s a case by case basis.

The Rockets have had more than their share of injuries,
but now that they are healthy it’s no shock they’ve been playing their best
hoops of the year.  They are 10-2 SU
their last 12.

Heading the list of reasons Houston
is playing better hoops is Yao Ming. Yao is averaging 21.3 points and
10.8 rebounds over the last 12 games, including eight double-doubles.

Houston’s recent
play is much more indicative of the quality of talent they have.  Tonight’s spread is not.

Sports-Handicapper.com
just keeps winning.  The latest
streak has hit the century mark in wins at 100-42 (pushes not counted) the last
142. You know it’s legit because you got EVERY ONE OF THEM.  

This is your
Sports-Handicapper for Monday, February 27, 2006

·       
George the Greek, scorephone legend going back
to the 976 number days has hit 24 of his 27 releases for or against over or
under games involving the Portland Trail Blazers including New
Orleans and the under yesterday.  He releases his NBA Three-Play Parlay of the Year which
includes the Portland-Sacramento side and total.

·       
Bill Tanner is the No.
1 college and NBA handicapper
combined since 1995. Stats are out of 620 services monitored, rankings based on
total net units won based on ONE unit per play. He’s from the basketball crazed
state of Indiana and his Platinum Plays in hoops hit around 62
percent.  He also hits above 60 percent
in college football with “Plats”.  His “Plats” as released on Sports-Handicapper.com
went 3-0 this weekend.  Let’s just call
him the sweeper as he has two more plats
tonight, one in college, one in the NBA.  Buy it from him directly it’s $33.  We have it
for about 1/3 of the price plus George
the Greek’s parlay.

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Monday, February 27,
2006

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that Staff Purchase Play on Penn State easily on Saturday going 3-1 overall
thanks to Bill Tanner sweeping Plats.

This is your
Sports-Handicapper for Sunday, February 25, 2006

·       
Staff Purchase Plays are when the Sports-Handicapper.com
staff pays a nationally ranked sports service (generally $3K-5K) to release
their plays before the service does to their clients. Sports service out of Las
Vegas, No. 2 in college hoops the last three years
combined nailed their CBB Game of the Year for 2006 on Northwestern-Penn
State.  That’s now 11-0 with Staff Purchase plays.  You know it’s legit because you got EVERY ONE
OF THEM. Sports-Handicapper.com
has wired 5K to a sports service out of Philly with the NBA/CBB Parlay of the Year which they’ve
nailed all give years we’ve tracked them

·       
George the Greek, scorephone legend going back
to the 976 number days has hit 22 of his 25 releases for or against over or
under games involving the Portland Trail
Blazers. His NBA Parlay of the year is New Orleans-Portland side and total

·       
Bill Tanner is the No.
1 college and NBA handicapper
combined since 1995. Stats are out of 620 services monitored, rankings based on
total net units won based on ONE unit per play. He’s from the basketball crazed
state of Indiana and his Platinum Plays in hoops hit around 62
percent.  He also hits above 60 percent
in college football with “Plats”.  Yesterday he goes 2-0. You know it’s legit because you got EVERY ONE OF
THEM. He has an NBA total as a Plat
today

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Sunday, February 26,
2006

Admittedly it was by as narrow of a margin possible, but led
by going 2-1 with Wise Guy plays
including our Game of the Month on Temple, America’s
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Sunday, February 26,
2006

Admittedly it was by as narrow of a margin possible, but
led by going 2-1 with Wise Guy
plays including our Game of the Month on Temple,
America’s greatest sports
service the Dream Team at Godspicks.com
does eek out a winning day. Today we have a Wise Guy in college hoops, plus a
Major for CBS Villanova-UConn. The ENTIRE card is just $17 at www.godspicks.com.  We now
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Many have asked about a March Madness package.  We will do some basic math later today and
have it up by tomorrow. We will likely have a modified,
though not as bargain basement version before the so-called “major” conferences
begin tourney play.

CBB

Here are news and notes from Godspicks.com private
clipboard.  They are compiled from
hometown newspapers and the team’s own press releases.

Villanova-Connecticut

Press Notes

VU has now won 18 of its last 19 in regular season
conference action dating back to 2004-05. Villanova improved to 9-1 (.900) on
the road with its win at Cincinnati.
The Wildcats are 14-4 as the visitor over the past two seasons. In the two
years prior to that, VU was 9-16 (.360) on the road.

Michigan State-Indiana

Press Notes

The last two Michigan State-Indiana games in Bloomington
have gone into overtime. IU won 78-74 last season,
while MSU was a 67-62 victor on Feb. 8, 2003. In fact, three of the last five
meetings in Assembly Hall have gone extra time as the Hoosiers won a 81-79 overtime contest on Feb. 11, 2000. One year later, Indiana
defeated No. 1 Michigan State, 59-58, on a last second 3-pointer. Indiana
leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 61-41, including a 39-10
advantage in games played in Bloomington.
MSU has won 10 of the last 15 games in the series.

California-Washington

Press Notes

That marks the 19^th and final home game, the
most for the Huskies since 1950. first meeting was
tied with 38 seconds remaining before the Golden Bears finished off a 71-69 win
on Jan. 26 in Berkeley. Both teams
won their Thursday games. The Huskies defeated Stanford 75-57 and the Golden
Bears were 43-41 victors at Washington
State. Five seniors make their
final home appearance Sunday for the Huskies. They have helped the Huskies to a
50-12 four-year record at Bank of America Arena, including a 32-game winning
streak that was the nation’s longest.  Washington
won three of the last four meetings to claim a 71-70 edge in the all-time
series.

Ball State-Toledo

Press Notes

Toledo (14-10,
7-8 MAC) hosts Ball State
(9-15, 5-10 MAC looking to extend its four-game Mid-American Conference win
streak. The Rockets will be looking to avenge their 69-56 setback to the
Cardinals on Jan. 29 in Muncie. UT
jumped out to a 12-6 advantage in that contest but BSU
quickly responded with an 11-1 run and the Rockets trailed the remainder of the
game. The Cardinals bring a two-game losing streak into the contest with both
defeats coming at home. The Cardinals rank second in the MAC in scoring defense
(62.7 ppg) but are 11^th in scoring offense (62.1 ppg). BSU is 1-6 in MAC road contests this season with its only
win at CMU (63-60) on Feb. 15. UT leads, 35-33. The Rockets have won their last
three meetings with the Cardinals in Savage.

Maryland-North Carolina

Press Notes

The University
of North Carolina (18-6, 9-4
Atlantic Coast Conference) will hope to win for the eighth time in its last
nine games when it hosts Maryland
(16-10, 6-7 ACC) on Sunday evening at 5:30 p.m.
at the Smith Center
in Chapel Hill. The game will be televised nationally by
Fox Sports Net. The Tar Heels are coming off their fifth consecutive ACC road
win, a 95-71 victory at No. 15/14 NC State on Wednesday. UNC
is ranked No. 21 in the Associated Press poll and No. 21 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. Carolina
has won six of its first seven ACC road games this season with a date at Duke
remaining on March 4. The six road wins by this season’s
team matches the number of conference road games won by last year’s NCAA
championship squad (6-2).

UNC has won at Virginia Tech, Florida
State, Maryland, Miami,
Wake Forest
and NC State and lost at Virginia
in 2005-06. After losing three of four games in mid-January, the Tar Heels have
won seven of their last eight contests. Maryland
dropped a 71-60 decision at Florida State
on Wednesday. The Terrapins have lost six of the their
last eight games, including a 77-62 Carolina
victory in College Park on Feb. 2.
The Tar Heels lead the series with Maryland,
112-53. Carolina has won four in a
row and five of the last six in the series.

Oregon-UCLA

Press Notes

Home Game for Bruins’ Four Seniors; On
Thursday at Pauley Pavilion, Bruins Defeat Oregon State 78-60.
On Thursday at the Sports Arena, the Ducks defeated USC 73-61. The Bruins lead
the series 75-24. The Bruins have won the last three games, including this
season (56-49 at Eugene,1/26) and sweeping last year’s series (70-62 at Eugene
and 73-61 in Pauley). Oregon’s
last win was 60-59 in Eugene
(2004). From 2002-2003, the Ducks won five consecutive games vs. the Bruins
(including two wins in Pauley). In nine of UCLA’s 16 conference games, the
opponent has been held to 61 points or less. In conference games only stats,
the Bruins are No. 2 in scoring defense (60.2), No. 1 in scoring margin (+6.9),
No. 3 in FG% defense (.430), No. 2 in 3PTFG% defense
(.324) and No. 1 in rebounding defense (28.5). Offensively, the Bruins are also
first in Pac-10 only games in FG% (.465).