Friday, February 17, 2006

We nail our only play last night, a Wise Guy winner.  Tonight we have two Majors. We have a huge one-day sale going today, 45 days for the price of one month. For those not ready to commence being among the sharps, we also have four-days for just $55.  We don’t gamble on superstition but we must admit after a long stretch of brutal losses, finally winning a close one on Oregon last night was an omen we’ve been waiting on to signal continuation of the windfall.

Go 2-0 Friday to start out a huge weekend with tons of bracket buster domination ahead.  Remember many of our top systems deal with non-conference games and that’s why the bracket busters have been a “Godspicks-send” since the concept started. The ENTIRE card is just $17 at www.godspicks.com.  We now take virtually every credit card, PayPal and eCheck.  Click on the link at Godspicks.com for advanced news and notes, gaming articles and more at the Joe Duffy Online blog.

CBB

Princeton-Cornell

Press Notes

Cornell, who enters the weekend in third place in the Ancient Eight standings with a 5-3 record, faces second place Princeton.

Akron-Nevada

Press Notes

Following a 50-49 come-from-behind victory over Louisiana Tech on Monday night, the Nevada Wolf Pack (19-5, 9-3 WAC) takes a break from conference action to play host to Mid-American Conference East Division leader Akron (19-5, 12-2 MAC) on Friday night in the BracketBusters. Akron brings a 19-5 overall record into Friday night’s game with the Wolf Pack and has won 14 of its last 16 games.

Providence-Cincinnati

Cincinnati Enquirer

The University of Cincinnati’s victory over Syracuse on Wednesday night really was a thing of beauty. Players who haven’t been shooting well found their range. The Bearcats dominated the boards, scored frequently in transition and stymied the Orange defensively. The Bearcats (17-9 overall, 6-6 Big East) could use the same kind of effort when they face Providence (11-11, 4-7) at 8 p.m. at Fifth Third Arena in a game they simply can’t afford to lose if the Syracuse win is going to mean as much as it should for their improving NCAA Tournament chances. The win over Syracuse jumped UC from No. 33 in the Ratings Percentage Index to No. 23. And three of UC’s last four games area at home, where the Bearcats are 11-3 this season.