Wednesday News and Notes

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
college winners. Note, in the conference tournaments and the Big Dance, we will
update with steam throughout the 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 11th place, and is the tournament’s 12th 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.

 

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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
college winners. Note, in the conference tournaments and the Big Dance, we will
update with steam throughout the day. 
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RUTGERS +2 Seton Hall

Remember folks, among the many things that separates the
sharps from the squares is the ability to see and predict inconsistent teams.  The fact that up and down Seton Hall is a
favorite off of their biggest back to back wins of the year is reason to go
against the predictably unpredictable team, not with them.

The team thinks they clinched an at large birth with their
big win against Pittsburgh at Pitt to snap the Panthers’ 17 game home winning
streak leaves them vulnerable. Quincy Douby of the
Scarlet Knights is the best player on the court.  A go to player is bigger now then in the
regular season.  The mild upset is here.

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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.

We just sent our
second report—five winners in all so far and more likely to come
. Note, in
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LA CLIPPERS +3’ San Antonio

The Spurs are 43-6 when rested this year.  However they are 4-6 SU in back to back
games. Think about it.  Half of their
losses but about 1/12 of their wins were in tonight’s
situation.

Yes the Spurs are playing well winning seven straight,
covering six.  All
seven they were rested.
  Before
their recent streak they played unrested to Cleveland
and were blown to smithereens.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

 

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Penn-Princeton

Press Notes

Princeton (11-15, 9-4 Ivy) has
spent the Ivy League season proving that isn’t the team that began the season
with just two wins in its first 12 games. The Tigers will have one more chance
to prove that Tuesday against the Quakers (20-7, 12-1 Ivy), who have won three
straight and eight of their last nine against Princeton.
The Tigers clinched second place in the league standings with a 56-45 win at
Yale Saturday. Penn clinched the outright Ivy title and an NCAA berth when it
defeated Yale Friday and the Tigers lost at Brown. The Quakers were then taken
to overtime by Brown Saturday night before pulling out a 74-68 victory. 52% of Princeton’s
shots this season have come from three-point range. 45% of the Tigers’ points
this season have come from beyond the arc.

Colorado State-TCU

Press Notes

The Rams enter the tournament as the No. 8 seed after a
4-12 conference record while TCU comes in No. 9 going
2-14 in league play on the year. The Horned Frogs hold a 6-24 overall record
and have won just once in their last 10 contests. TCU
closed out Mountain West play Saturday with a 72-61 loss at UNLV
giving them an 0-8 record on the road in conference
play. Colorado State
holds a 59-28 overall record in home games during Dale Layer’s six seasons. Colorado
State
has hit 103-of-239
three-pointers (.431) in Moby Arena this year. In contrast, the Rams are
73-of-213 (.343) from behind the arc away from home. After holding opponents to
a .379 field goal percentage in non-conference games, CSU allowed league
opponents to shoot at a .475 clip through the regular season. MWC foes scored 76.5 points per game on the Rams compared to a 67.0 points per game average in non-conference play.

Butler-Wisconsin Milwaukee

Press Notes

Although critics of the 3-pointer contend accuracy comes
and goes and imperils teams that rely on the shot, the Bulldogs simply must do
so. They have no player taller than 6-6, and they have outrebounded
opponents once in 30 games. Butler
has made 30 3-pointers over the past two games, raising its season total to
272. That ranks fifth in the NCAA.

NBA

Warriors-Hawks

Mercury News

The Hawks have beaten some quality teams and gave Miami
all it could handle Saturday before losing 95-93. The Hawks will be
well-rested, having not played since the Heat game. The Warriors won the first
meeting 122-97 in the season opener Nov. 2 in Oakland.

Nets-Bulls

Press Notes

The Atlantic Division-leading Nets look for their eighth
straight win over Chicago when they
kick off a three-game road trip against the struggling Bulls. New
Jersey
has allowed its opponents to score at least
100 points in a season-high five straight games, going 1-4 in that span and
allowing Philadelphia within two
games of the division lead. The Nets also are coming off their most lopsided
home loss of the season, 109-84 to Sacramento
on Monday. New Jersey shot just 37.1
percent from the floor, while the Kings shot 49.4 percent. The Nets are
outscoring Chicago by 8.5 points in
their last eight meetings, and have not lost to the Bulls since April 11, 2003. Chicago
fell to 6-6 in its last 12 games after a 91-72 loss to Cleveland
on Sunday.

 

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Penn-Princeton

Press Notes

Princeton (11-15, 9-4 Ivy) has
spent the Ivy League season proving that isn’t the team that began the season
with just two wins in its first 12 games. The Tigers will have one more chance
to prove that Tuesday against the Quakers (20-7, 12-1 Ivy), who have won three
straight and eight of their last nine against Princeton.
The Tigers clinched second place in the league standings with a 56-45 win at
Yale Saturday. Penn clinched the outright Ivy title and an NCAA berth when it
defeated Yale Friday and the Tigers lost at Brown. The Quakers were then taken
to overtime by Brown Saturday night before pulling out a 74-68 victory. 52% of Princeton’s
shots this season have come from three-point range. 45% of the Tigers’ points
this season have come from beyond the arc.

Colorado State-TCU

Press Notes

The Rams enter the tournament as the No. 8 seed after a
4-12 conference record while TCU comes in No. 9 going
2-14 in league play on the year. The Horned Frogs hold a 6-24 overall record
and have won just once in their last 10 contests. TCU
closed out Mountain West play Saturday with a 72-61 loss at UNLV
giving them an 0-8 record on the road in conference
play. Colorado State
holds a 59-28 overall record in home games during Dale Layer’s six seasons. Colorado
State
has hit 103-of-239
three-pointers (.431) in Moby Arena this year. In contrast, the Rams are
73-of-213 (.343) from behind the arc away from home. After holding opponents to
a .379 field goal percentage in non-conference games, CSU allowed league opponents
to shoot at a .475 clip through the regular season. MWC
foes scored 76.5 points per game on the Rams compared to a
67.0 points per game average in non-conference play.

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Wednesday, March 8,
2006

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.

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2006

BYU-Utah

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.


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Monday, March 06, 2006

Yesterday was the perfect example of why we tell you we
try to release plays as early as possible, not worrying about shopping for
lines when we release plays but giving you the luxury of finding the best
line.  Most of you got Ohio
State
as a winner or at worst a
push.  With Texas,
most of you go 2-0 with Wise Guy plays Sunday.

We
start out with two NBA winners for Monday and added a college tourney winner as
late steam
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Monday, March 06, 2006

Yesterday was the perfect example of why we tell you we
try to release plays as early as possible, not worrying about shopping for
lines when we release plays but giving you the luxury of finding the best
line.  Most of you got Ohio
State
as a winner or at worst a
push.  With Texas,
most of you go 2-0 with Wise Guy plays Sunday.

With the tournament games we are waiting for some of our
commercial databases to be updated as well as more books to post lines so we
can get our sharp versus square info. 
Hence during March Madness will update throughout the day. Please keep
checking JoeDuffy.net for info on late steam throughout March Madness.   

We start out with two NBA winners for Monday with possible
updates forthcoming. 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
available via

Western Union. Every play, every sport for a year is $2,450.  Email us at the contact form at Godspicks.com
to make arrangements or for Neteller payments. Updated and advance news and
notes FREE
at JoeDuffy.net—a MUST for March Madness.

CBB

OHIO -17 Central Michigan

Ohio was
caught off guard once.  That will ensure
it won’t happen again tonight. Monday’s meeting is similar to the 2002 MAC
Tournament when CMU won at Ohio
as the No. 12 seed, 65-56. That year, CMU only had one road win entering the
postseason, the same situation as this season.

How do they match-up? The two teams met earlier this year
in Athens and the Bobcats posted a
76-44 win on Jan. 14.

CMU actually was relatively competitive at home but rancid
on the road.  In location comparison
(home team’s home stats, road team’s road stats) Ohio
makes 12.4 percent more of their shots and allows 3.4 less. Central is
outscored by 16 ppg on the road and Ohio
is certainly a better than average team outscoring teams by 14 at home. 

This game is a rout as Ohio’s
blunder in 2002 ensures the rout.


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We’ve written many articles over the years about winning
in March Madness.  We’ve also included
nuggets in our Tid-bets about how to have a March of Dimes.  But let’s review some of the best winning
strategies here on the K-Tel of our Marching Hymns.

·       
Depth is more important in conference play than
any point of the year.  Teams are playing
three and four days in a row.  Previous
boxscores loom huge in conference tourney play

·       
Read press releases closely for the conference
tournaments (or our news and notes at JoeDuffy.net).  Often coaches and players of teams that are
“locks” for the Big Dance will subtly or not-so-subtly admit when resting
players is more important than winning the conference postseason title

·       
Don’t fall for the “handicap guard play”
trap.  Virtually every team that makes
the Dance and many that miss it have strong guard play.  Few teams compliment it with talent as the
three, four and five spot.  Those are the
teams that advance and cover

·       
Talent is infinitely more important than
experience. Few teams have a lot of both. 
I handicap talent first and foremost. Don’t fall in love with mediocre
teams just because they are senior laden

·       
Take emotion in the first half lines of the
first round.  A big underdog making a
rare NCAA appearance or especially first ever, more times than you’d expect are
able to keep it close against traditional powers in the first 20 minutes of the
ballgame

·       
Unlike the college bowls, finishing the season
strong does go a long way.  Momentum is
much more important in the hoop postseason than football

·       
Don’t handicap neutral games as if they are road
games for both teams.  One of the biggest
myths in sports handicapping is that road record is indicative of neutral court
play

·       
However propinquity of schools to the site is
very important. If one team had to make a much longer trip, we do favor the
team that is significantly closer to the game location

·       
At one time fading the chic mid-majors after the
first round was as good as gold.  However
the gap between the rich, middle class and poor conferences continues to
narrow. “Strength of schedule” rankings still play a part though.  Massey’s consensus power ratings and
Foxsheets are the most accurate

·       
With so many square players coming out of the
woodwork for Madness and different books catering to different clientele, line
shopping is more important (more lucrative opportunities) in March Madness then
ever.  This is especially true with
totals. 

·       
Be careful about playing in any high stakes
bracket tournament because it can and generally will bias you and inhibit your
ability to make proper adjustments as the NCAA tournament goes on

·       
The NIT small conference teams are great plays
in the first two rounds.  They almost
always have the David versus Goliath motivational advantage, not to mention the
NIT is a major tourney for the bottom rung conferences

·       
Big conference teams though become bigger plays
as the NIT goes on.  Clearly with a win
or two under their belt, there should be little doubt about how much they
“want” to win.  Plus for financial
reasons the bigger conference teams are often playing all at home while the
tiny conferences are forced to win consecutive big games on the road.  It’s all about the money to the organizers
and the bettors

·       
In NIT picking, it’s the mid major bubble
outsiders that generally feel they have something to prove.  Big 10, ACC, Big East outside-looking-in
teams make quick exits, unless they have their entire nucleus coming back the
following year and it’s a true “building block” tournament

·       
Satellite and internet radio is a bigger tool
than ever.  Both are great resources for
the inside skinny

 

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