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Old School Meets New School
The Butler Bulldogs have taken some major steps towards getting into the NCAA Tournament these last few weeks, but if they can find a way to take out the Xavier Musketeers in a game which they'll probably be favored in on Saturday, they'll firmly move into the field with just five regular season games to go....
The Duke Blue Devils looked a little more like themselves earlier in the week when they took out Louisville at home. Still, there's a real threat to be beaten once again on Saturday at home, as the Virginia Cavaliers come to Cameron Indoor full of confidence and ready to pounce....
The Texas A&M Aggies had made it all the way into the Top 5 in the nation a couple weeks ago and looked like serious threats to be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The bottom has fallen out though, as the Aggies were beaten by Arkansas, Vanderbilt, South Carolina and Alabama in a span of just 16 days. They're sure to be underdogs again on Saturday when they head down to the Bayou to take on the LSU Tigers....
The Auburn Tigers have really taken it on the chin over the course of the SEC season. They've been beaten in six straight and covered only one of the six. That should provide the Vanderbilt Commodores, a team in need of a big run to get into the dance this year, a relatively easy victory....
All of the talk around the Louisville Cardinals of late has had nothing really to do with basketball at all. Unfortunately, live bettors are going to want to judge their degree of caring when they take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish now that the news of their postseason ban has come and gone from the news....
It isn't all that often that these Top 5 showdowns turn out to be as good as advertised. However, if the second meeting of the year between the Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas Jayhawks is even half as good as the four-overtime thriller we saw back in January between these two, we'll be in for a real treat as college basketball fans....
A recent three-game losing streak has left the Georgetown Hoyas with a suspect resume for the NCAA Tournament. They're just 14-11 after beating St. John's on Monday, but that record alone isn't going to get them to the dance. They were beaten by the Providence Friars at the start of their losing streak, and they'd love nothing more than to return the favorite at the Dunkin Donuts Center on Saturday afternoon....
A key Pac-12 match-up will go in Tucson on Friday when No. 17 Arizona hosts UCLA. The Bruins enter 13-10 overall and a disappointing 4-6 in Pac-12 play while the Wildcats are 19-5 and 7-4 in league play following their road sweep against the Washington schools last weekend....
The 19-5 Indiana Hoosiers have feasted on the cupcakes of the Big Ten schedule thus far but the rest of the way they are in for a real challenge. In their last seven regular season games, the Hoosiers play No. 2 Maryland, No. 8 Michigan St, No. 18 Purdue and No. 4 Iowa twice. If they can make it through that stretch with a winning record, Indiana will deserve a good seed in the tournament....
Entering this week, Joe Lunardi has both the Syracuse Orange and the Florida State Seminoles heading to Dayton for the "First Four," meaning they're amongst the last four teams safely into the NCAA Tournament field. You can bet that a win on Thursday for one of these clubs will really help shape their resume going forward for the rest of the season with a 'W' against a fellow bubble-dweller....
The Rams have put together a couple strong performances back-to-back. They’ll get a real test on Friday when the No. 17 Dayton Flyers come to town looking to extend their own winning streak to nine straight....
The Connecticut Huskies have a big weekend ahead of them. In a span of just 48 hours, they have to take on both Temple and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, the latter of which will come on Saturday night at Gampel Pavilion....
The Wichita State Shockers are very likely going to win the Missouri Valley Conference this year, and there aren't all that many teams which are going to give them a fight, particularly on their home court. That said, the Northern Iowa Panthers have a history of being a real thorn in the side of the Shockers, and they're very likely to be riding a five-game winning streak into this game at Charles Koch Arena on Saturday afternoon....
The No. 12 ranked Ducks narrowly beat out the Golden Bears a month ago in Oregon. On Thursday, they’ll journey south as California looks to get the job done this time around on its home floor....
The Temple Owls have suddenly won six of their last seven games and are perhaps inching towards a spot in the NCAA Tournament. A game like this against the Connecticut Huskies really needs to be won though, if there's any hope of reaching the madness of March....
Just a couple weeks ago, the Utes got the better of the Huskies up in Seattle and this time around they’ve got their home floor advantage to bank on. In their previous game, Utah got a 29-point performance from Jakob Poeltl to hand them the five point win in overtime....
Right now, the No. 14 West Virginia Mountaineers are sitting all alone atop the Big XII title race with an 8-2 record. However, three teams are right behind them at 7-3, including the No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks, who will be hosting them on Super Tuesday....
The Texas State Bobcats haven't been in great form of late, losing their last four games. However, if they look at their home form at 4-1 ATS, they've definitely got a legitimate chance of knocking off the favored UT-Arlington Mavericks on Tuesday night....
In spite of the fact that the South Carolina Gamecocks became the first team to win 20 games this year in the SEC, there really isn't a strong feeling that they have any chance whatsoever to make a lot of noise in the NCAA Tournament. In fact, even after going on the road last weekend and upsetting Texas A&M, there's a distinct possibility that they'll be home underdogs to the unranked LSU Tigers on Wednesday night....
The Georgia Bulldogs are quietly the hottest team for bettors in the SEC at 8-2 ATS. They've got their biggest challenge of the conference campaign up next on Tuesday night though, as they have to travel to Lexington to take on the Kentucky Wildcats....
Michigan State will look to make it five straight wins on Tuesday when it travels to West Lafayette to take on the Boilermakers. The Spartans hit a bit of a snag on the road last month, but have been rolling since. A fellow ranked team in Purdue will give the Spartans another nice test....
A team that’s defeated North Carolina, West Virginia and Iowa State, like Texas has, could cause a problem for the No. 1 ranked Sooners. But Buddy Hield and the best three-point shooting team in the country will have something to say about that....
Coach K is back at work and so are the Blue Devils. After falling out of the national polls for the first time in a decade, Duke responded with a road win. Beating No. 19 Louisville gets the Dookies back in the top 25 hunt and moves them into the top half of the ACC standings....
Top 5 teams have been falling all over the place this year, and they've done so more often at home than you probably ever would imagine. The Oklahoma Sooners could legitimately wake up on Monday as the No. 1 team in the land once again, but you can bet they'll be on upset alert against the Texas Longhorns, even at home....
The Duke Blue Devils are back at home in front of the Cameron Crazies on Monday in the middle game of a three-game home stand. The duel against the Louisville Cardinals looked like a game which would probably be won a few weeks ago, but at this point, it would be completely understandable if the Dookies were dogs on their home floor....
