2011-03-11
Sportsbook.com Line/Total Boston -2 191.5. Boston visits Philadelphia in a battle of Atlantic Division foes on Friday night in the city of brotherly love. This is the third meeting this season between these teams as Boston has won the first two. ...
LOUISVILLE CARDINALS (24-8, 3 seed in Big East) vs. NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH (26-5, 2 seed in Big East)
2011-03-11
Interesting how the Big East Tournament brackets shaped out in the quarterfinal round. It sort of reminds us of the delineation that the Big Ten conference is choosing to go with for its divisions -- a Leaders division, and a Legends division. In one bracket, you had the old school conference institutions, teams with multiple tournament championships and endless history on its resume, with Syracuse, Connecticut, St. Johns and Pittsburgh making up the Legends side. Then in the other quarterfinal bracket, you have Notre Dame, Marquette, Louisville and Cincinnati. These teams were either not original members, or second-generation members, or in the case of the Bearcats, Cardinals and Golden Eagles, teams that were transported former members of Conference USA. This would be the Leaders bracket. Thursday night Notre Dame and Louisville certainly looked like they could be leaders, or at least, Big East champions, as each team roared its way into Friday nights semifinal round with the types of victories that should put future opponents, in this tournament and the next tournament, on notice....
NEW YORK KNICKS (34-29) at DALLAS MAVERICKS (46-18)
2011-03-10
The Knicks travel to Dallas to battle the Mavericks on Thursday. This is the second meeting between these teams this season, as Dallas defeated the Knicks at MSG in February. ...
HOUSTON ROCKETS (33-32) at PHOENIX SUNS (32-29)
2011-03-08
Sportsbook.com Line/Total Phoenix -4 218Even with the nagging injuries and everything else that goes along with the dog days of March, both Phoenix and Houston are turning it on for the stretch run. Both teams are on the outside looking in at the Western Conference playoff picture, but have turned it on since the All-Star break. Houston has won seven of eight SU (6-2 ATS in that span) while the Suns have won five of seven SU and ATS....
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS (36-27) at MIAMI HEAT (43-20)
2011-03-08
The surging Trail Blazers are coming into Tuesday night winners of three in a row to face the crying Heat who have dropped four straight games.Fighting through injuries all year, the Portland Trail Blazers find themselves in sixth place in the tough Western Conference with a 36-27 record. The Blazers have won 10 of 13 and are coming off a nice win at Orlando. In the 89-85 victory Monday against the Magic, Portland was fortunate that Dwight Howard had to sit out due to a suspension. LaMarcus Aldridge (22.3 PPG) took advantage of the giant absence, (pun intended) and scored 24 points on 10-of-18 shooting. The last time Portland met Miami, Aldridge dropped 31 points and 14 rebounds, but the Heat prevailed in overtime. Aldridge should have another big game Tuesday with the weak frontcourt of the guard-heavy Heat....
BUTLER BULLDOGS (22-9, 2 seed in Horizon) at MILWAUKEE PANTHERS (19-12, 1 seed in Horizon)
2011-03-08
Three teams tied for the regular season title in the Horizon League at 13-5. One was the Cleveland State Vikings, who had the best overall record (26-8) of any school in the conference. The other was the Butler Bulldogs (22-9). You remember them, NCAA Championship runner-up last year, the real life Hoosiers in long baggy shorts living on the legacy of one of the most famous missed shots in NCAA history. And then there is the other team, the Milwaukee Panthers. They are 19-12 overall, and the team whose hopes of making the NCAA Tournament rely most heaviest on its ability to win the Horizon League Championship. Sometimes in the case of a two or three-way tie for first place, one of the teams might have backed its way into that position. Not the case for the Panthers, Rob Jeters team clawed its way to the top the hard way, by defeating Cleveland State once on the road, and sweeping the season series from the defending champion Bulldogs, who were a perfect 18-0 last season en route to winning the Horizon League tournament. Now its down to one game with an NCAA berth on the line, and as far as Milwaukee is concerned, two out of three just wont be good enough this year. They need the sweep....
GONZAGA BULLDOGS (23-9, 2 seed in WCC) vs. SAINT MARYS GAELS (24-7, 1 seed in WCC)
2011-03-07
Sportsbook.com Line/Total Gonzaga -1.5 144Nothing says rubber match for all the marbles like two co-champions of the regular season meeting in the championship game of the conference tournament, and what better place to play for all those marbles than in the city where chips and marbles and everything else one can cherish are constantly on the line, Las Vegas That will be the scenario Monday night when the Saint Marys Gaels (24-7, 11-3) will try and make it two straight West Coast Conference tournament titles over the Gonzaga Bulldogs (23-9, 11-3). The two teams beat each other during the regular season, with the road team winning both times. Now Sin City will host the third and decisive game in this basketball trilogy that has quietly become one of the more bitter and better rivalries west of the Mississippi. With a championship on the line, and improved NCAA Tournament seeding as well, what goes on in Vegas definitely isnt staying in Vegas come Monday night....
UTAH JAZZ (33-30) at NEW YORK KNICKS (32-29)
2011-03-07
Sportsbook.com Line/Total New York -6.5 211The Knicks look to win back-to-back games for the first time since the blockbuster trade that landed Carmelo Anthony in New York, while the Jazz hope to get Tyrone Corbin his third win in 10 games since taking over for Jerry Sloan, when the teams meet Monday night at Madison Square Garden....
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