Sports Handicapping Articles
Big East CBB Conference Tournament Preview
by Rocketman Sports of YouWinNow.com - March 9, 2010
Year in and year out, the Big East is always the most wide open conference tournaments.
This due to the strength of the league as the Big East boasts eight teams with at least
20+ wins. Syracuse won the regular season title posting a 15-3 conference record,
finishing 2 games ahead of Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Syracuse, however, took a step
backward as the number one team in the country on Saturday as they got stomped by a
Louisville team who is the true dark horse in this tournament.
Pittsburgh and West Virginia have both been playing extremely well and either one
could give Syracuse a run for their money. Pitt has won eight of their last nine, their only
slip up coming on the road against a streaky Notre Dame club who is peaking at the right
time even with out their best player, Luke Harrengoty. Villanova is another team with a
13-5 record in Big East action, however they have struggled mightily down the stretch
here in late February and early March. They do have experience and great guard play
which seems to be recipe for post-season success in college basketball so you can't
count them completely out.
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Atlantic 10 Conference CBB Tournament Preview
by Rocketman Sports of YouWinNow.com - March 8, 2010
There are three teams in the top tier of the Atlantic 10 Conference and all three have a
great shot at winning this tournament. Temple is obviously the favorite as they enter the
post-season with an overall record 26-5 and an outstanding conference record of 14-2.
The next best team in the conference hands down has got to be Xavier. Remember
Xavier went on the road and beat a pretty good Florida team. They are also 14-2 in
conference play and lost their lone match-up to Temple by a final score of 77-72 at
Temple. These two teams along with Richmond have been very kind to bettors wagering
on them all season long. Temple is 20-11 ATS, Xavier is 19-10 ATS, and Richmond is 17
-9 ATS.
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The Value of Senior Leadership
by Jim Feist of YouWinNow.com - March 8, 2010
It's time! Time for college basketball teams to begin conference tourney play, also known
as separating the contenders from the pretenders. It's important to understand and closely
examine the schedule of college hoop teams. Some teams start off the season playing a
bunch of cream puffs, while others face a mixture of good and bad teams.
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Big Ten Tournament Preview
by Great Lakes Sports of YouWinNow.com - March 8, 2010
Welcome t o another exciting Conference Tournament this year. We here at Great Lakes Sports will give you a preview of the contenders in the Big Ten Conference Tournament and Great Lakes Sports would like to wish you good luck this upcoming conference tournament season. Big Ten Contenders: Ohio State - Going into the Big Ten Tournament the Ohio State Buckeyes are heating up at just the right time as they have won ten out of their last eleven games. The Buckeyes are the number one seed, even though the have to share the Big Ten Title with Purdue, and Michigan State. All three teams were 14-4 in Big Ten play. The Buckeyes are led by 6'7" Senior Guard Evan Turner 19.5ppg and many experts, including Great Lakes Sports, look for Evan Turner to become this season's College basketball Player of the Year.
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MAC Tournament Preview by Great Lakes Sports
by Great Lakes Sports of YouWinNow.com - March 5, 2010
Welcome to another exciting Conference Tournament this year. We here at Great Lakes Sports will give you of preview of the contenders in the MAC Conference Tournament, and Great Lakes Sports would like to wish you good luck this upcoming conference tournament season. MAC Tournament Preview: Kent State - The Kent State Golden Flashes are loaded with experience this year. With six seniors, on a team that has had an outstanding 22-8 season, they will be playing for the number one seed against their cross-town rivals the Akron Zips in the last game of the regular season. The Golden Flashes are led by 6'8" Sophomore Justin Greene who has a 14.1ppg scoring average this season. We look for the experience of the Golden Flashes, along with their solid defense, to hold their opponents to only 64.1 points per game.
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Cleveland Indians Preview by Great Lakes Sports
by Great Lakes Sports of YouWinNow.com - March 3, 2010
The boys of summer have returned to Goodyear Arizona the home of spring training for the Cleveland Indians. We here at Great Lakes Sports will give you a preview of what to expect this summer from the Cleveland Indians, and as always Good Luck from Great Lakes Sports. The Cleveland Indians will enter the season with a lot of question marks with all of the young guys they have trying to make an impact on this year squad to some of the injuries they had at the end of the season. The biggest question mark we here at Great Lakes Sports see is the uncertainty of their starting pitching with the inconsistency of their number one starter in Fausto Carmona, and the Injury to Jake Westbrook.
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Final Run to the Big 10 Title
by Jim Feist of YouWinNow.com - March 1, 2010
Tournament play is on the horizon! It's the start of a wild few weeks with conference tournament play helping to whittle the field. In the Big 10, Ohio State made the title game three years with Greg Oden while Michigan State won it all in 2000. Here's a look at some of the top teams of the Big 10 looking to make a similar run.
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No Payback Payday
by Tom Stryker of YouWinNow.com - February 26, 2010
No Payback Payday - An Inside Look At Last Home Game Sets By Tom Stryker. College basketball teams refer to this contest as "senior night." It is the final home game of the regular season where athletes get one last chance to walk off their homecourt a winner. This is an emotional evening for both players and coaches. There are times when this event leads to a lackluster performance because of all the distractions involved. However, for the most part, this is usually the one game where you know that a home team will give literally everything its got in order to pick up a victory.
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Kentucky Seeks Revenge!!
by Rocketman Sports of YouWinNow.com - February 25, 2010
The Kentucky Wildcats will be looking to avenge their only loss of the entire season when they play host to South Carolina on Thursday night. As this is a classic revenge situation, odds makers have the proper adjustments by installing Kentucky as 16? point home favorites over the Gamecocks. South Carolina won by a final score of 68-62 on January 26th led by Devan Downey who scored 30 points in that game. The biggest problem he gave Kentucky was his ability to dribble penetrate into the lane and get to the free throw line where he scored 10 of his 30 points. Also, helping the cause was the fact that Kentucky turned the ball over 15 times and you simply cannot do that if you want to win on the road in the SEC.
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Cleveland Cavaliers Recap From 2/18 to 2/21 by Great Lake Sports
by Great Lakes Sports of YouWinNow.com - February 23, 2010
The Cleveland Cavaliers have lost three in a row for the first time in two years, as they are struggling on defense, giving up a whopping 112.3 points per game since the All Star Break. The Cavaliers made a block-buster trade right before the NBA trade deadline on Thursday, trading Zydrunas Ilgauskas. They bring in Antawn Jamison, who has a career scoring average of 19.9 points per game and hauling down 8.1 rebounds per game. To complete the three team trade, the Cleveland Cavaliers also gave up a first round draft choice, and landed Sebastian Telfair from the LA Clippers.
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College Hoops: Best Pac 10 Teams
by Jim Feist of YouWinNow.com - February 22, 2010
It's been a mediocre year in Pac 10 in basketball, with the struggles of UCLA and a string of teams battling for the top spot. Here's a look at the strengths and weaknesses of some of college basketball's best teams in the Pacific 10.
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Five toughest remaining NBA schedules
by Matt Fargo of YouWinNow.com - February 18, 2010
The NBA regular season is winding down quickly. Matt Fargo takes a look at the remaining schedule of the 30 teams to see who could have a tough time down the stretch. Here are five teams he thinks have the toughest roads coming in.
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College Hoops: Best of the SEC
by Jim Feist of YouWinNow.com - February 15, 2010
The SEC has a bunch of teams that are loaded with talent, depth and athleticism. Kentucky won the national championship in 1998, Florida knocked on the door in 2000 getting to the title game against Michigan State, the won it all with back-to-back titles. Here's a look at some of college basketball's best teams in the SEC.
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BCS Hysteria: No. 1 vs. No. 2!
by Jim Feist of YouWinNow.com - January 4, 2010
After recovering from the weekend's New Year festivities while celebrating and analyzing sports picks, we glide through the end of the bowl season. The GMAC and Orange Bowls are appetizers for the tune-up that is the January 7 Texas/Alabama showdown for all the marbles.
Orange Bowl (Tues., Jan. 5): This game is outdoors in Miami's Land Shark stadium pitting a pair of dynamite ground games. Iowa (10-2 SU, 7-3-1 ATS) was unbeaten through October, a lumbering miracle with a plodding offense and tough defense, before November brought injuries and back-to-back losses to Northwestern and Ohio State.
They are not pretty, but have a great defense and a terrific offensive line. The offense (23 ppg) prefers to run the football behind offensive tackles Bryan Bulaga and Kyle Callaway. Junior QB Rick Stanzi (15 TDs, 14 picks) missed the last month of the season with a severe ankle injury, but should be ready. He is 17-4 as Iowa's starting quarterback.
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Bowl Bonanza!
by Jim Feist of YouWinNow.com - December 28, 2009
As 2008 draws to a close, we find ourselves smack in the middle of the bowls. You shouldn't be bowled-out, either, as they build to the crescendo that is the Texas/Alabama showdown for the national title.
Humanitarian Bowl (Wed., Dec. 30): Check the weather for this game, as it is frigid and can get windy in this outdoor game from Boise, Idaho. Out from the MAC come the Bowling Green Falcons (7-5 SU/ATS), a scrappy, pass happy team under new head coach in Dave Clawson. Senior QB Tyler Sheehan (23 TDs, 6 picks, 3,665 yds) is a terrific talent and leads a team that can't run (81 yds rushing pg), but averages 310 yards passing and 27 points.
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