Center AJ Ogilvy will be called upon to limit Tennessee in the paint and make contributions for the home team on Tuesday.
For the most part, this made for cable sports broadcasting concept work well putting on a variety of top line games to watch and wager on. The situations are presumed to work and sometimes the schedule and prior events bring added importance to these matchups. It’s a battle of Tennessee when Vandy hosts the Volunteers in Nashville and the Big Ten has four of its top five teams in action in extremely important conference clashes. It promises to be quite a Tuesday for Rivalry Week.
Marc Lawrence's CBB Home-Away Dichotomy CBB - With the 2009-10 College Hoops regular season entering the month before the Big Dance, it’s important to get a pulse on how teams are performing both at home and on the road this campaign.
February College Hoops Conference Play CBB - With the calendar turning to February, this marks the most important month of the season in college basketball for conference title hopefuls, and teams in line for bids to the tournament in March. With that in mind, I’d like to take a look at the last five years of college basketball February action. In particular, what I will be looking to find out is if there are any specific conferences where underdogs or favorites have a significant edge at this point in the season.
CBB |BOSTON COLLEGE at WAKE FOREST Play On - A favorite (WAKE FOREST) a good offensive team (74-78 PPG) against a good defensive team (63-67 PPG), after a combined score of 125 points or less 2 straight games 46-18 since 1997. ( 71.9% | 26.2 units ) 1-1 this year. ( 50.0% | -0.1 units )
CBB |TENNESSEE at VANDERBILT Play Against - Home teams with a money line of +135 to -155 (VANDERBILT) after a loss by 10 points or more against opponent after leading their last 2 games by 10+ points at the half 96-52 since 1997. ( 64.9% | 40.6 units ) 2-1 this year. ( 66.7% | 1.0 units )
CBB |AKRON at C MICHIGAN Play Under - Home teams where the first half total is 60.5 to 65.5 after 1 or more consecutive unders, a poor offensive team (63-67 PPG) against a good defensive team (63-67 PPG) after 15+ games 67-31 since 1997. ( 68.4% | 32.9 units ) 6-3 this year. ( 66.7% | 2.7 units )