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Miami-Florida State
Press Notes
Florida State has won 10 of its first 11 home games of the 2006-07 season and has won 18 of its last 22 (.818 winning percentage) since defeating Virginia Tech at the Donald L. Tucker Center on Jan. 7, 2006. The Seminoles won seven of their last eight homes games of the 05-06 season with their only loss coming to South Carolina in the second round of the NIT.
Bowling Green-Kent State
Press Notes
The Falcons are in a stretch where they will have played eight of their last 11 away from home since December 16. The Falcons fell at Miami, 66-60, on Wednesday night. Kent State is coming off a 78-68 loss at Akron. BGSU has won three of the last four meetings in Kent capturing a 79-74 contest a year ago. BGSU also won at KSU, 77-73, in 2005 and 78-74, in 2003. The Golden Flashes are 5-1 at home this season.
Rice-Central Florida
Press Notes
The UCF men’s basketball team will be seeking its 11th-straight win at home. The Golden Knights have won two-straight contests and are 13-4 overall. The squad is off to a 2-1 start in league play. Rice is 3-0 in C-USA action and 9-7 on the year. UCF and Rice will be meeting for the third time overall and for the first time in Orlando. The all-time series is tied, 1-1. Last year, the teams played once as Conference USA rivals and the Golden Knights claimed a 77-64 victory in Houston on Feb. 25, 2006. UCF has won 10-straight contests at home and is 9-0 at the UCF Arena this season. In their nine games in Orlando, the Golden Knights are averaging 81.2 points and have a +22.2 scoring margin and a +12.7 rebound margin. UCF has outrebounded all nine of its opponents at the UCF Arena. Last season, UCF scored more than 70 points in a contest only five times. In 2006-07, the Golden Knights have already eclipsed the 70-point mark 12 times in 17 games. After averaging just 63.3 points per game last season, the Golden Knights are scoring 76.4 points per contest this year. The squad eclipsed the 80-point mark only once a year ago, but has already scored more than 80 points in a game on seven occasions this season. UCF owns a +11.2 scoring margin.
UW Green Bay-Butler
Press Notes
Butler, ranked in the “Top 25” for eight consecutive weeks and looking to reclaim a share of first place in the Horizon League, will wrap up a three-game homestand against one of the league’s hottest teams when it hosts UW-Green Bay. The Bulldogs (16-2, 4-1 Horizon League), successful in the first two games of the current homestand including a 67-39 decison over Youngstown State on Wednesday (Jan. 17), trail Wright State by one-half game in the league standings. The Raiders (12-7, 5-1 HL), who won at Cleveland State on Thursday (Jan. 18), play at UW-Milwaukee on Sunday (Jan. 21). UW-Green Bay (10-8, 2-3 HL), boasting wins in eight of its last 11 outings, is ending a seven-day layoff when it visits Hinkle Fieldhouse. Butler has won 18 consecutive games in Hinkle Fieldhouse, including eight wins this season. The Bulldogs have won 89 of the past 100 games played in the Fieldhouse, and Butler’s home record over the past decade (1996-present) is 128-17. The Bulldogs’ homecourt winning streak is the ninth-longest active homecourt streak in the NCAA Division I. The Bulldogs have held eight opponents to an average of just 51.9 points in Hinkle Fieldhouse. Butler limited its last three home foes - Youngstown State (39), South Dakota State (47) and Wright State (42) to season-low scoring totals and kept both Cleveland State and Ball State below 50 points at home. Butler’s foes are shooting just .386 from the field and .323 from the three-point arc in the Fieldhouse.
Charlotte-George Washington
Press Notes
Charlotte dropped both meetings last year as GW went 16-0 in A-10 play. At GW in the regular-seaon finale, Mar. 4, Charlotte led in OT in the closing seconds, but GW’s Carl Elliott followed up a miss with a put back at the buzzer to snag the win. The Charlotte 49ers (8-8; 2-2) head to George Washington (12-4; 3-1) in search of their third straight win, after posting back-to-back A-10 victories over Richmond and Dayton. In four A-10 games, Charlotte is shoting 46% from the floor and 42% from three-point land. Charlotte’s improving defense has held opponents to less than 70 points in six of the last eight games, with Richmond (51) and Dayton (59) being held to the fewest points allowed by the 49ers this year. Only one opponent was held to less than 70 in the first eight games.
Marshall-Tulane
Press Notes
Marshall (6-11, 1-2) and Tulane (8-7, 1-2) will meet for the third time Saturday evening. The Green Wave lead the all-time series, 2-0, after claiming both games in 2006-07. Tulane enters the game with an 8-7 record, 1-2 in league play. Like the Herd, the Green Wave claimed its first conference win of the season Wednesday when it defeated East Carolina. Marshall won its first Conference USA game of the 2006-07 season with a 65-53 win over Tulsa in its last time out Wednesday night at Henderson Center and ended a three-game losing skid in the process.
Arizona State-USC
Press Notes
A young Arizona State University basketball team (6-12; 0-7 in Pac-10) under first-year coach Herb Sendek has a 5 p.m. PT/6 p.m. MST tip-off at USC ASU is giving up just 63.7 points per game, currently the fourth-best mark in ASU history and the lowest since the 1949-50 squad gave up 59.8, but is trying to replace the points of late summer departures Kevin Kruger (transferred to UNLV in July) and Bryson Krueger (dismissed from team in August). Kevin Kruger took advantage of a NCAA rule that lasted six months which allowed him to transfer to UNLV to play for his father since he had finished his degree work. With all the changes, four true freshmen are combining to average 87.5 minutes, including three at or above the 26-minute mark.
USC leads the ASU series 43-29 but ASU has won two of the past three in Los Angeles...ASU has posted two 100-point outings in its past 134 games, both against USC.
Baylor-Oklahoma
Press Notes
Baylor is 2-31 in its last 33 true road games (dating to ‘02-03) and has lost 19 straight since a 73-72 win at Purdue 12-30-04. BU has lost 19 straight Big 12 road games dating to a 67-61 win over TAMU 2-25-04. Baylor is 4-36 in its last 40 away games (dating to ‘02-03). Baylor has lost 24 straight games to Oklahoma (dating back to a 75-67 win Dec. 6, 1977), including all 20 since the inception of the Big 12 Conference. BU is 2-14 all-time vs. Oklahoma in Norman. Baylor is scoring 77.3 ppg, 14.1 ppg more than last season (4th in 12 rankings), the school’s highest scoring average since the ‘94-95 squad averaged 81.2 ppg. Oklahoma is 10-6, 2-2 under first-year head coach Jeff Capel The Sooners returned two starters from last season’s 20-9 squad. OU is 8-1 this season at home in the Lloyd Noble Center
Richmond-Dayton
Press Notes
The youthful Spiders continue to struggle with maintaining consistency. Over its last five games, the Spiders have played well for the first 30 minutes of the game, but in their last four losses the Spiders have faltered a bit in the game’s final 10 minutes. In three of Richmond’s last four losses the Spiders have trailed by two with less than three minutes to play. That comes with having a young team, and while that reason may be getting old, the Spiders do rely on five freshmen who play at least 13.5 minutes per game. Richmond has started four freshmen in six games and at least three freshmen in 15 of 17 games.
Now the Spiders will try to win for the first time at UD Arena, where Richmond is 0-6. The Spiders do play well at UD Arena. In Richmond’s last three trips to Dayton, the Spiders have lost in overtime by five, by two points and by one, 63-62 in their last visit in 2005. Richmond is fourth in the Atlantic 10 in field goal percentage at 46.4 percent. The Spiders have shot over 40 percent from the floor in all but four of their 17 games this season, including four of the last five. Richmond has shot over 50 percent from the field in five games and over 45 percent in 10 games. The Spiders are fifth in the Atlantic 10 in 3-point percentage at 37.1 percent and fifth in 3s made at 7.18 per game. Richmond has made at least eight 3-pointers in a game eight times this season and at least five treys in all but three of their 17 games. Dayton is 12-5 and 2-2 in the Atlantic 10, coming off an 80-59 loss at Charlotte on Jan. 20. Dayont is a perfect 11-0 at home in UD Arena, where the Spiders have not one in six chances.
California-Oregon
Press Notes
Winner of four of its last five games, including three in a row on the road, California next visits No. 9 Oregon Saturday at 5 p.m. Since opening Pac-10 action with a 94-85 loss at Arizona, the Golden Bears have defeated Arizona State (66-62), Stanford (67-63) and Oregon State (77-74) in succession away from home. Going back to last season, Cal has won six of its last eight Pac-10 road games. This year, the Bears are 6-4 in road/neutral contests, which includes a 3-0 run to win the Great Alaska Shootout in November.
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