Sunday, January 28, 2007
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Ohio-Ball State
Press Notes
The Ohio men’s basketball squad (13-6, 4-2 MAC) will travel to take on Ball State (6-13, 2-4 MAC). This is the only meeting this year between Ohio and Ball State. All-Time: Ohio holds a 36-29 edge in the all-time series between the two programs.
Wisconsin-Iowa
Press Notes
Iowa (11-9, 3-3) plays the first of three games in seven days when it hosts #2/3 Wisconsin (20-1, 6-0). With the 79-63 win over Penn State, Iowa improved its home winning streak in Big Ten Conference games to 12 straight. Iowa has won 28 of its last 29 home games in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Wisconsin is ranked second by the Associated Press and third in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. This marks Wisconsin’s highest ranking of the season. Iowa has posted a 1-2 record while facing three ranked opponents this season. Iowa lost to 10th-ranked Alabama 72-60 in the semi-finals of the Paradise Jam, defeated 24th-ranked Michigan State 62-60 Jan. 4 in Iowa City and lost to seventh-ranked Ohio State 82-63 Jan. 20 in Columbus. Under Steve Alford, Iowa is 2-5 when playing teams ranked among the top three in the nation. That includes a 1-3 mark vs. No. 1, a 1-1 record vs. No. 2 and a 0-1 record vs. No. 3.
Tennessee-Kentucky
Press Notes
The Vols are looking to bounce back from a 83-69 loss at Ole Miss Wednesday night. UT held a 10-point halftime lead but the Rebels shot 59.4 percent from the field in the second half to take the win. The Vols finishing are a stretch where they have played five of six games on the road. The stretch began with three consecutive road games (at Vanderbilt, at Ohio State and at Auburn) before UT returned home to play South Carolina on Jan. 20. Tennessee returned to the road Wednesday, Jan. 24, when they visited Ole Miss and now travel to Kentucky. UT will return home Jan. 31 to host Georgia before hitting the road again when the Vols visit top-ranked Florida Feb. 3. UT has dropped four of its last five games. Each of those four losses has come on the road and three of them were decided by three points or less. Tennessee is leading the SEC and ranks eighth in the nation with 82.4 points per game. Chris Lofton, the SEC’s leading scorer with 21.5 points per game, is out indefinitely after suffering an ankle injury Jan. 20 against South Carolina. The All-America guard missed his first career game Wednesday, Jan. 24, when he did not play against Ole Miss.
Massachusetts-Charlotte
Charlotte Observer
Maybe the comforts of home will give the 49ers some assistance in Sunday’s showdown with the Minutemen. Charlotte is 5-2 at home this season with losses to North Texas and Saint Joseph’s.
Virginia-Clemson
Daily Progress
UVa fans have been getting a real show out of the Cavaliers’ starting backcourt of senior shooting guard J.R. Reynolds and junior point guard Sean Singletary. Since returning from a disastrous road trip to San Juan before Christmas, Reynolds and Singletary have combined to average 46 points per game over the last eight contests. Singletary has averaged 23.9 per game, Reynolds 22.1 over that span. That’s what it may require for the Cavaliers to tame the Tigers, coming off a heart-wrenching, last-second loss at Duke on Thursday night. Clemson bounced back strong from its earlier loss to North Carolina with an impressive home performance, something the Cavaliers will have to contend with on Sunday afternoon at Littlejohn Coliseum. Considering that Clemson ranks ninth in the ACC in both field-goal percentage defense and 3-point percentage defense, it at least leaves the notion that it could be another one of those 40-plus point nights for the Cavalier backcourt.
DePaul-West Virginia
Scout.com
When viewing the Blue Demons schedule before this season began it was plain to see that this week would be the toughest for the DePaul Blue Demons. With back-to-back road games at Georgetown and West Virginia, it was obvious that the Blue Demons would be in for a tough challenge this week. At the WVU Coliseum, the Mountaineers are undefeated at 10-0 this season and are 23-2 over the last two years. While WVU has struggled on the road in Big East play, they are awfully tough to beat at home.
LSU-Georgia
RedandBlack.com
With a win against the Wildcats, Georgia (12-6, 4-2 SEC) has to get ready for a Sunday battle with No. 21 LSU (13-6, 2-3). The team is now in a tie with Kentucky and Vanderbilt for second place in the SEC East. Wednesday’s home sell-out was Georgia’s first since last February’s Tennessee game. An SEC opponent such as LSU (the Tigers played in last season’s Final Four) should bring the fans back in droves on Sunday. The Tigers are coming off a 64-53 loss at home Wednesday to a resurgent Vanderbilt squad. This is almost the same LSU team that gave Georgia their worst loss last season, an 81-52 drubbing in Baton Rouge, La.
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