Sat 2/5/11 CBB

Sat 2/5/11 CBB 8-2 Friday. 62-45-1 week. 520 Saint Louis/Xavier UN 59 FH Early start (10 AM) for the Billikens. Xavier relies a ton on their PG Tu Holloway.

522 VCU/James Madison UN 146 523 West Virginia (+5) 524 West Virginia/Villanova UN 134 525 Providence (+6') FH 525 Providence (+11') (-103) Game 563 Butler (+3') 564 Butler/Cleveland St UN 134' Butler lost their chance to get in tourney as at-large by losing at Youngstown. However, they are all of a sudden being put in the scrap heap of CBB. Butler goes back to basics here and plays good defense and a grind it out game.

527 St. John's (+4) 528 St. John's/UCLA UN 135' This game means much more to Lavin than the UCLA players. He got ran out of Westwood. 530 Boston College (+2) 531 Clemson (-1) 533 Wake Forest/Maryland OV 147' 538 Illinois/Northwestern UN 138' 538 Northwestern (-1') Illinois shot like 70+% against Wildcats in earlier mtg. 539 Northern Iowa/Drake OV 119 697 Samford (-1')

542 S Carolina/Vanderbilt UN 145' 544 Georgia (-16') 546 Oklahoma/Oklahoma St UN 135 546 Oklahoma St (-10) (-102) 548 Kansas St/Iowa St UN 145

552 South Florida (+8) Cuse broke 4-game losing streak with huge win at UConn, so of course they start a new winning streak here, right? 553 GW (+4) (-120) Charlotte probably awful happy off their upset over Xavier on Wed. 556 Miami FL (-8') (-108) Glutton for punishment. Miami had Ga Tech dead and buried on Thurs and then GT went to a press and got right back into it. 557 Rhode Island/Temple OV 130' 559 Old Dominion (+5) 560 ODU/George Mason UN 126' 562 Ball State (+2) (-105) Buffalo on long win streak, Ball St has lost 4 in a row. BSU better defense, less athletic, but smarter team. 585 Loyola Chicago (+5) 700 W Carolina (-11')

572 Northern Illinois/Ohio U UN 150' 647 UWGB (+3') (-105) 648 UWGB/Milwaukee UN 134' 573 Evansville/Creighton OV 130'

577 UNLV (+7') Good defense getting a big #. 584 So Alabama/Middle Tennessee UN 141 588 Memphis/Gonzaga UN 148' Tigers are banged up. Both teams on at-large bubble. Expect both of these clubs to be a bit more defensive-minded. 589 Iowa (+6) Indiana off big win over Illinois, then outplaying Michigan St on the road all game only to lose in OT, then beating Minnesota at home. How many big efforts do they have? This is Iowa's really only chance at a road win in Big 10. Expect them to go all-out. 594 Nebraska (+3) FH 594 Nebraska (+5') Game 594 Kansas/Nebraska UN 132 Nebraska, other than Texas, played KU the best all season. They slow down the game and make KU work. 598 Miami OH/Central Michigan UN 126 600 UL Monroe/W Kentucky UN 134 702 Furman/Charleston UN 142'

667 UCF (-1') Lost 6 in a row and favored on the road. Hmmm. 605 Central Michigan/Kent OV 120' 601 Alabama (+5) (-104)

618 Columbia/Yale UN 136' 626 Arizona St/Stanford UN 120' 616 Marshall/So Miss UN 142' 621 Dartmouth (+16') (-105)

Started hot, cold in middle of the day. 628 UNCW (-3') (-109) 630 Penn (+3) (-107) Wonder if this is letdown for Harvard after getting up for Princeton and falling short. 631 UIC (+11) 636 Akron/Toledo UN 130 638 Saint Joe's (-2) (-104) Winless in the conference and favored over a 13-8 team? 643 Colorado (+10) 708 Eastern Illinois (-8) 709 Wofford (-5') 714 Chattanooga/Davidson UN 147