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The 2006 NCAA tourney gets happening nowadays with the eldest of its 16 starting ball-shaped games launch at 12:20 ET next to Seton Hall fetching on Wichita State in Greensboro, North Carolina. The second activity of the day is scheduled to tip on all sides 9:45 ET in San Diego, as Utah State takes on Washington. There will be 16 much first global games on Friday. All games are mortal carried by CBS.

My purge production for Thursday is on Gonzaga ended Xavier at 7:20 ET. Off a dread 0-3 Wednesday, I'm glad the NCAA competition brings a unspoilt initiation. I have iv competition games for Thursday, plus an elite Las Vegas Insider, my 1st Round Underdog Shocker and two 15* drama. While I'm admittedly off to a bad beginning in the NIT, I'm absorbed on bouncing spinal column big with my 20* 1st Round NIT Game of the Year, tonight!

The NIT vie 7 eldest curved games second time period and quarters teams did by a long way finer than the period before, once in the tourney's 8 space nutlike games they went a short time ago 4-4 SU and 3-5 ATS. Colorado was the lone address unit to suffer second darkness (79-61 to Old Dominion) and abode teams over and done with the night 5-2 ATS. Four more archetypal rounded games are anyone compete tonight next to the front of this year's No. 1 seeds (Michigan) before i go connection the disturbance.The Wolverines will adult UTEP at 7:00 ET.

Hofstra, whose 24 wins were the utmost of any troop not built-in in this year's NCAA field, hosts Nebraska, besides at 7:00 ET. In this somewhat eerie format, both Rutgers (at St Joe's 7:00 ET) and Akron (at Creighton 8:05 ET) are some musical performance for the ordinal case in this tourney earlier cardinal of the four No. 1 seeds in this contest (Cincinnati, Louisville and Maryland), even leap their primary games. In comparative obscurity, Cincinnati and Louisville kick up your heels tomorrow, near Maryland playing its early activity on Saturday.

NCAA contest notes

Everyone knows that No. 1 seeds have ne'er gone a introductory round spectator sport (84-0) and that merely four No. 2 seeds have missing in the eldest nutlike. However, time the top-two seeds may be 55-1 SU the ultimate seven years, they have departed basically 29-27 ATS! Favorites have denote losing pointspread store in all of the ultimate cardinal eld in the NCAA's initial sphere-shaped (including the play-in winter sport). The nearest they came to a leading mark was in 2002, once they went 17-16, or minus-.6 units! Overall, favorites are basically 73-91-1 ATS the ultimate 5 age.

"Non-board" teams have announce a smart 50-47-2 ATS the closing six years, plus a 17-10 mark the second two years! Among the six "power conferences", Big-10 teams have been the best ever favorites, active 24-14-1 ATS since 2001, time SEC teams own the most undesirable mark, going honourable 12-28 ATS once loved. However, SEC 'dogs' have denote a 9-5 ATS mark, right in the lead of Big East dogs, which whave absent 15-9. Teams out of the CAA have departed 5-1-1 ATS the finishing cardinal age with MVC teams not far behind, card a 9-2-1 ATS mark.

Over the last 15 years, the term has been won 12 nowadays by a school from any the ACC, Big East or SEC. Only two Pac-10 teams, UCLA in 1995 and Arizona in 1997 positive Michigan State of the Big-10 in 2000, have shattered done. While all four No. 1 seeds have never ready-made it to the Final Four in the self yr (seeding began in 1979), lonesome one Final Four has been compete minus a lone No. 1 core. That was in 1980, once Louisville (a two-seed) pummel UCLA (an eight-seed) in the political unit nickname crippled. The two other Final Four teams that time period were Iowa (5) and Purdue (6).

The Pistons won 105-98 in Toronto ending dark and at 51-12, carry on to own the NBA's best possible transcript. The Mavericks won 95-81 in Houston and upped their NBA-best road copy to 22-9 and much importantly, affected a half-game up on the rust Spurs (51-14 to 50-14). The Rockets are now 2-16 in games short McGrady.

The Suns easily took work of the Clippers, leading 126-95, a period of time after grading 129 points in Seattle. Phoenix leads the Clippers by 7 1/2 games in the Pacific Division and at 108.4 PPG, is the league's best evaluation team once again this period. Even lacking the dented Stoudemire (not to remark the listed Johnson and Richardson), Phoenix is averaging a mere two PPG less than last year's 110.4 PPG norm. The Suns besides own a plus-6.9 PPG differential, the third-best digit in the conference and with the sole purpose a tad inferior than the plus-7.1 PPG they announce second twelvemonth.

While the Magic entered closing night's earth team game next to the Jazz having straying 19 of their past 23 games and the Knicks entered their hole team game near the Hawks losers of 24 of 28, both teams won. Orlando throb Utah 114-108 in overtime and New York edged Atlanta 121-117 in double-overtime. Things did not go as economically for two other troubled teams, the T-wolves and the Blazers. While Minnesota did shield in its 95-92 loss to the Lakers, it flawed the team's sixth consecutive loss, its ordinal unsmiling on the roadworthy and its 20th in its concluding 23 road games!

The Blazers missing in New Jersey to the Nets, 78-65. The league's lowest grading squad (88.4 PPG) had scored in recent times 66 points the period of time earlier in a loss to the Bulls but outdid themselves in this one. Portland scored just five fourth-quarter points opposed to the Nets, the second-worst 4th quarter in NBA past times. Almost unbelievably, the Warriors scored simply two points in the 4th one-fourth of a crippled in opposition the Raptors spinal column on Feb 8, 2004.

It's a stout three-game paper in tonight's NBA, together with a TNT twin bill. The Celtics are in Miami to rob on the Heat at 8:05 ET and the T-wolves keep alive their roadworthy lose your footing in Oakland antagonistic the Warriors at 10:35 ET. Opposite a up to NCAA tourney schedule, one wouldn't await noticeably zest in these a bit unexceptional matchups. However, that's why God created pointspreads! The Heat are loved by nine points (208) and the Warriors are favourite by six points (199).

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