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Fresno -5 over San Jose St
Fresno has won 5 in a row after starting out shakey.Winning their 1st WAC game by 9 at Hawaii.Think Bulldogs are much more athletic and quicker then SJose.Walton is leading scorer and rebounder.Lilly despite missing all of his 3's last game is a sharpshooter with great range.They are a good defensive team holding teams to a low FG %.
But Harvard beat them 2 weeks ago.They have a problem scoring.
Fresno has a 6'7 scorer in Majors avg 15 pts.Woods,Logan,West are all D-Digit scorers and can shoot from downtown.Al-Sayyad is there inside player at 6'8.
Fresno lost to Creighton in OT.Think they have to much speed and should get a 10 pt road win vs SJ who's offense is suspect.

Providence -1 over Texas
Probaly everyone has Prov today just for the fact that Texas has played all home games.Lyr, Texas on the road vs good teams lost to Zona,KU,Colorado,and Ok st.
Texas's frontline is awesome.But Prov's isn't to bad either.
Timmy will switch defenses but his 2-3 will make Texas take outside shots.Small play here but I'll bite and take the home team. Barnes returning will add to all the hoopla and the fans will give Prov a slight edge.And there are still people in Prov who will remember what that backstabbing Barnes did to Gordan Chiesa their former coach.Barnes only got that Prov job because of a lie.

Hofstra -2 over VCU
VCU has won the last 4 in this matchup.Almost all have gone to the wire.This is CAA conf game.Adeleke the 2nd leading rebounder in the nation lyr has finaly awoken.Is back to his double-doubles.Stokes the frosh has responded with his new starting position the past 5 games scoring in double figures.Rivera the other frosh is tough.Gibson and walker who now comes off the bench gives the Pride a good frontline.
VCU has 6'1 Jones who is there stud.Doles,Godwin and Pellot-Rosa can all score.VCU runs their 3 gd attack.So Hof should control the bds.
Both teams in stats are almost identical in 10 catogories.VCU def FG % is much better. But VCU cannot shoot FT's.One of the worst in the nation at 57%.
Lyr Taylor who graduated scored 24 pts vs Hof in a 80-77 win.
I think Hof can win this by 5 or 6 pts at home.Esp the way VCU shoots from the charity line.

Fresno ****** 6 boxes
Prov ***
Hof ***
 

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Not sure if it affects your play but Majors is suspended and Woods may not be playing either. GL tonight.
 

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Neither one of them played Saturday either but FRES dominated Hawaii. My fear on this game is the quick turnaround on a long trip and a dropping line from -7 to -5. FRES is one of those teams where the line moves are a fairly accurate predictor.
 

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agree with a lot of the posts in this thread.

im a big fresno backer. theyve always been a good team for me.
but rudy is right- its uncanny how accurate the line moves are in fresno games. theyre normally right on the money. fresno defense has been great lately, but quick turnaround and laying road pts after the hawaii trip is tough, especially since theyre without majors.
 

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actually, fresno bee says they might play. this is an article from over the weekend. it says theyre expected back today. the fresno bee does do a good job of following all the drama that surrounds this program, lol. you want to talk about beat reporters who should work for free. they get stories that fall into their lap with this fresno team and all their off-court stuff.

http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/bulldogs/story/7951895p-8826579c.html
 

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thanks again guys.
gman- I always go to the"Bee'.But just missed it.So they are playing now,right?Still confused..
I was going to down play the game.Let me know if anyone knows.
Also looking at Col St -3 and Cal-irv -1 over UCSB
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that fresno bee article was from a few days ago (before they played hawaii)

at the time the article was written, it looks like lopes planned on re-instating them for the game tonight (but not for hawaii)

but when lopes said "i hope so" in response to if theyd be expected to play monday-- thats awfully ambiguous and non-commital.

so who knows.

oh the drama of fresno basketball.
 
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they are not playing tonite Fresno Bee reporting

Woods & Major suspension will last a game longer the originally intented. Lopes, who said he planned to bring them back monday nite against San Jose , extended the suspensions through that game because of "LACK OF SENIOR LEADERSHIP' conduct unbecoming of a senior.


I feel like a yo-yo.Will still play but downgrade it
Took Cal-Irvine -1 and Col St -3 for small plays
 

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In nome si padre e sue figlio e tu spirtu...[forgot the ending in Latin] help....santus...I had to say it 5 times.
If there are any former alter boys out there that can remember their latin you'll relate to what I just wrote.
Intense O.....I saw the same score with 18 seconds left...
 
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