Friday: Ivy League

[superbook]

Penn and Princeton played a tough emotional game on Tuesday night. IMO this sets them both up to get upset tonite by two pretty good teams in Yale and Brown.

Princeton is overrated and Penn is not playing so great.

Take Yale +11.5 and Brown +9.

Take Yale +500 and Brown +330 on the MLs and one of the two should cash.

Cornell played real well last Friday night at home vs Penn then the Big Red collapsed on Saturday night vs Princeton. I think they regroup and get the SU win at Dartmouth. Cornell is much improved vs last year and they're shooting the ball great. Dartmouth can't get a rebound and while they have revenge on their mind for that embarassing home loss last year on senior night to Cornell, IMO Cornell has shown that they can beat bad teams on the road and stay within the five.

Take Cornell +5

Harvard should beat Columbia but the Crimson lost their leading scorer Patrick Harvey this week to academic ineligibility. Columbia is bad but I'm laying off of this one.

Gotta run to meet my cpa but I'll be back later to post more details on the Yale and Brown games.

- Jon

 

[Master Capper]

I like the Brown play and will be playing the moneyline on this one also. Have to pass on Yale they are too erratic for me to back against a solid team like Penn.

 

[IE]

notable quote from one media source this morning:
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Exacerbating the challenge facing the Columbia Lions is a rash of sickness that has swept through the team. Sophomores Matt Preston and Jeremiah Boswell and senior captain Marco McCottry have all missed significant practice time due to illness.

Hill sent Preston and Boswell home from practice on Wednesday when they reported to Levien Gym pale and clearly under the weather. The two players are not expected to play in this weekend's road games. The Lions have been at home for the past three weeks.

"We've had a tough week because everybody has been sick," Hill said. "It's a possibility that a change of scenery might help, but they still have to play the same way."'

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could tell on them saturday if they strain minutes tonight vs Harvard.

 

[superbook]

IE -- more good reasons why to stay off the Columbia-Harvard game. Thanks.

Why Brown will stay in the game vs Princeton (or win):

- Princeton spent a lot of energy rallying at The Palestra on Tuesday night only to lose.

- Princeton D won't be able to slow down Brown's Earl Hunt (averaging 21 points and 4.5 boards in 6 Ivy games) esp. with Nuualiitia and Forte playing as well as they are.

- Brown is the best FT shooting team in the league, hitting 79% from the line and averaging 30 foul shots/game in Ivy play.

- Princeton relies heavily on the shooting of Spencer Gloger and he's taking but missing a lot of shots in Ivy games: 21/67 (31%) from the field.

- Brown badly wants to break their 0-51 streak at Princeton and this is the best chance they've probably ever had.


Why Yale will stay in the game vs Penn (or win):

- Yale seniors Archibong/Leanza/McHugh have never won at Princeton or Penn and this is their last chance.

- Penn's Toole runs the Quaker O and he's got the flu and he's looked bad in their L3 games.

- Archibong has been playing terrible; averaging just 8 ppg and 3.6rpg on 29% shooting in his L8 and fouling out 3 times.

- Yale's Minoff is playing great: 11.5 ppg/7.7rpg shooting 63% from the field in his L6.

- Gamboa is back for Yale.

- Yale needs to beat Penn to have any chance to stay in the Ivy race.


gl

 

[pistol229]

Superbook,

Nice call on Fairfield. Saw then folding when they went down 6 early but they really battled last night. Beer money is looking good right now.
In hindsight, under was a good play after the shootout the first time. (Did you see a o/u?)

See both Penn and Princeton in letdown mode as well. Brown ML looks good but are they due for a loss?
Have to agree with Master Capper that the experience of Penn should be enough to avoid the upset. May put a schnick on a the MLs anyway.

Won't play Cornell but agree with you. Also bad teams off long road trips usually struggle. Maybe Dart could be an o.k. play against Columbia on Sat.

Need your insight on Canisius - looking hard at them as they smoked Loyola the first time on the road (LMD shot 50% and still lost by 14) but played a tough game against the rivals on Wed. Worried about them being disinterested. Any insight?

Pistol

 

[gman2]

yale seems to have put the tragedy behind them (temporarily). theyve been erratic, but kinda like em tonight. gl man

 

[TORONTO-VIGILANTE]

like the cornell pick..will take it small.

 

[bigplaymakerjoe]

whos your favorite pick tonight? would it be yale or maryland

 

[tony steams]

Brown is now getting 10 points. Doesn't this make you nervous?

 

[redking]

Thanks for Brown and Loyola MD, Superbook.

Always enjoying reading your posts b/c of the write-ups and the insights you offer especially when you have inside information.

Thanks again!

:spotting: :spotting: :spotting:

 

[superbook]

No prob, fortunately Yale beat the hook and the Brown ML cashed too so it made for a pretty good nite.

 

[SmashMouth]

Great job Bud!!