Yale +5
RobertBIrish has this one covered in his thread.
Harvard -9.5 (bought a point)
Cornell is the worst team in the Ivy. Harvard lost to them by one after the long Saturday morning bus ride to Ithaca and coming off a tough last minute win at Columbia the night before. Harvard is tough at home and the young Cornell team is not good on the road (or anywhere for that matter)
Penn -7.5 (first half)
Penn needs to sweep their remaining four games to stay in the Ivy race. They can eliminate Brown tonight but the Quakers' bigger game is tomorrow night vs Yale. Penn is the best team in the Ivy and will exploit Brown's total lack of D to run away early.
Columbia -3
I hate going against bryanz's pick; he's been very good in the Ivy. So I thought I'd give you my thinking behind this pick:
Dartmouth won the first game at Columbia 57-51 in a game that Columbia admitted they didn't give their all. The Lions were very demoralized after the previous night's last second loss to Harvard which was made possible by a bad call on a charge by center Chris Wiedemann on a basket that went in. The foul allowed Harvard's Harvey to win 55-52 with a 3 which bounced straight up and went in at the buzzer. That loss killed Columbia's Ivy hopes which were looking up after a victory at Penn in their previous game.
In their game vs Dartmouth, Columbia outrebounded the Big Green 38-22. That which will happen again tonight. Both teams shot poorly, Columbia lost as a result of sloppy play and turnovers.
Columbia and Dartmouth are both now playing for pride; Columbia has six seniors who want to go out on a high note. Dartmouth is primarily a team of underclassmen.
Senior starting point guard Derrick Mayo will play for Columbia tonight, he missed the first game against Dartmouth with a stress fracture in his foot. While he's still not 100% he played an average of 25 minutes in last weeks losses to Brown and Yale and is expected to play significant minutes this weekend.
Columbia's biggest problem of late has been their inability to hit their shots; fortunately for them Dartmouth doesn't play very good defense, allowing their opponents to shoot 49% from the field including 41% from the arc in their L5.
Dartmouth lives and dies by the three. They're #2 in the nation in 3's taken as a % of FGs: 49.7%. Dartmouth takes a lot of shots from the arc because they have no inside game. They're hitting 40% of their 3's but Columbia will make up for this disadvantage by getting a lot of easy inside shots and probably 10-15 more shots during the game as a result of their better rebounding.
Home court is not necessarily an advantage for Dartmouth: they're 1-4 ATS at home while Columbia is 5-4 ATS on the road.
There's no question Columbia has the skill advantage in this match-up. With pride and revenge as motives, I like Columbia in this spot.
Manhattan -10
The Jaspers are still fighting for league position and have a little revenge on their mind after Iona beat them 75-70 in their first game. Iona's leading scorer Courtney Fields is out for this one and probably the season. I look for Manhattan to step it up here.
Portland +7.5
A battle of two bad teams but with St. Mary's leading scorer out, I'll take the points and Portland here. Portland is 1-11 SU away but 7-5 ATS on the road. Portland has won the L4 games between these two.
RobertBIrish has this one covered in his thread.
Harvard -9.5 (bought a point)
Cornell is the worst team in the Ivy. Harvard lost to them by one after the long Saturday morning bus ride to Ithaca and coming off a tough last minute win at Columbia the night before. Harvard is tough at home and the young Cornell team is not good on the road (or anywhere for that matter)
Penn -7.5 (first half)
Penn needs to sweep their remaining four games to stay in the Ivy race. They can eliminate Brown tonight but the Quakers' bigger game is tomorrow night vs Yale. Penn is the best team in the Ivy and will exploit Brown's total lack of D to run away early.
Columbia -3
I hate going against bryanz's pick; he's been very good in the Ivy. So I thought I'd give you my thinking behind this pick:
Dartmouth won the first game at Columbia 57-51 in a game that Columbia admitted they didn't give their all. The Lions were very demoralized after the previous night's last second loss to Harvard which was made possible by a bad call on a charge by center Chris Wiedemann on a basket that went in. The foul allowed Harvard's Harvey to win 55-52 with a 3 which bounced straight up and went in at the buzzer. That loss killed Columbia's Ivy hopes which were looking up after a victory at Penn in their previous game.
In their game vs Dartmouth, Columbia outrebounded the Big Green 38-22. That which will happen again tonight. Both teams shot poorly, Columbia lost as a result of sloppy play and turnovers.
Columbia and Dartmouth are both now playing for pride; Columbia has six seniors who want to go out on a high note. Dartmouth is primarily a team of underclassmen.
Senior starting point guard Derrick Mayo will play for Columbia tonight, he missed the first game against Dartmouth with a stress fracture in his foot. While he's still not 100% he played an average of 25 minutes in last weeks losses to Brown and Yale and is expected to play significant minutes this weekend.
Columbia's biggest problem of late has been their inability to hit their shots; fortunately for them Dartmouth doesn't play very good defense, allowing their opponents to shoot 49% from the field including 41% from the arc in their L5.
Dartmouth lives and dies by the three. They're #2 in the nation in 3's taken as a % of FGs: 49.7%. Dartmouth takes a lot of shots from the arc because they have no inside game. They're hitting 40% of their 3's but Columbia will make up for this disadvantage by getting a lot of easy inside shots and probably 10-15 more shots during the game as a result of their better rebounding.
Home court is not necessarily an advantage for Dartmouth: they're 1-4 ATS at home while Columbia is 5-4 ATS on the road.
There's no question Columbia has the skill advantage in this match-up. With pride and revenge as motives, I like Columbia in this spot.
Manhattan -10
The Jaspers are still fighting for league position and have a little revenge on their mind after Iona beat them 75-70 in their first game. Iona's leading scorer Courtney Fields is out for this one and probably the season. I look for Manhattan to step it up here.
Portland +7.5
A battle of two bad teams but with St. Mary's leading scorer out, I'll take the points and Portland here. Portland is 1-11 SU away but 7-5 ATS on the road. Portland has won the L4 games between these two.
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