Sunday Trends and Indexes 01/21

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NCAAB
Write-up

St Joe's is 3-2 vs Xavier last couple years, with teams splitting pair in A-14 tourney; Xavier is 3-1 in A-14, 1-1 on road, winning 71-56 at Fordham, losing at Saint Louis. Hawks lost last two in a row, by total of six points. A-14 home dogs are 5-3 this season.

Wake Forest lost last three ACC games by 10,14,22 pts- their only league win was in game they trailed by 13 at half. Virginia is 2-0 at home in ACC, winning 67-62 (NC State), 103-91 (Terps). ACC home favorites are 9-2 last two weeks, 16-9 for season.

Home side won five of last six Akron-Buffalo games, as Bulls lost last two visits to Rubber City, 75-61/75-59; Buffalo is 1-3 in MAC, 0-2 on road, losing 74-73 at BG, 67-51 at Ohio. MAC home favorites are 7-14 against spread. Akron is 2-0 at home (by 2,10)

LaSalle is 3-0 vs St Bonaventure last three years, winning by 74-62/68-57/89-78 scores. Explorers are 1-3 in A-14, winning by 16 at Duquesne- they lost wild 93-92 game to Penn during week. Bonnies lost last three games, 71-66/80-63/89-78.

Wright State is 1-5 vs Wisc-Milwaukee last three years, with Raiders losing last three visits here, 61-54/71-66/72-66. Horizon home teams are 18-10 vs spread. Panthers are 3-4 in league, 2-2 at home. Wright won last three games, is 5-1 in Horizon League.

Duquesne lost last two games vs UMass, 82-63/79-74; Dukes lost another player to illness this season, in what has been very weird year for them- they're 1-3 in A-14, losing by 48,16,12 pts, but they beat BC. UMass is 3-1 in A-14. winning by 8,7,11 pts.

Syracuse is 4-0 vs St John's last three years, winning by 75-60 83-69/79-65/65-59 scores; Orangemen won last four games by 12 10,11,1 point- they shot over 50% last two games. Big East home dogs are 3-7 vs spread . St John's los last four, by 27,17,9,8.

Northern Illinois is 1-6 vs Toledo last three years; they won last visit here, but lost previous two, 74-58/69-61. NIU is 1-3 in MAC, 0-2 on road, losing 63-62/71-60; they're 13 for their last 50 beyond arc. Toledo is 4-0 in MAC, winning by 2,6,12,10 points.

Western Kentucky is 4-0 vs New Orleans last two years, with two wins in Sun Belt tourney, and 72-57/81-69 wins here. UNO is 5-3 in Sun Belt, 3-1 on road, losing by hoop at Monroe. WKU is 3-1 at home in Sun Belt, winning by 73-51/82-78/82-72 scores.

Home side won five of last six Drake-Illinois State games, with Bulldogs losing its ast three visits to Normal, 58-56/74-61/73-68. Drake is 2-6 in Valley, but beat ISU 70-66 eight days ago, taking twice as many FTs as Redbirds, who won last two home games.

Ohio, Miami split last eight series games, with home side 5-1 in last six, and Bobcats lost last three visits to Oxford, by 65-54/ 59-57/64-63 scores. Ohio is 3-1 in MAC, but lost only road game by hoop at Kent. Miami is 2-0 at home in MAC, winning by 2,6.

Home side won both Marquette-Pitt games LY, by 84-82/77-71 scores. Marquette won last three games, scoring 76 ppg, after a 0-2 start in Big East- they shot over 50% last two games. Pitt is 5-0 in Big East, 4-1 vs spread, winning home games by 21,5,9.

South Florida lost 62-55 at Notre Dame LY (+13); but Irish are much better this season, 3-0 at home in Big East, winning by 16, 3,12 points (they're 0-4 vs spread in last four, though). Bulls are 1-4 in Big East, 0-3 on road, losing by 69-50/69-48/69-58 scores.

Home side won all three Maryland-Virginia Tech ACC games, as Terps lost last visit here, 86-76. Tech won at Duke, upset the Tar Heels- their ACC wins are by 3,2,6 pts. Maryland lost three of four in ACC, losing road games 73-62 at BC, 103-91 at UVa.

Missouri State is 5-1 vs Evansville last three years, 3-0 in last three visits to Roberts, 80-65/76-68/95-85ot. Aces pulled upset vs Salukis in last game; they're 3-5 in Valley, 3-1 at home, with only loss 75-62 vs Creighton. Bears are 2-2 on road (Ws by 8,9)

Siena is 1-5 vs Manhattan last six years, losing last three trips to Draddy, 77-74/85-70/79-62; Jaspers are 6-1 in MAAC, 5-0 vs spread in last five- they're 2-1 at home, winning by 4,11. Siena is 5-3 in MAAC, 2-0 on road- they lost at home to Fairfield Friday.

Loyola, Md won last six MAAC games; they're 3-0 on road in league, winning by 19,7,7 pts- they swept Rider LY, winning by 2,3 points. Broncs are 4-4 in MAAC, 3-1 at home, losing by one to Niagara. MAAC home sides are 12-24 against the spread.

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NBA
Write-up


Hot Teams
Mavericks won six in row and nineteen of last twenty games.
Phoenix won last 12 games, and 28 of last 30.

Cold Teams
Miami lost two of last three games, losing to Philly Friday.
76ers lost seven of their last nine games. Spurs are 2-3 in their last five road games.
Minnesota lost last two games; Ricky Davis is suspended for this game, after he left bench early Friday night.
Portland is 3-9 in last 12 games, 2-2 in its last four. Milwaukee lost seven of its last eight games.

Series Records
Miami beat Dallas in NBA Finals last spring, 4-2, after facing 2-0 deficit; Mavericks hammered Heat twice during season, by 112-76/103-90, but were 0-3 in Miami in the Finals.
Home side won last three Philly-San Antonio games.
Suns were 2-1 vs Minnesota LY, splitting pair here.
Bucks won last three games vs Portland, by 8,7,4 points.

Back-to-Back Situations
Miami is 3-5 vs spread on front end of back/back.
Spurs are 6-3 vs spread on front end of back/back.
Minnesota is 7-3 vs spread on front end of back/back.

Totals
Over is 4-1-1 in last six Dallas games.
Six of last eight Philly games went over the total.
Over is 11-3 in Minnesota's last fourteen games.
Under is 8-3 in Portland's last eleven games.

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Six-Pack for Weekend

Miami Dolphins interviewed thirteen guys before they hired Cam Cameron as their head coach.

Cameron was 18-37 as head coach at Indiana for five yrs where his QB was Antwaan Randle-El. Cameron also played basketball at Indiana.

George Seifert won a Super Bowl as a head coach, about 13 years after Cornell fired him as its football coach, so put in right position, people can get things done.

Funny thing though, Cameron gets head coaching job, at same time Marty Schottenheimer gets ripped for not using Tomlinson enough vs New England. Guess who was calling the plays? It was Cameron, not Marty.

Teams hire coaches from teams with offenses that score a lot of points, but those teams score because of their great players, not their coaches.

So unless LT defects to Miami, how is Cameron going to do any better in Miami than the last couple of coaches?

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Sunday's List of 13:

Nobody asked me, but............

13) The PA announcer at Washington State isn't just speech professor at the school, he's the mayor of Pullman.

12) The last NHL goalie to play every minute of every game? Ed Johnston of the Bruins, in '63-'64.

11) Shaquille O'Neal turned down Rick Barry's offer to help Shaq with his foul shots. If I was Pat Riley, I'd want to know why he would turn down help.

10) San Francisco played OT again last night, this time losing to St Mary's; three of Dons' four WCC games went OT, and they won the fourth game by one point.

9) Tennessee's premier guard Lofton was carried off court in first half vs South Carolina, with an apparent ankle injury.

8) Richmond trailed 32-8 at half in Dayton, then scored 46 in second half. Princeton stuff isn't working for the Spiders.

7) Moving up to bigger conferences isn't always a good thing LaSalle was a giant in the MAAC, but they've disappeared as a member of Atlantic 14. Same goes for Richmond, Delaware, Cincinnati and Troy State.

6) The worst commercial on TV is the Volkswagen commercial with the German guy wearing the white suit. Horrible.

5) Road team is 9-0 in Middle Tennessee's Sun Belt games.

4) 71-year old Gary Player shot a 69 on the Senior Tour Friday

3) Russ Grimm, Ron Rivera are having trouble getting head coaching jobs; they can take heart in knowing that Bengals' Marvin Lewis took while to land a head coaching job, too, and he is doing great job in Cincinnati.

2) Iona's nightmare continued, as Gaels lost 81-80 at Niagara, after trailing by double digits. Gaels are now 0-18, after they made NCAAs last year, and led LSU at half in first round.

1) Rising star in coaching? Reggie Theus at New Mexico St; he got his first signature win in Las Cruces Saturday, beating Nevada. Theus played for Tark, had terrific NBA career, was an assistant for Pitino, and he has movie star looks-- this guy is going to land job in major conference fairly soon.

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Super Bowl - Opening lines

NFL
Early Lines

Sunday, February 4 – Super Bowl XLI, Dolphin Stadium - Miami, FL
6:20pm ET | TV – CBS

Indianapolis Colts vs. Chicago Bears

Indianapolis Colts -7

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