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**Spark** · 02-25-2005, 11:37 AM

Good Luck to you also crswir ... and thanks

Yale nipped Harvard 54-53 13 days ago; they won 4 of last five games, losing at home to Brown Tuesday in bad loss. Crimson covered four of last five games; at 3-2 at home in Ivy, Harvard is 1-2 as favorite. Yale is 1-3 as a home favorite.

Brown is 3-2 on road in Ivy, 0-4 at home; so go figure they lost 48-40 to Dartmouth Feb 12, but ended four-game loss streak with win over Yale. Big Green better at 5-5 in Ivy, winning last three games while allowing a measly 47.3 ppg.

Princeton is just 3-6 in Ivy, but one of wins was 63-53 over Columbia; Tigers' league wins are by 15,10 and 17 points. Columbia lost its last six games, only two of which were by less than seven points; they're 2-2 in its home games, with only one loss by more than a hoop.

Penn beat Cornell 64-50 in Philly; they're 6-1 in its Ivy games, 3-1 as road favorite, winning by 13,24,17 pts. All eight of their league wins are by 7+ pts. Cornell has won six of 10 in Ivy. four of five at home; they're 3-1 against the spread as an Ivy underdog.

Hawaii lost four of last five games, Tulsa three of last four; they lost 76-73 on islands in first meeting on Jan 29. Rainbows are 4-1 as WAC road dog, losing by 1, 3,1,4,1,6 points. Tulsa won three of last four home tilts but is just 1-3 as a home favorite.

San Jose beat Rice 90-85 on Jan 29, but lost five in a row since; they're 1-4 in last five as road underdog, but three of last five losses were by eight or less pts. Rice is 4-3 as home fave; they're 5-2 at home in WAC, with wins by 2,21,12,15,16 points.

Louisiana Tech beat UTEP 80-65 in Ruston on Jan 29 they're 4-2 as road dog, 3-4 SU and are 7-2 SU the last nine games overall. Miners are 4-1 last five games and are 11-4 in WAC, but 3-3 as home fave, winning by 29,35,1,4,13 points.

Boise State won three of last four games and is 4-3 at home in WAC; they lost 78-69 in first meeting at SMU Mustangs won three of last four games and are 4-2 as road dog, with three of their five road losses by 1 or 2 points. Broncos are 1-1 as a home favorite.

**Spark** · 02-25-2005, 11:37 AM

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Cavaliers @ Pacers-- Cleveland won five of last seven games; six of their last eight stayed under total; this is first meeting vs Indiana since double OT loss way back on Opening Night at Gund, 109-104. Resurgent Indy won its last four games and seven of last nine; they won five of their last six home games.

Elsewhere, Bobcats lost eight of last night games, but in last 13 games, they're 8-5 vs spread; they lost both tilts vs Nets this season, by 3,13 pts. New Jersey lost five of last seven games and has lost its post-break games by 18,19 pts, scoring just 81.5 ppg.

Denver is 8-4 under Karl, but covered just one of last 6 on road; they won first meeting vs Memphis 92-82 back on Jan 21. Five of their last seven games stayed under. Grizzlies are missing Gasol, Swift; they won seven of last eight home games, but lost last three games overall.

Wizards ended three-game loss streak when they beat Memphis Wednesday; they won first meeting 95-88 vs Bulls, who are 4-1 in last five games, with 12 of their last 14 going over total. Chicago is 12-1 in its last 13 home games; they covered five of last seven overall.

Milwaukee won seven of last ten games; their trading of VanHorn might free up enough money to sign Redd to a good contract, which would brighten things. Bucks won their first two games vs Toronto by combined total of 5 points. Raptors lost five of last seven games.

Celtics lost three of last four games (0-3-1 vs spread); they traded for Walker, but probably won't have him for this game. C's beat Utah 114-106 in first meeting, back in December. Jazz lost its last three games and five of its last six; they're 3-6 in last nine home games.

Trailblazers won 100-84 at Atlanta in first meeting; with Hawks trading Walker away, and Payton probably not that enthused about being a Hawk17-game road losing streak doesn't figure to end. Former Hawk Rahim back in Portland lineup, but Blazers are 8-16 last 24 games.

Kobe Bryant expected to testify under oath for 7 hours on Friday in civil trial EBT; not sure what effect that has on Laker team that won its last three games but lost by 22 at Detroit two weeks ago in Palace. Detroit is 10-1 in its last eleven games (9-2 vs spread).

Minnesota is only team playing tonight that also played a game last night; they covered three of last four times they had game night before. Seattle allowed 85 ppg winning its first two post-break games; they're 8-1 last 9 games with four of their last five staying under the total.

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