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Thursday Tidbits: Not a good spot for Fordham. They just beat Georgia Tech and Harvard at home, now they go to the road where they've had some horrific performances. Not only the letdown, but they're going into one of the fastest teams in the country in Umass. Fordham loves playing fast, the problem is that it's only worked against the teams that don't like to play fast. They're coming off two ballgames they won where the possession count was around five possessions less than what they're use to and they're taking a terrible road offense into Umass and they're going to have to score to keep up. What's really odd is that while both teams love to run and this is two of the fastest squads in the country, the total currently lies at 139. Not only all of that, but Fordham welcomes in Xavier at home for the next game. Umass hasn't played a game below 70 possessions since November, and based on the two teams' styles this one probably hits at minimum 75 possessions. That's an insanely low total for that many possessions, so it sort of tells a bit of a story (Good chance Fordham falls flat on their face). Cleveland State and UIC should be an extremely boring game to watch. UIC is coming off a homestand where they upset Detroit then laid an egg against Wright State in a physical tough overtime battle. Now they hit the road where they've been bad, like really bad. cleveland State's defense really defends teams well that don't have a go to scorer, and UIC doesn't have one of those, unless you call hoisting three's a go-to option. Cleveland State's coming off an embarassing home loss to Youngstown State, so there's a good chance they bounce back really well defensively here. Speaking off, prior to that Youngstown State game they just lost, they had lost two other games on the year. The game immediately after those losses, they slowed the pace dramatically and only gave up 45 in each game. See a trend? UL Monroe has a nice little revenge spot, but they also have a lookahead. I was sort of surprised they were favored away from the Cajundome, but it is what it is I guess. Denver scored 35 points at Arkansas State last year. That came a couple weeks after they beat Arkansas State by 30 at home. Sixty point swing? Yup, only with Denver. Georgia Southern's offense is actually pretty decent if it doesn't throw it to the other team, as it's their biggest problem. They've played an extremely tough defensive and snail schedule, so they'll enjoy getting up and down with Elon. Pace in this game should be pretty high. Elon's defense doesn't force turnovers...at all (mirror of Delaware). So this game should feature some points.
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