Monday CBB Winning Plays

CBB POSTED RECORD 40-18 (70%)

Yesterday 1-0 with Rutgers.  Made a play on an easy winner with TCU late, but could not post due to a Cowboys/Tampa Bay Party I was at. 

Will be posting later this morning, right now fighting off fever and strep throat.

#1.  USC -21.5 over Cornell

USC is off of a very lazy effort against Troy on Saturday.  They nearly got upset after being down in the 2^nd half and I think that game will be a wake-up call for tonight’s game against another pretty weak opponent.

USC (9-0) and is ranked #24 and has an outstanding RPI of #16, higher than their #24 ranking.

Cornell at (2-5) has a really crappy RPI at (279) and this is a team that USC should blow-out, especially on their home court.

Throw out the last game against Troy and USC has played 3 teams at home similar to Cornell and all teams have a better RPI than Cornell.

-Beat Pepperdine by 26 (RPI 270)

-Beat USCB by 24 (RPI 213)

-Beat UNO by 34 (RPI 87 – very decent)

Cornell has laid some eggs on the road this year:

-The just lost at Wyoming by 19, but it could have been 40 points. . That game was a total blowout, not nearly as close as the 19-point final margin might suggest. Wyoming was up a ton and went all bench for most of the second half. A couple of end of the bench guys who had basically not played at all ended up with 21 minutes each. If the Cowboys had left the starters in, they could have won easily by 40+.

- Cornell lost at Houston by 30 (53-83).

Wyoming and Houston are the only 2 major conference programs Cornell has played and this game against USC will be by far their hardest test and based on USC’s lackluster performance in their last game against Troy, I think this is a really bad spot for Cornell.  I look for a 28-32 point victory by the #24 ranked Trojans.

#2.  Arkansas Little Rock -2.5 over Oral Roberts

(2-9) Oral Roberts can’t seem to win games and has an RPI of only 259

(9-2) Arkansas Little Rock has a better RPI of 201 and has shown they know how to win at 9-2.

Both teams have a solid comparison in the game they both played against.

Arkansas Little Rock beat Tulsa 72-62 (by 10 points)

ORU lost to Tulsa 65-79 (by 14 points)

One team is 9-2, the other is 2-9.  One team has an RPI of 201, the other has an RPI of 259.  One team beat Tulsa by 10 points, the other team lost to Tulsa by 14 points.

That is all I need to look at to take Ark. Little Rock at -2.5 points in this game.

Headed to see Doc......will not be able to look at anything until later this afternoon.