Saturday, January 20, 2007

Ouch


We spent most of the evening rewiring the fog lights on our SUV, so it is late and our hands are cold. BUT, we are here giving you our predictions for all (and we mean ALL) of the top-25 games tomorrow.

1. Florida: Mississppi does not beat top-ranked teams on the road. Florida keeps on winning.


2. UCLA: now this game at home against #12 Ariziona will be interesting, to say the least. While they struggled early in the season against top-ranked teams, the Bruins are rolling. And they will roll over the Wildcats.


3. Wisconsin: Illinois will have to work hard to win this game at home. The Fighting Illini (what they hell is an "Illini"?) have to rebound and finish. They won't. Wisconsin chalks up another win. We may as well call them Win-consin. They are hard to beat.


4. North Carolina: faces a young, but pretty darn talented, Georgia Tech team at home. We watched some of the UNC loss to the Yellow Jackets in the 1993 ACC championship game today (on ESPN Classic). Tech won that game, but they will not win on Saturday. The Heels will just run the Jackets into the ground.


5. Kansas: the Jayhawks away at Texas Tech. Bobby Knight will fire up his team for this game, but they will have to get more players involved to win. The Red Raiders have only 3 players averaging double figures, and the fourth only gets a whopping 5.2 points a game. This makes it easy to defend Knight's team. Kansas will shut down Jackson and Zeno while Rush has a great game to lead the Jayhawks to a win.


7. Ohio State: lack of depth and woeful rebounding will kill Iowa as the Buckeyes win at home.


8. Texas A&M: tough game at home with #14 Oklahoma State. Have we mentioned we like this Oklahoma State team? We do, and the Cowboys will beat the Aggies. Oklahoma State just has too much bench for A&M.


9. Alabama: while Georgia has talent, the Tide will bounce back from a loss to Vandy to win this game at home.


10. Oregon: the Ducks are awesome! No problem with California at home.


11. Air Force: at home against San Diego State. Coming off a tough loss to Utah, the Falcons should win this game, but the Aztecs are no joke. Air Force will need to control the boards to prevail--and they will.


13. Nevada: no problem with New Mexico State.


15. Butler: home game with Wisconsin-Green Bay. No cake walk here, but Butler will win.


16. Clemson: host Boston College. B-C is not that bad, and the Tigers will have to shoot better from the outside to beat the Eagles. This will be a nail-bitter for all of the IPTAY boosters, but Clemson will prevail.


17. Duke: at NC State. The Wolfpack is not all that bad (just kidding--they suck) but the Blue Devils are not that good. Upset city. Duke suffers another loss.


18. Memphis: at East Carolina. The Pirates are 5-11. They lost to Tulane for goodness sakes. No contest. Memphis wins big.


19. LSU: at Arkansas. The Razorbacks, coming off three straight losses, will shock the Tigers. This will be a battle of two teams with no depth, but Arkansas wins.


21. Washington State: will beat Washington at home.


23. Texas: playing Villanova at Villanova. The Wildcats are riding high after killing Notre Dame, but Kevin Durrant and company will help the Longhorns get their 14th win. They are hurting from a triple OT loss at Oklahoma State.


24. Tennessee: playing South Carolina in Knoxville. The Volunteers rebound from 3 straight losses (they should NOT be in the top-25) to beat the so-so Gamecocks.


Did anyone see the hurting Georgetown put on Seton Hall tonight? The Hoyas should be in the top-25.



See you tomorrow night.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Apple Cup of basketball today in the Palouse. Despite losing to Wazzu twice last year, the Huskies win in Pullman this afternoon.