College Basketball Picks: Yale Bulldogs vs Cornell Bears

Friday, 22 February 2008

In a battle of Ivy League College Basketball Picks the Yale Bulldogs visit the first place Cornell Bears tonight in Ithaca. Yale had their three game winning streak snapped by Penn back on Saturday to drop them to 10-12 SU overall and only 4-4 SU in conference play. The Bulldogs are hoping to turn their fortunes around tonight in the second meeting against Cornell. However, their first game wasn’t much of a contest as Cornell beat them 66-45 on their home floor. Yale has really struggled to get the ball in the net this season as they are averaging a very low 63.5 points per game on the road this season while shooting only 42.4 % from the floor. Their defense hasn’t been much to speak of either as they give up an average of 73.7 points per game while allowing their opponents to shoot a very high 48.5% from the field. Even with their blowout loss on their home court they come into this one as a modest +7.5 point road underdog at SBGglobal.com.

The Cornell Bears roll into tonight’s College Basketball Picks a perfect 8-0 SU in Ivy League play and 16-5 SU overall giving them a two game lead over Brown for the top spot in the League. Cornell is 8-1 SU at home this season and much of that can be attributed to a rather high output offense. The Bears are average 81 points per game at home while shooting an unbelievable 52% from the floor. The Cornell defense will hope to turn in a repeat performance against the Bulldogs as they held Yale to a paltry 25.9% shooting from the field in their first contest. In addition, they destroyed Yale under the offense glass out rebounding them by a wide 18 to 5 margin. Cornell will have to guard against complacency as they won by only 1 and 4 points the last two times that they faced Yale on their home floor.

All things seem to point to an easy cover by Cornell tonight with them being on their home floor, coming off a blowout road win in their last meeting, and a perfect 8-0 mark in League play. However, before running to the books consider that Cornell is only 8-22 ATS in home games when playing against a team with a losing record after 15 or more games since 1997.

Michael has been handicapping College Basketball Picks for 20 years and tonight has this game listed as his Ivy League game of the Week. Join Michael at Alexandersports for these GUARANTEED and other Winning selections.

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