| Tuesday's NBA six-game card is highlighted by Detroit | | | | field and averaging just 55.3 PPG while losing two of |
| visiting New Jersey at 7:35 ET. The Pistons are off to | | | | their last three road games. However, Wisconsin |
| the 4th-best 42-game start in NBA history at | | | | comes in losers of three of its last four contests. |
| 37-5> and will take an 11-game winning streak (a | | | | Revenge is surely on the Badgers' mind in this one, as |
| league season-high) into the contest. The Nets own a | | | | Illinois ended Wisconsin's 38-game home winning |
| eight-game home winning streak but that's a little | | | | streak on this court last February 12. Wisconsin is 11-1 |
| deceiving. | | | | SU at home this year (actually lost to North Dakota |
| The Nets enter this contest on a four-game losing | | | | St!) and is 69-4 at the Kohl Center under head coach |
| streak (0-4 ATS) and have dropped EIGHT of their | | | | Bo Ryan. The Badgers are favored by 2 1/2 points |
| last 11, since winning 10 straight games from 12/16 | | | | with a total of 128 1/2. |
| through 1/8. The Pistons are a league-best 17-3 on | | | | On ESPN2 at 8:00 ET, No. 8 Florida is at Ole Miss. |
| the road (13-7 ATS), while the Nets are just 12-6 | | | | Florida has lost two of three (both on the road) since |
| (8-10 ATS) at home, despite their eight consecutive | | | | opening 17-0, while Ole Miss (13-6) has lost three |
| wins. Detroit is favored by six points with a total of | | | | straight since a seven-game winning streak. Florida's |
| 183 1/2. | | | | Brewer is nursing a bad ankle and Humphrey, the |
| My free play for Tuesday is in the NBA. Take the LA | | | | team's best 3-point shooter, is out after injuring |
| Lakers over the NY Knicks at 7:35 ET. Coming off an | | | | himself in a bicycle accident (you can't make this up!). |
| EASY WINNER with my latest 22* in CBB (Kansas | | | | The Gators are favored by 5 1/2 points with a total |
| 86-52!), I'm releasing not one but TWO 15* plays in | | | | of 139 1/2. |
| CBB (off to a 67% start with CBB 15*s in '06!). Pay | | | | ESPN Classic has No. 17 Georgetown at 8-10 DePaul |
| only AFTER you win! | | | | at 8:30 ET (Hoyas are favored by 5 1/2 points with a |
| Before getting to tonight's college basketball games, | | | | total of 129) and ESPNU carries No. 25 Northern Iowa |
| let's here it for MORGAN STATE! I said yesterday, | | | | at Creighton (9:00 ET). |
| Morgan State had a chance against Howard on | | | | The Panthers of Northern Iowa have been to the |
| Monday at home and those oh-so-Golden Bears won | | | | last two NCAA tournaments but Monday entered the |
| their first game of the season, 79-75. At 1-18, | | | | AP's top-25 (at No. 25), for the first time in the |
| Morgan State now leaves Division I with no winless | | | | school's 106-year history (that's LONG wait!). |
| teams, as well as no undefeated teams. Let's see if | | | | Creighton beat Northern Iowa 55-52 back on January |
| President Bush mentions THAT in tonight's State of | | | | 11 in Cedar Falls (I'm sure everyone knew where No. |
| the Union! | | | | Iowa was located), the Panthers' lone home loss this |
| It's just a 10-game college basketball card but it's a | | | | year. In the rematch, the Blue Jays are a 2 1/2-point |
| good one. The best game of the night is not on TV. | | | | favorite with a total of 121 1/2. That should come as |
| No. 9 Pitt is at No. 1 U Conn. The Panthers have | | | | no surprise, as Creighton is 11-0 at home this year |
| NEVER beaten a top-ranked team (0-12), in the | | | | and has beaten Northern Iowa NINE straight times in |
| school's 100-year basketball history. However, the | | | | Omaha (again, did anyone outside of Nebraska know |
| Panthers are the ONLY team to have beaten the | | | | where Creighton was located?). |
| Huskies at Storrs (1/22/05), in the last three years! U | | | | Monday's latest top-25 rankings saw Maryland, |
| Conn is ranked No. 1 for the second straight week | | | | Louisville , Wisconsin and Syracuse drop out. New |
| and is 5-0 this season versus top-25 opponents. The | | | | entries other than Northern Iowa were No. 21 |
| Huskies are favored by eight points with a total of | | | | Michigan (1st top-25 ranking since the final poll of |
| 140. | | | | 1997-98), No. 23 Iowa (back after being ranked in |
| ESPN starts the night off with No. 6 Illinois at | | | | the year's first seven polls) and No. 23 LSU (the |
| Wisconsin (7:00 ET). The Illini have had some road | | | | SEC's lone unbeaten team in conference-play). |
| woes as of late, shooting just 38.3 percent from the | | | | |