BYU looks to bounce back after a tough loss to San Diego State Saturday. They had won four straight conference road tilts prior to that.

The Cougars are averaging 82 points per game in their last seven games. They have been held to under 70 points just once in their last 10 games.

The Falcons offense has not been high flying as of late, eclipsing the 70-point mark only twice in the last 10 games and have failed to score 70 in six straight [...]

Off back-to-back SU and ATS loss to Chicago and Miami, Cleveland will be chomping at the bit to get back on the winning track here. Don’t forget, revenge motivation will be present too. Back on December 11th, the Cavs (-4′) lost at New Orleans by the final of 95-89. Let’s take a look inside the numbers.

Quietly, Cleveland has posted a solid 13-8 SU record against the West this season and the Cavaliers are locked into one of their best team roles. At home facing an opponent that owns a won/loss percentage greater than .320, Cleveland is a respectable 57-38 ATS including 23-12 ATS in this situation versus a non-conference foe [...]

Selection Sunday wasn’t supposed to be ‘must see’ TV for the Florida Gators . The defending NCAA champs seemed to be on a collision course for a No. 1 seed, but apparently coach Billy Donovan’s kids like doing things the hard way.

The Gators cruised through their first 11 Southeastern Conference games, until hitting another February funk. They played like a team that had already wrapped up the SEC title on Saturday, losing to West basement dweller LSU, 66-56, in a game that wasn’t as close as the score would indicate. Compounding the felony, the Tigers won easily despite playing without their leading rebounder, Glen Davis.

Donovan may be having flashbacks after the dismal defeat. Florida went through a similar stretch last season, losing three in a row before going on a March tear en route to its first national title.

The Gators look to put the pedal to the metal when they travel to Tennessee on Tuesday and close the regular season with Kentucky, before beginning their defense of the SEC Tournament title.

This isn’t the same Volunteers outfit that Florida dominated on Feb. 3 at home, 94-78. Tennessee played that game without Chris Lofton, who has been battling an ailing ankle. Lofton looked like he was back to 100 percent on Saturday when the Vols turned the corner with their first SEC road win at Arkansas, 83-72. He buried 10-of-19 shots on his way to 31 and as usual, came up big late in the game [...]

On February 1st Oklahoma won its fourth straight game to improve its record to 15-8. It appeared as though new head man Jeff Capel had the Sooners ready to challenge for a birth in the big dance. Yet after four straight losses, the Sooners will likely be playing in the NIT rather than the big dance next month barring any Big 12 tournament miracles.

Monday the Sooners play host to the red-hot Kansas Jayhawks on Senior Night in Norman. The game is the second game of ESPNs Big Monday.

Kansas is heading the opposite direction as Oklahoma. The Jayhawks have won six straight games since losing a heartbreaker at home to Texas A&M 69-66 on February 3. Coach Self and the Jayhawks have their sights set on a No.1 seed in the NCAA tournament [...]

Clemson is 12-3 at home this year and desperately wants to avenge its controversial loss at Duke which resulted in part from a time keeping error by the officials [...]

When the Mavericks are at home, we either play ON them or pass the game altogether. After all, they’re 24-3 SU, with an average home final of 102-90!
The only reason they’re not better than 15-11 ATS at home is due to the fact that they’re installed as double-digit chalk quite often. But tonight, they’re [...]

The 79th Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled to be held on February 25th, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Ellen DeGeneres is slated to host the ceremony for the first time. This will be the sixth time that the Kodak Theatre has hosted the Academy Awards . The nominees were announced on January [...]

Washington State has been the most consistent team in the Pac-10 Conference this season, and perhaps in the country, yet the Cougars still haven’t received the respect they deserve. Coach Tony Bennett’s scrappy crew, picked to finish at the bottom of the standing by the ‘experts’, is ranked 10th in the country. It’s hard to believe that there are nine teams better than the Cougars.

Washington State will try to open the eyes of the pollsters and avenge one of its three conference losses this season on Thursday when it travels Eugene to face a very shaky Oregon outfit. The Cougars may need a series sweep in the Great Northwest this weekend if it expects to catch UCLA in the Pac-10 standings.

The Ducks are 13-2 at McArthur Court and this would be an opportune time for them to flex their muscles. The same muscles that helped them win 18 of their first 19 games.

Oregon enters the final two weeks of the regular season drifting towards Bubble Land. The Ducks are reeling from consecutive losses that have left them at 8-7 in conference play after starting 6-1. But a win over the high-flying Cougars would change all that [...]

Opening Line: Suns – 4. Steve Nash is expected to be back in the lineup tonight as the Phoenix Suns take on the L.A. Clippers in Los Angeles. The Suns have struggled without Nash losing three straight. Nash will not be at full strength but the Suns need him back in the lineup. “I’m definitely not where I want to be. But the shoulders improved a lot and it’s gotten stronger. The irritation’s gone away. So I feel like I’m not at a point where I’m going to face any more setbacks.” Nash said. “Even though I’m not where I want to be, I think that I’ll continue to strengthen from here on out and progress rather than have a stop-and-start situation.” Early betting at SBG Global reports that even with Nash not up to 100%, the smart bet is still the Suns laying the points.

Phoenix hasn’t lost four consecutive games since early November and that is when they were not playing well. Phoenix may get Kurt Thomas back tonight but they will be without forward Boris Diaw who is out with back spasms. The Suns are 4.5 games back of Dallas for the best record in the West. “We’re going to have to sharpen our performance,” Nash said. “I think the break will be good for us to regroup. Hopefully, we can finish this season on a high and make the improvements we need for the playoffs.” Nash has 48 points and 24 assists in two games against the Clippers this season [...]

Opening Line: Spurs – 7.5 The Denver Nuggets expect to get Allen Iverson back in the lineup tonight as they take on the San Antonio Spurs . Iverson has missed eight of the last nine games with a sprained right angle. It remains to be seen whether or not the Nuggets are better off with Iverson or without. According to the gambling public at SBG Global, tonight they will be in trouble without him. Most early money is going on the Spurs at home, laying the points.

Denver has the league’s leading scorer in Carmelo Anthony but the combination of Iverson and Anthony has not worked very well as they are only 2-4 in the six games they have played together. The Nuggets face the Spurs tonight, Utah on Friday and Dallas on Saturday. The last time the teams met Iverson scored 33 points while Anthony was out on suspension. The Spurs won 92-83.

San Antonio is a 7.5 point home favorite with a total of 204 at SBG Global.

The Spurs are now home after a season high eight game road trip in which they went 4-4. “I would have rather gone 6-2 on the trip, but with the way we’ve been playing, and that we started 2-4, going 4-4 is pretty good,” said Spurs guard Manu Ginobili [...]