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01/21/2007 - Raleigh, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jon Scheyer poured in 20 points and DeMarcus Nelson chipped in with 15 as 14th-ranked Duke cruised to a 79-56 rout of North Carolina State.
Josh McRoberts and Greg Paulus each contributed 13 points for the Blue Devils (16-3, 3-2 ACC), who have won three straight conference games after suffering back-to-back losses to ACC-foes Miami-Florida and Wake Forest.
Brandon Costner posted 20 points and 10 boards for the Wolfpack (11-7, 1-4), who have dropped three of four.
The Blue Devils' suffocating defense forced 16 first half turnovers by NC State that led to 18 points as Duke took a commanding 41-25 lead into the locker room.
Duke was all over the Wolfpack from the start with Nelson draining a three to ignite a 15-2 run that was capped by back-to-back layups by Paulus that gave the Blue Devils an 18-5 advantage with 12:47 left in the half.
Costner's layup brought NC State within 30-22 with just over four minutes left to play before Duke finished the half strong. Scheyer converted two from the charity stripe as the Blue Devils ripped off 11 straight points to grab a 41-22 lead on Gerald Henderson's dunk.
Gavin Grant's drained a three at the buzzard to cut the Wolfpack's deficit to 41-25 at the break but any momentum gained by NC State was short lived in the second half.
A Dennis Horner layup followed by two Grant free throws brought the Wolfpack within 46-34 just under four minutes into the half before Duke put the game away with a 10-0 run. Nelson and Scheyer nailed back-to-back three's to cap the spurt and give the Blue Devils a 56-34 lead with 15 minutes left in the half.
Duke led by as much as 26 down the stretch to coast to the easy victory.
Game Notes
Duke leads the all-time series with NC State, 132-95, having won nine of the last 11 road games against the Wolfpack...Duke shot 53 percent from the floor, while NC State shot just 34 percent.
<< Vanderbilt uses late surge to topple No. 25 Kentucky
Lexington, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Derrick Byars scored 23 points and Shan
Foster had 16 points and seven assists to lead Vanderbilt over 25th-ranked
Kentucky, 72-67, at Rupp Arena.
Foster's jumper with 2:19 left gave the Commodor
<< No. 19 Marquette avoids upset against Providence
Providence, RI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Krystal Ellis poured in 24 points and
converted a layup with 11 seconds remaining to lift 19th-ranked Marquette over
Providence, 79-77, at Alumni Hall.
Providence erased a 17-point first half defic
<< Mosby lifts No. 13 Baylor over 25th-ranked Kansas State
Waco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Bernice Mosby had a game-high 29 points and 10
rebounds to lift 13th-ranked Baylor over 25th-ranked Kansas State, 79-70.
Latara Darrett added 15 points and nine rebounds for the Bears (16-3, 3-2 Big
12), who
<< PSV tightens hold of Eredivisie
Eindhoven, Holland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Defending Dutch Eredivisie champions and
2007 leaders PSV Eindhoven stretched their lead to 12 points through 21
matches after easily defeating Heerenveen 3-1 Saturday.
The game started out fast a
Sevilla still winless in '07 >>
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Spanish La Liga leaders Sevilla are still
winless in three games in 2007 after suffering a 0-0 draw at Villarreal on
Saturday.
The result of the match leaves Sevilla just three points clear of Barc
Texas Tech upends No. 5 Kansas >>
Lubbock, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Darryl Dora poured in 19 points to lead the
Texas Tech Red Raiders past the fifth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks, 69-64, in Big 12
action at United Spirit Arena.
Jarrius Jackson added 15 points for the Red Raide
Arkansas upends No. 16 LSU >>
Fayetteville, AR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Steven Hill scored 16 points and pulled
down seven rebounds as the Arkansas Razorbacks upset 16th-ranked LSU, 72-52,
at Bud Walton Arena.
Hill finished 8-of-10 from the field while Sonny Weems add
Strong second half pushes Stanford to victory >>
Palo Alto, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brooke Smith had 17 points and chipped in
with nine rebounds, and ninth-ranked Stanford overcame a slow start to defeat
Oregon State, 69-55, at Maples Pavilion.
Candice Wiggins chipped in with 15 points
My fellow Americans, as tempting as it may be to don the coat and HD-ready tie in order to deliver this State of the Game address before the cameras, I know better. As Brad Paisley sings on his latest album, "I'm so much cooler online."
The ideas for this annual essay to kick off the MySportsbook.com college football betting preview flowed like frat-house beer, which is to say they were cheap and spilled all over the floor. The 2007 season will be better than 2007, if only because there will be more of it. A year ago, the NCAA Football Rules Committee made two rule changes in the interest of speeding up the game. These changes went over like Kobe burgers at a vegan banquet.
To its credit, the rules committee rectified its mistakes. This season the clock once again will start when a kickoff is received, rather than when it is kicked, and the clock will not start so quickly on a change of possession.
However, kickoffs have been moved back five yards, to the 30, which will force more returns. (Thus forcing the clock to run. Clever, huh?) Special teams might decide a lot of games, because coaching strategy will come straight out of another new Paisley lyric (almost), I'd like to check you for kicks.
Paisley sings with a twang, which is why he's appropriate for this college football season. The sun coming up over the 2007 college football betting lines season rises from the south. It's a Southern football world. As the Southeastern Conference begins its 75th year, the power shift is noticeable.
Eight-figure budgets, glamorous settings -- and that's just for the head coaches. The SEC has four coaches who have won national championships -- the greatest aggregation of coaching know-how since Eddie Robinson dined alone.
Steve Spurrier, Phil Fulmer, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer have given lie to the idea that a conference championship game is too daunting a hurdle on the road to No. 1. In six of the past 10 seasons, the national champions played and won a conference championship game -- three of the six (Tennessee, 1998; LSU, 2003; Florida, 2007) from the SEC.
There will be more of the same this season, if the preseason prognostications are correct. Six SEC teams are in the preseason coaches' poll, more than from any other conference. Only one conference has talent so deep that a team with 15 returning starters, including the best quarterback in the league, from an eight-win season is considered an afterthought. That may speak more to Kentucky's losing legacy than to the wisdom of the predictions, but there you have it. And seriously, keep an eye on Wildcats QB Andre' Woodson.
The reach of the South extends all the way to No. 1. Take a look at the team that is a consensus pick to win the national championship. The quarterback is from Shreveport. The best wide receiver is from Nashville. The top recruit is from New Orleans.
So what's the campus doing in Los Angeles? Hey, it is the University of Southern California.
USC lost two Pacific-10 Conference games a year ago, the first time that had happened in five seasons, and university officials withstood the urge to form blue-ribbon panels to unearth the cause of such a disaster. Instead, the Trojans gathered themselves and routed Michigan, 32-18, in the Rose Bowl.
USC's losses at Oregon State and at UCLA last year should have given pause to those who question the Pac-10's football prowess (such as, without naming names, L.M. from Baton Rouge). The league only got deeper this season; Dennis Erickson is taking over an Arizona State team that never quite got out of its own way under his predecessor, Dirk Koetter.
Erickson will resume his quest to become the first coach to win a national championship at two schools. Both he and Spurrier, now in his third season at South Carolina, returned to college football at schools with lower profiles than where they won their titles.
That isn't the case for the third coach looking for the national championship double. You may have missed this, but NASA reported the astronauts on the space shuttle last spring made contact with what can only be described as beings from another galaxy.
The leader of the aliens said, "We come in peace," followed by, "So how do you think Nick Saban will do at Alabama?"
The public is reacting to the new Crimson Tide coach as if he is the Barry Bonds of college football -- beloved at home for what his fans believe he is going to do, hated on the road for his intimidating attitude and for what his detractors believe he did (bend NCAA recruiting rules). I made this comparison from the dais at a charity dinner in Mobile, Ala., last month, and the chill that washed over me didn't come from the air conditioning.
Saban will attempt to prove that he can remake in Tuscaloosa what he built in Baton Rouge, much like another member of the national championship fraternity. Bobby Bowden is attempting to remake at Florida State what he built at, um, Florida State. Bowden rebuilt his offensive staff, bringing in four new coaches led by Saban's former offensive coordinator, Jimbo Fisher, to jump-start an offense that has been dead for a couple of years.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to show new signs of life, too. That is said with no disrespect toward last season's champion, Wake Forest, which provided one of the best story lines of 2007. The Demon Deacons begin this season in their customary position, overshadowed by the Virginia Techs, Miamis and Florida States.
It's not that Wake will find it difficult to duplicate its success in 2007 as much as the feeling that success engendered. Surprising success is the narcotic of sport. It never feels quite so euphoric the next time. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has figured this out. He refers to 2007, when a league looked down upon by fans and foes alike took three undefeated teams into November, as "Cinderella."
The fairy tale may be over, but the Big East has four genuine Heisman Trophy candidates in Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, West Virginia tailback Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat White, and Rutgers tailback Ray Rice. Rutgers, as did Wake Forest and, of course, Boise State, proved last season that the have-nots in college football occasionally have quite a lot.
The Broncos' rousing 43-42 overtime victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl has raised the profile of all schools in conferences that don't get automatic BCS bids. This season, TCU and Hawaii are the preseason favorites to burst through the BCS doors and earn an at-large bid. The Warriors return 14 starters from an 11-3 team, including quarterback Colt Brennan.
Brennan not only broke the single-season record with 58 touchdown passes in 2007, but he also led Division I-A in passing efficiency (186.0). The senior is expected to contend for the Heisman Trophy, and neither his success nor the rise of his team should come as any surprise in the 2007 season.
After all, Hawaii is the southernmost team in the country.
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