The Aces came up smelling like Asses in the end!
- Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:00 AM
- Written By: Jonathan Cash
Your "Bad Beat" for Wednesday is on:
Evansville (plus 12 1/2) at Creighton.
The Purple Aces of Evansville were a 12 1/2 point underdog at Creighton. Shockingly though the underdog, who had lost 12 straight games coming into the contest, had nailed seven of their first eight three pointers and was leading 38-32 at the half.
But the Blue Jays opened up the second half on a 15-2 run and wound up winning the game 84-71 after a 52-33 second half.
You do the math!
Your winners for Thursday are on:
3* Indiana (plus 12 1/2) vs. Purdue.
2* Georgia Tech (plus 12) at Duke.
A sweet 2-0 sweep on Wednesday as 2* Arkansas won outright at Georgia and 3* DePaul cashed the ticket at Marquette!
The Indiana Hoosiers may not longer be a national power with Bobby Knight but Tom Crean has slowly but surely started to put his stamp on this program and the boys from Indiana are not that bad right now, not good but not bad.
Indiana had two straight double digit upsets of Minnesota and Penn State and then crapped the bed against Iowa. But in that last game Indiana played toe-to-toe in Illinois in a two point loss and to be honest with you are alright right now.
"Alright" won't win the game against the very very tough and borderline great Purdue Boilermakers with guys like Moore, Hummel, Grant and others but to get a dozen or so in Bloomington is enough for me for sure.
Matt Painter's squad is senior laden and extremely dangerous but I still don't view this team as one that can go on the road in-conference like this and just lay a big number and win going away.
Paul Hewitt's Yellow Jackets are much improved this season from the debacle of last year and have already beaten Duke. Of course winning at Cameron is almost impossible for a visitor but the Blue Devils have issues right now. They were just manhandled at Georgetown and do not have what it takes to stop opposing big men.
Georgia Tech has a big boy in Gani Lawal who has really come into his own this season and freshman stud Derrick Favors is no joke as he improves and gets ready fro the NBA next season.
The Dookies at home should control the pace and shoot the three-ball with a great player in Jon Scheyer leading the way but it's going to be tough for the home boys in the paint. Zoubek and Singler cannot stop Lawal and in the end that will keep Tech in this game as the visitors grab the cash.
