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Southern
vs
Holy Cross
Today's Featured Sports Pick

Game Date:
03/16/2016
6:40pm EST

Lines:
Southern -2.5
Holy Cross +2.5

Total:
Over 128 (-108)
Under 128 (-108)

Community Picks: Southern 0% vs Holy Cross 0%

Southern and Holy Cross Thread

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Holy Cross
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- NCAA Tournament teams don't come much more unlikely than Holy Cross, which finished the season with a 14-19 record. Continue to Article
March 15, 2016 11:22:am EST
Holy Cross
The First Four tips off Tuesday night in Dayton. To help you decide whether any of the four games is worth scouring all 1,400 cable channels to hunt down TruTV, here's a closer look at each of the matchups: Play Tourney Pick'em  |  Fill out your bracket   |  Print it   |  Celebrity Challenge No. 16 Florida Gulf Coast (20-13) vs. No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson (18-14 ) Tipoff time: Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. ET (TruTV) Players to watch: Marc Eddy Norelia, F, Florida Gulf Coast; Earl Potts Jr., G, Fairleigh Dickinson Why it's worth watching: Do you like transition dunks, uncontested jumpers and points by the truckload? Then Fairleigh Dickinson is the team for you! The Knights are 333rd in defensive efficiency, by far the worst in the NCAA tournament. In a contrast from its "Dunk City" days under Andy Enfield, Florida Gulf Coast is actually 267th in tempo this year, but fear not! You can bet TruTV will devote a good portion of the broadcast to highlights of the Eagles' high-flying, swashbuckling 2013 NCAA tournament victories over Georgetown and San Diego State. Why you should skip it: The best team Florida Gulf Coast beat all season is North Florida. The best team Fairleigh Dickinson beat all season is Towson. Your rec league team stands about as good a chance of beating North Carolina on Thursday as the winner of this game does. Key to the game: Can Florida Gulf Coast punish Fairleigh Dickinson on the glass? A huge reason the Knights are so poor defensively is because they surrender offensive rebounds on 36 percent of missed shots. That's not ideal against anyone, let alone a Florida Gulf Coast team with good size in Norelia and 6-foot-9 Antravious Simmons Projected winner: Florida Gulf Coast No. 12 Wichita State (24-8) vs. No. 12 Vanderbilt (19-13 ) Tipoff time: Tuesday, 9:10 p.m. ET (TruTV) Players to watch: Ron Baker, G, Wichita State; Wade Baldwin, G, Vanderbilt Why it's worth watching: Two teams that had higher aspirations than the First Four will meet for the right to keep their hopes alive of salvaging something from this season. Vanderbilt has NBA prospects at point guard and center and an array of shooters around them. Wichita State is headlined by Baker and Fred VanVleet, pillars of past teams that made the Final Four in 2013, went undefeated in the regular season in 2014 and toppled Kansas in the round of 32 last year. Both are in the top 30 in Ken Pomeroy's rankings. Why you should skip it: Honestly, you shouldn't. This is the most compelling First Four game in the event's brief history. If you're going to watch one of these games, this is the matchup to choose. Key to the game: Will VanVleet and Baker get any help? Sometimes the Shockers become too reliant on their stars, as evidenced by the fact that no other player on the team averages more than eight points per game. Wichita State needs forwards Anton Grady and Markis McDuffie in particular to make an impact offensively. Projected winner: Vanderbilt No. 16 Holy Cross (14-19) vs. No. 16 Southern (22-12) Tipoff time: Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. ET (TruTV) Players to watch: Malachi Alexander, F, Holy Cross; Adrian Rodgers, G, Southern Why it's worth watching: The last time Southern made the NCAA tournament as a No. 16 seed in 2013, it pushed top-seeded Gonzaga from the opening tipoff until the final minute in a 64-58 loss. Holy Cross doesn't have as successful a recent NCAA tournament history but the Crusaders do have familiar head coach. Bill Carmody coached previously at Princeton and Northwestern. Why you should skip it: Cal Poly finished eighth in the Patriot League this season and lost five games to teams 250th or below in the RPI. Southern plays in the nation's second worst Division I conference and still lost seven league games. The Golden State Warriors, these teams are not. Key to the game: Can Alexander continue his March hot streak? The 6-foot-7 junior averaged a modest 12 points per game this season, but he erupted for 83 points in four Patriot League tournament games. The slow-paced, offensively challenged Crusdaers need that type of production from him again to advance. Projected winner: Southern No. 11 Tulsa (20-11) vs. No. 11 Michigan (22-12) Tipoff time: Wednesday, 9:10 p.m. ET (TruTV) Players to watch: James Woodard, G, Tulsa; Duncan Robinson, G, Michigan Why it's worth watching: For the previous two days, Tulsa will have heard all about how it didn't belong in the NCAA tournament. This is the Golden Hurricane's chance to prove it belongs against a Michigan team with quality wins over Purdue, Maryland, Indiana and Texas and no losses to sub-100 RPI opponents. Why you should skip it: Tulsa just dropped a pair of games to middling Memphis by a combined 32 points. Michigan is 4-12 all season against the RPI top 100. Rather than watch this, perhaps it would be wise to get some work done or to take your significant other out for dinner and a movie so that nobody bothers you come Thursday and Friday. Key to the game: Few teams in the country are more 3-point reliant than Michigan, which has a trio of elite shooters in Robinson, Aubrey Dawkins and Derrick Walton Jr. Few teams in the country surrender more 3-pointers than Tulsa. If the Golden Hurricane can't mark shooters in transition or run them off the arc, their stay in the NCAA tournament will be short. Projected winner: Michigan - - - - - - - Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @JeffEisenberg Continue to Article
March 14, 2016 8:32:pm EST
Southern
HOUSTON (AP) -- Trelun Banks scored 19 points and Southern cruised to an 81-73 victory over top-seeded Texas Southern on Friday night in a Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament semifinal. Continue to Article
March 12, 2016 12:51:am EST
Holy Cross
Remember when Austin Peay won the Ohio Valley Conference tournament a few days ago and you thought it would be the biggest underdog to reach the NCAA tournament this season? Jeez, were you wrong. In a year in which Yale finally broke its 54-year-old streak of March Madness misses and only one top-seeded team has won a conference title so far, the strangest outcome yet came Wednesday night when ninth-seeded Holy Cross upset Lehigh 59-56 to win the Patriot League title and the right to play on. Holy Cross is dancing! pic.twitter.com/i7Z1ZsxVaw — Tyler Sullivan (@TylerSully) March 10, 2016 [ Yahoo Tourney Pick’em is open. Sign up now and play for $50K ] Coach Bill Carmody has finally reached the promised land once again as a college basketball head coach. He wasn’t able to get Northwestern to the big dance in 13 seasons as coach there after previously guiding Princeton to the NCAA tournament twice, but now he’s dancing again in his first season coaching the Crusaders. In a postgame television interview with ESPN, even Carmody called his team’s achievement ‘improbable.' The Crusaders won four consecutive road games in the tournament after going 0-9 on the road in conference play during the regular season. Holy Cross limped into the conference tournament on a five game losing streak before something changed to stoke a fire in the Crusaders. Continue to Article
March 09, 2016 10:17:pm EST
Holy Cross
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- Malachi Alexander scored 26 points and Holy Cross capped its stunning run to the Patriot League title and an NCAA Tournament berth with a 59-56 victory over Lehigh on Wednesday night. Continue to Article
March 09, 2016 9:47:pm EST
 
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