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The final tournament we are going to cover today is the Sun Belt basketball championship. The Sun belt basketball tournament features 13 teams and is hosted by the The Cajun Dome in Lafayette, Louisiana, home of the 12 seeded Rajun Cajuns. The first round games will be played at the higher seeded campus sites and on Sunday the second round moves to the Cajun Dome. LA Lafayette is one of the 10 teams in action today as they take on 5 seeded North Texas. For a complete look at the Sun Belt bracket click here.

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The Southern Conference basketball tournament tips off today with 3 games. Game 1 will pit # 8 seed Chattanooga vs. #9 seed Wofford slated for a 3:00 eastern time tip-off. The second game of the day will see #7 Western Carolina take on #10 Elon, at 5:30 eastern. The final game of the day will see #6 Georgia Southern versus the 11 seeded The Citadel at approximately 8:00. For a full look at the bracket check out the Southern conference tournament bracket drawn up this morning for viewers.

Davidson, Appalachian State, College of Charleston, UNC Greensboro and Furman will start play on Thursday as they earned byes in the opening round of the 2007 Southern Conference Tournament.due to their regular season records. Maddux Sports has 2 basketball predictions on the outcome of the early games for premium members and will also release a free pick on the early game in this blog post.

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Wednesday February 28th brings another day of college hoops and another 3 conference tournaments getting underway. The first we will talk about is the Patriot league championship. What is unique about the Patriot League basketball tournament is that all of the games are played at the higher seeded university at not at a neutral court venue like most conference championships. For a look at all the seeds check out the Patriot League Bracket from Maddux Sports.

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What is so great about this time of year is that even smaller conferences like the Big South get publicity and attention from the public, and media. Tonight the Big South conference tournament gets underway with first round action. All 4 first round games will be hosted by the university that has the higher seed via the regular season standings. You can take a look at Maddux Sports’ Big South Conference tournament bracket to see the pairings.

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The OVC tournament championship begins play tonight with all eight teams seeing first round action. For a better picture of how the field is set up check out the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament Bracket from Maddux Sports. 2007 March Madness starts with smaller conference tournaments like the OVC tournament making college basketball and the month of March the most exciting time of the year.

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The Horizon League championship gets underway on Tuesday with 3 games. Top seeded Wright State and media darling Butler enter the tournament as the favorites as well as regular season co-champions posting 13-3 records in conference play. Maddux Sports has created a printable and viewable horizon league tournament bracket for those that would like to see the matchups in bracket form.

The 3 games getting underway Tuesday are listed below:
7 Seed Wisconsin Milwaukee visits 6 Seed Illinois Chicago
8 Seed Detroit visits 5 Seed Youngstown State
9 Seed Cleveland State visits 4 Seed Wisconsin Green Bay

The current spreads for the games courtesy of CRIS Sportsbook

Youngstown State -3 over Detroit
Illinois Chicago -8 over Wisconsin Milwaukee
Wisconsin Green Bay -7.5 over Cleveland State

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A few shakeups in this weeks Maddux Sports Mid Major poll. Texas A&M Corpus Christi (Southland) dropped out of the rankings after losing to Lamar by 1 on the road. Oral Roberts (Mid-Con) was hanging on by a thread last week after losing to Utah State at home, and with the road loss to Oakland on Saturday, the Golden Eagles are no longer ranked. New Entires into this weeks mid major poll include Western Kentucky & Vermont.

Quick prelude to those that haven’t seen the mid major poll before. Sharp sports handicappers that bet on college hoops games and provide NCAA basketball picks generally have a better idea of who the best mid major teams are in the country than a sports writer or media body that only looks at a few factors. Our rankings generally have to do with if a game was played on a neutral court who would come out on top, with a little bit of recent week history thrown in moving teams up and down throughout the season. Without further adu, here is this weeks Top 25 Mid Major College Basketball Poll.

Notables: (Teams on the cusp of making the top 25): Austin Peay (OVC), Bucknell (Patriot), Oral Roberts (Mid-Con), Penn (Ivy), Texas A&M Corpus Christi (Southland)

Please note the only excluded teams from the top 25 mid major poll are from the following conferences, A-10, ACC, Big 10, Big East, Conference USA, Pac 10, Mountain West, SEC, and the WAC.

Stay tuned for next weeks top 25 mid major poll released on Monday right here at Maddux’s Blog.

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The AP Top 25 Poll has the Wisconsin Badgers (12- 2 Big Ten, 26- 3 overall) ranked number one and the Ohio State Buckeyes (13- 1 Big Ten, 25- 3 overall) ranked number two. The ESPN/USA Today Poll has the Buckeyes as the top team in the nation and the Badgers at number two. So who’s right? Tonight by around 6:30 pm ET we should know. The two teams tip off at 4 pm today to see who is tops in the Big 10 and number one in the nation. (more…)

It’s big doings in the Big East as the two clubs that are tied for first place, the Pittsburg Panthers (11-2 Big East, 24- 4 overall) and the Georgetown Hoyas (11- 2 Big East, 21- 5 overall) meet at 2 pm today. When the two teams met on January 13 of this year the Panthers beat the Hoyas 74- 69. That was Georgetown’s last loss. (more…)

The Cleveland Browns won a coin flip this morning, giving them the right to select ahead of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2007 NFL draft. Both clubs had identical records of 4-12 last year. The normal deciding factor determining draft order if both clubs have identical records, is opponents winning percentage, which just happened to be a tie as well. Tampa Bay GM Bruce Allen called heads and the coin landed tails, hasn’t Allen ever head the saying “tails never fails”?

Tampa Bay will now select 4th in the draft, while Cleveland gets to select 3rd via the coin toss win. Remember to visit Maddux sports for 2007 NFL draft coverage including mock drafts, team needs, and player rankings.

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The Texas Longhorns (10- 3 Big 12, 20- 7 overall) are rated 19th in the AP Coaches Poll and 20th in the ESPN/USA Poll and are in third place in their conference, Number six Kansas (11- 2 Big 12, 24- 4 overall) and number eight Texas A&M (11-2 Big 12, 23- 4 overall) are just ahead of the Longhorns. (more…)

The NBA trade deadline has come and gone and none of the big ones came through. Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Mike Bibby and Pau Gasol and others all stay put. And that means that the NBA landscape will stay the same.

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Dennis Johnson, who will forever be remembered by Celtics fans and many other basketball enthusiasts, died of cardiac arrest yesterday. There’s an irony that Johnson, know as DJ, died during the NBA trade deadline since many consider the trade Boston made for Johnson was, as former Boston teammate Danny Ainge, now the Celtics’ executive director of basketball operations noted to ESPN, “one of the greatest Celtic acquisitions of all time.â€? (more…)

With the NBA trade deadline coming to a close today at 3:00 eastern and pretty much being a bust due to no big moves happening, no better time than now to announce this weeks Top 25 Mid Major Poll that we released to readers on Monday. For those of you that haven’t followed the Maddux Sports mid major poll before it spotlights underrated teams from conferences that don’t get a lot of pub from the media. Do to the growing interest of the Maddux Sports mid major poll, instead of releasing the weekly rankings through other means, we have now decided to strictly post the top 25 mid major basketball teams on our blog each week.

Sharp sports handicappers that follow college hoops and release winning basketball picks like Maddux Sports have a better idea of who the best mid major teams in the country are than any other sports writer or media poll, for the simple fact we know these teams in and out. It is a little different voting for something when you put your hard earned dollar behind a purpose compared with the sorry saps that just watch ESPN college game night to see who the best mid majors are. This week was interesting because the bracket busters just concluded, pitting a number of these teams head to head. Onto to the Maddux Sports top 25 mid major basketball poll.

Notables: (Teams on the cusp of making the top 25): Austin Peay (OVC), Bucknell (Patriot), Vermont (America East), Penn (Ivy), W. Kentucky (Sun Belt)

Please note the only excluded teams from the top 25 mid major poll are from the following conferences, A-10, ACC, Big 10, Big East, Conference USA, Pac 10, Mountain West, SEC, and the WAC.

Stay tuned for next weeks top 25 mid major poll released on Monday right here at Maddux’s Blog.

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The Michigan State Spartans (7- 6 Big Ten, 20- 8 overall) knocked off the AP-Coaches’ Poll number one team and the ESPN-USA Poll number two team—the Wisconsin Badgers (12- 2 Big Ten, 26- 3 overall) —last night. At home, the Spartans took over the game in the second half and won by a nine-point margin—64- 55.  In turn boasting their tournament resume, capping off a another winning college basketball pick for maddux’s premium members, as well as grabbing some momentum for the Big 10 Tournament, which is on the horizon. (more…)