{"id":13474,"date":"2011-02-18T18:49:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T23:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13474"},"modified":"2011-02-18T18:49:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T23:49:47","slug":"ivy-league-game-4-harvard-at-cornell-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ivy-league-game-4-harvard-at-cornell-betting-preview-13474\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Game #4: Harvard at Cornell Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvard Crimson AT Cornell Big Red
\nFeb 18, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Harvard -4
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Harvard -4.5
\nOpening Total: 138
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 138
\nOpening Moneyline: Har -200 \/ Cor +170
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Har -200 \/ Cor +170<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Harvard are 4.5 point favorites over Cornell in Ivy League action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game features Ivy League Conference rivals Harvard (18-4) and Cornell (6-16).\u00a0 Harvard is 7-1 in Ivy League play and sits at 2nd in the Ivy League while Cornell is 2-6 in Ivy League play and ranks 6th of 8 in the Ivy League.<\/p>\n

Cornell has lost 6 of their last 8 games, including a 21 point loss last game against the Harvard Crimson.\u00a0 Harvard has won 11 of their last 12 games, with the lone loss coming to Ivy League leader Princeton.\u00a0 Their last loss before that came to the #4 ranked Connecticut Huskies, so they have been taking care of business in a big way.\u00a0 Over the last 12 games they are winning by an average of 9.0 points per game, slightly above their overall differential of +7.5.\u00a0\u00a0 Their 72.4 points per game rank them 94th in the country in scoring and they are also 74th in assists per game (14.6) and 41st overall in the country in field goal percentage (46.9%).\u00a0 Harvard also has the third best free throw percentage in the league at 79.4%\u00a0 Cornell does not rank in the top 100 in any major statistical categories.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Harvard is 4-1 SU in their last 5 road games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 on the road.\u00a0 Harvard is 1-4 SU in their last 5 road games against Cornell.<\/p>\n

Cornell is 4-15 SU in their last 19 games and 16-6 SU in their last 22 at home.\u00a0 Cornell is 2-6 SU in their last 8 home games and 5-2 SU in their last 7 games against Harvard.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cornell’s last 7 games against the Crimson and Cornell is 4-1 SU in their last 5 home games against Harvard.<\/p>\n

Harvard has a 6 man rotation in which all 6 players make significant contributions offensively, averaging between 8.9 points per game and 15.6.\u00a0 Keith Wright, a 6’8″ junior forward, leads the way in scoring with 15.6 points per game.\u00a0 He also grabs 8.6 rebounds per game and contributes 1.6 blocks on the defensive end.\u00a0 In games that he blocks 2 or more shots, Harvard is 8-1.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in all but 3 games, and in those 3 games Harvard is 3-0.\u00a0 Christian Webster is 2nd on the team in scoring with 13.8 points per game.\u00a0 He is a deadly three point shooter (40.4% on 42 of 104 shooting) and has scored in double figures in all but 4 games, 3 of which Harvard won.<\/p>\n

Cornell is led by 6’0″ junior point guard Chris Wroblewski.\u00a0 Wroblewski averages 14.9 points per game and 5.3 assists, while shooting a dead eye 42% from three (42 of 100).\u00a0 He has scored 20 or more points 4 times, and Cornell is 3-1 in those games.\u00a0 His best game of the year came in a 2 point loss to Saint Bonoventure, when he scored 25 points, grabbed 5 rebounds, and dished out 5 assists.\u00a0 He is also a defensive threat, grabbing 1.6 steals a game and igniting the Cornell fast break.\u00a0 Andrew Ferry, a 6’4″ junior shooting guard, is second on the team in scoring with 11.7 points per game and shoots 36.5% from three (61 of 167).\u00a0 He has hit 7 threes on two different occasions, in a 6 pont win over Wofford and again in a 4 point loss to Columbia.\u00a0 If he gets going from downtown Cornell will have a good shot at upsetting Harvard tonight.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game will be closer than one could imagine by simply examining records.\u00a0 Cornell, while they have been bad this year, is usually formidable at home, and consequently are only 4 point underdogs against the Crimson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvard Crimson AT Cornell Big Red Feb 18, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Harvard -4 Current Line:\u00a0 Harvard -4.5 Opening Total: 138 Current Total:\u00a0 138 Opening Moneyline: Har -200 \/ Cor +170 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Har -200 \/ Cor +170 Tonight’s game features Ivy League Conference rivals Harvard (18-4) and Cornell (6-16).\u00a0 Harvard is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4509,4508],"class_list":["post-13474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-cornell-big-red-basketball","tag-harvard-crimson-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13476,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions\/13476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}