{"id":13662,"date":"2011-02-25T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T23:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13662"},"modified":"2011-02-25T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T23:28:47","slug":"ivy-league-dartmouth-big-green-at-yale-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ivy-league-dartmouth-big-green-at-yale-bulldogs-13662\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League: Dartmouth Big Green at Yale Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dartmouth Big Green AT Yale Bulldogs
\nFeb 25, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Yale -13
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Yale -12
\nOpening Total: 126.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 126
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Yale -900 \/ Dart +650
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Yale -900 \/ Dart +650<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yale are big favorites over Dartmouth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together the struggling Dartmouth Big Green (5-19) against the Yale Bulldogs.\u00a0 Dartmouth has dropped their last 7 games, by an average of 16 points per game.\u00a0 Those losses include Yale, Brown, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia (twice) – all conference opponents, which has rendered them with a 1-9 Ivy League record, and leaves them alone at the cellar of Ivy League standings.\u00a0 Yale has a 5-5 record in the Ivy league, sure to improve to 6-5 tonight against the woeful Big Green.\u00a0 Columbia is currently 4th in the Ivy League conference standings.<\/p>\n

Dartmouth hasn’t been close in most of their games and they have a double digit negative point differential of -10.8.\u00a0 They only score 58.6 a game, and give up 69.3.\u00a0 Yale is slightly positive despite being .500, with a +1.0 differential, scoring 67.4 and giving up 66.3.\u00a0 The combinative total of the teams offensive output is 125.9, right in line with the total set by college basketball oddsmakers.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Dartmout is 0-5 SU in their last 5 on the road and 1-5 ATS in their last 6 road games against Yale.\u00a0 Dartmouth is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games on the road at Yale and the total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 5 against the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 5 of Yale’s last 7 games and Yale is 4-2 SU in their last 6 games at home.\u00a0 Yale is 8-1 SU in their last 9 against Dartmouth and the total has gone OVER in 7 of Yale’s last 10 games against Dartmouth.\u00a0 Yale is 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games against Dartmouth and the total has gone OVER in 4 of Yale’s last 5 games at home against the Big Green.<\/p>\n

As one would expect from a team that only averages 57.6 points per game, there are no standout scorers on Dartmouth’s roster.\u00a0 They have a 9 man rotation which features 5 players averaging between 6.5 points per game and 8.7 (Kirk Crecco, 6.5; Ronnie Dixon, 7.0; R.J. Griffin, 8.5; Jabari Trotter, 8.5; David Rufful, 8.7).\u00a0 David Rifful is arguably the best player on Dartmouth, as he averages a team high 8.7 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game, as well as 1.5 steals.\u00a0 The sad truth, however, is that Rifful would probably not even start on most teams, Yale included.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures ten times this year, and in those 10 games, Dartmouth has won 4 of them.\u00a0 So it would be safe to say that Rifful is a key to Dartmouth having any chance to win.\u00a0 If he could get off and have one of his better games of the year, Dartmouth could at least cover the spread.<\/p>\n

Yale is led by big man 6’10” junior forward Greg Mangano.\u00a0 Mangano puts up 16.0 points per game, grabs 9.7 rebounds per game, and blocks nearly 3 shots a game.\u00a0 His interior presence gives most teams immense trouble, as few teams can find someone to matchup with Mangano’s size.\u00a0 The problem for Yale is that there are not enough other players creating mismatches or playing significantly well enough for Yale to be much more than a middle of the road Ivy League ballclub.\u00a0 Mangano will have his way with Pennsylvania.\u00a0 It will be up to Clive Weeden to slow down Mangano, and he probably won’t slow him down much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dartmouth Big Green AT Yale Bulldogs Feb 25, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Yale -13 Current Line:\u00a0 Yale -12 Opening Total: 126.5 Current Total:\u00a0 126 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Yale -900 \/ Dart +650 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Yale -900 \/ Dart +650 Tonight’s game brings together the struggling Dartmouth Big Green (5-19) against the Yale Bulldogs.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4412,4413],"class_list":["post-13662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-dartmouth-big-green","tag-yale-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662","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=13662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13664,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions\/13664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}