{"id":13848,"date":"2011-03-04T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13848"},"modified":"2011-03-04T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:22:38","slug":"ivy-league-game-iii-princeton-tigers-at-dartmouth-big-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ivy-league-game-iii-princeton-tigers-at-dartmouth-big-green-13848\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Game III: Princeton Tigers at Dartmouth Big Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princeton Tigers AT Dartmouth Big Green<\/strong>
\nMar 4, 2011 at 7 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Princeton -12<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line: Princeton -12<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 126.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 127<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Prince -900 \/ Dart +650<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Prince -900 \/ Dart +650<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Tonight’s game brings together two teams on opposite ends of the Ivy League standings.\u00a0 Dartmouth (5-21) is 1-11 in Ivy league play and Princeton (22-5) is 10-1 and they lead the Ivy League and are the favorites going into the Ivy League tournament.<\/p>\n

Princeton has won 12 of their last 13 games, with the lone loss coming to the then-ranked 21st UCF Knights.\u00a0 Dartmouth has dropped their last 9 games and haven’t won a game since January 28th (a 7 point victory over Cornell).\u00a0 Dartmouth has a -11.0 point differential, as they give up in excess of 70 a game (70.8) and score a tad under 60 a game (59.8).\u00a0 Princeton is +6.6, scoring 69.7 a game and giving up only 63.1.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Princeton is 8-2 SU in their last 10 games on the road and they are 11-4 SU in their last 15 games on the road against Dartmouth.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Princeton’s last 6 games on the road against Dartmouth.<\/p>\n

Dartmouth is 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games and they are 0-5 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 5 of Dartmouth’s last 6 games and they are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 at home.\u00a0 They are also 1-4 SU in their last 5 at home and 1-4 SU in their last 5 against Princeton.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6 of the last 9 games against the Tigers and the Big Green are 4-11 SU in their last 15 games against Princeton.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dartmouth’s last 6 games at home against Princeton.<\/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

Princeton is led by the quartet of Ian Hummer, Kareem Maddox, Dan Mavraides, and Douglas Davis.\u00a0 Together, the four of them average 53 a game, which is 75% of Princeton’s total scoring output.\u00a0 Hummer, a 6’7″ sophomore forward, leads the way with 14.0 points per game, 6.8 rebounds per game and over a block and over a steal per game.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in all but 5 games, and Princeton won all 5 of the games he did not, anyway.\u00a0 His best game of the year came in a 2 point road loss to Presbyterian when he managed 24 points and 24 rebounds, going 10 of 13 from the floor.\u00a0 Maddox, a 6’8″ senior forward, leads the team in rebounding with 7.8 boards a game and is second in scoring with 13.2 points per game.\u00a0 He has accrued three double doubles so far, and Princeton has won all three of those games.\u00a0 His best effort so far came in a 9 point win over Siena, when he scored 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

There’s really no reason to expect this game to be very close.\u00a0 Dartmouth has a decent shot at covering the spread, but will have to get big games from their big 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Princeton Tigers AT Dartmouth Big Green Mar 4, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Princeton -12 Current Line: Princeton -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 126.5 Current Total:\u00a0 127 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Prince -900 \/ Dart +650 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Prince -900 \/ Dart +650 Tonight’s game brings together two teams on opposite ends of the Ivy League standings.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[4412,4453],"class_list":["post-13848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-dartmouth-big-green","tag-princeton-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848","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=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13850,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions\/13850"}],"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=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}