Temple crushes Rhode Island in A-10 semis
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03/13/2010 - Atlantic City, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ryan Brooks scored 16 points as 17th- ranked Temple cruised past Rhode Island, 57-44, in an Atlantic 10 semifinal.
Juan Fernandez added 14 points and dished out seven assists while Lavoy Allen had nine points and 10 rebounds for the Owls (28-5), who advance to face the winner of Richmond/Xavier in Sunday's final and have a chance to claim their third straight conference crown.
Keith Cothran had 11 points and three steals for the Rams (23-9), who had beaten Saint Joseph's and Saint Louis in the tourney and whose prospects for the NCAA Tournament have diminished somewhat.
Delroy James and Will Martell each added nine points in defeat.
Temple scored the first seven points of the contest, and it was 11-2 after a Fernandez bucket a little more than five minutes in.
Brooks hit a three for an 18-7 game with over nine minutes played, then his shot from the right corner gave Temple a 24-12 cushion with 6:55 left in the half.
Brooks also contributed the final two buckets of the half, and the Owls led 34-17 at the break.
A 7-1 run to start the second half had Temple ahead 41-18, before a brief URI run closed the gap to 46-31 on a Martell dunk with 9:47 to play.
Brooks then hit a pair from the line and Jefferson connected on 1-of-2 for an 18-point game with 7:33 left, and Temple led by a comfortable double-digit margin the rest of the way.
Game Notes
Temple has won 54 of the 69 all-time meetings, including all three this season...The contest was delayed for almost 10 minutes early in the first half after water began to pool near midcourt...The Owls improved to 51-19 in the A-10 tourney.
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Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.
As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.
The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.
Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).
But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.
Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.
Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:
Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1
Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2
New York Giants - 9 - 2
Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).
Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.
So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.
And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.
They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.
Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.
But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.
Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.
Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.
Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.
Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?
Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.
In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.
Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.
Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.
The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.
The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.
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