CBI & NIT OPENING ROUND TEASERS: SNUBS vs SCRUBS

Post Season Hoops....here we go!

Mar 15, 2011 | 9:00 PM, EDT | FCS-TV
Clune Arena | Colorado Springs

College Insider Tournament | Round 1
NORTH DAKOTA FIGHTING SIOUX 19-14 | 11-4 Conf (1-2ATS)
AIR FORCE FALCONS 15-15 | 6-10 Conf (15-10ATS)
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Wed Mar 16, 2011 | 9:00 PM, EDT | ESPN3.com
Coors Events Center | Boulder, Colorado

National Invitational Tournament | Round 1
8 TEXAS-SOUTHERN TIGERS 19-12 | 16-2 Conf (1-3 ATS)
1 COLORADO BUFFALOES 21-13 | 8-8 Conf (15-12 ATS)

Sincerely believe many folks assume North Dakota Sioux
Play in Summit League w/N Dakota State & Oakland, ect
.....clearly they do not
Hockey School - that plays Division-I Hoops (sort of)

NORTH DAKOTA

Won 7-Team Volatile Great West Conference Tourney

w/3 Crazy 1, 2 & 1 Point Game Wins vs:

• Texas-Pan Am
• Houston Baptist &
• South Dakota

Six Wins in a Row to close year to grab CBI Bid
Gotta take a look at N Dak
Run smack dab into Sioux status in this hardly respectable League

This Great West Group is 2nd from LAST

• NEW JERSEY TECH
• UTAH VALLEY STATE
• CHICAGO STATE?

These Teams are....well, just Dawgs w/Fleas....

2011 is Year-2 of this struggling Leauge...
Schools Repeatedly Jumping Off:

• To Summit (North & South Dakota State)
• To Subelt (Denver)

This Group may never get the 4 Years and 8 Teams needed 

To gain an Automatic Entry Team into NCAA

GREAT WEST is Rated #32 of 33 Rated Conference
(Ken Pom | SWAC is Last)

Hard to gage a team that only had 3 Spread-Worthy Games
Yet looking at Sioux OOC Gms....WOW;
UND's OOC Failures make this teams' ineptitude
Stand out like a Turd in a Bucket of Milk

NORTH DAKOTA ROAD LOSSES:

• at NEBRASKA (L-31)
• at NORTH DAKOTA STATE (Rival | L-26)
• at IDAHO (L-21)
• at WISCONSIN (L-32)

Only reasonably close loss at WISCONSIN-GREEN BAY (L-4)
Is this MARCH-edition, SIOUX-Team Superior to the DECEMBER UND, that was (5-9), & Winless on the Road?

Probably not...
IN FACT, Air Force should grind them to death

NORTH DAKOTA: 4th LEAST EXPERIENCED D-1 TM (4 Freshman Starters)
NORTH DAKOTA: 21st LEAST EFFICIENT OFFENSIVE TM (0.896 O-PPP)

When they played any Upper Half D-1 Team
North Dakota was routinely rolled

AIR FORCE

CAN A BUNCH OF POTENTIAL PILOTS TRULY BE A "BIG TEAM"?
Actually YES....deceptively so

AFA bean-pole, 6-10 | 200 Soph BROEKHUIS
Doesn't provide much Post Scoring for Falcons
Yet Broekhuis blocked nearly as many shots (2.9/Gm)
As each of Utah's MWC Twin-Tower Seven-Footers

AIR FORCE STARTING LINEUP:

• AF 6-2 Soph FLETCHER (Top-100 Asst Rate)
• AF 6-4 Sr WASHINGTON
• AF 6-6 Jr FOW - in just 24½ Min/Gm, provides 30% of Falcs Offense
  (Tough 2-Guard Match up for any Team, hitting 71 threes at 47%)
• AF 6-6 Soph LYONS                                                                                                              (Top-10 in MWC in FT Rate | 80% FT)
• AF 6-10 BROEKHUIS

Air Force really had a tough 6-10 MWC's Run
In A MWC on an UNPRECEDENTED  PEAK
"Signature Season" up in the Mountains

6 OF 10 FALCON LOSSES AT THE HANDS OF NCAA-TOURNEY TEAMS
FALCONS LOST 4 CONFERENCE GAMES (2 EACH) TO TOP-10 NCAA TOURNEY TEAMS

• SAN DIEGO STATE-2
• BRIGHAM YOUNG-2
• NEVADA-LAS VEGAS-3

Yet,
AFA Swept Rival, PAC-12 Bound UTAH
AFA Swept Post-Season participant, TCU
AFA Split w/Post-Season Team COLORADO STATE

AIR FORCE: 18's
AFA #18 most deliberate D-I PACE team
(Slowest MWC | 61.8 Poss/Gm | #328 of 345 D-I Teams)

AFA #18 most efficient shooting D-I team
(#1 MWC | 53.8% eFG)  
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Texas-Southern is similar to North Dakota

Texas-Southern plays in Overall WEAKEST RATED CONFERENCE in D-I:  SWAC

Texas-Southern Beat Oregon State (yet so did Seattle + Utah Val)
Texas-Southern got so much better during yr; & really have some solid players
TX-SO PLAYED CLOSE & CLOSER TO IOWA ST, BAYLOR & ARK
Nearing the end of Tigers December Road Odyssey

Sincerely believe CU is a little distracted by the hub-bub of being 'cheated'
They may not have the juice early

1½ UNIT | 4½ POINT TEASER (BetUS)

NORTH DAKOTA
AIR FORCE -11  

to

8 TEXAS-SOUTHERN +26
1 COLORADO
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Cutting up ALL FIVE WEDNESDAY NIGHT PAC-12 GAMES:

• Texas-Southern at Colorado
• Virginia Commonwealth vs Southern California
• Mississippi at California
• Long Beach State at Washington State
• Weber State at Oregon

Yet, we'll be in the beautiful Rose Garden tomorrow night watching our Portland Trailblazers take on the Dallas Mavericks...& following night, back in the 'Matt' - putting together a feature on the New Arena & it's impact on Community after One Partial Season, ect.  It'll be right here in my Blog next week (as well as airing many times on Kikin' 1150 am Drive-Time (Salem/Kiezer/Corvallis).  We'll throw it on I-Tunes, via 'Valley-Clear-Channel.com' also.

Thanks, guys.  We'll get any picks in via tweets, on the road!

DON'T FORGET - WE MUST GET BRACKETS IN BY 3:30 PM TO BE COUNTED - NCAA PLAY-IN GAMES START AT 3:30 PM, Pacific, Tuesday! 

Let's go get em.