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NCAA Tournament Bracket: No. 4 Gonzaga vs. No. 13 Akron

Elizabeth Fairview — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:16:16 +0000

Defense has been a problem for the Zags in the past, but there has been a renewed emphasis this season. Even in the games they lost, the defense was there.

The Zags have advanced beyond the first weekend of the tournament just once in the past seven seasons and have lost to a worse-seeded team four times during that stretch.

This is the fourth consecutive season in which the Zips have won 23 games and the fifth in a row in which they’ve won at least 19, so this team knows what it takes to win. Problem is, they can’t win a shootout, but they can keep it close in a grind-it-out affair. The Bulldogs are 5-1 ATS in their last six games overall. Get your NCAA basketball betting in the Bodog Sportsbook.

College Basketball Odds: Santa Clara vs. Gonzaga

Maria Starr — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:03:20 +0000

The top-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs are gunning for their 10th West Coast Conference tournament title and their seventh straight victory over the Santa Clara Broncos when they meet tonight in the semifinals at Las Vegas’ Orleans Arena. For all you bettors out there, Santa Clara is 16-16 SU and 14-13-1 ATS; while Gonzaga is 24-5 SU and 14-12 ATS.

Here are a few betting trends to consider:

The total has gone over in 12 of Santa Clara's last 13 games when playing Gonzaga;
Santa Clara is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games;
Santa Clara is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing Gonzaga;
Gonzaga is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Santa Clara;
Gonzaga is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games; and
The total has gone OVER in 12 of Gonzaga's last 13 games when playing Santa Clara.

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NCAA Basketball Picks: USC Upstate at Gonzaga

Elizabeth Fairview — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:55:33 +0000

The Bulldogs gun for a seventh straight victory to conclude the regular season tonight when they host the South Carolina-Upstate Spartans in a non-conference matchup.

Gonzaga, which has won 15 of 16 contests since losing three in a row, won four straight conference tournament titles before losing 69-62 to San Diego in last season’s championship game.

Talk about a tall order for SC-Upstate, which went 8-12 in the Atlantic Sun during its second season as a provisional NCAA Division I member.

SC-Upstate will play its second game against a ranked opponent on the Division I level after losing 94-58 at Notre Dame on Nov. 16. The Spartans also have losses at Georgia, South Carolina and Boston College this season.

Seems like the perfect game for the Zags to fully prepare for the postseason. Be sure to bet on college basketball in the Bodog Sportsbook.

College Basketball Picks: No. 20 Gonzaga at Santa Clara

Elizabeth Fairview — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:20:41 +0000

The Zags are two wins away from a third undefeated WCC season in the past six. The Bulldogs secured their ninth straight regular-season title with a 92-58 victory over Pepperdine on Saturday night, two days after blowing out Loyola Marymount 91-54.

Gonzaga's largest margin of victory in WCC play this season came in a 95-53 win over Santa Clara on Jan. 15. The Bulldogs shot 55.4 percent and had five players score in double figures.

Gonzaga has won five straight and 15 of its last 16 versus the Broncos and leads the series 40-29. Santa Clara hasn't beaten the Bulldogs at home since 2001, losing eight straight since then.

The Broncos enter this contest having lost two of three and face a tall order against a Bulldogs team that appears hungry. Be sure to get your college basketball odds with Bodog now.

College Basketball Odds: Gonzaga vs. Tennessee

Elizabeth Fairview — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:03:14 +0000

The Zags gave the Volunteers their first loss of the season on Nov. 30 at the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla. This time, the teams meet at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, where Tennessee holds a 37-game winning streak dating back to March 1, 2006.

Gonzaga, which looked like a Final Four favorite in its win at the Thanksgiving tournament, has fallen on harder times since win. The Zags have lost three games in a row to Connecticut, Portland State, and Utah, which has them tumbling down the rankings fast.

Tennessee has played much better at home this season where they are 4-0-1 ATS in their last five home games. Hostile road games have exposed Tennessee's lack of toughness and that has led to an 0-3 ATS mark away from home.

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NCAA Results: Davidson Defeats Gonzaga in an Opening Round Thriller

Bodog Beat News Ticker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:38:49 +0000

Stephen Curry filled it up in the NCAA tournament 's first round (iStock)

Davidson 82 Gonzaga 76

How did this place get so full of smoke so early in the morning? Maybe (probably not) it was the hot shooting of Gonzaga’s Steven Gray, who started his team’s first round matchup in the NCAA tournament against Davidson by going 5-5 from the land of three.

With the longest win streak in college basketball (22 games) on the line, the Wildcats fell behind Gray and the Bulldogs by 11 early in Raleigh, NC but pulled back to within five before the half.

Stephen Curry, who averaged 25.1 points per game and had 139 3-pointers this season, came out of the break smokin' himself, hitting two quick 3-pointers to keep his Wildcats in it. He then tied the game on a three with 9:47 to play, before the Wildcats took their first lead with 8:27 to play.

Gonzaga badly out rebounded Davidson for most of the game but it wasn’t enough to overcome Curry’s incredible 40 points, 30 of them in the second half. He was 14-23 from the field and 8-11 from beyond the arc.

The game went over the 141 total and Davidson covered the -1 spread..

Davidson will now put its 23-game win streak on the line against either Georgetown or UMBC in the second round of March Madness.

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