Written and authored by NCAA Basketball Expert Analyst Charlie McDougall. Charliessports.com produces it for Basketball news and notes. Students all across the country have their television sets dialed in. Social Media outlets are overflowing with talk about their beloved College Basketball teams. Nowhere is it bigger than in Harvard Square on Saturday March 14th as their Crimson is going “DANCING”, again. The Crimson beat Yale 53-51 in the Ivy League Championship at the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This Sports Handicapper is becoming more and more impressed with the quality of Basketball in the Ivy League. Saturday’s opponent got a taste of winning last year going to the CIT championship game. Yale fell short of getting their first NCAA Tournament bid since 1962. The Bulldogs were on top in the prestigious league most of the season but hit a wall down the stretch. Hig-Caliber basketball is alive and well in New Haven, but the Bulldogs must settle again. The game was full of energy, and it went back and forth. Yale got a chance to tie the game up with a six seconds left in the game but missed a contested layup. Yale finished the season 22-10 overall and 11-3 in Conference play. The Yale Bulldogs are very good to ATS bettors going 15-7-1 on 2015 2015 College Basketball Betting Picks overall. Yale will get a postseason bid, all is not lost at one of the most affluents institutions in America.
Harvard Head Coach Tommy Amaker is a Mike Krzyzewski disciple both playing for the coach and as an assistant at Duke. Amaker is the reason for turning around the Basketball program in Cambridge. The former backcourt mate of Stanford Coach Johnny Dawkins is bringing a winning tradition to on of the most popular academic institutions in the land. Guard Wesley Saunders is the reigning League Most Valuable player and has NBA talent. 6’0″ Siyani Chambers compliments Saunders well in the backcourt. Harvard is going to their fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament and is going to be a tough out for any opponent. The Crimson should be a ninth or tenth seed and stay in the East region.
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