Spartans visit Mastodons in obvious mismatch

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11/19/2008 - Fort Wayne, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The IUPU-Fort Wayne Mastodons have the privilege of hosting the nation's fifth-ranked team this evening, as the Michigan State Spartans of the Big Ten come to town.

Michigan State began its season on Sunday with a 100-62 romp over Idaho. The non-conference schedule gets much tougher in the coming weeks for the Spartans, who will take part in the Old Spice Classic over Thanksgiving weekend. Some of the teams involved in that tournament are Maryland, Gonzaga, Oklahoma State and Tennessee. Tom Izzo's team will also do battle with top- ranked North Carolina just a few days later, and the club will face the Texas Longhorns in Houston on December 20th.

As for IPFW, it was handled easily by Xavier in last Friday's season opener, as that game ended in a 71-43 defeat. Only two starters are back in place for the Mastodons, but both were double-digit scorers in 2007-08.

Michigan State has won all four of its previous meetings with IUPU-Fort Wayne, including a 79-57 triumph in last season's matchup.

There is a solid amount of returning talent in place for Michigan State. Junior forward Raymar Morgan (14.0 ppg, 6.1 rpg) is back, and so too is sophomore guard Kalin Lucas (10.3 ppg and 137 assists). Senior center Goran Sutton figures to have things under control in the paint after posting 9.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per clash in 2007-08. In the opener against Idaho, Morgan nailed 7-of-8 shots from the floor in only 20 minutes of work and finished with 21 points. Chris Allen also netted 21 points in just 19 minutes, and Lucas had 13 points and nine assists with zero turnovers. Suton scored 10 points for the Spartans, who shot a stellar 59.6 percent from the floor, including 11-of-21 from three-point range. They also racked up 23 assists against nine turnovers and finished with a 21-10 edge in points from the foul line.

Ben Botts posted 10.1 ppg for IPFW last season, and David Carson was slightly more productive with his 11.0 ppg. Still, fourth-year head coach Dan Fife clearly has a great deal of work to do, especially judging by the team's performance in the opener. The Mastodons connected on only 25 percent of their field goal attempts in the tilt, including a 3-of-15 showing from three-point range. They finished the game with a mere six assists against 14 turnovers and suffered a 46-31 rebounding deficit. Defensively, IPFW allowed Xavier to make good on 51.1 percent of its field goal attempts. Clearly, the challenge will be even greater in this second game, so the Mastodons have to play much better just to keep the score respectable.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.