Northwestern center Dererk Pardon, right, drives against Columbia forward Patrick Tape during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018, in Evanston, Ill. Northwestern won 75-54. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Northwestern center Dererk Pardon, right, drives against Columbia forward Patrick Tape during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018, in Evanston, Ill. Northwestern won 75-54. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

NCAAB: Saturday Teaser looks to Ivy and respects Brown, Big Red

Yale -2 @ BROWN 3:30 pm, Columbia + 2 @ CORNELL 1:30 pm

Yale -2 @ BROWN 3:30 pm. behind sophomore scoring machine Desmond Cambridge, Brown (12-4) is off to a great start and seeing to crack the league’s upper tier. They haven’t beaten anyone as good as Yale (10-3) but today they get to kick off league play at home and make a statement. Yale is big and Brown may have trouble matching up with their size and Miye Oni can go off just like Cambridge. But the Bulldogs haven’t been great on the road and the Bears have clearly been salivating for this matchup. In Brown’s noisy bandbox gym, this should be a fun game and we’re going to take our five teaser points and give them to Coach Mike Martin’s gang and make them +7. We’re going to pair that game up with Columbia + 2 @ CORNELL 1:30 pm. Both Cornell (8-8) and Columbia (5-9) have been disappointing this season and today they get a reset as they start the Ivy round robin. Two of Columbia’s five wins have been against non D1 opponents so there’s not all that much to like here. With high-scoring junior guard Mike Smith out for the year, it’s hard to see where the Lions get scoring, especially on the road. On the other hand, two of Cornell’s wins are also non D1 and it’s not like they have anything impressive on their schedule to date. But they do have senior scorer Matt Morgan and that may be enough. We’ll move the 5 points over to their side of the ledger.
Pick: BROWN +7 over Yale paired with CORNELL +3 over Columbia.

Related Stories

No stories found.
Bettors Insider
www.bettorsinsider.com