JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: CORNELL at PENN
It’s a pretty nondescript Friday card in both the NBA and college hoops so we’ll take a look at an Ivy League game, a conference
that we’ve enjoyed a lot of success playing in this year. With four games to play, Yale leads Princeton by a half game with Columbia
a full game back. There is no conference tournament in the Ivy so there is a good chance that a play-in game will determine the
Ivy League champion and who will get the automatic conference bid to the Big Dance. Tonight, (9-15, 2-8) Cornell travels to Philly
to face the (10-13, 4-5) Penn Quakers. The game has no importance in conference and has drawn little betting interest to this point
as the line at this writing is the same as the opener, Penn -6 and 147.
Cornell is off a gut wrenching 76-74 home loss to Harvard in its last, a game they at one time led by 21 points. Big Red has two
glaring deficiencies, a terrible defense (78+ ppg.) and abysmal foul shooting (62.3%). They’ve lost six straight by an aggregate
of 86 points. Almost half of Big Red’s scoring comes from the starting guards in Matt Morgan (19.1) and Robert Hatter (17.3). David
Onuorah is a 6’9″ center that pulls down almost eight boards a game.
The most recent editions of Penn have been nothing like the teams that dominated the conference with Princeton in the 90’s. The
Quakers are another Ivy team that can’t shoot a lick connecting on 30.4% of their shots from beyond the arc and like Cornell, struggle
at the foul line at 65.6%. Penn has five players averaging between 12.8 and 9.1 ppg. Penn’s 6’11’ big man Darien Nelson-Henry
(12.8, 8.4, 2.4) leads the way. The Quakers are big by Ivy standards with four starters at least 6’4.
Penn won the first go around winning 92-84 at Ithaca just 13 nights ago. Penn used it’s height to a big advantage shooting 59% from
inside the arc. It was the Quakers sixth in in the last seven games of the series. Four of the last series games have gone over as have
nine of the last ten series games on this floor. With bigger fish to fry this weekend, not especially interested in this game and will not be
involved but on face, it would look to favor Penn is a higher scoring game.
World Champion Handicapper Jeff Allen is on an epic run in college basketball cashing 32 of his L47 plays! Tonight, the Ivy League game
of the Week and the NBA Play of the Day are easy winners. Mark tomorrow down on your calendar! Jeff Allen’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL
GAME OF THE YEAR wins on Saturday. This is Jeff Allen’s single biggest play of the entire college basketball season and it will be he
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