TV: Thursday, January 18, 2007

*** all times pacific; add +3 for eastern ***
*** predictions are not the most likely outcomes ***
*** predictions attempt to catch the randomness of each game ***
*** FSN/FoxCollegeSports games are regionally aligned. YMMV ***

6pm, Game of the Day!, High School Hoops, as some of the Top 100 2007 and beyond talents play on ESPN tonight: Oak Hill Academy at Simeon of Chicago. Derrick Rose of Simeon is considered by some the best HS player in the class of 2007 and he is headed to Memphis and John Calipari. Announcers: Dave Revsine and Doug Gottlieb. More details at Recruiting Wars

4pm, UMass at Xavier on ESPN. Prediction: X wins! X wins!

4pm, Wake Forest at Duke on ESPN2. What a shocker! A Duke game on ESPN2, while an A-10 game on ESPN. Not that it really matters since both channels are available in most cable/satellite systems. Common-sense says Duke is hungry and wins, but, yes but, I predict Skip Prossers develops a canny game plan and takes the Dookies by surprise!. Go Wake! Go Skip! Go Deamon Deacs!

530pm, Stanford at Oregon on FSN/FoxCollegeSports, the first of all four Pac-10 games on TV today. Contrast in size: the two 7-footer Lopez twins vs small-ball Oregon. Mascot analogy works too: Cardinal Tree vs Duck. Prediction: Oregon as they have shown they can win small and they can win big, they can win slow and they can win fast. The Nike Ducks have arrived!

7pm, Fresno State at Nevada on CSN. Do not know if Fazekas plays. Nevada wins regardless.

730pm, Arizona State at UCLA, on FSN/FoxCollegeSports. This game is over before it even starts. Herb Sendek's new zone defense may slow down UCLA's offense to 60 but ASU cannot possibly score more than 40 on UCLA!

730pm, Arizona at USC, on FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Prediction: Arizona in triple overtime.

730pm, Oregon State at California, on FSN/FoxCollegeSports. California wins in a slugfest

930pm, 930am, College Gamenight on ESPN, 30-minute edition



Repeats/Old games

11am, from 1994, Wake Forest at Duke on ESPN-Classic

2pm, UCLA at USC on on FSN/FoxCollegeSports

2pm, INSTANT CLASSIC! on ESPN-Classic, the triple-overtime game, Texas at Oklahoma State. Not sure if they will show they whole game, or a 2-hour time-slot edit.

6pm, INSTANT CLASSIC! on CSTV, the wild Rice Owls comeback from a 20+ deficit early in the 2nd half against the Turnaround Tom Weavers (Cougars). Strange turn of events with some controversy at the end.

7am Friday, from the 1993 Maui Classic: Arizona vs Kentucky, one hour drive-thru edit (I did not make up that name), on ESPN-Classic

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