TV Hoops: Thursday February 8, 2007, Rivarly Week!

*** all times pacific; add +3 for eastern; adjust for other time zones ***
*** predictions are not the most likely outcomes ***
*** predictions attempt to catch the randomness of each game ***
*** FSN/FoxCollegeSports games may be regionally aligned. YMMV ***
*** by the law of averages, I am bound to have some incorrect listings ***
*** please double-check with your local listings ***


LIVE GAMES and new shows

1230pm, Outside The Lines: Jesse Owens, their centerpiece story on ESPN. Not a basketball story but of great importance to the world of sports

4pm, Women's Hoops, game of the day Duke at North Carolina, ESPN2. Prediction: Ivory carves up the Duke defense. Carolina wins! Carolina wins! Carolina wins!

4pm, Notre Dame at DePaul, ESPN. Digger Phelps's favorite teams square off. Prediction: DePaul by 17

430pm,1030pm, 2am: Seth Davis Generation Next, CSTV. Episode 2 of the new season covering the world of recruiting with Seth Davis of CBS and SI hosting.

5pm, 830pm, 3am, Rhode at UMass on CSTV. CSTV continues to pick up the conferences ignored by ESPN and FSN. Prediction: Rhode gets a ...roadie! :-)

6pm, Memphis at UAB, on CSTV. Prediction: No Mike Anderson, no win for UAB! Now if Vaden and Sharpe were playing...

730pm, California at Washington, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Prediction: Washington 20+ or even 30+

730pm, Arizona at Oregon State, FSN/FoxCollegeSports. Prediction: Jay John is a former Lute assistant so that makes the game closer than it should have been. But still, Arizona should win.

930pm, 930am Fri, College Gamenight, ESPN. The west-coast bias edition as it covers Pac-10 and west coast action

10pm, Nevada at Fresno State, tape-delayed on CSN. Live on FullCourt a couple of hours earlier. Prediction: Fresno State wins! Fresno State wins!


Repeats and Classics
* from 1992, Arizona at Stanford, ESPN Classic
* 12pm, Stanford at California, FoxCollegeSports
* 5pm, 5am, USC at UCLA, FoxCollegeSports. Barn-burner with the zebras giving the game to UCLA to make up for a missed out-of-bounds call. Bad zebras! Bad zebras!
* midnight, Houston at SMU, CSTV. Houston almost beat them by 20! Thank you Turnaround Tom :)
* 530am, St Francis of PA at Robert Morris, FoxCollegeSports



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