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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview (Feb. 26th)

Top 25 Matchups for Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Kentucky Wildcats (2) at Tennessee Volunteers (17) 12:00 PM ET

Kentucky has pretty much cruised in the eight games since suffering its first and only loss of the season at South Carolina. The two exceptions however were against Mississippi St. and Vanderbilt and like this one, both of those were on the road. The Wildcats were fortunate to win both of those games and they came home and laid some payback on the Gamecocks by 21 points on Thursday.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview (Feb. 11th)

Top 25 Matchups for Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

West Virginia Mountaineers (4) at Pittsburgh Panthers (23) Friday 9:00 PM ET

A rare top 25 matchup takes place on Friday night in the rematch of the Backyard Brawl.

The first meeting in West Virginia saw the Mountaineers win by 19 points, sending Pittsburgh to its fourth loss in five games but it was the extracurricular activities that made the headlines. There were a couple small scuffles as well as fans throwing objects onto the floor at one point.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 30, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Duke Blue Devils (7) at Georgetown Hoyas (11) 1:00 PM ET

After starting the season 1-3 on the road, Duke was able to gain some confidence with a rather easy road win at Clemson last weekend. On Wednesday the Blue Devils improved to 5-2 in the ACC with a home win over Florida St. and now steps out of conference for the second to last time this season. This will be the third and final road game this month against a ranked opponent and starts a stretch of a brutal four games. Following this, Duke has a home revenge meeting with Georgia Tech, who won the first matchup this season, followed by two tough road games at Boston College and at North Carolina.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 23, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Ohio St. Buckeyes (25) at West Virginia Mountaineers (12) 2:00 PM ET

Ohio St. was going through some struggles to start the month but the Buckeyes are currently riding a three-game winning streak that includes big wins over Purdue and Wisconsin.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 16, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Syracuse Orange (5) at West Virginia Mountaineers (9) 12:00 PM ET

Easily the marquee matchup of the day, we get started early with a great matchup. Syracuse is 16-1 on the season including a perfect 5-0 away from home. It has played only two true road games on the season however and those came at Seton Hall and Rutgers so this will easily be the biggest road test thus far and mark the first road game against a ranked opponent.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 9, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

(13) Connecticut Huskies at (12) Georgetown Hoyas 12:00 PM ET (ESPN)

Connecticut is 11-3 on the season and all three of those losses have come against teams that are ranked or were ranked at one time. The Huskies lost on a neutral floor against Duke, a neutral floor against Kentucky and at Cincinnati, who is no longer ranked. The game against the Bearcats has been the only true road game this season for Connecticut and it is coming off back-to-back home conference wins over Notre Dame and Seton Hall.