March Madness 2010

Little Caesars Pizza Bowl

Dec. 26, 2010. 1:00 pm - ESPN

Detroit, Ford Field

Marshall 21 - Ohio 17

The Motor City Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually since 1997. The first five games (19972001) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. However, starting in 2002, the game was moved to 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Ford Field is home to the NFL's Detroit Lions, and played host to Super Bowl XL.

The Motor City Bowl was rechristened as the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in 2010, with the Detroit-based pizza chain stepping up to sponsor the college football bowl game as two of the region's beleaguered automakers step down.

The bowl began at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1997 and, since 2002, has been played at Detroit's Ford Field. It tries to pit a team from the Mid-American Conference against a team from the Big Ten and has a television contract with ESPN through the 2014 season.

This year's game will be played Dec. 26 at Ford Field.

The Motor City Bowl features a bowl-eligible team from the Mid-American Conference playing a bowl-eligible team from the Big Ten Conference. If the Big Ten does not have an eligible team, the game will feature a team from the Big East that meets the NCAA requirement of at least six wins. In the event that the Big East does not have an available team, an at-large team can be chosen.

The game is jointly sponsored by the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.

The Motor City Bowl marked the first bowl game held in the Detroit area since the Cherry Bowl in 19841985. It is the only Division I college bowl game played in the Midwest United States.

The 2007 Motor City Bowl, played December 26, 2007 on ESPN, matched the MAC Champion Central Michigan Chippewas against the Purdue Boilermakers of the Big Ten. After a first half dominated by the Boilermakers, CMU generated a furious comeback, and tied the game late in the fourth quarter. Following two changes of possession, Purdue kicked a field goal as time expired to win. A bowl record crowd of 60,624 fans and a national television audience witnessed the exciting finish to the 11th Motor City Bowl.

Football Betting News

Baylor Bears vs. Kansas State Wildcats 9:30 ET

Posted on 3/12/2010 12:00:00 AMby North Shore Sports, INC

The semifinal round of the Big 12 Tournament presents NCAAB bettors with an excellent match-up to take in when the 21st ranked Baylor Bears (25-6, 16-8 ATS) collide with the 9th ranked Kansas State Wildcats (25-6, 17-8-1 ATS); tip is set for 9:30 ET from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO.

Bookmaker Sportsbook oddsmakers currently have the Wildcats tagged as two-point favorites in this neutral court battle with the game ‘total’ set at 145.

For the second time in a five-day span, Head Coach Scott Drew’s kids beat the ever living snot out of in-state rival Texas. This time, it came on a neutral court, but the end result was quite the same. The Bears rolled the Longhorns 92-77 as three-point home chalk back on March 6th, and followed it up with an 86-67 beat down as one-point chalk last night in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tourney. They played a cutthroat style of ball at both ends of the court limiting the Horns to just 36.4 percent shooting defensively while ripping the twine for an 86-point outburst on 53.6 percent shooting at the other end of the court.

Looking to win the Big 12 Tournament for the first time in the programs history, Baylor enters tonight’s do or die match-up with the Wildcats in the midst of a five-game winning streak; they covered the college basketball odds in each of their L/4 outings. Baylor stands a $$$-making 10-5 SU & ATS away from its own court this season, and has gone 4-1 SU & ATS in its five neutral court battles.

Head Coach Frank Martin’s squad bounced back from dropping each of its L/2 games by thoroughly dominating a very game Oklahoma State squad en route to picking up the 83-64 victory. F Jamar Samuels had a monster game going off for a game high 27 points while pulling in 10 rebounds. G Jacob Pullen drained five of his eight shots from beyond the arc, and G Denis Clemente dished off 10 dimes. Though OK State stud James Anderson tallied 27 points, the Wildcats held the Cowboys to just 39.6 percent shooting after they torched the nets in their first round match-up with the Oklahoma Sooners.

K-State tied Baylor for the second best mark in the Big 12 this season only behind the top ranked Kansas Jayhawks. They too took care of business away from their home court going 11-3 SU & 8-5-1 against the CBB odds. In their five neutral court games this season, the royal purple and silver stand 4-1 SU & 3-2 ATS.

The Wildcats went into Waco back on January 26th and came away a 76-74 winner as 1.5-point underdogs. The win snapped their two-game losing streak in the series. These teams have split the L/10 games overall (5-5 SU), but Baylor holds a 6-4 ATS advantage during that stretch.

Baylor is 2-0 SU and ATS when revenging a home loss vs. an opponent this season, and the underdog has cashed in 10 of the L/11 meetings between these programs. However, K-State is 9-3 SU & 8-2 ATS when playing against excelled offenses averaging 77+ PPG, and they’ve gone 18-3 SU & 15-6 ATS when installed the favorite this season.

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