College Basketball Betting: Georgetown Hoyas vs. St. John's Red Storm Pick
Posted by Andrew Ryan on January 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Georgetown Hoyas
(12-2, 9-4 ATS)
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St. John’s Red Storm
(9-3, 5-6 ATS)
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Two teams that are heading in opposite directions meet in a big time Big East clash, and we’re here to make our NCAA basketball picks in the duel between the Georgetown Hoyas and the St. John’s Red Storm at Madison Square Garden for Monday night.
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The Hoyas at least somewhat rebounded from the 69-55 loss at the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to start the Big East slate by beating the DePaul Blue Demons 86-75 on New Year’s Day. There is still a bit of an issue to work out though, as winning by nine at home against the worst team in the Big East is nothing to write home about. The road ahead is a very rough one, and it is going to have a lot of bumps and bruises in things don’t improve, especially defensively. The team averages allowing just 67.1 points per game this year, a figure that has shot up over the course of the L/9 games. In that stretch, G’Town is averaging allowing 71.2 points per game and three teams have put at least 75 on the board. That’s putting a ton of strain on Austin Freeman and company. Freeman has scored at least 21 in three straight games, and he is now leading the team in scoring at 19.2 points per game this year. The team’s other two double digit scorers are Jason Clark and Chris Wright, who are putting up 13.8 and 13.1 points per game respectively.
We don’t get a chance to talk about the Johnnies all that often, but this game could be a real stepping stone towards getting back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in years. This is a team under Head Coach Steve Lavin that scored back to back major victories on the road to start off conference play, an 81-71 victory at the West Virginia Mountaineers and a 67-65 win at the Providence Friars. Now, three of the next four are at home, and all four are against teams in the Top 15 in the country. Needless to say, this is a huge stretch, and going 2-2 in these four games could be huge for St. John’s’ March Madness dreams. This team is a three headed monster, and though it isn’t a very deep squad, the combination of Dwight Hardy, Justin Brownlee and DJ Kennedy are fantastic. Hardy is the team’s leading scorer with 16.3 points per game, while Brownlee isn’t far behind at 14.3 points per game. Kennedy is shooting 52.0 percent from the floor and is scoring 12.2 points per game. He is also the team’s leading rebounder at 6.2 rebounds per game.
If this game were played two weeks ago, the Hoyas would have been favored by at least a touchdown. Instead, the oddsmakers have pulled this spread down due to recent form. We’re not so sure that Lavin is really ready to beat some of the best in the Big East, though. The Johnnies still have a long way to go to get back on top in this conference. G’Town takes a step back in the right direction by covering the college basketball odds here at MSG.
College Basketball Free Pick: Georgetown Hoyas -3
Prevalence of overweight among children and obesity among adults not decreasing.
Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA July 11, 2004 2004 JUL 11 – (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) — The high levels of overweight among children and obesity among adults remain a major public health concern, according to a new report.
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is considered an important public health issue in the United States. Healthy People 2010 identified overweight and obesity as one of the 10 leading health indicators.
Allison A. Hedley, PhD, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues updated the U.S. prevalence estimates of overweight in children and obesity in adults using the most recent national data of height and weight measurements. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. website cdc growth charts
The researchers analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a probability sample of the U.S. noninstitutionalized civilian population. Both height and weight measurements were obtained from 4115 adults and 4018 children in 1999 – 2000 and from 4390 adults and 4258 children in 2001-2002.
“For adults, overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity were defined as body mass index (BMI) of 25-29.9, 30 or more, and 40 or more, respectively.” For children, “at risk for overweight was defined as at or above the 85th percentile but less than the 95th percentile of the sex-specific BMI for age,” as defined by the CDC growth charts. “Overweight was defined as at or above the 95th percentile of the sex-specific BMI-for-age growth chart.” “Between 1999-2000 and 2001-2002, there were no significant changes among adults in the prevalence of overweight or obesity (64.5% vs. 65.7%), obesity (30.5% vs. 30.6%), or extreme obesity (4.7% vs. 5.1%), or among children aged 6 through 19 years in the prevalence of at risk for overweight or overweight (29.9% vs. 31.5%) or overweight (15.0% vs. 16.5%),” the authors found. “Overall, among adults aged at least 20 years in 1999-2002, 65.1% were overweight or obese, 30.4% were obese and 4.9% were extremely obese. Among children aged 6-19 years in 1999-2002, 31% were at risk for overweight or overweight and 16% were overweight.” “The prevalence of obesity by age, sex, and racial/ethnic group ranged from 22.9% of non-Hispanic white men aged 20-39 years to 50.6% of non-Hispanic black women aged 40-59 years. Among women, non-Hispanic black women had the highest level of extreme obesity (13.5%) compared with 5.5% and 5.7% of non-Hispanic white and Mexican American women, respectively. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of obesity among men across racial/ethnic categories for all age groups. this web site cdc growth charts
Among women aged at least 20 years, the prevalence of obesity differed significantly between racial/ethnic groups, with non-Hispanic white women having the lowest prevalence (30.7%), non-Hispanic black women having the highest (49.0%), and the prevalence among Mexican American women falling in between (38.4%). The prevalence of obesity was significantly higher among women than men.” In conclusion the authors wrote, “Substantial progress will need to be made in the efforts to lower the prevalence of overweight and obesity if the goals of Healthy People 2010 are to be met” (JAMA, 2004; 291:2847-2850; www.jama.com).
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