The Computer Says ... Toss-up Saturday in Division I

Enough games have been played in Division I this season that the compter ratings are settling down. There are almost 30 match-ups on tap for Saturday, and the computer says that about 40% of them are toss-ups when home field advantage is taken into account. Here's the list:

Army vs. Lehigh (#16)
Denver (#5) vs. Notre Dame (#3)
Jacksonville vs. Siena
Massachusetts (#19) vs. Penn State (#18)
Penn (#14) vs. Princeton (#7)
Sacred Heart vs. Stony Brook
Saint Joseph's vs. Marquette
Syracuse (#11) vs. Johns Hopkins (#4)
Virginia (#9) vs. Ohio State (#12)
Yale (#15) vs. Cornell (#2)

For the other Saturday games below, check the computer ratings. The team with the higher rating is favored, though not always by much.

Air Force vs. Loyola (#8) (at Denver)
Bellarmine vs. Mercer
Binghamton vs. Manhattan
Brown vs. Harvard
Bryant vs. Albany (#19)
Delaware vs. Hofstra (#10)
Drexel (#13) vs. Mount St. Mary's
Duke (#17) vs. Towson
Georgetown vs. Providence
Lafayette vs. Bucknell
Marist vs. Detroit
Quinnipiac vs. Hartford
St. John's vs. Rutgers
UMBC vs. High Point
Vermont vs. Wagner
Villanova vs. Maryland (#1)
VMI vs. Canisius

2013-03-15