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Bosh lifts Raptors over WizardsBasketball Betting Lines02/01/2007 - Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - After missing his first four shots, Chris Bosh was good on his next 15 and finished with 34 points, as the Toronto Raptors closed out a solid month with a 119-109 victory over the Washington Wizards at the Air Canada Centre. Jose Calderon scored a career-high 24 points and dished out 11 assists for the Raptors, who shot a season-high 59 percent to win the fourth of their last five games. Andrea Bargnani scored 14 points, while Morris Peterson had 11 in the win. Raptors guard T.J. Ford (ankle) missed four straight games but returned to notch four points and a pair of assists. Gilbert Arenas scored 27 points for the Wizards, who had a three-game winning streak snapped. Caron Butler posted 21 points and seven rebounds. Antonio Daniels had 14 points and Jarvis Hayes added 13. Wizards forward Antawn Jamison will reportedly be sidelined for the next two to eight weeks with a sprained left knee, and will undergo and MRI on Thursday. Jamison left Tuesday's 104-99 victory over Detroit after he banged it in a collision with teammate DeShawn Stevenson in the first quarter. The Raptors gained an early advantage in this game by going on a 19-3 burst capped by a Bosh jumper with 1:44 left in the first, and led 28-17 heading into the second. Washington answered with a 13-4 spurt capped by a Roger Mason three-pointer with 5:41 remaining in the second to cut its deficit to seven, and trailed 54-46 at halftime. Hayes hit a pair of jumpers that cut the Wizards' deficit to 90-80 in the final minute of the third. Just when it seemed Washington would cut its deficit to single digits, however, Toronto rattled off the next seven points capped by an incredible three-quarter-court, 56-foot heave by Bosh at the buzzer for a 97-80 Raptors lead heading into the fourth, as Toronto scored a franchise-record 43 points in the third quarter. Game Notes A win for Washington would have clinched the Eastern Conference All-Star coaching job for Eddie Jordan...Wednesday's showdown between Washington and Toronto was the second of four meetings this season. The Raptors posted a 116-111 win in the first meeting on January 7 at the Air Canada Centre...Washington has won eight of the last 12 meetings overall, but has lost seven of 11 and 12 of its last 17 at Toronto.
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Big 12 Conference betting odds Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State Work left to do: Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on. Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough. Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.
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