Wisconsin clubs Iowa for 17th straight win

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01/28/2007 - Iowa City, IA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Alando Tucker scored 27 points and Brian Butch contributed 13 with 14 rebounds, as second-ranked Wisconsin won its 17th straight game with a 57-46 victory over Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Tucker, second in the Big Ten in scoring, made his first seven shots and finished 11-of-14 for the Badgers (21-1, 7-0 Big Ten), who own the nation's longest winning streak.

Adam Haluska, the Big Ten's leading scorer, had 16 points and was the only player in double figures for Iowa (11-10, 3-4), which has lost three of its last four. Haluska had a dismal shooting effort, making only 3-of-18 from the field.

The Hawkeyes shot just 28 percent and made only 2-of-14 three-point tries. Tyler Smith, the Big Ten's leading freshman scorer, missed his first 12 shots and finished 3-of-17 for eight points.

Iowa lost for just the second time in its last 30 games at Carver-Hawkeye and had a streak of 12 straight Big Ten home victories stopped. The Hawkeyes also saw a string of eight straight home wins against ranked opponents come to a halt.

Wisconsin led by 11 midway through the second half, but Iowa closed to within 45-41 on a bucket by Kurt Looby with 7:40 to play. The Badgers, as they had done all game, had an answer and put it away with eight consecutive points.

Tucker started it with a turnaround jumper from the baseline and added another jumper from 12 feet to give Wisconsin a 53-41 cushion with just four minutes remaining.

The Hawkeyes got no closer than nine from there.

Wisconsin scored the first five points of the game and opened a 9-2 lead just 3 1/2 minutes into the contest, but Iowa rattled off the next 10 points over the next four minutes and took a 12-9 edge on a three-pointer by Haluska.

Tucker, though, drilled back-to-back three-pointers to ignite a 14-0 Wisconsin run. He added an alley-oop jam during the surge and Jason Bohannon buried another shot from beyond the arc for a 23-12 lead with 7 1/2 minutes to play in the opening half.

The Badgers led by as many as 12, but the Hawkeyes finished the half with a 9-1 run. Despite missing eight straight shots and going about 10 minutes without a field goal, Iowa went into the break down just 26-22 thanks to the late flurry.

Tucker had 17 first-half points for Wisconsin, as he hit each of his six shots. The remaining Badgers accounted for only three field goals.

Haluska scored 10 to lead Iowa, which shot a dismal 23 percent in the opening 20 minutes.

Wisconsin started the second half with six straight points to build a 10-point edge, but Iowa drew within five only to watch the Badgers again pull away with a 10-4 run. Consecutive threes by Butch gave Wisconsin a 42-31 advantage with just under 13 minutes left.

Game Notes

Butch was 3-of-6 from beyond the arc and Wisconsin finished 7-of-19 from three-point range...Haluska was 9-of-10 from the line and added seven rebounds in defeat...Iowa held a 40-33 edge on the glass...Wisconsin improved to 5-0 as the visitor and hasn't lost a road game since last March 4 at Iowa City...Iowa had not lost a conference home game since a 75-65 setback to then-No. 1 Illinois on February 19, 2005...Iowa's record for consecutive home conference wins is 14, set during the 1980-81 and 1981-82 seasons when the Hawkeyes played Iowa Field House.

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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 million

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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.

And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.

Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.

So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.

Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)

The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.

As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.

The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.

In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.

Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.

And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.

So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.

There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.

So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.

And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.

There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)

Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.

Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.

Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.

So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.

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