Top-seeded Cavs pay a visit to Celtics

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04/04/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Now that the Cleveland Cavaliers have clinched the Eastern Conference's top seed for the playoffs, they'll try to keep the momentum going Easter Sunday on the road against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.

The Central Division-champion Cavaliers have won three in a row and 11 of their last 12 games, including Friday's hard-fought 93-88 victory versus the Atlanta Hawks at Quicken Loans Arena in the finale of a perfect three-game homestand. Superstar and MVP candidate LeBron James scored 18 of his 27 points in the second half, and also added 13 rebounds and six assists for the Cavs, who got 24 points out of Mo Williams and are closing in on home-court advantage throughout the playoffs.

"What a good game. Atlanta is a good team; they have been playing well," Cavs head coach Mike Brown said. "I thought that our guys did a great job of bringing the juice tonight: bringing the energy, effort and focus."

J.J. Hickson secured a game-high 16 rebounds for Cleveland, which has won 10 in a row at home and reached the 60-win plateau for a second straight season. The Cavaliers are trying to become only the second team in NBA history to put together consecutive 65-win seasons. The only team to accomplish the feat was the Chicago Bulls in 1995-96 (72) and 1996-97 (69).

Cleveland is an NBA-best 26-12 away from home. It needs one more road win to tie the franchise road record of 27 victories, set last season. Since the 2008-09 season, the Cavaliers are an NBA-best 53-26 as the guest. In injury news, forward Antawn Jamison is probable for Sunday with an arm ailment. He had 12 points and seven boards versus the Hawks.

Boston will close out a six-game homestand Sunday and fell to 2-3 on the residency following Friday's 119-114 overtime loss versus Houston. Rockets guard Aaron Brooks hit a game-tying three-pointer with nine seconds left in regulation and finished with 30 points against the Atlantic Division-champion Celtics, who are winless in their last three outings and 1 1/2 games behind Atlanta for the third seed in the East.

Celtics guard Rajon Rondo set a team record for assists in a season. Rondo entered the game one behind Bob Cousy, who had 715 in 1959-60, and finished with 10 in setting the new mark. Rondo ended with 23 points and Paul Pierce netted a team-high 27, but missed a potential game-winning shot at the end of regulation.

Boston is 23-15 in Beantown this season. In other news, veteran big man Kevin Garnett was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Friday for criticizing game officials and using inappropriate language in a post-game interview on March 31. Garnett was upset how Thunder star Kevin Durant was sent to the free throw line 15 times in a 109-104 setback on Wednesday.

Cleveland has won two of the first three matchups with Boston this season and 13 of the past 19 meetings between the teams. The Cavs, though, have lost 17 of their last 22 visits to TD Garden.

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

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.