The Lakers won three of the teams' four regular-season meetings this year.

Both teams are 11-6 in the playoffs, and they split their two regular-season meetings.

The Devils went without a victory in the teams' three regular-season meetings.

In the 345 regular-season meetings between the teams, the Celtics have won 219.

Rutgers, after all, had beaten Tennessee by 14 in their regular-season meeting.

They pulled off an even bigger comeback than in the regular-season meeting, coming from down 22 to win.

Texas (18-11) held Wheat to 13 points in the regular-season meeting, and still lost.

This is the most important regular-season meeting between the teams, whose rivalry began in 1969.

In their last five regular-season meetings, no team has beat the other by more than a field goal.

It happened in three of their four regular-season meetings.