{"id":10687,"date":"2010-11-16T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2010-11-16T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T15:30:23","slug":"south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-michigan-state-spartans-ncaa-basketball-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/south-carolina-gamecocks-vs-michigan-state-spartans-ncaa-basketball-picks-10687\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Gamecocks vs Michigan State Spartans NCAA Basketball Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina Gamecocks at Michigan State Spartans
\nTuesday, 11\/16\/10, 10:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -15.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -16<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan State Spartans host South Carolina before taking off for the Maui Invitational<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South Carolina opened the season with a 94-79 home victory over Elon University and the level of competition rises greatly in playing its first road game against the Michigan State Spartans in the Breslin Center.\u00a0 The Gamecocks were led by Sam Muldrow, the team\u2019s top returning scorer, netting 20 points in the Friday win.\u00a0 \u201cI think the story of this game is what we hope is going to be the story of our team and our entire program moving forward,\u201d said head coach Darrin Horn. The team was 2-9 in road contests last year and 5-6 away from Columbia during the 2008-09 campaign.\u00a0 In facing Michigan State, the squad will be taking on its highest ranked opponent on the road since traveling to No. 2 Kentucky on February 25, 2010.\u00a0 South Carolina will play 13 non-conference games, followed by 16 Southeastern Conference contests.\u00a0 The team is 10-10 ATS in non-conference games and the college basketball lines page has them listed as a double-digit underdog.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are 5-7 in games against ranked opponents under the tutelage of head coach Darrin Horn, while he has amassed a 6-11 overall mark in such games.\u00a0 South Carolina will need some time to start learning to play with each other and under Horn\u2019s guidance due to Muldrow being the only player that has been under his control for more than a year.\u00a0 With that lack of experience, the team has been picked to finish sixth in the SEC East preseason media poll, as just five letterwinners return for the 2010-11 campaign.<\/p>\n

Michigan State is set to host the Gamecocks in the final game of ESPN\u2019s College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon, featuring 24 straight hours of college hoops on the network.\u00a0 The Spartans opened with a 96-66 win over Eastern Michigan on Friday, holding the Eagles to 31.6 percent shooting, but the team has 20 turnovers and 14 missed free throws.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t feel comfortable for where we are and where we need to be,\u201d coach Tom Izzo stated.\u00a0 He may have trouble gaining his team\u2019s focus in this late-night game, especially considering that the team leaves for the Maui Invitational afterwards.\u00a0 Michigan State has an all-time record of 86-25 in games played in the month of November.\u00a0 The team is 13-18 ATS at home the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Spartans are proud to have the Big Ten preseason player of the year back in the lineup, with Kalin Lucas returning to action with 18 points on opening night.\u00a0 \u201cHe just has to get back to getting used to being on the court,\u201d Izzo said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s going to take time, but I was pleased.\u201d\u00a0 Michigan State will likely walk off the court with a win tonight, considering the program is 209-26 at home under Izzo, including 48 consecutive non-conference wins at the Breslin Center.\u00a0 The team returns nine letterwinners and three starters from last year\u2019s Big Ten Championship and Final Four squad.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Gamecocks are 1-8 ATS in their last nine games overall, while the Spartans are 6-20-2 ATS in their last 28 Tuesday games.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on NCAA basketball picks all season long with the team of handicappers at Maddux Sports!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Carolina Gamecocks at Michigan State Spartans Tuesday, 11\/16\/10, 10:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan State -15.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan State -16 South Carolina opened the season with a 94-79 home victory over Elon University and the level of competition rises greatly in playing its first road game against the Michigan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3442,3874,3873,3877,500,3876,3126,3875,778],"class_list":["post-10687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-ten-conference","tag-breslin-center","tag-darrin-horn","tag-kalin-lucas","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-sam-muldrow","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}