{"id":10919,"date":"2010-11-23T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2010-11-23T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:47:06","slug":"florida-atlantic-owls-at-florida-gators-ncaa-basketball-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/florida-atlantic-owls-at-florida-gators-ncaa-basketball-predictions-10919\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic Owls at Florida Gators NCAA Basketball Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Atlantic Owls at Florida Gators
\nTuesday, 11\/23\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Full Court
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -17
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -17.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 143
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 143<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Florida Gators are the top shooting team in the SEC and welcome in the FAU Owls on Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida Atlantic is looking to pick up its first win against a ranked opponent since beating No. 11 Oklahoma State on December 1, 1998, dropping seven in a row to Top 25 competition by an average of 34.8 points.\u00a0 The Owls are opening the season with a daunting schedule that includes eight of their first nine games on the road, which may be taking its toll, after losing a 82-72 home game to American on Saturday.\u00a0 The two teams have met two previous times on the hardcourt, with the Gators winning both previous meetings.\u00a0 Florida Atlantic assistant coach Matt McCall won two national championships while at Florida as Director of Basketball Operations, while guards Greg Gantt and Dennis Mavin will return to their hometown tonight in Gainesville.\u00a0 The team is 7-3 ATS as a road underdog of 12.5 or more points the last three years and the college basketball lines page has them falling in that category.<\/p>\n

The Owls were picked to finish second in the Sun Belt Preseason Coaches Poll, gaining one first place vote and looking up at only Western Kentucky.\u00a0 Florida Atlantic finished with a 14-16 overall mark during the 2009-10 campaign, including a 10-8 conference mark.\u00a0 The program has high hopes for the 2010-11 season due to welcoming back 10 letterwinners from last season and the entire coaching staff for a third consecutive year.\u00a0 Head coach Mike Jarvis is also one of only eight coaches to win 100 games at three different Division I schools, with stops at Boston University, George Washington and St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Florida has dominated tonight\u2019s opponent and has compiled a 9-1 record against Sun Belt Conference competition under head coach Billy Donovan.\u00a0 The Gators last played an opponent form the conference on December 22, 2009, when they lost to South Alabama, 67-66.\u00a0 Before that loss, Florida had won 12 straight against Sun Belt opponents.\u00a0 The team is coming off an unimpressive 61-55 win on Sunday over Morehead State and knows its ripe for an upset tonight with that kind of effort.\u00a0 \u201cIf you give them a glimmer of hope that they can get back into the game in the first four or five minutes of the second\u00a0 half, you are going to create a level of energy for that team,\u201d said Donovan.\u00a0 The squad is 3-0 ATS as a home favorite of 15.5 to 18 points.<\/p>\n

The Gators have posted a dominating 40-4 record in the month of November the last six years, including a 46-2 home mark in the Donovan era.\u00a0 Florida has a chance of gaining a huge win in this game due to leading the SEC in shooting at 51.9 percent and rank third in the conference by scoring 79.5 points per game.\u00a0 The offense did post season lows in points and shooting percentage in its last game and hit just 5 of 19 attempts from 3-point range.\u00a0 Six Gators are currently hitting 50 percent from the floor or better.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Owls are 0-7 ATS in their last seven games versus winning competition, while the Gators are 0-5 ATS in their last five non-conference games.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are off to a flying start and ready to deliver today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Atlantic Owls at Florida Gators Tuesday, 11\/23\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Full Court Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Florida -17 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Florida -17.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 143 Current Total:\u00a0 143 Florida Atlantic is looking to pick up its first win against a ranked opponent since beating No. 11 Oklahoma State on December 1, 1998, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[3881,3957,499,3958,739,2560],"class_list":["post-10919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-billy-donovan","tag-florida-atlantic-owls","tag-florida-gators","tag-mike-jarvis","tag-sec","tag-sun-belt-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919","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=10919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10920,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions\/10920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}