{"id":11138,"date":"2010-11-30T21:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2010-11-30T21:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:43:44","slug":"college-basketball-purdue-boilermakers-at-virginia-tech-hokies-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-basketball-purdue-boilermakers-at-virginia-tech-hokies-betting-preview-11138\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball: Purdue Boilermakers at Virginia Tech Hokies Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purdue Boilermakers at Virginia Tech Hokies
\nSaturday, 12\/1\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 132
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 132<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Virginia Tech is listed as a 2.5-point home favorite over the Purdue Boilermakers in their ACC\/Big Ten Challenge matchup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Purdue looks to bounce back from its first loss of the season on Wednesday when it squares off with Virginia Tech as part of the 2010 ACC\/Big Ten Challenge.\u00a0 The Boilermakers are 3-6 in nine Challenge appearances and have not won such a contest on the road.\u00a0 A win on Wednesday wold also be the program\u2019s first win over the Hokies in three tries.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the team is 26-21 following a loss under head coach Matt Painter, as it dropped a 65-54 contest to Richmond on a neutral floor last time out.\u00a0 Purdue did win its first five games by an average of 29.4 points before the 11-point defeat to the Spiders, as the squad made just four first-half field goals in 25 attempts.\u00a0 The team is 4-9-1 ATS in its last 14 games overall and is listed on the NCAA basketball lines page as a slight underdog.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers have a tough stretch to begin the month of December and Painter is not willing to watch the kind of effort his team made last time out in the season\u2019s second month.\u00a0 \u201cI never thought I would have to worry about our guys being outhustled, but Richmond not only outhustled us, they outplayed us and deserved to win,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 Purdue does have a balanced offense to lean upon tonight, with seven different players having turned in a double-digit scoring effort.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is also shooting 38 percent from beyond the arc and has made at least seven trifectas in four of six games.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech enters tonight\u2019s game with a 4-2 overall record and will be meeting the Boilermakers for the first time since December 3, 1966.\u00a0 The Hokies have posted a 16-12 all-time mark against schools currently in the Big Ten Conference.\u00a0 The team suffered a 71-59 setback in its last contest against the UNLV in the championship game of the 76 Classic in Anaheim on Sunday night.\u00a0 Senior guard Malcolm Delaney led all scorers with 30 points and was named to the all-tournament team.\u00a0 This will be the Hokies sixth appearance in the Challenge, posting a 2-3 record in the event, including a 1-1 mark in home games.\u00a0 Virginia Tech is 5-2 ATS after a straight-up loss.<\/p>\n

The Hokies have played five straight road games leading up to this home contest, which is the first time since 1995-96 that the program has made such a schedule.\u00a0 Head coach Seth Greenberg will be excited to be under the roof of Cassell Coliseum, producing an 89-27 overall record and 54-7 mark against non-conference competition.\u00a0 Virginia Tech\u2019s weakness early in the season has been its lack of depth, getting just 13 points a game off the bench, which has hurt them against deeper teams like Kansas State and UNLV.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested to find out that the Boilermakers are 2-6 ATS in their last eight games versus the ACC, while the Hokies are 2-5 ATS Versus the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

The college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are off to a fast start and ready for you to join them today in the winner\u2019s circle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purdue Boilermakers at Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday, 12\/1\/10, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Virginia Tech -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 132 Current Total:\u00a0 132 Purdue looks to bounce back from its first loss of the season on Wednesday when it squares off with Virginia Tech as part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[387,737,3879,4019,1295,3878,1926],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-big-ten","tag-malcolm-delaney","tag-matt-painter","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-seth-greenberg","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138","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=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11142,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions\/11142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}