{"id":11224,"date":"2010-12-03T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11224"},"modified":"2010-12-03T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:28:27","slug":"ncaa-basketball-free-picks-uab-at-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-free-picks-uab-at-georgia-11224\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Free Picks: UAB at Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAB Blazers AT Georgia Bulldogs
\nDecember 3rd, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Georgia -4
\nCurrent Line: Georgia -3
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 UAB +145, Georgia -165<\/strong><\/p>\n

UAB enters tonights game with a 6-1 record.\u00a0 Georgia is 4-2.\u00a0 UAB is 6-1 ATS and 4-0 ATS when on the road.\u00a0 Georgia is 2-3 ATS and 1-3 ATS at home.<\/p>\n

UAB is averaging 72.7 points per game and giving up 61.3, while Georgia is averaging 69.7 and giving up 69.2.\u00a0 Georgia has lost two key games to Temple and Notre Dame and beat the pushover teams (Manhattan, St. Louis, and Colorado).\u00a0 UAB has beaten Arkansas of note, and lost their only game to Arizona State.<\/p>\n

UAB is led by 6’10” forward Cameron Moore, a junior, who averages 18.4 points per game, and also by 6’5″ guard Jamarr Sanders, a senior, who averages 15.3 points per game.\u00a0 Sanders is a high volume chucker, averaging 2.3 threes a game, but only shooting 34% from behind the arc\u00a0 Moore also leads the Blazers in rebounding, with 9.3 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Moore’s inside game is very efficient and he is 64.7% from the floor this year.\u00a0 UAB mostly sticks with their starters and four of their five starters average 31 or more minutes a game.\u00a0 Look for Georgia to try to get Moore into foul trouble, which will cripple UAB if they do.<\/p>\n

Georgia sports a balanced attack with 4 players averaging double figures in scoring, led by Travis Leslie’s 17.3 points per game.\u00a0 Despite standing only 6’4″, Leslie averages 8.7 boards a game and 1.2 blocks a game, to go along with his 2.2 steals.\u00a0 He is a complete player and is efficient and effective on both ends of the court, though he does lack an outside shot.\u00a0 If he’s going to play at the next level he will have to work on his jumper.\u00a0 His backcourt mate 6’1″ Gerald Robinson is the second leading scorer for Georgia with 15.8 points per contest.\u00a0 Robinson is a decent three point shooter, hitting 38.1% on threes.<\/p>\n

The backcourt matchup of shooting guards Leslie and Sanders will be the key one to watch tonight. If either player can get off and have a big night, as they both are capable of, it will go a long way towards winning the ball game.\u00a0 Both comprise nearly 25% of their teams respective offensive production and are counted upon heavily to put up points.\u00a0 Georgia is very falliable on offense against good defensive teams.\u00a0 In the loss to Temple they shot under 40% from the floor and hit only 2 of 11 threes.\u00a0 Simply getting a hand up on their guards is enough to ruffle them and cause misses, as none of their outside shooters are particularly deadly.\u00a0 Against Temple, Leslie, Robinson and the injured Trey Thompkins combined for 43 points, but the rest of the Bulldog team scored a measly 15 points.\u00a0 If UAB can keep the ball out of Leslie and Robinson’s hands the Bulldogs will have almost no chance at all to win the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UAB Blazers AT Georgia Bulldogs December 3rd, 7:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Georgia -4 Current Line: Georgia -3 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 UAB +145, Georgia -165 UAB enters tonights game with a 6-1 record.\u00a0 Georgia is 4-2.\u00a0 UAB is 6-1 ATS and 4-0 ATS when on the road.\u00a0 Georgia is 2-3 ATS and 1-3 ATS at home. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[461,3260],"class_list":["post-11224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-uab-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11238,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions\/11238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}