{"id":11581,"date":"2010-12-16T18:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T23:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2010-12-16T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T23:40:04","slug":"winning-college-basketball-picks-weber-state-wildcats-at-tulsa-golden-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/winning-college-basketball-picks-weber-state-wildcats-at-tulsa-golden-hurricanes-11581\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning College Basketball Picks: Weber State Wildcats at Tulsa Golden Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weber State Wildcats AT Tulsa Golden Hurricane
\nDecember 16th, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Tulsa -8.5
\nCurrent Line: Tulsa -8.5
\nOpening Total: 140.5
\nCurrent Total: 140.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Tulsa -450 \/ Weber State +370
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Tulsa -400 \/ Weber State +330<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tulsa is somewhat perplexingly favored by 8.5 points tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Weber State enters tonight’s game with a 5-3 record, taking on Tulsa, who are 4-5.\u00a0 Despite Weber State having a better record, college basketball handicappers have set the line in Tulsa’s favor.\u00a0 Weber State also has a better point differential, of +4.9 compared to Tulsa’s +2.3 (Tulsa is 77th in the nation in scoring with 75.0 points per game)\u00a0 What’s more is that Weber State has won their past three contests, against Southern Utah, Seattle, and Drake.\u00a0 Tulsa has lost their last three, to Princeton, Oklahoma State, and Arkansas-Little Rock.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason Weber State is not favored in college basketball picks and predictions may be because they have lost 5 of their last 7 road games.\u00a0 Moreover, Tulsa has won 20 of their past 25 home games.\u00a0 Weber State is 3-1 ATS this year and Tulsa is 5-3 ATS, including 2-2 ATS at home.<\/p>\n

Weber State is led by 6’2″ junior point guard Damian Lillard who scores far and away more than any other player on their team with a 21.5 point per game scoring average.\u00a0 He has scored 25 or more 4 times in their 8 games this season, including a 31 point game in their victory against Drake.\u00a0 He’s an effective three point shooter (35.3%) and is capable of getting to the basket well and drawing fouls to get himself to the line; in the game against Drake he shot 17 free throws.\u00a0 Outside of Lillard, Weber State has four other players that average 8 or more a game (Scott Bamforth, Lindsey Hughey, Byron Fulton, Trevor Morris).\u00a0 Weber State will shoot a lot of threes.\u00a0 They average 18.6 three point attempts a night and hit 40.3% from behind the arc.\u00a0 If they get cooking from distance the college basketball betting line could end up being off.<\/p>\n

Tulsa has 4 players who average 12 or more a game (Justin Hurtt, Steven Idlet, Scottie Haralson, and Jordan Clarkson), but no one else outside these four makes any significant contribution on the offensive end, and Tulsa relies heavily upon its starters, as all five average 24 or more minutes a game.\u00a0 They are led by the 6’4″ senior Hurtt, who manages 18 points per game and hits 37.3% from behind the arc (19 of 51 on the year).\u00a0 Last game in the 4 point loss to Princeton, Haralson scored 25 points and played 42 minutes.\u00a0 Tulsa has a great big man in 6’11” junior forward Steven Idlet, who scores 13.8 points per game and gets 6.4 blocks a night, but despite being near 7 feet, he only blocks one shot a game on average.<\/p>\n

Given Weber State’s relative success this year, it is highly possible that they cover the 8.5 point spread.\u00a0 They have the three point shooting to put up points in a hurry and if they get hot they could win this game.\u00a0 Tulsa will have to close out on three point shooters and go over the top on pick and rolls to prevent Weber State from getting too many good looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weber State Wildcats AT Tulsa Golden Hurricane December 16th, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Tulsa -8.5 Current Line: Tulsa -8.5 Opening Total: 140.5 Current Total: 140.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Tulsa -450 \/ Weber State +370 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Tulsa -400 \/ Weber State +330 Weber State enters tonight’s game with a 5-3 record, taking on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[2825,4159],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-tulsa-golden-hurricane","tag-weber-state-wildcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","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=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11583,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions\/11583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}