{"id":11836,"date":"2010-12-23T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11836"},"modified":"2010-12-23T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:31:28","slug":"ncaa-basketball-georgetown-hoyas-at-memphis-grizzlies-expert-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-georgetown-hoyas-at-memphis-grizzlies-expert-picks-11836\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball: Georgetown Hoyas at Memphis Grizzlies Expert Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgetown Hoyas at Memphis Tigers
\nThursday, 12\/23\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 146.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 146.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Memphis Tigers are 4.5-point home underdogs against the veteran Georgetown Hoyas inside the FedEx Forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georgetown is off to a 10-1 start this season and ranked No. 10 nationally heading into Thursday night\u2019s contest against Memphis at the FedEx Forum.\u00a0 The Hoyas are led by a trio of seniors in Austin Freeman, Chris Wright and Julian Vaughn.\u00a0 Freeman, averages a team-high 18.5 points and has scored 14 in three straight games.\u00a0 The team is coming off a 99-75 win on Saturday and head coach John Thompson III wasn\u2019t sure how is squad would perform due to limited practices due to finals week.\u00a0 \u201cI was extremely nervous coming into the game, just because of exams,\u201d he stated.\u00a0 \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure how share we were going to be.\u201d\u00a0 Tonight\u2019s game is the 10th meeting between the two teams and the Hoyas lead the series, 7-2.\u00a0 Georgetown is 8-2 ATS on the season and currently a road favorite on the college basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Hoyas lead the Big East and rank second in the country in field goal percentage, connecting on 52.5 percent of their field goals.\u00a0 Georgetown also leads the conference in 3-point field goal percentage, hitting 42.5 percent from long distance.\u00a0 The team\u2019s schedule is currently ranked fourth in the country in strength and six of the first 10 games came against teams picked to win their conference in the preseason.\u00a0 The program holds an all-time record of 24-5 against teams that currently make up Conference USA.\u00a0 Since the 2004-05 season, Georgetown is 86-24 against non-conference opponents.<\/p>\n

Memphis continues its five-game home stand and enters tonight\u2019s marquee matchup ranked No. 16 in the Associated Press poll.\u00a0 The Tigers will be playing the third game of their current stay at home and enter with wins over Austin Peay and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.\u00a0 The team has had its share of ups and downs this season despite its 9-1 record, starting three freshmen and carrying only one senior.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve been going through this for the last couple of games,\u201d said Joe Jackson about the squad\u2019s recent struggles.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s up and down.\u00a0 We\u2019re young too.\u00a0 You have to take that into consideration.\u201d\u00a0 Memphis is still off to its second-best start in 20 years and is 2-6 ATS on the year.<\/p>\n

The Tigers certainly know that defending the perimeter will be a key in this contest due to the Hoyas having four players shooting 39.1 percent or better from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Memphis has held its first 10 opponents to 31.3 percent shooting from the 3-point area.\u00a0 The program is 127-139 all-time versus current members of the Big East Conference and are led by coach Josh Pastner.\u00a0 He is in his second year as head coach and has compiled a 33-11 record.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Hoyas are 5-1 ATS on the road, while the Tigers are 1-4 ATS at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgetown Hoyas at Memphis Tigers Thursday, 12\/23\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Georgetown -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Georgetown -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 146.5 Current Total:\u00a0 146.5 Georgetown is off to a 10-1 start this season and ranked No. 10 nationally heading into Thursday night\u2019s contest against Memphis at the FedEx Forum.\u00a0 The Hoyas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":10533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[559,2558,4121,1341,4008,4064,33],"class_list":["post-11836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east","tag-conference-usa","tag-fedex-forum","tag-georgetown-hoyas","tag-john-thompson-iii","tag-josh-pastner","tag-memphis-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836","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=11836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11838,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions\/11838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}