{"id":11941,"date":"2010-12-28T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T23:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2010-12-28T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T23:55:22","slug":"big-east-basketball-betting-a-look-at-providence-syracuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-east-basketball-betting-a-look-at-providence-syracuse-11941\/","title":{"rendered":"Big East Basketball Betting: A Look at Providence-Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Providence Friars at Syracuse Orange, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY<br \/>\nTuesday, December 28, 2010, 9:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPNU<br \/>\nOpening Line: Syracuse -12<br \/>\nCurrent Line: Syracuse -13<br \/>\nOpening Total: 153<br \/>\nCurrent Total: 154<br \/>\nMoney Line: Syracuse -1000 \/ Providence +700<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9771\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kris-joseph-syracuse-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kris-joseph-syracuse-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kris-joseph-syracuse.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Syracuse Orangemen take on the Providence Friars in the Carrier Dome to open Big East Play. The Orange are 13 point favorites. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the Big East opener for both teams the 11-2 Providence Friars travel to upstate New York to take on the 5th ranked 13-0 Syracuse Orange. Providence is off to their best start since they started 13-0 in the 1988-89 season. Providence has losses to LaSalle and Boston College on the season. They really haven&#8217;t beaten anybody except for Alabama and Rhode Island. Syracuse is 13-0 and is trying to go to 14-0 for the first time in 11 seasons. Syracuse has played a difficult schedule so far and has wins over Northern Iowa, Michigan, Georgia Tech, North Carolina St, and Michigan St. The Big East has 5 teams in the top 10, but Syracuse doesn&#8217;t play any of those teams until January 17. The Big East is so tough that there are no easy games. The Orange can&#8217;t afford to trip up against a tough Providence team as a loss would put them in a hole in the conference standings. Syracuse is 9-2 ATS against teams averaging more than 77 points a game over the last 2 seasons. Syracuse is 2-1 ATS and straight up in the last three games versus Providence. Two of the three meetings have gone over the total.<\/p>\n<p>Providence is outscoring opponents 81-68 on the season. The Friars are shooting 45.6% from the field and 31.5% from 3 point range. The Friars are holding opponents to 40.9% shooting from the field. Providence makes 69.2% of their free throws. Guard-Forward Marshon Brooks leads the team in scoring (23.1 ppg) and steals (2 a game). He averages 8.9 rebounds a game. Point Guard Vincent Council leads the team in assists with 6.8 a game and also scores 16 points a game. Guard Gerard Coleman scores 10 points a game. Forward-Center Bilal Dixon leads the team in rebounds (9.2 a game) and blocks with 2.6 a game. The Friars average 42.5 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin of +8.4. They average 14.1 assists and 13.5 turnovers a game They average 8.5 steals a game and 6.5 blocks a game.<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse is outscoring opponents 77-59 on the season. They are shooting 47.8% from the field and 37.1% from 3 point range. The Orange are holding opponents to 37.1% shooting from the field. Syracuse is only shooting 65.9% from the free throw line. Forward Kris Joseph leads the team in scoring with 14 points a game. Joseph leads the team is steals with 1.3 a game and averages 5.1 rebounds a game.\u00a0 Power forward Rick Jackson is averaging a double double with 13.9 ppg and 11.8 rebounds a game. Jackson also averages 2.0 blocks a game to lead the team. Point Guard Scoop Jardine averages 13.3 points a game and leads the team in assists with 5.9 a game. The Orange average 40.4 rebounds a game and have a rebounding margin of +6.3. The Orange average 17.7 assists and 11.1 turnovers a game. They also average 9.5 steals and 6.5 blocks a game.<\/p>\n<p>Providence is off to a great start this season but they haven&#8217;t played a team nearly as talented as Syracuse. It will be a good test for the Friars to play in the very loud Carrier Dome. Syracuse must try and contain Marshon Brooks. Syracuse has much more balanced scoring with the three &#8220;J&#8217;s&#8221; Joseph, Jackson, and Jardine. Providence has a tendency to turn the ball over, something they can&#8217;t do if they hope to pull off the upset.<\/p>\n<p>Our college basketball handicappers are red hot this season as conference play begins. Don&#8217;t miss out on any more winners as 2010 turns into 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providence Friars at Syracuse Orange, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 9:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPNU Opening Line: Syracuse -12 Current Line: Syracuse -13 Opening Total: 153 Current Total: 154 Money Line: Syracuse -1000 \/ Providence +700 In the Big East opener for both teams the 11-2 Providence Friars travel to upstate New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":9771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[559,4227,3887,3125,4267,580],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east","tag-colelge-basketball-handicapping","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-espnu","tag-providence-friars","tag-syracuse-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","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\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11943,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions\/11943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}