{"id":12646,"date":"2011-01-20T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12646"},"modified":"2011-01-20T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:38:59","slug":"mac-meeting-northern-illinois-at-central-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/mac-meeting-northern-illinois-at-central-michigan-12646\/","title":{"rendered":"MAC Meeting: Northern Illinois At Central Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern Illinois AT Central Michigan
\nJan 20, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line: Central Mich -5
\nCurrent Line: Central Mich -5
\nOpening Total: 133
\nCurrent Total: 133
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Cent Mi -240 \/ North Ill +200
\nCurrent Moneyline: Cent Mi -220 \/ North Ill +180<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Northern Illinois has struggled on the road and find themselves 5 point underdogs at Central Michigan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both teams enter tonight’s game with losing records.\u00a0 Northern Illinois is 6-9, but is 2-1 in the MAC and Central Michigan is 4-12 and 1-2 in the MAC.\u00a0 Despite having a worse record, college basketball oddsmakers have set the line in Central Michigan’s favor.\u00a0 Perhaps it is because of Northern Illnois’ horrible struggles on the road.<\/p>\n

As you would expect from two teams with losing records, both have negative point differentials.\u00a0 Northern Illinois is at -4.7, scoring 70.7 and giving up 75.5 a game.\u00a0 Central Michigan plays a slower paced game, scoring 59.4 a game and giving up 64.9 for a -5.4\u00a0 differential.\u00a0 Bettors will be interested to know that the total for the teams’ scoring output amounts to only 124, while the line is set at 133, making a bet on the ‘under’ a good one for tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Northern Illinois is 2-14 in their last 16 road games.\u00a0 They are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 road games against Central Michigan.\u00a0 They are also 0-5 SU in their last 5 road games against Central Michigan.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 games on the road at Central Michigan.<\/p>\n

Central Michigan is 2-9 SU in their last 11 games and 2-6 SU in their last 8 games at home.\u00a0 They are 8-1 SU in their last 9 against Northern Illinois and 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games against Northern Illinois.\u00a0 The total has also gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 games when playign at home against the Chippewas.<\/p>\n

Northern Illinois is a bit of a one man team.\u00a0 They are led by 6’5″ senior guard Xavier Silas, who scores more than double of their second leading scorer with 23.6 points per game.\u00a0 He’s a deadly three point shooter, hitting 44.7% from behind the arc (34 of 76).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He’s had a number of huge games, scoring 25 or more in 8 of the Huskies 15 games and the Huskies are 5-3 in those games, well better than their .400 win percentage.\u00a0 He’s also played 30 or more minutes in 13 of their 15 games and is the sole reason for their success or lack thereof.\u00a0 There’s really no one else on the team that is worth worrying about and Central Michigan will undoubtedly double and triple team him throughout the game.<\/p>\n

Central Michigan is led by the duo of Trey Zeigler and Jalin Thomas who account for 54% of the Chippewas total scoring.\u00a0 Zeigler a 6’5″ freshman forward leads the way with 17 points per game and 5.4 rebounds per night.\u00a0 He’s had a number of big games and his scoring average is offset by a couple of stinkers, 5 against Temple and 6 against Wright State.\u00a0\u00a0 On January 12th, against Toledo, he went for 30 points on 12 of 21 shooting and he has attempted 20 or more shots three times already this season.\u00a0 Northern Illinois’ best player Xavier Silas will have the task of guarding Zeigler and should do a good job as he is a decent defender.\u00a0 This marquee matchup between the two leading scorers will go a long way towards determining the outcome of the game.\u00a0 Whichever player can utilize their strengths and outscore the other will likely lead their team to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northern Illinois AT Central Michigan Jan 20, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line: Central Mich -5 Current Line: Central Mich -5 Opening Total: 133 Current Total: 133 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Cent Mi -240 \/ North Ill +200 Current Moneyline: Cent Mi -220 \/ North Ill +180 Both teams enter tonight’s game with losing records.\u00a0 Northern […]<\/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":[4375,4123],"class_list":["post-12646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-central-michigan","tag-northern-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646","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=12646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12647,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions\/12647"}],"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=12646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}