{"id":12692,"date":"2011-01-23T01:12:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T06:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12692"},"modified":"2011-01-23T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T15:59:51","slug":"sunday-big-east-basketball-picks-south-florida-at-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-big-east-basketball-picks-south-florida-at-west-virginia-12692\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Big East Basketball Picks: South Florida at West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Florida Bulls at West Virginia Mountaineers, WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, WV
\nSunday, January 23, 2011, 2:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN3
\nOpening Line: West Virigina -13
\nCurrent Line: West Virginia -12.5
\nOpening Total: 130
\nCurrent Total: 130.5
\nMoney Line: West Virginia -1100 \/ South Florida +750
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Kevin Jones and the Mountaineers look to rebound from a loss to Marshall when they host South Florida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 21st-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers (12-5, 3-2 Big East) are at risk of falling out of the Top 25 after splitting a pair of non-conference games over the past week but will get a chance to rebound against a conference opponent when the South Florida Bulls (7-13, 1-6) come to town on Sunday.\u00a0 The Mountaineers (-12.5) saw their four-game winning streak come to an end on Wednesday with a surprising 75-71 loss to Marshall as 10-point favorites.<\/p>\n

West Virginia was coming off an impressive 68-64 win over former #14 Purdue last Sunday behind a balanced scoring attack led by Kevin Jones (17 points) while John Flowers (15), Darryl Bryant (12) and Joe Mazzulla (10) also finished in double figures.\u00a0 That followed a 93-63 rout of Providence on January 13 and a 65-59 victory at Georgetown five days earlier.<\/p>\n

Instead of winning their fifth game in a row, the Mountaineers shot a season-low 33 percent form the field against the Thundering Herd in the annual Capital Classic matchup.\u00a0 A 31-3 run by Marshall between the end of the first half and the beginning of the second was simply too much to overcome.\u00a0 West Virginia was outscored 22-3 before halftime and then 9-0 after the intermission, trailing by 23 before pulling within 72-69 with 30 seconds remaining.\u00a0 Casey Mitchell led the Mountaineers with 18 points despite missing 12 of his 17 shots from the field.<\/p>\n

South Florida is 0-6 all-time against West Virginia in Big East play and 5-26 against ranked opponents since joining the league.\u00a0 The Bulls broke a seven-game losing streak with a 79-72 home win against Providence last Sunday but fell again at Rutgers 71-62 on Thursday.\u00a0 They were outscored 46-37 by the Scarlet Knights in the second half after the score was tied 25-25 at halftime.\u00a0 Augustus Gilchrist and Hugh Robertson each scored 14 points for South Florida in the loss.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have lost the last two meetings with the Mountaineers at home by a combined 33 points but covered the spread in their last visit to Morgantown.\u00a0 South Florida rallied back from a 34-20 halftime deficit and lost 62-59 the last time the teams met at West Virginia.\u00a0 The UNDER has cashed in the last four meetings along with five of the past six.\u00a0 However, the OVER is 8-1 in the last nine game overall for the Bulls, cashing in their last six games.\u00a0 The Mountaineers are 3-1 against the spread in the last four meetings and in their last four games overall.<\/p>\n

Our college basketball handicappers are red hot as Big East conference play hits full stride. Don\u2019t miss out on any more basketball betting winners this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Florida Bulls at West Virginia Mountaineers, WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, WV Sunday, January 23, 2011, 2:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN3 Opening Line: West Virigina -13 Current Line: West Virginia -12.5 Opening Total: 130 Current Total: 130.5 Money Line: West Virginia -1100 \/ South Florida +750 The 21st-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers (12-5, 3-2 Big East) are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":9741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4319,4381,3887,4316,4317,4318,1155,449,4383],"class_list":["post-12692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-big-east-basketball","tag-big-east-picks","tag-college-basketball-betting","tag-free-college-basketball-pick","tag-ncaa-basketball-odds","tag-ncaa-hoops-picks","tag-south-florida-bulls","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers","tag-west-virginia-south-florida-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12706,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions\/12706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}