{"id":13209,"date":"2011-02-08T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13209"},"modified":"2011-02-08T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:34:27","slug":"winning-ncaa-basketball-picks-xavier-musketeers-at-georgia-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/winning-ncaa-basketball-picks-xavier-musketeers-at-georgia-bulldogs-13209\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning NCAA Basketball Picks: Xavier Musketeers at Georgia Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xavier Musketeers at Georgia Bulldogs
\nFebruary 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Georgia -4.5
\nCurrent Line: Georgia -5
\nOpening Total: 138
\nCurrent Total: 137.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Ga -200 \/ X +170
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Ga -210 \/ X +175<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trey Thompkins leads the Bulldogs in scoring with better than 17 a game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together the 16-6 Georgia Bulldogs and the 16-6 Xavier Musketeers.\u00a0 Xavier is 8-1 in their conference play and rank first in the Atlantic 10.\u00a0 Georgia is 5-4 in SEC play and 3rd in the SEC.\u00a0 Last game between these two teams, Xavier won by 12, and it’s somewhat suprising that college basketball oddsmakers have set the line in the Bulldogs’ favor, given that the teams have identical records and Xavier won the last matchup by double figures.<\/p>\n

Xavier also has a slightly better point differential than Georgia.\u00a0 Xavier wins by an average of 6.1 as they score 72.5 and give up 66.4.\u00a0 Georgia’s differential is +5.5.\u00a0 The Bulldogs score 71.6 and give up 66.2.\u00a0 Georgia is 31s in the nation in assists with 15.6 a game and they are 32nd in rebounding with 38.8 boards per contest.\u00a0 Xavier is not in the top 50 in any statistical categories.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Xavier’s last 6 road games.\u00a0 Georgia is 2-3-1 ATS in their last 6 games and 13-4 SU in their last 17 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 6 of Georgia’s last 9 games, and they are 2-4 ATS in their last 6 home games.\u00a0 Georgia is 10-2 SU in their last 12 at home and the total has gone OVER in 4 of Georgia’s last 5 home games.<\/p>\n

Georgia sports a balanced attack with 3 players averaging double figures in scoring, led by Trey Thompkins 16.7 points per game.\u00a0 Thompson also leads the team in rebounding with 7.4 a game and is first in blocks with 1.6 a game\u00a0 Travis Leslie’s scoring average is second with 14.4 a game.\u00a0 Despite standing only 6’4″, Leslie averages 7 boards a game, to go along with his 1.4 steals.\u00a0 He is a complete player and is efficient and effective on both ends of the court, though he does lack an outside shot.\u00a0 If he’s going to play at the next level he will have to work on his jumper.\u00a0 His backcourt mate 6’1″ Gerald Robinson is the second leading scorer for Georgia with 15.8 points per contest.\u00a0 Robinson is a decent three point shooter, hitting 38.1% on threes.<\/p>\n

Xavier is led by 6’0″ junior point guard Tu Holloway.\u00a0 Holloway plays almost the entire game and averages 38.4 minutes per game.\u00a0 In those minutes he puts up averages of 20.8 points per game, 5 assists per game, 4.8 rebounds, and 1.5 steals.\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in 21 of Xavier’s 22 games and has had 20 or more in 13 of the 22 games.\u00a0 He recorded a triple double (14 pts, 10 rbs, 14 asts) in a 83-75 win over Wake Forest on December 18th.\u00a0 Besides Holloway, there are three other Musketeers that average double figures.\u00a0 Mark Lyons (13.8 ppg), Kenny Frease (11.9 ppg), and Jamel McLean (11.4 ppg) form a great trio to back Holloway.\u00a0 Four of the Musketeers starting five players play 30 minutes or more a night and only one bench player plays more than 10 minutes a game (Jeff Robinson, 17 mpg).\u00a0 McLean, a 6’8″ senior forward, leads the way in rebounding with 8.8 per game.\u00a0 He has recorded seven double-doubles so far.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game should be a close one.\u00a0 Xavier is arguably the better team, but Georgia is at home where they have been very successful.\u00a0 If Holloway can get going early, Xavier could sneak away with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xavier Musketeers at Georgia Bulldogs February 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Georgia -4.5 Current Line: Georgia -5 Opening Total: 138 Current Total: 137.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Ga -200 \/ X +170 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Ga -210 \/ X +175 Tonight’s game brings together the 16-6 Georgia Bulldogs and the 16-6 Xavier Musketeers.\u00a0 Xavier is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[461,1369],"class_list":["post-13209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-xavier-musketeers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209","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=13209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13211,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions\/13211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}